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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: 8A’1‘URDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1878—~BIXTEEN PAGES "AMERICAN LIFE. Some of Ity Aspects-==Good Quali~ ties and Bad. Making and sqfiandering, Ostentation, Fast Living, and Debt-In- curring, Contrast with Other Kations.A Severe Criticism by Cbarles Dodley Warner, of Tartford, Attantie Mfonthly for January, The Joung men of this generation ars more conservative than the old. Perhaps they have 1ess enthuslasm, probabiy less credulity, we fear lcss devotion to idesls. The youth have come to have tho knowing afr of those who caunot bo imposed on by the shows of this world, They secm to be cooler-headed, it not colder-hearted: Jess Mable to givo themselves away in soclalistic and humanitarfan schemes for the regenera- tion of mankind, The age possiog away was one of uncommon uphcaral and fumults 1t bad its Garibaldis and John Browns as woll as fts Bismarcks and Louls Napoleons, The age succceding has nirendy scon some reactlon, more indiFerentism, a questioning of all funda- mental heliefs, 4 doubt whether any great of- fort In nny direction I8 worth while, A school of pessimlists—men who expect nothing but the worst—has develoved n Germaby and England; men who possess overy luxury of modern civil- fzntion, all culture and facilities of travel, city Louses, country houses, yachts, libraries, and who wearlly ask, g ‘*13 LIPE WORTIl LIVINGI" ‘This unusual phicnomenon of a conservative youth may be duc to want of faith, tothe spread of the scicntific spirit, to the ennulof wealth and culture. Probably it 13 leas marked In America than In Europe. We like to belleve that it is less here, For tho country {n the fu- ture {s to be not s0. much what the young men think thev wiil make It—If they troubls them- selves with the problein—as what they them- selves are. We cannot belleve that the American people sre ahout to succumb to the gospel of indiffer- ence, In some Orlental lands man has long ago ccased from much strifo with nature or affalrs, lle began Ly subdulng the earth to his nceds; he has ended by suiting lis necds to bier voluntary bounty or pareimony, Ho ac- cepts the scnsons, tho sovial and political stato that may be, the life that is offercd. Hoantlel- vates neither evil norgood; ho limita his disap- polntments by curtailing Nis risks. What Is to be will be; he has'adapted the weary gospel of Bolomon. You may see any spring day, outslda the walls of Damaacus, tho daughters of that detnp and anclent city seated on the ground by the swift-flowing Abaoa, velled and motfonless finages, wrapped {n voluminous mantles, with- out other occupation (In that laud where it is searcely worth while to bo o woman) than to walt hour after hdur, {o vacuous contemplation, while the stream hurrles on, and the sun shinos, snd the desert wind shakes down the blossoms of the mish-mish. It1satype of the Oriental plactdity, We fu Americn sre not yet so weary; we are unwilllog to surrender. New-comers in the world, we aro nggressive, Inquisitive, and bellizerent, We have tho enercy and combat- Ivencss of Nature hersclf. In her springtime vigor a certain Nkences to our presont natfonal condition may be fancled,~vast promise of wealth and materlul prosperity, with tha at- tendant dangers of Juxury and fnsolence, and misleading standards. It may be worth while, on this suggestion, to canelder OERTAIN ASPECTS OF AMERICAN LIPE. Jurcnal, the great consor of Roman morals, eays in s Tenth Satire: “The prayers that are fmcmllv the first put up and best known in all hie temples are that riches, that wealth, may Incrense; that our chest may bo the largest in tue whole fortin,” This was the stato of de- yotlon in Rome in the first century of our cra, We do not suppose it was o new condition, and 1¢ 1s certnin it did not pass away with tho fail of the Emplre. We do not todlay pray slond in our churches that wo moy have more United States bonds than our fellow-worshipera: but {f prayer fa tho soul’s slucere desire, unuttered “or exvressed, we fear that tho mighty petition dally golng up from the Amerlcsn people was do- seribed by Juvenwt, 1 it took the form of a cloud over Wall stroot, over Slate street, over vur manufacturing snd mining districts; and vrer a large portion of our ngricultural rezlons, probably we should niot seo the suw oftoner than onca fn seven days; perhaps it would bo visible only Sunday, between the hours of hatf-past 10 und 13, through the smoked glass of tho church windows, Ta berich {8 the universal asplration; it fs scarcely neceasary to itlustrate it, nor to dwell on it further than to mark our national tenden- r{. W way leave moralizing on it to the pul- plt and the secular pross, As [t i3 the most uni- vereal, oWt {8 the earllest desire thut scizes us; it larzely determines our oocupations, our choles of a profession. Boclety, teaching by example, Jays It onusasaduty; it arranzes, toagreat depree, vur marrlazes, and 1t s wetling to vostpone and forbld them, To this necesslty WE DEFER KVERYTINING: Wo say wo cannot afford to marry, we cannot afford to travel, wo eannot afford to study,—as i we were to live on Indetlnitely, ond should eome timo get leisura for aur tutellectual de- velopment. Our very achemes of education commond thomeelyes fn propurtion as they uro practical: the Legislature will vote money to an fustitutlon if 1t can be shown that ft Wit fn- ecrease tho muterfal wealth of the State, but upon any nuestion of adding to the intellectual and spiritual wealth there woulda't boa quo- rum. When we ask after tho auccess fn e of an acqualutance, and wo nre told be has done yery well, what do wa Infor from the replvi ‘That ho bas becoms a good man, a learned man, o uscful may in Ms town aua Btate; or that ho has acquired a handsoma property ! Is our fu- quiry, ** Wham did be marey {7 usuullv unything morc than o cupbulsm for *liow much " 17 wo were told that she hiad beausy, all tho graces, and a heavenly disposition, wuuld we not bury to ask anotner question? When we hear that shu Lias made “a ‘,’oml mateh,' tho phrase hue come to have suchia tnclmlmf mcaning that we exncrience the sama satisfaction we have n reading tho stock roport of o rising market, It would be unwis to satirizo this stoto of things, or to overdraw