Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 2, 1878, Page 4

ad THE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY:AUGUST 2, 1878, Vessel-Owners” Assocition, and to this end the rales have beon cut on the one sido and still furthor rednced on the other. Iiwas then that the regular lines determined on a reduction of the wages they were paying, which was practically an effort to mako the employes stand a loss in- cidont to a cul-throat game played for a monopoly. If thisis a proper representation of tha case, the employes were certainly Justified in resiating n reduction for such a purpose; if a certaln olique of the tug-boat owners wanted to drive othera outof the business, and saw fit to incura loss to no- complish it, they should have stood such losa themselvos, and not havo songht to shoulder it upon their workmen. Zlye Tribaue, TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. AT MATL—IN ADVANCE~TOSTAGE PREPAID. Dally Fditton. one year. 3! Tarts of A year, per mon Ennday Literar, Fheet. Eataraey Fdtiion, twe ik Weekin, ane year.. atts of 8 year, per mot X EDITION, TOSTPAID. me copy., Ciub of fou Fpeeimen Give Fost-Omce address fa full, including Btate sod County. Remittances may be made either by draft, express, Post-Office order, or In regiitered letter, st our riak. TRRMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERA. Dally, delivered, funday excepled, 25 cents per week. Datly, deltrered, Sunday lncluded, 30 centa per week. ddress TUE TRIBUNE COMPAN Corner Madison and Dearborn-ste., Chicago, I, Otders for the delivery of Tna Tatnuxe At Rvanston, Englewood, end Ilyde Park feft [a the countlng-room will receive prom ntion. The Committee appointed by the House to investigate the condition of labor through- ont the conntry held its first meeting in New York yesterdsy, and recoived the viowsof numerous individuals representing labor or« ganizations as to tho causes of the presont depression and the remodica therefor. Bome of theso people seemed to have difflenlty in making themselves undoerstood by the Com- mittee, who, unlike the nudionces which thewe labor emancipators are accustomed to sddress, had n disagreeablo Labit of asking questions nat easlly nnswered. There is 8 chanco that ome good may come of the investigations of the Committeo snd its conferences with leading labor repre- sontatives. 'If tho Iatter would only teil what it is they want, and what thoy expect to do with it after they get it, it would greatly assist the Committes in ita search for information. For inatance, the spokeamen for Inbor are agreed that machinery is the chiof canse of the present distress among working people, but they are not agreed as to what should be done about it, Perhaps some of tho witnesses yat to be heard may be able to present their ideas moro clearly; nt all events, the opportunity ia now afforded for a discussion and examination of the great Iabor problem which ought to be productive of a better feeling and understanding,— always provided that the labor representa- tives arg really desirous of sach a result. TRIBUNE BRANCH DF‘I"ICES. Trim Cnicano TRIRTAE has eatabilshed branch offiees for the recetpt of subscriptions and sdvertisements sa faliows: NEW YORR—Room 20 Tridune Bullding. F.T.Mo- Fappaw, Manager. PARIB, France—No, 16 Rus dela Grange-Batellore, M. Manten, Agent. LONDON, Fng.—American Exchange, 448 Strand. Axxny F. UiLiio, Agent $AN FRANCISCO, 8 Motel, AMUSEMENTS, floeley’s Thentre, Nundoivh strert, between Clark aad Lasslle. Harry Roblnson's Minstrels. Barnum’s Skow. Lake Front. ——— ey BOCIETY MEETINGS. WASTIIRGTON CHATPTER, Ko, 43, R, A, M.—Re wlar Convocation thin (Kriday] eycning at 7:30 0'clock. Jiustiiess of Importance and work on 1hie Mark Degree. 1y order of :In';'i'l" 1'flm}mnluu ‘cordlaliy invited. “T T CHARLES B, WRIGHT, Becretary, M =Tl . 1 (Friday) for business. Iy onler of the K. N. TUCKKIL Becretary, ORIENTAL LODGE, No. 33, A. F. & A, 124 Lavalle:st, Kiated Communication this evening, aL 74 o'clock, Master, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1878, Groenbacks at the Now York Stock Ex- chango yesterdny closed nt DD}, EKEARNEY'S MASSACHUSETTS CRUBADE, The demngogue and Communist, Dexxis Kxauxzy, who has now ceased working for o living, nfter the manner of all Communistic loaders, has gono to Massnchusotts to help mako that other demagogue, Bex Burnen, Governor of theBtate and propagate hisincen- diary {deas among the workingmen, to theend that he may array them ina war against capital. He commenced his crusade with the mos? recklesa disrogard of tho Massachn- sotts reverence for the Sabbath by making 1Lis first speech upon that day, and since that timo has devoted himself without stint to tho most outrageous abuse of every man who employs other mon,—a form of srgument that any person with a foul imngination and dirty tonguo can indulgo in as well as L, ‘There has beon but one occasion whon this blatherskite cessed his profanity and scurril- ity long emough to give wa an idea of what ho really wants, and that wns in an interview with a corre- spondent of a Philadelphia nowspaper, in which ho sald: **The true Workingmen's party must havo fow issues; Chinese immi- gration must be stopped; land-grabbing must conse; a decent day's wagos must be paid for n decont day's work.” Iere we have, then, three issues as laid down by Keanxegy. The first is Chiness immigration, which he calls Mongolian alavery. But what have Massachusotts workingmen, or work- ingmen anywhore out of California, to do with that? Itinalocal issue purely, which {a alroady in thoas.stages of ngitation and discusaion that indieats it speedy sotilo- ment. Iis sccond plaak doclares that land- grabbing must cease. What docs Le mean by this? What doos ho ‘call land-grabbing? Thero aro plenty of workingmen in Mnssa- chusetts, as well as in other Btates, who lay up enough from their labor, which this dem- ‘agogue calls “ o slavery worse than death,”, tobuy land. Ovor one-half the workingmen of Massachusotts have saved enough out of their wages to buy e cottage and a pleco of ground upon which they ralse something for their tables, Thiais one form of land- grabbing. The other form is purchasing land or entering it under the Momo. stend law., This is tho only other form. It Keanvkx proposes to stop