THE D A IL Y EVENING TELEGRAPH TRIPLE SHEET PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 18C9. sriniT or inn rungs. rlfnrlnt Oplnlana af trie Lradlac Jtnrnnli Upon Current Tenlrt!oninlld Kverv Iluy Tor the livening Telegraph. All;. WELLS' HI DUET. JFrtm the .V. 1'. Tribuur. Mr. I). A. Welta, "Special Commissioner of the Revenue," has put foith Lis annual bud get, iu opposition to that of the President and the Secretary of the Treasury, who we think wisely nro intent on paying oft" principal of our great national dotit in order that we may fund the Imlk of what remains at a lower rate of interest than we are now paying, and they think we should maintain our revenue unim paired until this can he effected. Mr. Wells, on the other hand, urges Congress to cut and slash the revenue right and left, 'leaving the reduction of tho debt, whether principal or interest, to get on as it may. Why not bolish the offices of President and Secretary of the Treasury, and let the "Special Com missioner" run the Government? Mr. Wells has hitherto appeared in the somewhat incongruous characters of pro tectionist and free-trader; ho now assumes a third character that of an opponent of both or either. He says: "The rxporlsnce of the Inst few years has been equivalent to a demonstration that any attempt to rccoUHtruct the Tun IV as a whole, on any Imnuof principle, Is practleully impossible; the dlverso In terests of the different sections of Indnstrlet being auiTlclently powerful under almost any circumstances to engraft upon a bill during Its pannage such tnodi tlcutluiiH aa would efluctualiy deprive it of any pre tensions to consistency or harmony. There would therefore aeem to be but one available method of tarlir reform ; which is to adopt the same course that has been taken In resoect to the reforms here tofore made In tie internal revenne, and which fur thermore finds a precedent in all the experience of Great llritaln in legislating upon these subjects, vlr.. : to make such modifications or removals of duties, fear by ycir, as experience or the condition of the Treasury may lndicato as practicable and desirable; nd thus, by pruning, rather tbau by reconstruction, to gradually attain the greatest degree of simplicity and eilectlveness with the least possible burden upon industry and the people." We beg leave to assure Mr. Wells that he forms a party by bimself. Some of tho American people are protectionists, others for fro, trade; there are Home who have not yet fully considered the question and made up their minds as to its proper solution; but the num ber who have no principle on the subject, and wish it acted on without reference to any, is mall indeed. In fact, there is no standing-ground where lie affects to plant himself. Every page of Lis report assumes the fundamental position of free-traders that protection enhances prices to the detriment of consumers. Every argument for protection, from those of Hamil ton and Mad : on to those of Carey and Mor rill, is quietly pooh-poohed by this "special" doctor in finance as sophibtical and absurd. If Henry Clay and llezekiah Nilos knew any thing of the effect of duties on prices, then Mr. Wells has yet to learn the alphabet of po litical economy. If a duty be raised from, L'O up to r.O per cent., a true economist does not assume that the price is thereby enhanced HO per cent. ; he consults the prices current, not of one year only, but of several, and con forms his theory to the facts, instead of assuming that the facts must be such as his theory would have them. And herein he would place himself in direct antagonism to Cottimissioner Wells. Mr. Wells, in his roport of 18(7, proposed that the existing duty of nine dollars on pig iron per ton be retained, and his bill, there with submitted, retained the existing duty on salt also. He now proposes a reduction of the duty on pig iron to three dollars per ton and of the duties on suit by one-half. And this is but a sample of his "ground and lofty tumbling." Mr. Wells serves his employers too well when he stoops tal uisstate the arguments he chooses not to face. He says: "But the usual, and almost the only arguments ofl'ered in reply to such statements as that above jjiveu is, tbat a continuance of the present duties Imposed on pig iron Is necessary to insure employ ment to American labor." No, Mr. Wells ! this is not the case, and you know it. You cnunot have so utterly mistaken the drift of tho arguments you do not choose to meet. We, who stand for pro tection to our iron industry, commend that protection as calculated to expedite the open ing of American mines, the construction of American furnaces, the connection of those mines with those furnaces by railroads, etc,, until the American- need of iron shall