it, or to forcet tho sweet and corrective (ntluences that exist in our so- clety. But we can bardly bumistaken in soying that there Is growin I Amcrica n passion for wealth, and a serlous, not to say conscientious, pursult of ft, more pronounced than ever before in our hustory. In s pare of the country which might ve pamed, a man is ashamed to dio unloss he can lcava behind ot lcast a milllfon; and public opinlon austalns bim fn this. The sad paragraph thut chronleles bls demise, hia per- sonal appearance. his dress aud daily habite, the mber aud character of lis relatives, the afiount of his life insurance, with the usine of the conpany in which hels fnsurcd, Is considered fucomulete {£ 16 does pot state Low much beo Was worth, It should be sald, however, nu* the love of wmoney I8 NOT THR PECULIANITY OF AMERICA, whataver the vstentatiou of mere wealth may be, The worshin of wealth, the_ tulk sbout woney, are more characteristle of Europe than of America. 1t Is patural that where the con- ditions of aequiring money are harder there should be mare anxiety about ft; and smong the widdie gud lower “classes of England 1t {3 the ataple of conversstion, ‘The samo is true tu France, to' Italy, fu uvmuuf. ‘The experlence of all observiug travelers will coutlrw this, und 13 tlie older coliutries of the Orlent the truit la even more merked. The growth of the woney- vasslon pari passu with tue retlucinent of ¢ivil- $zatlon fa uno of the problems for the student of prozress, ‘The traveler who has gote abroud with tue impression thut Amcrica is peculiarly the land of the “almighty dollar' 1 suroriscd to fud everywhess & devotion 1o money sud 8 taik about ¢yst aad prices to which he {3 uosc- customed at home, and which strike Lim ofien 88 8u fudelicacy. Bice wo are speaking of forelgn peoules, & slighit exawnlnativn of some ot the ditfcreuccs between usand them—largely differences duu to external coudiions—will lcad us furthier iuto our subject. The Frencbwan is ecunotnical; he s turifty; whatever Lls earolngs, bs puts by a portion of them; Lo saves, and de hlscll expensive iudulgences. This universal thriltls largely dug 1o the women, wbo ure the 1oyt executlye, the clegrest-headed, the best wouagers, lu the world, aud kuow better thau auy uthiers bow to Ket the wost pleasury and show out of hfe ot the leost coat, huw 10 uieke bone-life comforta- Ule and attractive warbout extravagance, | ‘The Mtalians, who uiost resewble tue Freuch, also practhoe «muum{.uuk. vapeclally with tho Southeru llaltsps, 1t 18 uy ccouomy of labor as well as of woves. The true Naltay, culld of the s, would rathier Lt Wl wanis thau fu- creanc hia cxertionr to supnly the) on little, bnt he acenmulates not!hng. he hes not the nor the self-lenial of the ftalinn, but he s in- dnstrious, and as fonil of monny as they. ting rich, making a lucky stroke, {s greatly in his thouglits, although fie cannot restat, a8 the Fronchman docs, spending his savings on his greater rich® than any nation ever heforu se- cumuinted, we see agaln some contrasts, —a necesalty whers the bulk of the people liva dwelt apon in conversation. classes, the laborers in factories and mines ang economy. ‘They do not know how toget the most. comfort out of their earnines, nor how to lay by anything. Whatever thelr wages arc, they epend were getting axtraordinary wages, they treated Ameriean he can hive different from elthefs thrift of the Frenchman The German Is et~ craonal plensures, But it Is the habie of the bireo peoples named to LIVE WITILN TREIR INCOMES, In England. a little island, where are gathered The bulk of the people practice a calculated economy, on practically fixed incomes; tho amall econo- mies of life &ro nowhers clse g0 studled, so But the lower on farms, have nothing of the French thrift and then. A few yesrs ago, when the Welsh miners themuyelves to game-ple and champaegne. Thelr fdea of cqualicy wich those socially above them is toeat and'drinkas the others do; that fs, 40 livo like a lord."" Thevare not alone In tho notlon that costly eating and drinkiug and ex- ensive clothes and gaudy houscs 1i[t people up in the soclal scale, Tho American, of course, rescmbles the En- glish more than anyother European people; but ho s without the balancs determined by the traditions of s long-establlshed society, or ln- posed by tho necessities of fixed incomtes. ‘The 18 A SPEXDTHRIFT. 118 works ns hurd as say ed le, and with less rolaxations but ho has little theift and Jittle no- tlon of economy. o has 1ittls independence in regard to his cxpenditure, and regulates it often lr{lwhu others about him spend rather than by hls own Invome. tleis uot so scliciious to live within his fucome as ho ls to ralse bis income to coverthe extantof hisdesircsnnd extravagances, Tho average conditionand the happiness of Americans” would be much {mproved If they expended balf as much caro upon saviog money 08 they do upon making moncy, Bankruptcy reema Lo be a sort of accepted Incident in a suc- cessful carecr! We bave secn it stated that ninety merchants out of a hundred fail. Brokers and othicr operators are accused of using failurcs aa stepping-stones to fortune. Very likely, pro- fesstonal people would fall oftener’if they had anything to failon. The poet and teacher would ba lonesome in the bankrupt’s court; and {t is only here and there that a clergyinan has a salary largo enough to take him there. The lawytrs—cxceptions 10 all ritles—aro aaid to live by the fallures and latterly by tho “wlilla™ of other people. 1t is sald thiat If a parson nerlects to make o will he must leave a pretty large ustato In order to pay tho expenses of finding out how o distribute it by law; and If he makus a wlill, unless tho cstategddinsignificant, 1t will disappear before the anise of Justivo In the lepal fraternity and the legal scumen needed to interpret the witl, We have, then, In America tho phenomenon ofa K«Jonlu passlunately devoted to monoy-mak- fng, but with little economy or faculty for keep- fueg de, .