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Year: 1875

From the Democratic Watchmanl


There are some people who
cannot be persuaded to believe
there is virtue in advertising,
because, having advertised
once, people did not rush into
their places Of business and
proclaim the fact that they
had seen the advertisement,
and by it been persuaded to
come and buy big bills, Like
every other business opera
ton, advertising, to be made
profitable, must be methodical
and continuous. There is SO
much in every paper to en-
gross the attention Of the
general reader, that q casual
advertisement is oft times for
gotten almost as soon as read.
But when day after day the
dame and place of the man Of
business greet the eye Of the
reader, they become impressed
almost indelibly on the minds
SO that both become familiar;
and the reasonable probability
is, that when the reader wishes
to make a purchases, he will
read the advertisement and
curiosity will prompt him to
call and see whether its per
sistent promises are verified.
"A. 7. Stewards advertising &C.


count footed up $685. 900. "Ah," !"
exclaims one, "he can afford
to advertise. See what b bus
mess he does!" Just SO, but


pray, how did he manage to


create such enormous trade Z


By advertising. Close as he


may be in his other transac-
tions, he has ever been q liber-
al advertiser and he has had


his reward.
Year: 1875

penditures. Everything they purchase
will be reduced at least to as great an
extent as their wages, and what they
are able to save will be worth good
deal more than now, because it will
purchase more of every kind Of proper
ty, and thus they will be as surely BEN
Gifted as the farmers themselves. All
the Industrial interests of the nation,
in fact, will receive essential advantage
from the restoration Of sound stand
ard of value, while no honest occupa-
tion will be injured byit.


A contraction of the currency to its
normal amount (and that will be indi-
Gated by its being at par with gOld) will
make money plenty and cheap. This
may seem quite paradoxical; neverthe-
less nothing is more true, and the most
positive evidence of the fact is before
US at this moment. Is not money more
scarce and the rate of interest higher
than were ever before known? And
yet we have over 800, 900, 600 of paper
money to-day, against $500, ,oO0, 900 be-
fore the war. Certainly this cannot be
disputed. Nor is this solitary case In
point. 1 find by careful examination
for the past forty years that whenever
the currency has been uncommonly re-
dundant, money has always been in
extraordinary demand and the rate of
interes: unusually high, though never
as high as present, and for the reason
that at no previous time has there ever
been such an excess of paper circulation
over the real wants of the country; l
do not say over the wants of specula-
tors and monopOlists, for they never
have too much; the greater the excess
the more extended their operations
and the larger their profits.


The question of resumption is pecu-
liarly Western question, for the rea-
son that the West is more interested
by far than any other section of the
country in having it brought about,
and also that hitherto the greatest Op-
position to the measure has been gen.
orally understood to come from the ag-
ricultural States. II is now with them
to decide the matter. II farmers can
be made to see in what way and to
what extent they suffer from deper-
ciated currency there will be no danger
or difficulty in securing its restoration
by gradual but certain process OF con-
traction.


/ would therefore, in conclusion, say
to the gentleman of your convention,
if you wish to secure tair competition
amongst the various industries of the
nation, II you would have money
plenty and the rates Of interest low, if
you would like to make your purchases
and sales at the same standard and at
just and equal prices, unite all your
for the restoration Of the circu-
lating medium to par with gold; and
be not, 1 pray you, diverted from your
by any OF the specious but
delusive schemes presented for evading
the indispensable measure of coatrac-
tion. Hoping that your convention
may be harmonious in its deliberations,
wise in its conclusions and successful
in ull lawful efforts to secure its great
object, / have the honor to be your
obedient servant,


AMASA WALKER.
North Brookfeld, Mass, Dec. 5, 1878.
Year: 1875

TOLEDO, Aust 19-The Blade this morning
publishes the following article, based on pri-
vate information regarded by that paper as
entirely reliable:


''There rumor that the condition of the
Governors health is such that his withdrawal
from the Gubernatorial canvass is quite proba-
BILE. His personal friends desire him to with
draw from the canvass for his health and the
prolongation of his life, while his political
friends regard his defeat for Governor as GER
tain, which result would be disastrous to his
Presidential prospects. By withdrawing from
the contest and placing some other man at the
head of the ticket, defeat in October would
enable the friends Of Allen to go before the
National Convention with the plea that he is
the only Democrat who can carry Ohio. Thur
man and his friends bitterly oppose Aliens
withdrawal unddr the circumstances as they
expect to make capital in the National Con-
vention by the defeat of Allen and his unlim-
tied initiation scheme. These rumors are now
| afioat among certain inner circles of the Dem
ocratic party, and should change be made in
the hands of the Democrats it may be looked
for soon.
Year: 1875

