Year: 1879

ing, when the Government departments at


Washington and Federal officials all over
the Union are openly and shamelessly taxed
Tor Republican campaign funds? IF the
amount taxed on these officials is not neces.
sary to their support, then it is SO much OF
the peoples money taxed for the ,mainten-
ance OF party rule, which could nj be 9th
erwlse maintained, and if it could be other-
wise maintained, then it is SO much souan.
dered to satisfy partisan greed. Ali W.
want is fair and square effort before the
country to purify the political atmosphere,
and we are content and more than content
to take all the ill consequences arising to
'ssS. Ss;s sss1 ssisE aRa5 exa SI.i; l!;:
country, which is no less our country be.
cause We are SoutherDers and Democrats. I"


dREENBACKs OR HARD MONEY.


Correspondent: "Governor, 1 presume we
will have to set you down as hard money
man ?"


dovernor "Of tho strictest school. do
not comprehend tho greenback philosophy
at all. If l had been in Congress at the
time should have voted against the re.
sumption measure, not because l would
have been opposed to resumption. I have
always recognized resumption as necessary
to honest money and the actual payment of
the public obligations, which must be met
dollar for dollar in constitutional money
and in good faith to the letter and spirit Of
the law, as we'll as necessary to the honest
payment of oil debts But vet would. to
use MIR. Tildcn's phrase, "have got ready
to resume" and more or less invited into
cooperation with the government the wise
providence of the business circles of the
country, and permitted the business neces.
sltics Of the country, with its shaping hand,
to disentangle the financial web which Re.
publican craftsmanship had wound round
and round the great industries of the country
until 1t stood like the lion in the meshes.-
The small operations of daily life, gradually
cutting mesh after mesh, would in due time
and with wise providence and patience,
have relieved the distress of the country,
naturally and permanently. Sudden re.
sumption, m.m.y Uiep, cost the people Of the
country too much to be adoocated. should
have preferred more of what tho doctors
call the tentative process than tho enormous
through which the country has
been put. No one can tell the Tonntless
loss and sorrow through which the people
OF this country have passed in this rapid
resumption measure, which can be com.
pared to nothing else than the Egyptian
order to the Israelites, to make


BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW.


Yet, when the hard pan has been reached,
painful though the process may have been,
1t does seem to me to be unwise to 60 back
and, perchance, have unwisely to travel
over the same ground again. I do not
think it wise for the Democracy at this
stage to set back the wheels of resumption.
Let US rather now take advantage of what.
ever good may be found in it. The past,
with all its sorrows, it might be rs well
with all our might and main to put bravely
behind us, and look out to the wide future
before Us. The truth is, resumption will
prove partial success or failure before
1880. We, in our own interests, whether
Democrats or otherwise, should wisely en-.
deavor to make the most of it, and the
country has right to expect this much ut
our hands"


TIE JACKSON DEMOCRACY.


Correspondent "I believe, Governor, you
have always stood on the platform of the
jackson Democracy


Governor: "Ever, and stand there to-
day. To my view, we should get back
there as fast as possible. The true Jack.
son policy, as apprehend it, is to Olsen.
tangle the business transactions of the
country from the Legitimate financial con.
duct OF government affairs. To mix the
two things is unwarranted by the Constitu.
ti,nand dangerous to the last degree.-
Why, does not everybody see, fsom what
has transpired before us, that the moment
that the government becomes involved in
its financial operations with those of the
country at large, the moneyed men of the
country and the great industrial classes
become involved in 'an irrepressible con.
fict,' even more terrible than that which
the great New York politician of former
day pressed upon the attention of the
country! The moneyed men in their own
interest endeyor to shape and control the
financial policy Of the country, more or l,ss
as the necessities Of the case or the


GREED OF THE MoNEYED MEN


might demand. The Industrial classes. at
first unconscious Of control, or patient
under it so long as business prospers with
them, as soon as reverses come--either aris-
ing from the exigencies of the tinnes or the