\lnuu‘y is deslred for the position, the Iuxury ft will give to him who has it, and it is lavislied for these purposcs s escerly s it is made, Accumulation for the sake of founding a family is rare, and it s discouraged by our pecullar conditlons; the advantages of the stabillty it would glve to the country are over- balaneed by other considerations.. This deairo to mnke money divorced from economy, in Amerie, and nticnded by n discontent with ony settled position tn soclety, ts traceanle to a cer- tnlrn {undnmeuul volitical condition here, Wo referto WITAT 18 OALLED ' EQUALITT. We have established political equality. In theory all men are equal. There s & constant nltem{;l to deduce froin this soclal equality, We do not supposo that this was any more Intended by the gentlemen who landed at Plymouth than by tho “wentlenen who landed at” Jamestown, ‘The traditions of grades la soctety and of soclal distinctious are in no race stronger than iu tho Anglo-S8axon. ‘I'ne Latin races have a facllity of fustan, There I8 a groater approach to sociul equality tn France than {n Amerfea. And, even belore the Revolutlon of 1703, thera were fewer barrlers to warm sympathy, and thy expression of it, between tho Freuch noble and the French peasant than cxist to-day between tho English upper class and tho Engllsh lower. We have not tho well-marked divisions and grades of tho Enclish soclal strocture, but wo liave some- thing of the traditlons of that soclety, and probubly there is as little contact aml exchange of sympathy betworn the different social statvs in_ Amerles us anywhera fn tha world, Politically we dre equal, and It Is our boast that we are ail cquul before the'law ;" whethier wo aro or oot they can judee who hava noticud the arraignment betore a potice court of a rich mun and 8 poor man for a similar oflense, The Engilsh olso bonst that their Juws are fmpurtinl - and thelr courts equally open to all,—n fact that {s takon ut its truc yaluo by the wifo of thc navvy, who hus been beaten by husband tiil she 18 more like a jolly thau w'wife. when abio 13 told by the Mag- fstraty that the Courts ot Westminster ato open to her to apply for a judlelal sopuration, and that the cost will ba one hundred pounds, when abo hias not as many pennies, Yet while it 1s idfo to talk of soclal equality in Amicrica, It is trus that the abscuce here of titles, of definitiona of classes, and of Inberited privileges creates AN ATPEARANCE OF EQUALITY which stinulates constant efforts for placo and vosition. ‘The absenva of uther artificlal signs of noclel rank ives to wealth unduo distinetion, and {¢ anturaily comes that wealth is coveted. Qur reul avproach to oquality in America Is {n opportuoity. On the whole, wo arv less hinder- ed amd have a fafrer chatice for any carcer wo chooss than otk copie. But this equality of opportunity beg discontent with any position In life except the most conspicuous: and so the whole community {s on the march to get into what fs called socloty, or to get the supposed luxuries and enfoyments of so- clety, through the only gates open to all,—that 18, by means of munc‘v. 1 we were all soulsl enuals, or if we were In the more fixed condi- tious of the English or tho Gerians, or il thera was that broad svimpathy between classes, in spito ol.both, which exista in France, thero Is eyery pmlmllllll)‘ that, if wo did not exhibit lcas insanitv in the pursult of wealth, there would ot Jeast be less lving bevond our means. It {s certainly an odd result of our cquality, political ainl theoretleal, that it should sthnulate us to do just that which destroys equality. For wo are ted further away Irom the equal distribution of wealth, und this'tends to put classes further apurt. It fs tine that mere wealth does not always vven the way Into what people know su well, aud experience so nuch duticulty in find- ing (o countrles whero it §s not defiied by n court), thu best suciety in Americea any more than it does In Bazland or Ganinany, aind pere biaps not so casily here aathere; but wealth can du almuat anything, and what it csnuot do it can Imitate, “And so ft _lapbens that this con- ditlon of ours that wo call equality is ono of tho muln causcs of our feverish anxicty to get monoy and make a display ~with it. It remalns to be seen what sort of generdl sovlety will result from the linposttion of political equality and equallty of opportunity upou the class teudoney of the Aunglo-Saxon race. If anvthing like social equality la ever realized anywhere lu tue world, it 1s safo to suy thut WEALTIL WILL NOT IB AN ELEMKNT IN IT; that iv will uelther makoit vor preveut it, The Amerleun people, in 8 straeglo to vealize Its Lheoretival vquallty, buth at homesud abroud, sometlines mistake display for a demonstration of it. 'I'his bus ot the American the reputa- tion of extravugance, and tho worss reputation’ of & vulgar ostentution of wealth, For In old and settled socictics onv of the sleus of con- sctousness of fuferiority of position 14 tho osten- tation of money; and, seeing how nearly all- powerful money 13 evorywhere, it is nuturol that he tniatake shiould be made. Money, it s be- lteved, can open the presentation door of almost any court fu Europe; can procure a seat in the Unlted States Senate, and Lhe most conspicuous vew fu tho most fashionable church in Ameriea; it can do almost everything escept purchase the sceret reupact of thosu whose respect ls alone of permauent value, 1t has been necessary to dwell a little upon somo of the peculisritles of our sltuation, be- caune there are signs of & new dopurtura In the wav of waterlal developwent and the accumu- lation of wealth, Durluz our lint coutury of national exiatencs we have been excecdivgly aetive; but it hias been largelyn destructive activ- ity. We have run over a vist smount of Lerrito- ud, as we say, have subdued it. 1t wouid be ulmout as correct to say, fu the language of the agriculturlsts, that we have skin it,—s lrase Jiterally true of great portivus of our and; we have slashcd away the splendid wealth of our forests, destroyed water- werd, sxbausted the sull by supericial and vorant cultlvation, W have hastencd to soatch wealth by the easfest methods, without regard to ‘the future. We have done an {yuense amouut of work; we bave wado & great deal of money; and, ou the whoule, we acew 10 bave sprud more than we bave inode. Wo have excrvlsed no econowmy. Evervbody bss hved ag if be had 8 rlch uucle to dle every five vears oud leave bim a furtune, Atdhe end of a century of gigantic progress sud unprecedented prospenty, thes natlon ha, like wost utber full-grown natlous, # ACCUMULATLED AN ENOUMOUS DRBET: every uily, every town, P