these two modos of *“grabbing,” he will find that the Massachusotts workingmen, ne well aa the men who have taken up lands in the Far ‘West for purposes of cultivation, will hold on to thelr grabs with o grip that neither ko nor any of his idle, loaforish gang can unlock, Tho first issue, therefore, is a local one, and tho second an empty one, The only one left i{s his afirmation that a decent day's wagos must be paid for a docent day'a work. What does he mean? We presume a decent dny's work is o faithful day’s work, perform. od without skulking or sogering, and a mensurs of labor for each day that does not damago a man physieally or incapacitate him for the noxt day’s work, This might Lo called ronsonable, and is probably what Keansey himself, 8 boss draymon, exacted from his assistants at the time when he was making from $200 to $400 a month in “a slavery that was worse than Jeath.” What does he mean by adocent day's wages? Does ho mean that an unvarylng sum of monoy, regulated by statute, shall be paid for overy man's labor, and that it shall be paid for all classes of ocoupations? Does hojineau to require that the common laborer, who mere. ly works with Lls Lsuds, shall bo pald as much as tho skilled laborer who works with bhis hands and hesd? Thai a man who dis- plays intelligonce and sptitude, and who can produce more and better than the dull man, shall only have the same woges as the latter? If so, who is 10 determine the amount? Who is to enforce these unvarylng laws that shall sot aside the {uflexible laws of supply and dewand? Has the man who emwploys no rights in tho prem- lses? Ishe to be compelled to pay an un- varying sum at thedictation of such men as Krannzx? Buppose that the condition of the market is such that he cannot employ at a certain prics because it is unprofitable, is ho to be compelled to pay out more monoy than ho recoives back? If Kzauxgy and his fol. lowers can legislate that an unvarying sum shall be paid aa wages without reference to the question of supply and demand or to the profits of sales, then why may'they not leg- iulate that all products shall be sold st a cer- taln price the world over? The oue is -a6t more difficult than the other, and the law could bo enforced jusk aa ¢eyily in the one' casq au In the other. Tn propoundiog hjs visionary sys- tom it does nob seem 1o oocur to ‘him that It turns upon the queation Wwho ia to settle it, and upon what principles? It does not appear to occur to him that employers as a rule pay much ns they cau,'and that if an em- ployer pald his men too littls, when thero was & demand for labor and & profit iu pro- duction, sowe otker ewployer would stako Accerding-; ibe omchl—i‘mmry stato- racnt for the month of July the reduction in 1ho national indebtedness waa $206,307. Gov, Hanrrox and all the Stats officars of South Carolina were yesterday ronomivated with great enthusiasm by the Domocratic titate Convention, The platform guarantecs full protection to all classes in tho adminis- {rntivn of justice, and invites people from oll parts of tho globe to como and make their homes in the Palmeito State, Sympathy with tho moonshiners naud irritation at the persiatont efforta of tho Faderal Government to enforco the collection of the revenuo are exprossed in a resolution nsking Congress to smend tho law and the Prosident to grant omnesty to tho illicit distillers in the upper countics, £ Ramor is busy with the changes contem- plated in tho Chicago Police Department under the administration of tho new Super- intendent, and, among others, a report is current that Capt. O'DoxneLy, of the First Precinet, is to bo romoved from his present command and reduced to the grade of Liou- tenaut. It is difficult to bolievo that such a step is soriously contemplated at hend- quarers, Mayor Heatr and Suporintendont BeAvEY cannot bo ignorant of the faot that Capt, O'DownrLy ja regarded by tho oitizens of the South Division as the right man in the right place, and that his romoval would be certain to creato intenso dissatisfaction among oll excopt the criminal classes, It would be o most distasteful and unpopular thing to do to displace an officer of such tireless in- dustry and fidelity, large experience, and jmpreguablo honesty, IHence, we eay, it s difieult to beliove that such a stop fa sori- ously contemplated by the Mayor and Police Superintondont. : An interesting acoount is given in our dls- patches this morning of the unveiling yos- terday, at Muskegon, Mich., of the monu- ment erootod in honor of Capt. Joxarman ‘Warxes, the hero of the * branded band,” whose martyrdom in July, 1840, by the brujal slaveholders of Florids, on account of his efforts in bohalf of the liberation of n number of blacks, has been made immor- tol in Wyurrrizen's verso, The granito ehoft which marks the resting-placo of this heroio bt unpretonding friend of the slave was tho gift of the Rev. Puorius Fisx, of Bos- ton, o native of Groece, who was cducated in Amerien, and who conceivod sud carried into execution the plan of perpetuating the fome of the old Michigan Abolitionist. The address of Panxen Pruranuny, the letters, read from distinguished Anti-Blavery men, and the historical reminlscences brought ont in connection with tho ceremonies of yes- terdny, will bo road with Interast every- /vl.\en. Mr, Frexon, the new Auditor of Rallroad Accounts, appointadjunder the provisions of the Tuunsan bill, has evidently got abig jobon hand., The railroad companies are disposed to contest every step ho takes to- ward bringlog them to a striot and honest sottlement with the Government, An im. portant purt of tho Auditor's work will be to uscertain the exact amount of earnings, current and invested, of the various Pacifio railroads, and in order to obtafn this in. formation he must have access to thelr Looks oud nccounts. 