CONDITION OF THE CRoPs.-The crop re-
ports received at the Agricultural Department
show that the corn crop is about 96 per cent
of the average. The average condition of the
W heat for the whole country is 90. A large
yield of oats is promised. Barley is nearly an
average. Potatoes are doing well, and there
will be large crop. The condition of the
tobacco crop is reported throughout the coun-
try at about 20 per cent. above average, being
the most satisfactory in the largest tobacco
States. Reports from Kentucky show con-
dition "a per cent. above average. The crop
in Virginia is per cent. below average, and
in Maryland per cent. The wool clip shows
a considerable increase, especially in the South
and West and on the Pacific coast.
Year: 1875

it was body illustrating the folly of making
the Legislative office reward for precocity
or tail to township or ward caucus"


Such was the Legislature which came in
with the Democratic Renaissance, and in both
branches of which the Democratic party had
a large majority Such is the reform in State
affairs which that party has foisted upon the
people of Ohio, and by virtue of which it
again claims their confidence. 1t seems
scarcely possible that any voter, whatever his
previous affiliations, can hesitate as to his du-
ty with reference to aparty which has brought
such disgrace upon the State, and proven so
unfaithful in the trusts committed to ito.
s. Journal
Year: 1875

81 FOUGHT to maintain the Union," said an
intelligent soldier the other evening, land in
the cause sacrificed that good right leg. To-
day am struggling in the face of want to
support my family. To-day hundred e1-
rebels stand elected to Congress, and are only
waiting for the time to come when they will
be able to make me suffer still further for my
sacrifice. Things did not look this way at
Appomattox Court House in 1865. You could
not have made me believe it." And then he
stumped off with his wooden substitute for
flesh and blood, and disappearedin in the crowd.
Year: 1875

IT soas little startling-that idea of invi-
ting jeff Davis to make speech at the Rock
ford Fair; and yet we may as well face the
fact that if Old Bill Allen is elected in Ohio,
jeff and his sort will be the chief orators Of
the campaign of 1876. The "rebel yelr' will
be heard all over the land pretty soon if the
Republicans don't quit fooling and fighting
among themselves, and walk up to the polls
like men who had some responsibility resting
on their shoulder.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Year: 1875

The National Board Trade, in its


session atPhiladelphia yesterday, voted


to indefinitely postpone resolution
favoring the establishment of q postal


telegraph system by the government.


The system was favored by Mr.. J. T,


Heald of this city. Mr.. Heald, also q


offered series of resolutions looking to


the cultivation of more intimate com.


mercial relations with the Govern


mchts OF the Central and South Ameri-
can States. Referred 10 the Executive
Council. Resolutions were adopted
Recommending concerted opposition to
any bill of lading or railroad receipt
assuming to impose conditions other
than such as are recognized as in force


under the common law, as defined by
judicial decisions; also resolutions
memorializing Congress to authorize
the appointment by the President of a
commission OF merchants and business
men TO confer with like commission


on the part Canada on the subject of a


treaty for reciprocal trade and COM
merclal relations. The committee on


transportation submitted report de-


claring, among other things, that


si"hSl'oi b1ttiOil lllleS uIC iOCdlCu


exclusively within the limits of a


State they should be regulated by


State legislation, but where they are


engaged in Interstate commerce it is
the duty of the national government
to prescribe and enforce such regula-
tions as will insure substantial Justice
to all concerned. This part of the re-
port was tabled. One resolution en-
bodied in the report, declaring that the
subject of transportation should
receive the earnest consideration of
Legislators, State and national, to the
end that substantial justice may be
done both TO capital, which has been
honestly invested in our transportation
and the public, was adopted: and a
resolution in favor of Improvement of
water lines was amended, so as to be
limited to existing water lines, and
adopted. The board adjourned sine
DE, The board yesterday afternoon
were treated to an excursion on the
Delaware from Port Richmond to
Chester, and also inspected the large
grain elevator at Girard Point, and
were entertained on the steamer
Pennsylvania of the American line.
Year: 1875

NEW SrEAMsHlP.-According to the
Chester Neacs the Old Dominion Steam
ship Company is about to contract with
John Roach Son for an iron steamship
Tor their line, and the work on the YES.
early date.
Year: 1875

The second attempt of the present Congress
to make political capital out of the Currency
question has received the approval of the
President and taken its place on the statute
book as the law of the land. When the Bank
of France was authorized, or directed, by the
Corps Legislatif to suspend specie payments
in 1870 a limit was placed on the aggregate
issue of its notes. 1t was deemed unsafe to
intrust even that conservative and responsible
body with the power of issuing paper money
without limit. But now, in the fourteenth
year of deprecated and irredeemable paper
prdmses, it has been determined by Congress
and the President to give the two thousand
banks of this country liberty to issue incon-
vertible notes without assignable limit.
more effectual measure to make the paper
currency of the country permanently incOn-
yertible could not easily have been devised.