A s i r State, ts i dedt; every ludividual s i dent. Fur part of this the War Is responsible, but uot for wlafit. Vur faud b morivaged ; onr per- svnal property ¥ » ooty wondeal, L not surs that ground enough conld be found in Amerlea, uncovered by a morlgage. In which to bury 1ta present [nhabitants. The ancient Egyptian-mortgaged his family tomb and the mummy of his father. We have not come to that yet i thourhit i« difficuttto find any ground outafilo of A vemetery not morteaged, This would be n anrk pleture if it were the whole statement of our sitnatlon, and if it were not relieved by more encouraging sizns, past hundred years we have nccomplished ood deal of permanent work, as the world HBut it muat be remembered that [n the viewsit. If weare all in debt, wo have butlt some splendid eitics: constructed preat bridees; netted the land with raliwavs and (elegraph wires; dotted the coast with light-houses and harbors; huiit at enorinous and sinful expense great public edifices,—most of them ugly and inconvenient; got s steady markot for our in- creasing crops of grain and cotton: and, after s lone struggle, csteblishicd manufactures that compete the world over with our snclent and wmost skitlfal rivals, We can sell American cambries in Loudon becanse they are better than the products of the Lancashire looms; and tho Germana can eell Iron-ware In South Amer- {cn anid sewing-machines (n_ Italy only by coun- terfciting the Amerlean trade-marks, Up to this timo the country has been divided secctional-wise on politfeal frsucs, sud political fssues that took a strom hold on account of the moral fdeas involved. In one way or snother, and even when un- scknowledzed, the slavery question was in- volyed in every other question. But tho scce tional entagoniam nrlulnfi from this cause ia dafly dying away. We llke to belleve it s agreed, SBouth and North, that wo shall set our faces as one people In & new directfon. Astro- nomlcally speakiog, whileherctofora one part of the country Inaiated on keeping its evo on the north star, and another on the south star, we now agree to fix our gare on the temperate zone. For soma time to come the natlanal issues MUST DE MATERIAL RATIHER THAN MORAL. With such diverse climates and grmlur"om, it fs unavofdable that there ahould still be sec- tional rivalries, but these are within the IHmits of & common natlonal nterest. Tho change taking blace is more marked at the South than iu the Weat. In tho Bouth, for rensons appar- ent, thero has been littlo sccumulation of wealth. Thero has been little exercise of econo- my. What was made was spent, and, Ameri- can fashion, somotimes beforo it was made, Noone can doubt that there is now a devided change in the South fn respect to attention to {ts materinl Interests. It is beginning vigorons- 1y to join the great productive and accumulat- ing tovement of tho country, The douth ralses annually more cotton than ever before, and it needs biut a few years of economical hus- banding of resources to give a solld basis to other {ndustrics besldes the agricultural. With lines of communication established over the continent, slavery out of the way, and man- ufuctures falrly rooted, wa do not doubt that the country, notwithstanding temporary paral- ysis from “speculation, universal living beyond our means, and debt, {8 about entering, North snd South, upon an era of development of wealth and accumulation, Inaividual instances of great accumulation already multiply before our eves. This will go on. “Already corpora- tlons and fuatitutions, religions aud sécular, are amasslug vast gropertics. Whore are there any sigus that this tendency will uot increaset It {s a groad thing for a country to be rich it there fs unything like a fale distribution of wealth; it {s o bad thing If the wealth is massced in a few bands, In one case there is the comfors of all; in the other there is luxury for the few, aud misery for the many. It I a good thing for the country to be rich” If the weaith Is put to nuble uses; it 18 a dlenster i€ L Ia devoted to luxury. These are the trulsms of history, And in thelr light the coming great materlal devel- upment ot this country fs 3 PULL OF ANXIETY, AR to character, we have spoken of our waste ful and spendtorift probensitics; of our ecager- ucsa {0 got motiey, usaccompanied by economy'; of our tendency to display for the sake of posl- tion, parily growing out of our theory of equal- 1ty; ot the cunluq]ucm llability to luxury and scli-indulgeuce. In respect of {ndulgence, our very scriousness fa somewhat The American is sober, tacitur; grave way. Travelers think us n scrious-mind- cd, uncommunicative people. We lack vivacity of mauner; have littie gayety of temverument; litle capacity to epjoy ourselves without ex- cess; not a haoblt of gettiog plessure, Itke tho Itallans, tho French, tho Arabs even, out.of almple thiugs, We should bardly think onr- sulves lauuchied upon a festive evenlng ot a cafe when wo had ordered a glass of watur, two Jumps of suwar, and a Jucifer mateh, We want Frnmllon, and wo want things strong. We car nto our plensures Lho samo scrious eneray,with no relaxatfon fn it, that we usc to bulld'a rails way, ‘Ihere s an ancedote of a vdlunteor soldier who turned up Iu New York receutly to revelva the back pensions of thirtecn vears. It was a littlo fortuno for a prudent man., The rext day ho landed In the station-bouse without acent in his pocket. e Lud compressed the deln, c(} lc:uuymenl. of thirteen years into one royal night. t one were asked to namne a characteristic of Anierlean lifo which Is very promincnt, he might nay it is TN DNSIKE TO GET BOMETMING rather than to be sometbing, This desire 18 not by any means confined to Amerfcanr, but it is niorp marked here than clsoahere becatso of the abacuee ol traditlons, and becauso of our flexiblu social conditlun. It constitutes o speeial dauger fu view ol the comlve strugele for ma- terial advantage and prosperity, It {s o desiro which cannot bu too scriously considered by those who atb getting the clements of thelr ed- ucatlon and preparing for thelr carcers; for it neizlects thoroughness in cducatfon and prepar- ation for the carcer, ‘This desire, which is moro than a tendency, may bo described as a dispoai- tion to get placs and rank, with nttle regard to fitness for them, It reverses the untural