'Thoy dispute the constitutionality of the law, and will resist every effort by the Government to realize the benefit sought to bo conferred by the bill, the passago of which was op- posed by one of the most formidable rail. rond lobbies that ever undertook to obstruct legislation unfuvorable to the giant 1gonopo- lics created by the liberality of the Govern- ment, But tho law must be obeyed in the cud, and the straggle can have but one re- sult—that of compelling the big corporations to disgorgo of their fabulous gains the money that they honestly owe the National Trensury, In spite of tho folly and excesses that are charaderistio of moet labor strikes, » unic versal coudumnation of the . practice undér all circumstauces cannot be justified. It shiould Lo the last resort of workingmen on tbeir own account, sud should even then be cwployod only* whan' fhey aro convinged they are tho viptims of jnjustice, und that they may'sssert thelr tights by this method. * The strike of the {ug-men, who quit work yusterduy, scews, from all acoounts, o hevg asd 83 ‘fouch provocalion ‘and: wegrant &y’ sver a voluntary abandonment 'of work has.| Lo mowt of the tugs in the city hava eoutrolled by 'h‘:@wmpmlu:'mn m lines huve been waging war on the * outaide bouts, socalled. The purpose bas evjdently been {0 drive: 'these' bogts ', dff, and lowve the towing ~busindis & monop. vly in the hands of the Unjon and 2 22, thom away from him ; that when there is A domand for Inbor wages rise, and whon labor placks there is & fall; and that the man at work ia influorited by the inflexible law of supply and demand precisely as his product i8. To give the matter a personal bearing, wonld this domngogue KzarNey, who talks so glibly of regulating wages by law, now that ho is doing nothing, havo rolighed a lnw com- polling him, when boss deayman, to pay his employes an unvarylng sam whether there was not work for thom, or when ho ro- celved less pay for drayage? Who is o furnish the money to pay tho employes when the employer is losing? Who is to supply him with the wage.fund when little comes back to him from the sale of prodnots? And after he goes into the in- avitablo bankruptey that wounld follow tho adoption of Krarxey's system of ** corraling and grinding” the employer, who is then to keop up the business and continuo to pay tho workmen? It wonld not be diffienlt to domonstrate from Kxanxey's foul abuso, scurrilous throats, and utter want of reason, that Kearncyism menna incondiarism, destruction of capital and property, and that it is Communism in ita most dangerous forms. It is not prob. able, however, that his crusade will hsve much guceess in Massachusetts, whora but 14,000 workers out of 1,650,000 peopla are out of employment; whore over one-half the Inborors lave saved enough out of their wages to purchase themaclves com- fortable homas, in other words, aro land-grab- bers; where the workingmon laat year had depositod in savings banks $216,000,000,—n Iargor sum than the othor capitalista of that Btate can command, thus making the laborers the chief capitalists, whom Keanner would “gorrl and then grind them, G—p d—n them"; and whero the laborors’ children have tho benefit of froe schools and are not growing up iniguorance. The presenco of Kzanxzy in Massachusetts will not advance Com- ‘munism, nor will it mid his fellow-demngngue, DBex Burien, who has descended to the dirtiest work ho has ever yet done—and that is snying a good deal, for what had boen paid in tax # tho Government no 'goeu in export tuxes and to fnmcrease tho profits of tho foreign producer. . Was the Democra\ic. proposition to reduce the tax on whisky and tobacco aC falr sample of their idea of roforming: taxation? The tax on whisky and tobacao is universally recog- nized ss tho fnirest, oasicst, and surest method of raisihg Government revenne. Yet tho Democratd rfinde n desperate effort to lesson the Government receipts from this sourco by 20 or 30 millions of dollars, and thon assoss the -samde amonnt wpon the gobrioty, indnstry, and frugnlity of the conntry! Was this| for tho rolief of the poople ? How about the expenditnre of public monoya? The Democrats in the Forty- fourth Congrosa, made a pretense of reducing the appropriations for campaign purposes only to pilo .thom on agnin in the Forty-fifth Congross in the shapo of dofi- clency bills; and Sonator Wixpox bas de- monsteated by a companson of the annual financia! reports that the average Democralic saving for the past four yoears—a period of universal cconomy and shrinkage of values— has beon loes than the Republican saving during a previous period of high prices and goneral oxtravagance 'between tho closo of thie War and the outbreak of the panic. Dt it is useloss to ‘pursue tho topic any further. What promiso is there in the Domocratic methods of the past four years for any Democratio measnres of relicf in the futuro? Dan Voomnees would probably refer to the propomtion to ropeal the Re- sumption act aud flood the conntry with ir- redeemable and worthlesa fiat-scrip, Wo shall not atop here to argue’ tho probablo effocts of such a policy, but only say that it isnot a partisan Domocratio movoment. If tho coun- try can find the promised relief in that dos- porate and crazy movement, thon it must be sought at the handsof tho ** Nationnls”—tho genuine, true-blue fiat party—and not from the Demoerats, who *bitterly differ among thomselvos asto this policy. The fact isthat the Domocratic party, as such, has done nothing in the partial trial that has been given it, and proposes nothing in the issues it now presents which commends it or its loadors to popular, faith; and one of the best proofs of this fact is that tho Demo- cratio londers, like Voormzes, must content themselves with the stalo device of abusing tho Republican party, while thoy ignore their own failure to improve thoir opportu- nities and make good thoir pledges, dated Sept. 1862, in which ho gave wharning to the Rebels in thess words: “That on Jan. 1, 1863, all persons held as slaves within any Btate or designated part of n 8tate, the pcople whereof shall then b in rebellion against the United Btates, shall bo then, thenoeforth, and forover free.” This was callod the ** 109.day notico” to ‘the Rebels to Iny down their arms and rotnn to.their alleginnco within tho 100 days, or scnmnc:lwulcn would bo decreed; but they langhed him to scorn, and called him 8 baboon, and told him to fire his emancipa- tion guu, and sce what wonld coma of it He did firo it at the Cotton Btales and Vir- ginia, and the rebols saw the offect of the sbot. The work of emancipation was com- pleted and rendered oternal by tho constitn- tional amendment abolishing properly in man throughout the Republie. o A—— "HE ABUNDANCE OF MONEY. In Tuz TatouNe yesterday