New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-23
SOME POLITICAL FACTS and REFLECTIONS
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: / take the liberty OF sending you an extract
from a letter which have lately received IN re-
spouse to and criticism OF letter from an Enghsh
friend which | sent the wrteS. You may be inter-
ested in it and perhaps publish 1t in The TRIBUNE
NewYork Aug. H. 1884. a.
Dear - Your welcome letter was received, and
I return herewith Mr.. IS letter to you lie Is
not a very grateful beneficiary of American insti-
tutions and Is. like great many others VINO nave
made their substance by trading with us. quite
ready to snap at the hand which has fed him. The
eagerness which fond friends and the interested
critics abroad show in telling US just what we
should and should not do is not without its value.
II properly estimated. an object lesson for prac-
teal we'll wishers 10 America. They never fall 10
take advantage OF us If they can-heir disinteres-
edness doesn't go that extent, and, sometimes,
there may be slight suspicion that their advice
may not be so singe-minded as they would patron
izingly have TO believe.
Why, for instance. should we care much about
arranging our economic affairs 80 that the aforesaid
- continue to squeeze us for fat living on
English mutton and British fairness? Anyhow. his
comparison of our Solons with English lawmakers
is not so fortunate II might seem TO be- Is not
the present Ministry kept in power by Radcals az
power? Is the spectacle OF the "od-fashoned
House of Lords attractive to us?
ridiculous state OF affairs, it is plain that they come
from rigdly pursuing theory to The prac aGai
moving locomotive 1t comes from that put y, ~
more inevitably because the Democratic
party lost Its cohesive power when slavery was
abolished for on other question. since the DAYS
OF Andrew Jackson have they ever held together
followed any leader except In such cases as ram
many etc, where the leader was doodle IL IS
teering 1t has been out and sought only to get H.
and when put trial 1t has shown itself num-
bug so that II It has not been hustled out by the
people It has disnegrated and oozed out by the
sewer pipes OF its own dssension.
Now look it historically. The Federalists MADE
this free land: They fought the Revolutionary
Constitution instead OF league OF States John
Marshall. by his decisions. made that Constitution
a working plan for us He was the one Federali,st
in power from John Adams's time to Lncoln's
Lincoln saved and purified the Nation and you
know the rest On the other hand look at the
Democrats. jefferson opposed Washington ana me
thing ne did was to buy Louisiana and If ever there
was a transaction based Republican principles
and opposed Democratic principles It was that
one Madison in the exercise q srlSuy s,5 n or
der make England stop kidnapping our sailors
Then. in revulsion to Democratic views n
sought by commencing It. Andrew Jackson dd one
good thing. He scared the nulitiers In south CarU
lna-but that Republican idea. He Dusted
the United States Bank on strictly Democratic lrh-
the volume of bad debts by failure amounted 70
some $50 10000 more than that in any panic to the
present day. notwithstanding the difference IN me
money involved in business. The man whom ne
! chose 10 "bus." the United States Bank e., ms
Secretary of the Treasury Roger g. TaneyIwas
rewarded with the Chief Justiceship. He ended ms
| Civil War inevitable. and so on But mind tnis;
! The plain people" Lincoln called them, have
always prevailed in the end and prevailed wisely
They will now. They answered the Dred SCOT a e
! ceties and Gettysburg. They are answering TINS
one now~but walt until the Ides OF November!