order, nnd presuoposcs thut success In 1ifo s nat due to tralning and discipline so much oa it 4 to op- poddunity, Ience our many fallures of all sorts, the dircct result of one'eager nssumption of offlce, of busiuess, of trades, without ade- quato preparation, ‘Theambitious thought stir- rng {n most youne minds is what ecareer the: shall chouse; not how. they ehall trafn theni- aelves for acureer, it Is theambition to dosome- thing rather thun to learn how to desomething; as wo said, tho cagerness tu get o pluce rath. cr than 1o train one’s self to the duties of that lace. It fs unuecessary to sav how opposite his {s to the method which s made the Ger- mang atrong in every departiment of human ene deavor. The leadlng fdea fu gymnasfum and university {s teninioi,—solid preparution for the chosen career, “A familiar illustration of OUIt BRL¥-CONPIDENCE WITIIOUT PREFARATION 18 that uf the young laay who proposes to gu upon the stage “with no tralning, and sceky mmanager wien slic stould o to an clocutioniss, 1t 18 tha same in other affairs, ‘Lhe youne man's thoughts of busiucss or of un ollive are not so uuch in relation to s ability to perform it os togetintodt, No doubt all’ things would be better dono—from cabluct-making up to luw- naklng—if pooplo had & hablt of getting ready to do things before they began! It s worth while to stop and think ) whon it {s thut wo intrust the most dellcate duty l-urrnrnml in hu- mon socloty,—the making of vur Jaws, Of course we knuw that our laws are mude by our Leguslature. And who are the leglse lutors? ~ These Jaw-maokors are not tho vroper result of our politieal system, but of ~our political machive. Apd hero agatn the young man has the precoclous wisdom of his gencration, It be determines to go futo politics, or to outer the clvil service of bia coun- teyy does not prepare blwself for tho dutles of the oue nor for the position vovoted in the other; hie makes blnself an adept i the manip- ulatlon of caucusee wud tae sccuring of the tavor of thoso who can belp i, It bo secks Consulate at Navles, ho ducs not study Italiu; he *rcurries ™ hls ward, Here, again, the Ame fcan is tnore eager to got somathlog than to be something: and yet it should b said in respect tothe el servico that there Is this excuss for the youni man: thero I8 no other way to et Into it than that named, Our clvil service 1s what the Eoglish was tliteen years ago, and it is about the most undemocrutic fu the world, It 13 clused to those who are not luvored oy ths dent of political fafluence, The Buglish servico uutfl receutly was alimost excluaively filled Ly the aristocraey s {t was tho patrouage of Parlli- ment and the Sindstry. Now, through the door of coanpetitive exaunination, It 18 open to the butnblest Jud in the land If ke huve talent, ana wa ey be surs that the father of che mddle cluss will never surrcnder thus privilego for his sou. Nor will the Awerlvan people, when they understand the subj onsent that su honor- able aud profitable a career shall be the object ol patronairu aud the peruuisito of successful political putronsge snd the verquisite of sy vessful poltticat wantpulatlon. Thoy will fnsist that it sball beopen 1o the fulr ambitjon of thuse williug to it themsdlves for . Ie will Lecome agalnst us, ntent in o A LEGITIMATE OARCEH, ke law or mudivine; syd one udvantage of openfuz 1t t0 public competitfon—aud it fs not unlinportaut—1is the stivulus 1t will give to ed- ucatiyu. i Buch are some of the present ssvects of Amencau Iife, The topie is frultiul of suz- izestlons, which we have uo space to (ollow, aud 1t 15 uscless to moralize. Loug ago the philoso- phiers decided that it i importane whag o way i, nok what bo Aae. 1t was sa sputhegm of Sulon that **daticty 1s generated by weaith, aud fuso- Jenve by raitety M3 and ouaid, t3at wewbers of “ duity are iors eifectively dererred from fnjastive **1f thoae who are not Injured fecl as wucn fodizostion s thoge who are.” O, to Uy this du modert phrosds, we see the danger Gliliated suceess vy column create! . and not by character, and nurses the nos: m X drlueion of cquality without aympathy between cloascs, CitAnt.rs DUDLBY WARNER. " SILVER. A BENSIBLE BANKER'S VIEWS, To the Edltor of The Tritune, Kxox Couxry, Il., Iec, 20.—What a sensa- tion would such a quotation as “*silver dollars 108 {n gold” In the ‘T ‘Tuikuxe's fAnanciol ‘The coming decade may possi- bly furnist such an item; the present decade has witceered just such a miracle. In 1870 the writer had businers in China, and traveled thither via Ban Franclsco, Upon in- quiry In that clty I found®that Mexican or Spanish dollara wers the only “measures of value™ in the Celestial Empire, and, therefore, presented my gold at the Bank of Callfornia for egehange Into silver dollars, hoping to ealn somewhat by the overation, Itnagine the sur- prise of the party of the fiest part when the banker demanded 8 per cent premfum for his eliver “Mexicans "'{ * Upon fnquliry at the banks, I found that It was tho regular market rate, and so suhmitted to a discount of $1.00 on each of my &0 gold Dpleces. How long would it require to bring the bull- fon price of sliver up to its natural standard with the coln of the same metal, ana once moro pluce the coins of the two precious metals on a par? All that is needed to bring about the de- deaired cquality of the metals Is for our Gov- ernment 1o coin the surplus bulllon ss rapidiy 28 the Mints, worked to their fullest capacity, can produce afiver colns, and until such a polat is reacticd that the commercisl value of the silver bullion for mechanical and art uses will be regutated by the weight of a silver dollar, Inatead of the welrhts on the eflver-seales. It could not be circulated In such quantity, Mr, 8herman would say, But Franco does circulate more silver, with. out any trouble, than we could coin fo man: years, “Suppose_Mr. Secretary dherman wouli recommend to Congress to withdraw ail bank nnd Government paper money of the denomipa- tions of ones and twos In the year 1879, and all the five-dollar bills in 1480 and 1841, leaving the siiver and gold to fill the vacuum. Bills of larger denominationa taking the place of the mnaller ones thus withdrawn, woull keep the paper_clrenlation up to its present volume, The Bank of Eneland iseucs no bills of less amount than &5 (825), and vet no {nconvenlence 1s felt by the traveler {n that country, since he can altvaya got four gold soveretgns and stiver hn:!