there were four announcemonts, all pertaining to the same goneral fact. Thess were: (1) That the sales of 4 per cent bonds at the Chicago Bub- ‘Treasury on the 318t of Jnly wero$8,000, and that for the month of July they were 31,230, 000, (2) That ho sales of the samo kind of bonds on tho last day of July throughont the country wero 81,661,670. (3) That for the fonr months ending July 31 the sub- seriptions had boen tho scrowa till tho abnormal price of $1.50 which sattlenents will be forced in that city. The Milwaukes * shorts,” or those who sold teoted ns were their Ohioago follow-aufforers by any anti-cornor rules, and hence the higher price and grenter squocze, It wonld the price of spring wheat to a still higher figure than provailed in Milwaukes, ‘becauso there was nons of tho stuff in the market; they wero restrained from doing so by the knowledge that they would thus forea a largo nnumber of the sellers to rofuse Committee of Arbitration, and finslly pay shipping purposes, which would bo about 99 conts or $1 n bushel, according to the New York price yesterdny. nnd claim tho bonefits of the anti.corner rule. nltogether. that, whenever winter and spring wheat are wheat, which ia commercinlly the cheaper. 4,078,150 7 500 the “squeezed " will claim and securo entiro exemption thereby. It was cortainly the ex- istence of the anti.corner rule, however, which proteoted the ‘‘bears” in Chicago e004,$00, 832,050 (4) That tho aslos of 4 per cents up to dato hind beon $118,000,000, of which $43,- 000,000 Liad boen taken by privato persons. rotary Buenstan resonted the urging.of silvor remonetization becauso ho said the very agitation had stopped the sale of 4 per cont bonds, and that the passage of tho measuro wonld prevent the furlher salo of any bonds at that rate of Interost. The Byndicate, which lhad subscribed to an amount of theso bonds, asked to be reloased from their contract on the ground that they could not hope to scll bonds payable in sil- vor ot that rate of intercat. The fact that if sllvor was remonsatized the Government wonld have tho option to pay the intorest and prineipal of all the bonds in silver or gold was frantically advertised at home and noroml. Nevertheless, within sizty days after the pnssage of the Silver bill, the bonds being put upon tho market for sale to the general publio, they have found growing favor. Forty-threo million dollars have been takon on privato acconnt and $75,000,000 by bankers and brokors for salo ot homo and abrond. The snlo in July nlone reached nearly $20,000,000 to the common people, This extraordinary sale of bonds shows very clearly the great confidenco of the peo- plo in the stability of tho Government. Torty-throe millions of dollars havo been contributed from the poople's earnings and savings and put into these bonds, “Tho peo- plehiave paid the promium on gold,~small it is trne, but oqual to one-eighth of a yenr's interoat, to secnrs the bonds, It shows, aleo, the abundance of idle monoy in the country. These forty-three millions have boen in- wvested mainly in comparatively small sums, ranging from 50 to 1,000, and have boen drawn from the hoardings of tho masses, At tho samo mte of increaso the total sub- soription to the 4 per cent bonds will prob- nbly rench $200,000,000 by the 1st of Jan- uary next, ‘Tha credit of the Government is exbibitod n this bond, whichls assuming the charactor of a popular loan. The intorest is loss than that paid by any Government in Europe, excopt Great Dritaln, and s not much in excess of the rate paid by that Gov- ernment, In the meantime every 4 per cent bond sold is a praotical reduction of one-third of the intercst now paidonother bonds. The roduction of intorest by the issuo of $118,. 000,000 4 por cont bonds in place of an equal amount of 6 per centa 18 equal to $2,560,000 annually during the lifotime of the bonds, The burden of the debt ls in the sum of the annualinterest pald theroon, and that burden {a roduced one-third on the amount of 6 per conts redoomed by the gsue of 4 por centa. This cbange in the securities now going on so rapldly is offectod without any reduo. tion of the amount of money in circulation. As the c6in is paid into the Troasury for tho 4 per cants, it is paid out again in exchange for the G per cents, and the proceeding in. volves no contraction of the currency. On the contrary, the money i largaly drawn from privato stores aad hoardings, and, ox- changed for a bond, passes into goneral cir. culation. The 4 percents aro taking the placo of tho groonbacks, tho gold, sud the gilver ocolns now locked up or put away in privato boxea and stockings, and the our. rency thus liberated is put lnto general oir. culstion, In viow of the fact that private persons aro paying into the 'freasury at present twenty willion dollars a month in exchange for 4 per cent bonds, shows how utterly fal. laglous s the Oany-Poumuor.Voozazzs humbog protenss that thers is not our. ronoy onough in the couhtry to enable the poople to do business, The faot i that tho unomployed monoy unabls to find invest- myent in any paging busincss is so groat that the people—not tho groat capitalista, but the small owners—aro taking it to the Treasury- at the rate of from four to five millions a woek, to lond it to the Goveruwment at 4 per cent, paying one-balf of 1 por cent promium on the loan. The plethors of money—paper money and gold and silver coin—is wholly cacape with compnratively littlo damage. In his ntlcn:lpled m_p-ly to Tns TRInUNY, # Flat " MourTox, of Grand Rapids, saya: In the next vlace, your charge that we proposs 1o Issus worlhieas papor without llmAt or redosmp- tlon is utterly and unqualifiedly fAiso, and yoo know it, 1f you know anything abont the matter, Notwithatanding this insolent, swagering denlal, the charge is strictly true, Every man who has psid any attention to the recent plat- form of the “Fiat " Conventlons and enunela- tions of tho lesders hasread the wila and extraor- dinary demands put forth in behalf of unlimited, irredecmable **fAat money. Taxke, for fustance, the writings of their club-organizer, * Brick PowEroY, or the harangues of Bax Fippru- PADDLE CARY, or the letters of thoancient Par=R CoorER, or tho speeches ot tho profes- slonal demagogne WRIGHT, of Pennsylvanla, or tho Ohio, New York, Indiana, Missouri, or