When the Dawes Compromise Initiation bill
was passed in June last we pointed out that
its effect would be to add to the insecurity of
banking by encouraging reckiessness on the
part of the managers of those corporations.
We observe that The London Economist, from
simple inspection of some of the December
statements of the banks of this city, has ar
rived at the same conclusion. 1t might. per-
haps. be extravagant to assert that there are
not two thousand persons in the country with
the capacity to manage bank as it should


he managed. but we have no hesitation in
saving that the management of probably
more than half the existing banks has not
been what it should have been. We need not
point to the style in which the finances of
railroad, steamship, and other corporations are
conducted. We need not make any post NOR
TEN dssections of the affairs of those banks
and bankers who have given up the ghost
since August, 1873. The general maxim that
when q man gets into deep water he will
catch at anything to keep himself afloat is
Year: 1875

Gen. Grant informs the Senate that he gave
no specific orders for the use of troops the
other day in expelling persons from the
Louisiana Legislature; the army acted under
general instructions issued last September,
and still in force. He is good enough to say
that he deprecates military interference with
"the organization of a State LEGISLATURE
but he finds no fault with the troops, and
virtually acknowledges that they were justi-
fed in their action by the tenor of their in
structions. OF this we have no doubt. Gen.
Emory is too good soldier and careful an
administrator to exceed his authority in a
matter of this kind.


The Presidents admissions make the case
more serious than it was before, So he actu-
::iy :ilT fht the soldiers at tho absolute disposal
of William Pitt Kellogg four months ago, and
has never Withdrawn the authority he then
lawlessly delegated to that so-called Governor.
Mr.. Kellogg can repeat his operation tO-mor-
row if he pleases. The army and navy of the
United States are at the beck and call of a
political adYenturcr, who may use them in the
breaking up of the Legislature whenever that
body makes itself obnoxious to him. The in
reference on The 4th instant was not an iso-
lated outrage but part of systematic and
continuous abuse of power.


Congress should now call for copies Of all the
instructions issued by the President or the
Secretary of War to the military commander
at w-Orleans and the orders from that
officer to his slbordnateS Let us have no
halfway inquiry into this grave affair. Mil
itary usurpaton in this republic must be put
a stop to mt once and forever.
Year: 1875

termined and dangerous attacks upon Con-
gress The direction Of the assault this time
Is from the Texas Pacific Railroad. Mr.. Scott
is asking for guarantee of $4,000 per mile,
on which the Government Is to pay interest
for forty years. But stretch Of 720 miles OF
the line for which he asks this, lies between
Fort Yuma and San Francisco, and through q
country in which the Southern Pacific Kali
road of California has already built nearly 4oo
miles Of railroad. and is building the re-
mainder, TO complete this very limo between
San Francisco and Fort Yuma, as fast as IL
can be done, and without asking any guaran-
tee of the Government.


1t might bo convenient for the enterprising
gentlemen IN charge of this great work to
shift from their own shoulders to those OF the
Government the heavy obligations they have
assumed. But there is no reason OF justice or
policy which should induce Congress to assist
them in it, and there are few Congressman
who will aid them in this matter from any
reasons relating TO tho public welfare. 1t Will
be necessary, if this thing is done, to inquire
how it is done. For this and other consldera-
tons we hope the Pacific Mail inquiry VIII
not throw so much ridicule upon the subjects
of bribery and perjury as to sicken the coun-
try of all such investigations.
Year: 1875

If the Congressman now busily engaged in
investigating the lobby operations of the Pa
cifc Mail Company are merely amusing them
selves and doing nothing more, the investiga-
ton might as well cease at once. If some of
them were trying to familiarize the public
mind with the idea Of bribery and perjury, so
as to make it easier for doorkeepers in future
to distribute greenbacks among the Represent
atives, they could hardly proceed more judici-
ously than at present. 1t is not within the
compass Of belief that Hersey received S11 200
for himself from Mr.. Irwin ; and members are
insulting the common sense of the country in
giving full credit to the ridiculous story.
Hersey says he lost some of it "in pork
speculation" Can it be possible that any
members of the Committee had "some Of the
"pigT


Any course which would make the work OF
the lobby easier this session would DO the
more deplorable.. because there are indications
that it is about to push one Of its most de-
Year: 1875

In few days the Legislature of Pennsyl-
vania. having disposed of the Senatorship,
which appears to be already settled in
the worst way conveniently attainable, will
probably be ready to take up some of the
many other serious questions that are waiting
for it. We venture to suggest that one of the
most important Of these is the condition of
the State Treasury. For years the reported
frauds in that department have been among the
great scandals of Republican administration.
If venality and peculation in connection with
the public finances have not been notorious,
it can at least be said that almost everybody
has believed in their existence, and there is a
very strong suspicion that they are worse now
than they have ever been before.