-vrowns and shillings, anywhere, for his £5 note, It Mr. Bbherman was thinking and planning for the wencral welfare, fnstead of plotting fur Wall-street brokers, ho would think of many simple and feasiblo modes of circulating tho stlver colnage of the nation. He knuws that our grent Republie, with its population border- fng 50,000,000, can and would use as much siiver a8 (ireat Britain and France together; because our peaple aro tore equal in their condition than the peonles of the nld countrics, nud wealth is n]cru widely diffused here. 8iiver is o natural product of our country, and s such deserves the protection of the General Uovernmeut as much as our Iron product; not, perhans, in the same way, but in every manner wmn:n the province and legal powers of Govern- ment. Germany and England, by demonetizing silver o8 o legal tender, are practically nimine a blow at one of our staple products. Shall olir Govern- ment do nothing to neutralize the efforta of such rival nations: but, on the contrary, by Ieyrislativo ennctments aid {n destroying ono of our richest products; and at the sama time strike a blow at the value of every other prod- uct of Ameriean soll? When England attempted ta force oplum into China, rhe was aided by Chineae Mandarins and tradesmen who shored in the profits, By their assistance Britaln was _succesaful besond all expectation, and Chins was rulned that Eoeland might be enriched, Comparisans arc odious, but It sflver fs ever de- monctized .in Amerlca it will be done by the sume unnatural bastering of. home Interests by n class in our own cauntry which corresponds to -the native opium felons of China, Qur national debt, all the principal rallway and eity bonds, and tha large portion of private indebtcdness was made on acoin boss. The lonest question to be scttled is, whether elther dchtor or ereditor hns o right to annul the con- truct so made, and on theons band to pay debts in “fial™ monoy, or ou the other hand to demand vaymentin ‘4 single apprecinted com- mndity catled gold [ pp Tue honest debtor class, which Is the Jarze anorllv in: Amarica, declared against “flas" and In favor of lionest money, at the November elections, aiter the most eoergatic and fatelll- gent discusston ever had on any subject o this country. ‘That same strove majority s in fa- vorof theco'n Iesues of tho Governmeat, and the stronger tho opposition of Wall atreet the soutier the matter witl bo emphiatically ecttled, ‘The folly of iucreasing the weight of tho sii- ver dotlarto correapontt with the market value of bullivn {s abanrd, \Vbo would have thought of reduciug that atandard 1n 1870 when silver ranged from 8 to 8 per.cent premiuwm shove | gold! Why not on tho ssme ground bring our” copper and nickel calns to the somo basia of market values of thoso inctalsl—cstablishing & new standard every month on the market reports of the cop- per and nickel praduct! Imagine a gentleman pasiug for a copy of Tux TRIBUNE with a nlckel the stzo ol & sfiver half-dollar, or with o flve- cent nug':xct of copper the size of a Granger's bout-beel Why {s it that America must be singled ous by our pbilanthropic financiers to produce sitver cofn on the bulllon basis, wiien all other nations retutu thelr old standurds end find no difliculty In keeping in cireulution bundreds of milljons of this monoy of the peoplo! The King of Siam fs the ouly potentate who has yet adopted the bullion standard of sllver! “This sstuto finuncler makes bis wilver up in ittle bolts much liko aschool-boy's * YI r wad,” stamplng tho Royal brand on one of [ta'uncven Mdes t mssura the world that It fs of standard flueuc: theu every one can wolgh It and know i1s dai vaiue, the'samie 88 ho would a pill of upium" “America {s farther advanced in civilized life than Stami—s0 wuch so thot she has had a standard und shapely sllver coln fur o century, which has meastred the value of st her products from zold to purk, Mesars, Bhiermun & Co. proj to go back to th of 8isin ! The Kinw of that barbarous Jand and the Floance Minlstor of tho Great Ropublle wonlid theoretleatly aml mentally form o second ;fllm;n of the nutable Stameso twins, Who ob- jecta Prosperitv on a solld basla is within our reach to-day. Financial distress and rain are glo un- comlortubly near us, All depends upon the legialatlon of Congress und the common sensy of 1ho business conununity within the next few monthy, Resumption will be seached lnslde of a fortuight, aud ‘can bo_sustained by the atd of ellver buyond a doubt,~but by gold slone never, tor any lenath of time. All v need §3 to vo steadilv onwant on s coin basts, steering elear of both flut and go'd fn- sunity, to Insure & pesmanent prosperity, Baxxken, EXPOSURFE OF ANTI-SILVER SOPH- ISTRY. To the Editor of ‘The Tribune, Burraro, N, Y., Dec. 18.—The Bullulo Daiiy Courier of the dth for ths first time names your paper, and as If {t werc the only one fn the United States, s onvosed to sliver demonetlza- tlon, and contains & rcbash of all thut bas ever Leen advanced agalust it by any of the metro- volitan demonotizers, As thy end approachies of this fecblo prema- ture birth of sophistry, aud a vevelation of o false presentation of canting bonor, 1t will do to compare its attempted-at argument with your fundamental stateivent * That tha timo to inaxe solewn plediees betwoen contractors s when obij2ations are fncurred ”; any cousent to a future chonzo opens the whole tase, and ;: ens the pecurity, aud may catirely destroy The Cour'er's argument s (1), **Government in 1675 virtually seveed to redeotn In gold." ‘Thls i false as to the word gold, and a trickster us to the word virtustly. (2) “No other velns oxcopt eold werw suthorized.” 'Thisis false suphistry, The wint was suthorized to work on trude-dallars becuuse we were not redeeming or cireulatiog cotu amnong oursclves, but forclgn trade was taking all our siiver production st a premium elther fu bara or Spaulshi standard, wellunderstood throughout the world, eapecially the Weatern sud Bouthern natious, whose commoditles we used in four thaes the waule awount of our sllver production, () **The country bad no cofa but gold.” Gold Wwas a conmodity ot & rewtuw, and ‘sll takvy tu pay excess of linports apd forelgn lotervst. (3) *’ThoNtivér dollur 1 ali Jarge trensaciions was u burren deality,” How much inore barron the bruius nut to sce that all we produced was taken at a premivin over the old doller staud- urd and wetal ol wore than swsped coli. (3) *Theretore resuuiption should be fu gold.