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Day
13
Month
September
Year
1878
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The greonbackers or inflationists hav the un-Ainerican idea that this countr can regain prosperity by swapping jack knives. The true American idea is tha we can manufacture not for our ow limited market alone, but f'or all th world. Why? We have better ma chinory, more intelligent and skillfu workmen, cheaper raw material ; ou manufactures are already going iuto al the inarkots of the world, froui whic they were long excluded by our inflatec and depreciated currenoy. The wide the market the more prosperous th producers who supply it; yet the green back orators are trying to persuade th American poople to adopt a depreci ated paper currency which would agai shut their produce out froin all th markets of the world except our owi Every intelligent and industrioua work ingman ought to oppose them, out o the merest self-interest. - N. Y. llcrald - It was the drunkeuuess of inflation whose natuaral reaotion has filled th land with soreheada, with men in nione tary delirium tremens, who are cryiug for a renewal of the inflation debauch who say they were happy when the; were drunk. It is the inflation mad dog, whoso bite it is proposed to cur b3' another bito from the same dog. In flation has cost the people more than all the money expenditure of the war The bubble burst by its own inflation before anyono touched it. We have gone through the greater part of the shrinkage of prices to get back to firra ground. If it woro possible to reinflat the bubble again, the reaction woulc be quick. All our calatnities have com from that inflation. Another attenip at inflation would only continue them The labor committeeneed look no furthe than to this cause, which is adequate t account for all the distress that ha come upon the country in money affairs - Cineinnati Gazette. The civil service reform machine shaking and creaking at every joint has again been set in inotion. Post ruaster FiUey, of St. Louis, has been removed, and joy reigns in the inne oflice of the Department of the Interior Mr. Schurz's man, Samuel Hays, wh was given the cold shoulder a year ago is now caught up into the bosora of tbe administration. At that time Mr. Hay was brushed aside and Mr. Filley wa reappoiuted before the Secretary of th Interior knew what was in the air. In like manner, Judge Tyner knew of the present change for the first time when the written order was placed in hi band. The Cabinet, it would seein, ar not allowed to witness the working o this ni8ty reform machine. - New Yor, Tribune. - It is folly for Demócrata to thinl that they can vote for Gen. Butler with out doing violence to a party allegiance endangering the prevalence of thei views on national questions, and weak ening the bond which unites thein with the Democracy of the Union. Let us have a rousing State convention, em bracing the wisest, firmust and boldes' men in our ranks, who will plant our oíd flag so high that it can be een from Maine to Texas. Let them nomínate a candidate for Goveruor in whose honest] the people can trust, of whose attachment to Democratie principies therecan be no doubt, and whose devotion to both state and nation the people o: Massuchusetts can safely and triumphantly indorse. - Boston l'ost.1] The only genuine "gush" occurs it the oase of Minnesota, whose platform or so much of it as relates to the ad ministration, is entirely the handiwork of some genius who draws upon bis iinagination for his facts, and sketches a portrait that boars no resemblauce to the the original. The precise valué of Minnesota testimony may be inferred from the fact that it treats Mr. Hayes' civil service reform as a great reality. To preserve appearances it concedes the presence of "erabarrassments, accidents, and collateral difliculties" as a drawback to the glory of the administration, carefully avoidiug definitions, however, and eschowing the question of responsibility. - iV. Y. Times. - The Republican start toward carrying the next House of Representativos is not a brilliant one. Congressional elections have thus far been held in three States - Oregon, Vermont, and Maine. The Republicana have every Representativo - niue in all - from those States in the present House. In the next House there will be five Republicans, one independent Greeuback Republican (Barlow, who will undoubtedly bo elected), two Demócrata and one Greenback. Oue of the Demócrata was also the Greenback candidate in his district. The Republicana have sustained all the losses. - Free Press. Matt Carpenter is not a candidate for the United States Senate, but is "in the hands of his friends," who have just got in roadiness a printed form of petition to be distributed through the State and circuí ted for names, af ter the plan pursued by General Butler in Massachusetts. Not being a candidate, Mr. Carpenter read and revised the circular before it was sent out, making such altorations us in his judernient would render resistence to this spontaueous oxpression by the people all the more ilifficult on his part. - Chicago 'Tribune. Boutwell is also for the third term. He may be remerabered as the discovorer of a hole in the sky, through which be proposos to project Andy Johnson. But Andy proved to be a Hule too broad to get through the hole, and Boutwoll afterward crawled into it him9elf. He wants to como back now and oin the old gang in another four years of Grantism. - Chicago Times. This kick at the prop on which rests the entire Republican stock in trade for tho fall campaign ended the circus tour of thg Postoffice Department, and tho mongrel from Tennessee was at once

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