Chi- cago platform of the Fiatists, and the burden of them all I8 o demand for & paper tesua of *tgbsoluto flat, lrredeemable money,™ sufliclent fn quantity to replacs all the Natlonal Bank notes and *“buy up® and “bum" all the bonds constituting the natlonnl debt. and then a farther Issuc of Irredecmablo * fiat larga enough to employ a1l the idle labor in the United States on & * grond system of publle fmprovements,” The Eastern '* Natfonals aro now also demandiug in thelr platforms and spceclioa that the Government shall nssumo the cexpensoof settiing tho uncmployed classeson tho public lands, which would cost soveral hundred millions & year, Inthe faco of the demanas for billions upon billions of “fNat™ fssues for those purposes, it requires cheek that would cause an army mule to blush for this mon MouLToN to make the denfal that be docs. T TriBUNE'S statement tnat the * Natlon- altats " propose to fssuc worthless paper, with- out limit or redeinption, was strictly true, and wittiout shadow of overstatoment or cxaggera- tion. ‘"YOU'RE ANOTHER.” Theburden of Dax Voonures' whangdéodle nt South Bond, which was designed to open o political compnign in Indians, may be found in tho following brief extract: In whatever direction you view tho political field, you find absolutely nothing offercd by the leadern of the Republican party calculated to pro- ‘mote the public welfare, In a poriod of greot cor- raption and debasement of the public service, in the midat of oficial scandals and debancheries connected both with the Jaat and present Admints- tlons, amd bowed down peaple are by the mnost np‘rnlhnn businers 89 ever known Ina civilized commonwealth, I chalienze the produc- 1ion of a eingle mensure by thuse who now lead and control the Republican party which has in it the elements of popuiar rellef, ‘We might pick up the glove thus thrown down, snd recount some of tho achieve- monts of the Republican party during the period covered by Vooninzzs' sweoping neser- tion, but there would be nothing now in that. The story has been told over and over agsin, and indood any one at aoll familiar with tlie political events of the past sixteen yoars could supply n satisfactory answor to the bullying challonge, Bat sup- pose we adopt tha same stylo of argument far the time being, and challenge Dan Voonmxrs and his Democratic brethren to show a singlo mensure that has beon either carriod ount or proposed az n Democratio party mensuro which Las in' i€ the clements of popular roliof, or which is caleulated to command the gratitude of the public, Dom- ocratic politicians wero s0 long out of office that thoy accustomed themselves to the prac- tice of a goneral attack on thair opponents with a confidonce inspired by their own freedom from responsibility, Bat Mr Voonnkes forgots that this Is not true of the pnst four yeats, during which the greatest doprossion has provalled. In 1874 the Domocrats swept tho country under the promise of making timea good. ‘L'hey ,bocamo possessed of o ms- jority of the Btate Governments, and ne- sumed tho control of the popular branch of Congresa by an overwhelming vote. They have practicnlly directod the leglalation of tho country dnring the last threo sessions of Congress. Thongh tho Sonate has Dbeon Republican, the majority has been swall, ond the Democrats bave had undisputed control of the House, which originates all the legislation authorizing the expenditare of public moneys and reduction of taxes, and which is always oxpected to be most respousive to tho popular demands ond publio necessities. Now, what dis- tinetively Democratic measure hoa boen oarried out, or even concoived, during thess four years of Democratic asceudency in Congresa that commands geueral popular respect or contidenco ? DaN Voonuzrs will scarcely have the sffrontery to claim that the act remonetizing silver, or that forbidding tho furthor retire- mont of greenbacks, was o Democratio meas- ure. Both theso lawa might be more fairly denominated Republican mensuroes, mnce a Ropublican Congressman from Hlinols was tho suthor of both bills, and they were push. ed by the Republicans of both Houses; bub the fact is that the vote In boih cases was rather scctional than partisan; Republicans and Democrata voted to- gother on both sides, according to the nssumed proferonces of the saction they reprosonted, and the rnessures were adopted by 8o tremendous a majority in the ond that neither party can reasonably clalm the puter- nity., Then what is it the Democrats have IT WAS A WAR T0O RESTORE THE UNION. It might haveo boon snticipsated Lhat many newspapers in the South that still have an unplensant recollection of the origin and outcome of the late Rebellion would scize upon that slip of the tongue, or it may be that slip of tho Now York Jlerald's corro- spondont’s pen,—for Gen. GRANT must cer- tainly havo known better,—whero GuanT is roported as eaying that *‘the prosorvation of the Unlop was n secondary considoration in the proscention of the late war betwoon the States by the Fodersl Government,” and that *‘the dostruction of slavery was the suprome object.” The Moblle Register makes conspicuous note of this alleged doo- laration on the part of the most prominent actor in waging ‘‘the war betwoen the Btotes,” a8 Arexawpem H. Srzemexs wonl prefer to call it, and remarks: 3 Ma (UnaxT) epeaks for his !polmul party, of course, whose Preeldent!al candidate ho expocts to be, and In doing so glvea tha lle 1o the rolterated declaration of “the licoublican Ilcaders that thelr —— The melanchaly effocts of too much lea-water aro beginning to show themsclves in the edito- rial columus of tho Cincinnatl Commercial. It Is with pain that wo obscrve the gloomy ton- dency of Mr. HAraTsADs remarks in Wednes- day's lssue, while troating in nls customary oxhaustive and perspicuous manpner of the atroug inclination that tho Amerlean people manifest in favor of anti-ropublican ideas and usages. Thus, wo aro cager for hero-worship and for setting up military tdols, which dls- eases muvifested themsoives In "*making a NapoLzox out of MOCLELLAK before he had fatrly taken command of the great army,’” agd now It asppears sgaln In the popu- lar cry for Umant. Noxt to theso manifostations of the people’s distoyalty to the simplo republican {deas of our fathors, the Commerviai soes troublo shead from the labor sgitation, aud the uotfun that has beoome somewhat prevalent of Jats that tho Govern- ment ought to become more paternal, and pro- yide money, land, foud, work, aud wujge for all crestion. 