* Thls 42, or would be; luvsey lo a misd cayable to vomprebiend that the uctivities of our’ owu country ure based un silver vy law, and no vart of this world coutemvlute doite awsy with it i o vrimary use, amt 1o sny longer waky It a football amous awblirs wouid chaoge the Lauau beart 1rom wen 10 dovli p! Fasfissctzaiura o? atl thls 12k Qo uot cuatam: plate anything but specalation, and have nomi- nally made ailver qnotationa at a discount, using the Unit ates Treasury 1o help. whila they have been preparing to buy all offered at the lowest point on the last days; and the maln stockowners o some of these journals are to- day resdy to make ten times more ont of the tise than the entire ancr establishments are worth, and all or agy further war on metals witl sink the writers tn the future fathomless depths of Torslsm, e e— SOUTH CAROLINA. Soma Triala at Charleston which Poaibly Jiave Not Caught Nenator Hutler's Attens tlon, DNy Telegraoh to New Fork Tridune. Wasuixarox, Dec. 18.—The Unitea Btates Circait Conrt at Columbug, 8. C., Judge Bond presiding, adjourncd last Thursday, and the election-fraud cases wera all continued to the April term, when Chlef-Justice Walte will sit with Judges Bond and Ryan at Charleston. Boon after the last term of the court opened at Columbia, the United States Attornes sent to the Grand Jury severs) of the strongest cases azainst officers of the late election, but that body, belng almost sntirely of Democrats, falled to Aind truc bills in cach Instance. The Grand Jury was then discharwed, and three cases were tried on information. Thefirst of these was a broceeding agalnst two of the managers of election, and thelr clerk, at the Court-Hlouee Precinct in Sumter. These meu, Mr. Delorne, Norwood l-‘ltmlnux and V. B, Pee- bles, were accused of stafling 311 tissue-paper tallots into the box av thele orecinet, and falslfying the polldist in order to make it agree with the number of votes found fn the box. The principal witnesses for tho prose- entfon were Judge Bamucl Lee, one of the United Btates Supervisors ut the preeinet, and a eolored Democrat, who was one uf the rlection managers and became a witneas for the Govern- ment, Judge Lee testified that his clerk kept a collect poll-Jist, and that it showed that 60 men had voted. He detected the clerk of the managers in the sct of pladng three shects containing the names of 211 fctitious pcrsons among the sheets of the real list. Ie called attention to the fraud, and wrote his name on each ona of them. Those three sheets are now missing, and the managers assert that they werc taken from the pocket of thelr clerk, When the box was opened 805 ballots were found i 2, being four more than the Democratic managera bsd names on thelr list when thoss ou the three fraudulent sheets were counted: and the pumber of tissue bailots found n the box was exactly equal to the excess uyer the number of votes actunliy vast. Al the wit- nesses for the defcnse tostiffcd that they saw no tssuc ballots during the voting, but noattempt to account for thelr prescnce fu the bux wus made. To rebut this evidence the defense sfm- piy introduced witnesses to prove that Judce anuel lLee was not a truthiul man; but the Government met thls with the testimonv of many * reputable cillzens of Bumter, white and coluted, Democrata ond TRevublcans, that bis reputation fur truth wus good, No witnesses were produced to deny the facts proved by the Guveroment. The jury consisted of four Kepublicans and elzhit _Demo- crats, and the former voted for convietiol while the latter voted to ncquit oo the sole rround, a8 some of them sald, not that the evidence was not suflicient Lo convict, but that they did not belleve that Lee was to be belleved, The next case was against the managersof the election at Camp-Ground Precinct, fu Richland County. At that plave, one of the United States Supervisors and his clerk kept acorrect poll-list, which showed that B{0 persons voted. In this case the lst kept by tho clerk of the managers contalned 140 names ou two sheets not found on the Supcrvisor's list. These two sheots were {u a different handwriting from the otliers, and they bore other Internal ¢vidence of belng fraud- nlent. Forty-elx names were nlso Interpolated in the orizinal list Ly repeating the nawmes of voters, For fnstance, 'when John Emith voted, his name was entered in full, and also J. Smith, making it appesr that two men bad voted, while only onc corresponding name was found on the list’kept by the United States Bupervisor, Stiil another frsud by the omission of numbers was proved. Thus, by numbering the twenticth man that voted twentv-five, and those who came sfter him {o order, tho last tuan’s number, which was taken as showing the whole number ol voters, would be five too preat;and, if this waa repeated, the tutal number might be made to appear much lsrger than it really was, By these three tricks the poll-lists mode out by the clerk scemed to contaln 108 names In excess of the sctual num- ber of voters. When the hox was opened the number of ballots in it, incduding tissue-paper tickets, was found to be more than 200 In excess of the poll-list that had been Sraudulently {n- vrensed, and in diawing out the excess Repub- livan votes wera remioved. The result of all thero frouds was that, although the Hepublieans bad a majority of the votea actually cast, the returns gave Alken, the ° Democratie candlaate for Congress, b3t votes, avd Eosor, the Kepublican candidate, elcht, snd there were four blanks. 