Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-04-16
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q REPUBLICAN, HEROES.
AN ACHIEVEMENT Fer WHICH
PROPER CREDIT IS NOT GIVEN.

Contrast Of 1850 and 1ss4-"Democratio
States Rights MISUNDERSTANDING, Love-
Joy, Harris, Hooper and s~heliabargsr.
A Sound Currency at Last.
When the Republican party came into
power the national government had sunk
to very nearly Its lowest point, morally,
financially and physically. Public opinion
in Washington was 80 thoroughly de-
bauched that men openly debated whether
they should violate their oaths and be-
tray their country, or merely remain
'.neutral;" army and navy were
scattered and paralyzed; the ,~administra-
ton was falling to pieces from mere
r~ottenness, and public credit was SO poor
nounced that he could borrow at a high
interest and q big discount II some of
the states would guarantee the bondsi
Imagine a state guaranteeing United
States bonds nowi AS well ASH a tramp
to indorse the Vanderbilts' note.
Before the party went ont OF power the
credit Of the government was the highest
AA SnO WoAAuf suS1S WSlS uOS IA 6SA WIG
land 400 men willing to say that they
wanted disunion; slavery was abolished,
the national wealth trebled, wages 80 per
cent. higher and nine-tenths of the neces-
saries Of life cheaper, and in place of the
wretched, d~uctuating and uncertain stuff
issued by states and t'wild cnt'' banks,
the people had a currency good as gold
and ut par from Pembina to Chihuahua
and from Cape Cod to Cape Mendocino.
tThis is an old story" says the Mug
wump. Well, may be SO; but its a mighty
good one. However, IL is well at this
time to recall a few half forgotten facts
which are OF Importance just now.
Young voters are all the time coming to
the front, and while they know all the
main facts about Grant and Sherman,
Lincoln, Sumner and Thad. Stevens,
the great war governors and the able
administrators, the new voters should
be reminded from time to time that be-
hinG those were able and patriotic men
working in quiet In committee rooms, and
constructing solid systems Of finance and
revenue. which are the glory Of the coun-
try and admiration Of the world. As the
national money, the tariff and Internal
revenue are again In issue, the young Re-
publican is invited to study the work of
such patriots as e. @. Spalding, Samuel
Hooper, Ira Harris, Samuel Shellabarger,
Owen Loyejoy and other congressman
who labored in conjunction with Sher-
man, Stevens and other prominent men.
AT the close of the war the Confederate
historian, Pollard, wrote: sThe longer
purse and the stronger battalions have
won the dnyi and there is muehsg!tratb IN
the reference to the purse, as all historians
recognize that the great strength of the
Union and the weakness Of the Confeder-
acy was in their respective management
Of the finances.
1t Is SO much q habit of mind to look
on the present good as II it had always
existed, that the older men ought to ex-
plain to the young men that this good
money they enjoy is comparatively q new
thing. But can the old system be fully
explained Mere words fail to tell how
very bad it WAS.
AT one time In Buchanan's administra-
tion there were In the United States over