1t 18 true that uil thoso cyils do con- frout us, and may possibly make us some trouble fn the future, bat & mountain is never 80 hard to ascend when you reach its baso as it looks at a long distuace off; and #0 {f our coo- sctentious and clever contemporary over at Cin- cinnat! would forover abunduu a beverage that bas always disagreed with him, making him gloomy and despoudent, and stick to his reiu. Jar schiooner of beer, ife would ceass to boa burden, sud the destiny of the Republic would not loak so abeolutely gloomy. Trae hope awift, and dies with swallow's W1, Kinge Ituxfnk gode, and meaner creatares kings. Aud there (6 no telllog fust bow wuch bope may do for an editor. ————— ¢ the Poreer Committes could have known what ox-Gov. ParmER would testify to beforo it culled Lim, he would probably never have boen summoned o Now York, lls scema to have been sbout as cundid and unprofitable—and the mors candid the more unprofitable—witness that tbey have yet had bofore them, if we ex- cept Mre. Juwks, Gov. Paruzy odmits that Wg theoretically fres clection, such as intelll- gent men should make, was fmpossible then, and would be so mow." .And concerning the Board iteclt he sald: o re partisauship in that Board than A A Ay ity ot 10 suy Biste almust ju civil war. Two of the mem- bers certatnly believed that they ought to couut TLoEx out 4t al) ovents. They cousidered it & war measure,~& .maral duty under tho clrcuce nion, If Gon, Grant hod said anything of tho kind that is here attributed to him, sevoral important and well-sstablished facts must have escaped his memory ; namely, that the people of the North vory genorally ontered upon the work of putting down the Robellion by a *constitutional " method; that is, they expectod slavery would oontinuo to ex- ist aftor tho Unlon was restored. Blavery, they held and belioved, was protected by the Constitution as it was then, and Mr, Lmcorx, as tho representative of tho Ropublican party, declared over ard over again that it wna not for the abolition of slavery but for the proservation of the Unijon that the war was being carried on ngainst the Btates then In rebellion, In 1864, when Gon. Davio Houxtes, thon com. wmanding in the Department of the Galf, issued a military order omancipating the slaves in the Btates of South Carolins, Flori- ds, and Qeorgin, Mr, LincorN promptly rescinded the order ns inconsistent and st varamoo with the sottlod polioy of the Administration. Prior to this time he had sunulled a similar order mado by Gen. ForuoxT, thon commanding in Mis- sourl, and tho President's notion gave gruay offanss to tho radical anti-slavery mnen of this country, who wera anxious to see alavery abolished, It waa in reply to Mr. Gaarvry, who wasa then * plowifig " with certaln Rebel leaders, that BMr. LixboLw wrote the wmost fainona latter of tho War, under date of Ang. 23, 1862, when the Copperhoad eloment of the disloysl Dumocracy waa rampaut, bitter, aud sctively in sympathy with the Rebela in arms. Mr, LixooLy, addressing Mr. Grezixy by name, and replying to somo fretful and unjust criticisms in the Now York 7rilune upon the policy which tho President was pursulng, sald ; ¢ As to the policy I **seem to be pursuing.™ as T0u0” iouta bavo the Unton. 3 wouid sary, It in th shortest way under the Coustitutlon. The souner the natlons] suthority can be resiored, the acarer the Unlon will be—ihe Unlon as it was, 1f stances. 1 had grea wpathy for them, and, :nnnmo :{:e:n:h?; :{,:": l;:ih:!:o‘s:::;l;ht }2-‘-' i‘n‘S’,‘FJ&'flx‘if‘?fl“.‘i‘fi»“fif.fZ '.:,“‘:..‘i:‘:fi:‘ 1‘{.“; unexamplod. As we atated the otlior day, | wnaer ""x :Irj{:‘l‘nluncu. 1 Yate say Lshould buve 88 | not agreo with them, If thero be thosu whio would | tho outstanding paper and coin now In the | Uons s they self-rightcons arralgnment of the Republican party? Men vorsed in golitical science agreo that the bigh tariff has had an important in. fluence in prolonging the commerolal distress of the country by practically shutting ount American manufacturers from for- eign markets, What have the Domoorats done to relleve the country in this ve- gard? Monnuon, ol Illinois, hsd the wattor in charge in the Forty-fourth Con. Rross, and Woop, of Now York, in the pres- eunt Domocratio Congress, with a two-thirds Democratio majority in the House; both men professed to be anxious to achieve tariff reform, and the Democratio leadors for years had begged for an opportanity to break down the pernicious system of “ pro- tectjon.” Yet the two schemes proposed by Mogzison and Woop in the two Con- gromes hava been so noloriomsly defect. ive that they died from inanition, and tho iDemocrats have given tho conntry no improvement in the tarif at a time and undpr 'conditions that taught the necessity of ¢hango. Will the Democrats boast of the ropoal of the tax on 'tea and’coffas, which way dons at their instance and undes their influenco, as p wample of tariff yelopmn? By that act the Goverument waas deprived of sowe $18,000,000 to $20,000,000 01 ruv- enuq which it was not oblfged tp divide with any protected class, and which is now ssscssed in taxes ppon the pao- plu; yet the people gained nothing in the prices pald for tes and coffos, mot save the Union unless they could at the same time deatroy slavery, 1 do not agreo with thewm, My paramount objict ia (0 eave the Union, and ot wither o eave or deatroy slavery. 