Year: 1876




New York World


In discussing the deadlock between
the Senate and the House upon the APP
preparation bills. the attitude Of each
party Is continually misstated. The
Democratic majority in the House offers
to the Administration what 1t considers
an abundant allowance Of money to
carry on the Government. The Re-
publican majority in the Senate,
speaking for the Administration,
declares that 1t must have more,
or that 1t will refuse TO accept any
ut all. and break down the business Of
Government. 1t is rs If % husband
should say to his wife ut the beginning
Of the year that he could not afford more
than $20,O 900 for household expenses, rs
times were getting hard and the extra
vagance of his establishment was rapid
ly driving him to ruin and as II she
should reply that she couldn't and
wouldn't consent to run house on
$4,000 u year; that she had
been accustomed to spend double
that amount; that nothing less
than the old allowance would keep
things in the style In which she
was determined to have them. and that
II he offered such miserable sum she
would fling It In his face, sell out the
furniture and break up housekeeping.
1t is plain that our national housekeep-
Ing has been wasteful and extravagant,
and that we cannot keep up the old style
without danger of bankruptcy. and in
this emergency the Republicans re-
fuse to make even the expert
ment OF retrenchment The threat
to raise row and break up the house
hold If they cannot go on squandering
money as they have been accustomed 20
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Of Vermont, tho abIest Republican In
the Senate. has said already, the only
proper thing TO do is TO take under pro-
test what the House gives. and should
1t prove insufficient, the Government
need not break down during the year,
as Congress will meet within six
months, and can pass deficiency bills
II new supplies are essential. The
determination to close up the post
offices and customhouses at once, for
partisan effect, merely because tits pre-
tended that they may possibly have to
be closed for want Of funds during the
year, will strike the average citizen rs
very poor sense and worse patriotism.
We advise our Republican friends to
| pause before they take such q course.
| The American people, thrown on their
own resources, might perhaps discover
! that n great deal of this expensive ma
chinery called government, operated by
myriads Of costly officials, could be very
well spared aud if they got used to
\ getting along without the fostering
care of our paternal administration
\ the occupation of numbers OF Jealous
| politicians would be gone forever. There
was time when an American citi-
zen scarcely ever came in contact with
the Federal Government except to go
to the postof1ice for his mail. If the
Republican majority Of the Senate per-
sists In its awful threats to remove from
over us the beneficent care OF a central
lied government, perhaps the event
will prove that we can stand 1t better
than the governmental machine. There
are parts OF that machine which II once
suffered to go into disuse will never
be restored. Ponder over these things,
gentlemen, and don't take these strange
risks. To be sure, IL your appropriations
are cut down, campaign funds will be
smaller and fat jobs will not be as
plenty as usual, but there will still be
good pickings. II you cannot have
what you want, take what you can get
Half a loaf is better than no bread
Stretch your legs according to the length
of your coverlid.