Harvesting The Fruits Cardinal Democratic Principles

The lumber manufacturera doing busi nes in the vicinity of Glens Falla, For Edwards and Sandy Hill held an important meeting on Saturday. Hithertc they have run their saw-mills day anc night. At the meeting on Saturday il was resolved to run them only half o] the time. This action is had in consequence of the supply of lumber being already in excess of the demand. Lumber is not made from loga 6ecured the present season, but from logs obtained one, two and even three years ago. The supply of logs now en route to the milis, for the gathering of the past few inonths, is very great ; and, consequently the future cutting of loga will be diminished. This action of the lumber manufacturera throws out of employmentlarge numbers of men. It will doubtless followed in other localities, and thus many thousands will be depri ved of work. This is simply the repetition of what is going on in all manner of employments. Everywhere manufactories are closing or working on half time. This is the case up the Mohawk Valley, and the same course is proposed at Cohoes. Crowds of idle men and wonien may be seen every where. Saratoga abounds with them. At present the shiftless and desolate in appearance preponderate, for théy are the first to suffer from stoppage of work. Destitution prevails on every hand and is creasing, and the most industrious will Boon have to suffer. Next winter will be the hardest ever experienced in this country. Money, so-called, lacks employnient as extensively as men. We are harvesting the fruits of Republican policy for many years. We are in the midat of the desolation which was predicted to follow if Horace Greeley had been elected. We do not attribute it to the reelection of Grant ; for that would be but to imitate the demagogy of the servile presa. But we are justified in saying that it is the direct result of the policy of the aduiinistration. It is calculated that if Chicago and St. Louis keep up their competition in directories by the taking of the census of 1880 the latter place will have 1,416,000 inhabitants and the former 1,493,000. But the Chicago Tribune thinks that some publication whioh would inform a stranger where to flnd a resident would be more useful. The salt works and saw mili owned by John Gamble, at East Sagina w, were destroyed by fire about 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Loss $12,000; insured for $10,000. The fire is supposed to have caught from a spark froiu a passing locomotiva on the Flint & Pere Harquette Railway. A special to the Loudon Standard reporte the loss of Republicana in the last attack on Estella at 800 killed and woundtá. Free trade, hard money and home rule are cardinal Democratie principie. What is meant by free trade is a tariff so.adjusted as to bring about the greatest reverme to the government without any regard to protoction- building upone interest at the expense of nother. It is emphatically putting all the commercial interest of tho country upm a Democratie equality. What is meant by hard money is a recognition once more that coin and coin only ia to bo made a legal tender, and that all contracta and all Talues as forinerly are to be based upon it. That our paper currency is to ba redeomable at all Unies in coin at the option of' the holder. What is meant by home rule is a reassertion of the right of the people of all the States to choose their own miers without any outside influence trom the Federal governtuent. To make the legislative, executive and judiciary departments of our States independent and sovereign within their jurisdiction. These are not only the cardinal principies of tbe party in opposition to the present administraron, but they form the true basis of a democratie government. Tho corruptions of the present party in power have grown out of the abuse and abnegation of these principies, and they must be restored before the government can ever be biought back to its ancieut landmarks and Duritv.