1t 1 couid save the Union without fresing any slave I would do gk, and i L could save 3t by freeing all the slaves 1would doll, and if 1 could save it by freelng sowe and loaving othors llmui that. \Wnat 1do about slavery | do because I be- licve it helps to save tho Onlon, and what I forbear I furbeaz because 3 do not believa It would Lelv to save the Usion. Mr, Lincorn undonbtedly gave volea to the Union party of the North at the time this lotter was written, although it is not to bo denied but that thousands of the more zealous Abolitionists were strongly opposed to such a moderate palicy, snd were urging the Admiulstration to sdopt a more heroic and aggressive mode of warfare. The roader will ‘remomber how ‘speclally solicitous that small fraction of the Demooratio party was that was giving the Union cause aid and cpmfort that it should be *“‘a white man's war,” that the Rebellion should be crushed # gonstitutionally,” and hat it should not be s war for the emancipation of the slaves, cipation came st last, as a war mogsure, bat uot then to all the Blave States. The pmqhmnuon of Jan. 1,,1863, excepled the Blave Btates of Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missour, Tenaesico, aud: portions of Louisisna and Virginia,— mord than a third of the South. The proc- lamation stated that i€ was mado as **an sot of justice, warranted by the Constitution upoa wilitary neccssity,” It will be remomberpd that President LaxcoLy fasued & prov‘lou proclamation, When wo rememhor that Mr. PALMER was one of the leading TiLDEX visitiug statbsmen who went down 10 % sec an honest count,” it Is no wouder that, after such testlmony, the Com- mitteo promptly sdjourned for refreshments, e ———— oountry s not loss than $420,000,000, snd worth in coin $818,000,000, To’ clains, with this vast mass of money in aight and subject to Imunediate use, that there is a scarcity of currency with which to carry ou business is confossedly absurd; and yet Dax Voorizxs, and Bau Cany, and the National Fiat kuaves ropeat the assertion day by day, It Iu not because of the scarcity of money that thoro is a stagnation of business, but because of the absence of demand for the product of labor that renders unemployed mouey so abundant. If there were a lack of money, interest wonld rise and it wonld be in such demand tbat no sane person would bo sock- ing 4 per cent bonds and paying a premuim for them, I money were scarce, it would command high rotes of interest, but monoy being so greatly in excess of the demand it soeks inveatment at 4 per oent. Yot at every Fiat-fool meeling the ory is, “ Banish the gold snd silver; double the amount of pa- per, and make it irredeemablo, sud burn the bonds!” C—— The deqls in wheat, called a *corner" ln Milwaukes and & ‘*squseza” In Cbioago, ware t}0 most succesaful instances of mAln- talning o high prica by combination . that have beeu koown for a long time. In Chi- cago the *balls® succseded in ruaniog up the prico to between $1.08 aud $1.10, or about the ruling rate in New York without any allowance for froight and other incidental charges, and the Alilwaukeo *‘balls” pat on In bis Ulatherskite speech at South Bend, the ‘Tail 8ycamore of the Wabash put o his glasscs, and bo looked and he louked, but could sve nothiug good. *‘Jn whatcver dlrection you view the political field,” sobbed the pathetic DaniEL, “you find sbsolutely nothiog offered by the Republican party calculated to promote the general weifare,”” But, DAMIEL, you did not *look " In the right direction. You ought to have gazed upon the work of tba Democracy that have Lad control of the popular brauch of Congreas for thres years past, sud youwould have suen how they have blessed the coutry with an army without funds to render it elliclent, an Indisn service without money, deficiency billsto the amount of $22,000,000, and last, but' not lcast, ¢ Las *promoted the general welfsre by giving us the PorTes Commitice, For s great statesman adA political economiat, the moral and palitical vision of Danizt W, Voou- nsss is not as clearas it ought tobe. Itis oblique aud badly blurred. A more egotistical, sclf-conceited, lmpudent, turbuleot blsckguard sud peatilept fellow cau- not be found than tne California Jabor cmavcl- pator who has just made his sppearance In ‘Boston. * Before he lef} Ban Fravelsco he wave bis oplnion of some of our public men of both parties, sud it was not st all Hatterlug, provided suybody carcs what sucha senseless agitator says. Of sir. Hayss be sald hethought he *was somewhat houest in his way,” but the lwwsculate KBARNEY * s00n lost faith in bim," was renchod, which established tho rates at ‘what they could nat deliver, wore not pro- hnve beon an onsy matter for the mauipn- 1ntors of the Chieago *squecze™ to run np settlement, fall back on the ralo, eall fora only the legitimata commeraial value for As it is, most of the Ohleago *shorts” hava settled, and only n very few, if nany, wilt cail for a committoe At tho same time, the tender of mized whest (which was very generally made) for spring wheat may lot out some of tho sellors It inanold ruloof the Board mixed, tho mixturo shall bo rated as epring Under a litoral construction of this mle s tender of mixed whent waa certanly a tonder of spring wheat, and it may be that some of from mora of a squoeze than the ¢ bears" of Milwankéo suffered, and onabled them to and “tne Cabinet 1 no better.” An for Jory Brianuax, “he 1 one of the blageat thicves country haa ever produced,” and ought 1 1, hung on general principles, althuugh gy what principles or In sccordanee gy what law he propoacs to hang Mr 8pp. MAN he docs pot stop long enough iy g, crazy hamngues to Inform us. TILDEN lin ey, fgnated as “an unmitigated frand,” and e clarcd that e could not bo eleeted pound-Leoy,p in any decent Caltfornia town. ST g *nothing but a band of frands,” in his ¢ and did not amount to *a hill of heane," Bex Boteenr, and be, KEARNZY aad, looming up grandly.” It will certainly b 4 little phenomenal If such a couccited, Aliallyy. vated fool does not wet the stulling taken oy of hitn before he travels very far or dves ey business in the role hic has assumed. e — Tha people of Virginta are determined tn s the practicablilty and eflcacy of the wh vost as a moans of reformation. Last week 3 whito woman fn one of tho Interlor towns vy stripped to the wolst and publicly whinpei Ly 5 ncgro Constable. An old swriter dectares tigy “whotlier we ara wounded Ly o madman or 5 fool, the smart is all the samne, aud it s prob,. bie that the victim felt no moro vain under g lash in this case becanso (b was viroronsiy ay. plied by & person of color than I administe Uy a white uan; but it scems as i€ 1t Isal,. barous, and fnhuman, snd degrading practivg that Is utterly unworthy of our boasted civil 2y. tlon, The Virginlans, however, are a chivaliang peonle, and know what they are about. They clalm that It s much better to publicly flog iy sorry whito trash for minor offeusea Lhan ft fs 1o put them in jall for a