The Democrats in the House can undertake
nothing more useful just at present than an
investigation Of the State Treasurer. Their
party has expended great deal Of eloquent
indignation upon this subject during the late
campaig gns and the country expects them now
to justify their charges and redeem their
promises. Ii seems to us that this duty ought
not TO be needlessly deferred even for a day.
Year: 1875

better knowledge Of The fatal defects Of our own
financial policy. and especially recent
compromise manner Of dealing with vital questions
than these essays. Mr. Walker has done his country
men a great service by translating them. Their
wide circulation would be of inestimable service
in exploding most Of the prevalent delu-
sions regarding the currency. such that
we cannot retain any gold in the country until We
discharge our foreign indebtedness and get tho
balance Of trade permanently u in our favor. and
that return to specie payments means more paper
and less gold than we have now France affords
perhaps tho most striking proof Of the trnth that
the specie that can be introduced into cur
rency the greater the safety Of that currency just
tue construction Of ire-proof edfce requires
the Of brick and stone 10 the exclusion OF tar.
pitch. and pine lumber. We have preferred from
time immemorial to build our financial house OF
paper, which sufficiently accounts for its having
been so often burned down over our heads.
Year: 1875

Decidedly the most entertaining product of
the Pacific Mail investigation so far was the
address Of Mr.. Samuel Ward, sometimes
known as the King of the Lobby, delivered
in the form of testimony before the Committee
of Ways and Means yesterday. Mr.. Ward
seems to be an avOwed master of tho business
of parliamentary brOkerage-at which some
other witnesses examined by the Committee
are in comparison bungling apprentices. Like
the others, lie uses the professional words
"counsel," retainer" &c, but unlike them
he does not object to being called a lobbyist.
He makes no secret Of the methods, and dis
courses lightly of the pleasures, the trials,
the cOmpensations of his business, and unlike
the others, again, he does not hesitate to
acknowledge that his fee in the case of the
Pacific Mail subsidy was out OF all proportion
to the services rendered Three thousand five
hundred dollars was the sum he received for
two weeks work III the way of dropping a
word now and then iuto the ear of the
average Congressman in behalf of what he
esteemed great National necessity. The
Committee seem to have been on such pleas
ant terms with the King Of the Lobby, and
so much amused by his stories. that they
narrowly missed getting from him any in
formation whatever as to the subject of their
innuirY9
Year: 1875

PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS GEN GR1NT
II makes all the difference in the world
whether it is your bull that was gored, or my
OK. When Mr.. Kellogg chose to superintend
the organization Of the Louisiana Legislature
the other day, and to determine who had a
right to sit in it, he had no trouble i'll obtain
ing the services of the United States army to
expel the persons whom he Judged not to be
members; and the President emphatically ap-
proved the transaction until the Indignation
of the country and the threatened uproar ut
Washington forced him to acknowledge that
it's prOpriety was "perhaps debatable ques-
ton"


But it may be as well to remember that
three years ago United States Marshal Packard
and other representatives, of the Federal
power at New-Orleans arrested Gov. WarmOth
on a charge of interfering with the organiza-
ton of the Legislature-in other words. doing
Just what Kellogg has now done with the aid
of United States troops The right of the
Governor to interfere with the organization OF
the Legislature did not seem to be "a debat-
liable question" then, did it'll The only diff
ference between the two cases is that IN 1872
the Governor was opposed TO the Custom
bouse faction, and in 1875 he is sustained
by it.


What gigantic fraud and false pretense
the connection of the Washington government
with this Louisiana scandal has been from the
first. Warmoth and his supporters were
arrested in order that the CustOm-house party
might get possession Of the Legislature during
their absence; and while Packard was thus
pretending to protect the General Assembly
from outside interference, Casey was sailing
up and down the river with cargo of Sena-
tors on board a revenue cutter, keeping them
out of the reach of the Sergeant-at- so a
quorum could not be assembled until the
Custom house had secured majority.
Year: 1875

see no good reason why they should not have
commanded the support Of every member
who Is not blind defender Of the policy OF
the Administration. Yet they did not reooVe
the vote of a single Republican. They were
adopted nevertheless,