be satisfied from American sources. Time and again have we said to the free-traders: "You tell us that iron can be made and should be afforded much cheaper than it is now sold : Tlien vhy not make it? You own many mines, and can buy millions of acres more at very low prices; you have some furnaces, and others are selling each week for less than cost; you can build more Tery readily; you can hire workmen as cheaply as protectionists can; you are yourselves pur chasers of millions' worth of iron each year; so you cannot fear a lack of demand: Why won't you make iron? Who asks you to buy it of protectionists for 10 or Sf per ton more than it is worth, whon you can make it as cheaply as others can? The tariff gives none a monopoly; tho business is as free to you as to any: and you well know that you can get as good prices for it as others: Then why don't you make iron?" "What answer?" WLat is there in the nature of iron pig or bar that impels those who will chase a dollar aorosa the equator and around Cape Horn, to refuse so stubbornly, persistently, to make iron? Suppose the duty wore $9000 per ton in stead of $!', what would be the price, and what would regulate that price ? We oppose the change commended by Mr. Wells, not that it would stop iron-making in this country, but that it would arrest her ia ier triumphant march to that independence of Europe for one of the chief necessaries alike of peaoe and war which we are on the point of achieving. Never before did this country increase its product of iron, and its capacity for producing that metal, so rapidly as she is now doing, under the impulse of a duty no mgner tnan was imposed by the Calhoun-Lowndes tariff of 1810, and lower than was imposed in ISIS, in lS-.'t, in 18ls, and in 184 'J. New and capacious furnaces have recently been or are now beincr built in Illinois, in Indiana, in Wisconsin, iu Mis souri; and more and more will be if the tariff is simply but emphatically let alone. This, we insist, is tho nuve wav to cheapen irou through increased production through out the interior of our country. Every ton of iron made at a pront incites, and muni i cite, more and more to on;ao in iron making, until the profits of that business shall have been reduced ot leiist to the level of profits in other productive industries Here is a law which every intelligent person comprehends, but which dishonest partisans ignore, seeking to prejudice the ignorant. Jlr. Wells is a paid public servant, and has no I iht to lend himself to thiu g line of popular deluhion. AMEUICAN IDOLS. I From th$ rail Hall Oarrtt. A recent letter from the American corres pondent of the 1'iwie contains two state ments, eaoh remarkable in their way, and mere remarkable in combination. He speaks of the general regret of the death of Mr. Tea body and the value set upon his various acts of munificence. He mentions at the Bams time the honors bestowed upon a live mil lionaire; the ludicrous side of which, it is true, appears to have been appreciated as keenly in America as here. . Mr. Yanderbilt, we all know, has made a gigantio fortune, and waged successful battles in the wars of financial giants of New York. A series of statues commemorating the remarkable events of his life has therefore been erected to his honor in the station of the railway of whioh he is undisputed master. It may be owing to our ignorance of Mr. Vandcrbilt's history, or to our narrow conception of art. that we fail to understand what actions of his can afford very promising materials for the sculptor. Mr. Vanderbilt making an issue of new rail road shares; Mr. Yanderbilt applying to a New York judge for an injunction against Mr. Drew; or evon Mr. Yanderbilt presenting a steamboat to the United States Government, do not strike our feeble imaginations as being specially suitablo for embodiment in everlast ing marble. However, when a new worship has been invented, it only requires time to.diacover an appropriate set of symbols. The Israelites stowed remarkable facility in extemporizing a golden calf; and we should do great injus tice to American ingenuity if we doubted that they could find some method of erecting an image sufficiently significant of the nature of their worship. If they love to bow down, as their detractors say, before the almighty dollar, the incarnation of that mysterious power will soon have all becoming mythologi. cal emblems. The Mayor of New York en deavored to shadow forth the nature of the new religion by declaring that Mr. Yander bilt combined in himself the attributes of Croesus and Tellus, whom the Mayor appa rently takes to be two ancient gods. When we are accustomed to them, a bundle of greenbacks will perhaps look as well as a handful of thunderbolts, as certainly they produce