bricf perlod und keep then at the public expense,—so that, besides <8 matter ol taste, it Is aleo a matter of cconomy, e ———— e That new plecs of labor-saving machinery that wna recently Invented In San Fruncisco, Dennis KRARNRY by name, 18 us uoted for Ly profanity as he is for his oratorical and Social. istic accompllabmonts, A San Franclsco porter had the extreme feliclty of bheari Kzanxny blasphemo for a fow minutes during an foterview with the celebrated reformer (1), and he assures us that tho fellow’s “onths arg the most expreasive the languaue can affura,” Posslbly Kranxgy intends to upen an evening school {n Bostou on the Kindergarten plan, in which he will collect the children of those uuor peoplo he Is trylng to emancipate, aul teach them how to swoar at their richer nelghbors. It might serve ns a sort of socfal aud moral rafety. valve to traln up the young peovle tn the urt of cursing tho capitalists and all wthers who are better off than themselvesin this world's goods; and in this Kmanney seems to be a competens teacher, Private dlapatches from Fond du Lae to Tun ‘TRIBUNE bring tho unwelcome Intelligence thar tha Grand Lodgeof Masons for Wisconsin is likely to lose s large smount through thede. faleation of Its Tressarer, the Ion. W. I, Hinen, who haa recently been torced througi bankruptey. Mr, llixEr has been somew conspicuous in Wisconaln politica fur many years, haviog sorved as State Sonator, Presi- dent pro tem. of the SBenate, and at one tlno was a conspleuous candidate for the nomination of Licutenant-Governor on the Republican ticket, 1le was ongnyged fn tho foundry businoss, and was quita successful for many years until the panfc came, when his trade declined to Bn ex- tent Involving the bankruptey of tho once proa- perons and wealthy firm. ‘Tho amount juvolved in the loss of the Lodgo {sabout $13,000. Gaun Bouck, membor of Congress from the Oshkosh District, 1s on Mr, Hixgw's ofilelsl bond. Ly AL SN Tue CricAco Tnmnpnx actuslly belioves that #ighty-eight cents in silver has a4 much purchasing power aa dollarin gold. AU all eventy it saya ro, andits assertion fs made withanappearance of can- dor.—Quincy Whig, ‘We supposa the IFAlg refers to the remone- tlzed standard full legal-tender sllver dollar of 8713 grains of pure motal. It so, doc not the Whig aiso “bolieve that it has as much pur- chasing powar" in the United States *'asa ¢olid dollar™? How much less purchasing power than the gold dollar does tha Ik belleve it to havel Ias the iVAig any information showing that the standard siivor dolinr hss leas purchus- fug power than the gola dollar? What kind of goods or chattels will the standard siiver dollar purchaso Jess of than tho gold dollar! Let us bave facts instead of ancers. —e——— The very latest plan~positively the very latest—to got BeN BuTieR Iuto tho (nbernus torinl chair of Massachusetts fa this: llo is to run on ap Independent, Labor, Fiat, Na- tfonal platform with a left-handed support from the Democrats, who would put up a dumimny lor o blind, and then vote for ButLin. The Boston Herald sent out its messengors to find out lLiow thia latest scheme was working, and got a very ratfonal answer from ox-Uov. Houario Bry- Moun, who sald: *Without giving the subject much thought, 1 mn of the vplufon that it would be like BracoxaviRLO'S trick av belng too cunning to be wise.” e ——— There 1a anottcr call upon Benator CoNRLING for that greatest effort of is 1ifo,"—this thuy from the Now York Graphic, 1teayas that “ [t 1s {n order for some real stateaman to ratly the conservative and moucyed Interests of thecoun- try against the heresics embodied (n the so- called Natiousl platform.” It adas: A public man with & koad on hi shouldors and n tongue in that head could mako his mark upon his time by giving the programmo of thoss wha will naturally bo in opposition to the new movement, It ls Hoacox CoNkuinu's chance, Will e take advantags of it? —— The Hon, (isorax W. Arran, of Milwaukee, 16 out ln « vigorous card saying that he ls not a candidate for the United Btates Benate, bat that e intends to take the stump in Wiscousln this fall 1o tavor of spcedy resumption, honest money, and the Republican party, That creed {a broad snd sound enough for any honest man 10 eapousce. Mr. ALLEN ls a successful and In- telligent merchant, & popular buslness-tnnn, and a ready sud Oueat speaker upon political questions. —e——— Tho cditor of the Lansing (Mich.) Republican has beeu latcniue to some of Bax Caur's inta- tion barangues and monstrous misstatements, and has arrived at the following conclusfon: 8as Oaur js a blackguard, o liar, 8 cheat, and at heart 8 Comnmunist, KFar tho last weoke thle w]|ldc-:xloulnl:xl. windy e;mu.'ouin e en ed'; s polsoD amon: oply of Mickigun, au :o“l‘:ku h\)g s s apeciuen D:l pllluhdull !nd uue- principled trick Our New York namesako wants to know ‘it Bxx Butigs wants to muke & speceh ageiust the Admiustration why be doesu’t bire s hall, rather thaa inject his attack {vto the stomach of a catezorival queation,” The reason be does not hire a ball ls because BENJAMIN s & poor wan, He adwmits that much bimsolf, e —t——e The Hom, Cuaxixs B. Hars, of Alsbhama, and member of Cungress frotn that State, wauts to sioot an editor for stmply calling him a lMar, Graclous! 1sthe liberty of the press in that Btate to berostricted to the narrow limit of belng polite to every fellow that happeus to wort his way (nto Congreast —e—— ‘The New Orleans Democratasys the delegates slected to tho Loulsians Democratic Btate Lon- vention up to date stand thus: For s Covstitu- tional Conventlon, 103; agsinst a Conyentlon, 81; unpledged, 43; unknown, 28, Thers were still 145 delegates frowm the city aad 08 from the country to be elected. e ————— Last Mooday, Mr. Grores W. OstiLDs gave s fine diuuer-party at his resldesce at Long Branch to Gov. Hanzuaxrr, of Pennsylvanis A large number of distingutshod politicians and oMdsls wero bresent, among them Gov. TiL- pax, of New York, snd Horaos Wuite, of tols city. g ———— 4 The Aadison (Wis.) Journal remarks thot 4 For richoess, real tropleal esuberance b bylog, the average Chicago Zime reporter wlll carry off the palm.” @ ————————— ‘The New Orleans Times advisea the Crescent City people to lay tn 8 supply of fco whily it l¢ ouly §0U per ton before It sises to §100,