1t was proved in the trial that ot least 100 Re- publican votes were cast at that poll, aud the (Government stopped at that polut, not thinking It necessary to go further. ‘The defense did not undertake to mect these facts, and the jury stood elzbt forscquittal and tour for convietion. One Democrat and three Republicans voted for conviction. Tho Inst case tried was against the managers of ejection at the Calhoun Precinet o1 Claren- don Couoty. Here, after the polls were clused, the managors locked the box up in the bullling where the clection took place and left {u vver- night Instead of counting the volcs at onco as dirccted by tho law of the Buate, In the morniug the box could uov bo found. Tho delcnss In this cose was that the managers wero afrutd to remaln and count the votes. The jury was composed of three Hepublicans and “nlae Democrats, aud when it first went out stood five for conviction and seven for apquittal, Fioally eleven voted o nrquit und ona 10 convict, All of these cases were hrought under Be 5,515 0f the Revined Scatutes, whlch provid ‘That evury oficer of an election, at which any Tepresentative or delesale i Congrees fs voted for, whether suchofticer of election be appolnted or created by or under any law or nmnnrhr of The United States, or by or uuder anv dtate, Terrnito- vial, District, or mnniclpal law or autbority, who neglects or refusos to borform uuy duly in regard {v such clection reguired of him by auy law of"tho United Ktates or u€any State or Territory thoreof, or who violates any daty so luposud, or who know- fugly dves uny ucts thereby unsuihorized, with - tent 1o alfect any sucn electivnor the result thereaf, or who fraudulentiy imakes any falee certidcate of the reanlta of such clection In regard to wach ftop- resentative of Delexate, or whu withboids, cone ceals, or destroya any certificate of records v re- utred by Jaw respecting the clection of any such ?h-nrounlulh-e or Delegate, or who nexlects or refuses to moke and return such certificute, ne re- quired by law, or who alds, connsels, vrucures, or advises suy voter, oerson, or officer to do any act by this or any of the preceding sectione ade & crlme, of to umit to do any duly ine omiseion of which fe by th any of such scctions made o crine, ur atiem 0 duso, shali De punlsbhed sy prescribud In Sec. 5,511, Tt was thought to be uscless to try auv more of tho cases ab the last term of the court, und 80 they wers contivued. The United Stutes Attorney and biv nasistant lutend to muke upa Jarge number of test cases for the April term of the court, They belleva that thero are enough of Conservarive Democrats In Charles- ton {ruin whom a jury van be drawn to lusure s Iafr trisl st that thne. BETWEEN THE ACTS, Between the acts, what plays are enacted— Curious drawas not soen ua tha stage— Lilts of tragedy well selectc Comedies better than ** All the Rage "'t When the curtain is down aud the bouse well packed, O great is tho acting between each act! RBetween the acts, when the glass 1s adjosted Qa tho opponity side of the bause, slast Sumubody loved and somsbody trited Hulles into eyus 1048 are uaing 1o ginss, O ouo may snille, but snother will frown, Whea tho lights are up sud the curtaiu ls down ! Uetween the scts, when the muslc is sobblog, 18 suddon amuzement aud mute surprise, ith \fah”m thet srv paling sud Learts that sre roubiag, 0Old Jovers lwh 1nto each other's ayes: And ralw Lresats gulver sud shake with sfehn When the curtaly Coes down aud lorguettes rlse. Betwecn the acts, theru are cute Alrtatiops With prizhit-cyed beautivs aud stylish besux— ', but usughty and full of twasptation— ied over aifcr Ly pveninz's cluse. O much b aone that 's tegretivd at dawa, When tbe curtaio 1s down and the light taroed on! Uetween the acts, thero are fond bearts Lroken, Aud Tiope falls diad with uever a mvan, Old wouude are openod—eweel words are spoken, All1n the rlople aud under-tone. Bt the ligot turne diw, sad the cartain s drawa, And tbe lesser play vn the stago gove on. Lia WUBELER. e —— A Court.Sesslou an Thanksgiviog. ~34 Judge Herscbol V. Jolinson, who rau for Vice- Preasdent ou the ticket with Douglus fu 1500, was holding court at Scriven, Ga., Thauksgiv- fug week. fnstead of mljourninze vver untl Friday to observe Thauksziviug,—s procveding which would have catsed tiuch ticonvenicoce to With €8s, jurors. lisfriote, —be bad the eottt voeced oy Tuureday with sellzons aury- fece condueted by o Stediodiat Eytecoval nin- 20 L Wyad un [RERE NN essary fo all others, Bed, variety of &tyles, UNION WIRE HATTRESS o0, 7 North Clark-st., Chicago. e — Ouly Direet Lims 10 Pramce Between New Vork and Havre. Pler 42, N, I, foot of Mortan st Eatitog every Thuretay from il Tians-Atlantfe Line eatiing under the WOVEN WIRE _ BED LOUNGE. HAIR every war. TRANE i e Free from the clumsy appearance nec. Gives a perfect Woven Wire Mattress MANUFACTURERS, GUEAN STEAMSIIPS, tieneral Transatinntic Compno: nesdav, Tan. 5 AGE IN GULD (Incloding wine): First Cabin, $100; Second Cabin, 8631 2, wine, beddlog,and uteaslis. " Vilie' de *st. Lau- Calllng at QU . The only cricau dag. D STAR LINFE Iy Il‘lF\'O.\IA‘ Dec. The Steamanls City of Montreal will safl from T ful o &¢,, Thursds stitutional, I suppose, HATHAIRON. SAVE|TO LEARN HOW TO DO YOUR| IT READ AND HEED WHAT FOLLOWS, SAVE YOUR JIAIR.—Tha laws of Mealth and Loagevity Cemand i, tha enstonis of social life requira ft. The matter i1 of great importance in DBEAUTIFY YOUTE JIAIR.~It §é the sure passiog crown of glory, and for the lossof Ib there i zo compensation. ' CULTIVATE YOUR IAIR.—Por by e, other means can it be saved and besutified, ¥ LYON’S KATHAIRON, Discovered tldrty-ve years ngo by Prof. Lyon, of Yale, 1s the mouk perfect preparation in the world for preserving and Luautifying the hair, Desldes LeIng the best halr dressing ever produced, Lyon's Xathairon will positively prevent grayness, and will ro= atore new halr {o bnld heads, if the roota and follicles ara not destroyed. It actually performs {hess seeming miracles, of ‘which the following Is A FAIR SPECIMER, T hiad been entirely bald for peveral years, con- I used, s fow bottles of Kathalron, and, to my great surprise, I have a thisk growth of young balr, COL. JOIIN L. DORRANCE, U. & A. 11 every fmportant rospect the Kathairon fs ateoe lutely Iacomparable, Itis unoqualed 1, To Curo Daldness., 2. To RestoraGray Tair. 3. To Remova Dandrul. 4. To Dreas nnd Beautify the Halz, DEAI IN MIND.—The Kathairon s ne stleky pasto of sulphur sl m and daub tho halr aad paralyze the brain, It is a pure sad limpid vegetatis lotion, intended tore- atora tho halr Ly nateral growil and reinvigoration. Itis splondidly perfumed, asd (ho most delightful r-of lead, ta paint Liand, furtner information apply to 1. oA TEot5, Vo, 4 Soutt Clark-st. CIOR LIAE MAIL STEANERS BIAIL TUFIA. Ne NTIALIA. 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