Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-08-19

n class of the community qualified to
vote by the possession OF n certain
amount OF real property. The second
was secured by giving to the President
| of the United States the appointment
of the Governors OF the various States.
who were to have q veto OH all State
legislation. These provisions. as may
be seen at glance, involved the essen
tial character of the government, and
although purely Republican, came
much nearer to the British model than
any other by their recognition of
classes and Of the political rights of
property, while by the treatment OF
the States a highly centralized national
government was to supersede entirely
the Confederate form"
In 1859 Lincoln, in speaking of the re-
lation which should exist between
money and humanity, said that the
Republican party believed in both the
man and the dollar, but that in case of
confli-t it believed in the man before
the dollar. In one of his early mes
sages to Congress Lincoln warned his
countrymen against the approach of
monarchy, and said that his alarm was
caused by the attempt to place capital
Upon an eaua1-fnntinfT A-itA if- +tnt
above. labor in the structure of gov
eminent. Now the Republican party
seeks to settle every question upon
financial basis. The dollar mark is
plainly stamped upon every modern Re-
publican policy.
Lincoln signed the bill which pro-
vided for graded income tax; in the
fifty-third Congress the Republican
party voted against an income tax
The Republican party created the
greenback; now 1t is planning to de-
stroy the greenback.
When the war closed Lincoln began
to plan to make the payment OF the
national debt easier by increasing the
volume of money available for the
payment of debt. In Raymond's Life
of Lincoln" published in 1865, the
Presidents views are set forth as fol-
lows:
Nothing can indicate more clearly
the citation of mind with which the
President regarded the future of the
country, now that it's safety had been
assured. than the language he ad-
dressed, in a conversation at this in
terview, to Mr. ColfaX, who was at this
time preparing for q journey overland
to the Pacific coast. Said he: Mr..
ColfaX, want you to take a message
from me to the miners whom you visit.
I have very large ideas OF the mineral
wealth of our nation. ] believe it
practically inexhaustible. It abOunds
all over the Western country. from the
Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, and
It's development has scarcely COM
menced. During the war. when we
were adding n couple of millions of
dollars every day to our national debt.
1 did not care about encouraging the
increase in the volume of our precious
metals. We had the country to save
first. But now that the rebellion is
overthrown and we know pretty nearly
the amount of our national debt, the
more gold and silver we mine we make
the payment of that debt so much the
easier. Now said he. speaking with
more emphasis. L am going to encour-
age that in every possible way. We
shall have hundreds of thousands of
disbanded soldiers. and many have
feared that their return home in such
great numbers might paralyze indus
try by furnishing suddenly greater
supply of labor than there would be
demand for. I am going to try to at
tract them to the hidden wealth Of
our mountain ranges. where there
is room enough for all. Immi-
grafton. which even the war has
not stopped, will land upon our
shores hundreds of thousands more
per year from overcrowded Europe. I