more terrible effects. We cannot lau'h at such demonstrations with a perfectly clear couscionce. We once had a railway king of our own, who was thought worthy of a testimonial, and who, if his success had been as permanent, might possibly have had as many statues as Mr. Yanderbilt himself. If Americans worship the dollar, we have a certain voneratiou for the British sovereign; and perhaps it might be urged that our zeal is inferior merely beoause we are still in the polytheistic stage, and that we do not prostrate ourselves so un reservedly before the millionaire inasmuch as we have certain devotions to pay to rank and respectability. Eveu two bad idols would in many respects be better than one. We have no wish to say that the British nobleman is a specially wiso or admirable creature; his sur vival would not compensate us for tho Ions of "laws and learning, wealth and commerce;" and something would be left in tho country even if the nouso of Lords were to be swept away iu the delude which is so ofton threat ened. There is much, too, that is contempti ble enough in the court which is paid to it; there are such things as "snobs" and "flunkeys," and it is not pleasant that our language should have been enriched by the necessity of finding names for such spocies of humanity. Yet there is, it must be fairly admitted, a certain negative vuluo even about the British aristocracy. Assuming, for the sake of argument, that they as are stupid, proud, and useless as the wildest democrat would maintain, the existence of a certain social hierarchy helps to keep up some useful tradi tions. A successful stock jobber or dry goods merchant does not reach at a single bound the highest position in the country and find himself entitled to bocome the cynosure of many million eyes. He is made to feel that ho has some tests to satisfy beyond the possession of a satisfactory balance at his banker's. He has to acquire a certain quantity of what generally passes for education, and to gain some of that polish which Mr. Carlyle estimated at so high a value in his remarks on the approaching Niagara. An English Yanderbilt would nrobablv tind. indeed, that society was inclined to deal mildly with a gentleman of such tangible merits: but it would ie bound in decency to make oertain requirements, and would at any rate laugh at him behind his back if he did not fulfil them. There is, of course, a corre sponding feeling amongst the cultivated classes in America, but they have not the same amount of prestige to enable them to enforce respect. Anything which reminds us that mere wealth is sot by itself a sufficient title for admission to the seventh heaven of society is so far a good thing. In the millennium we shall reserve our highest honors for virtue and intellect. We shall only value wealth so far as it has been won by honest labor and is applied to good purposes, and rank only as it may really indicate tho possession of a certa;n decree ot early and ingrained ronnoment. But as we are at present some way from a state of perfection, there is some value in a traditional standard which approximates more or loss roughly to implying the probable pos- session of buoh qualities. The prominent position which tho conJl tions of American society necessarily give to men who rely, so to speak, upon nothing but the brute force of enormous wealth, upsets a good many of the ingenious speculations of political theorists. The problem which JJe Tocnueville treated with wonderful ingenuity and fertility of invention might be stated somewhat us follows: (.liven a nation in which there is a constant tendency to equality iu wealth, position, and political power, what will bo the effoct upon the character and mind of the individuals composing it? It is plain that, in some respects at least, American so ciety shows more and more decided diver gence from this ideal. Thore is no country in which the inequality of wealth tends to grow more rapidly; if tho lowest stratum be at a higher level, the elevations which rise above it are enormous, and 'tend every day to booome more marked and mora characteristic. America is rapidly becoming the country of gigantic fortunes. We may suppose that as its vast resources are deve loped, the Vanderbilt s of our own time will be dwarfs in comparison with the gentlemen who at a near futuro nro to represent tha character of "Crusus and Tellus." And un doubtedly such a state of affair is capable of leading to very ugly results. Government may become a sort of compromito butwoon selfish l ji h men and ignorant poor men. Tha democracy is gratified by having a large shard of apparent power, and tha millionaires in demnify themselves by turning it to theirown account through various underhand math j Is. The mob elects a judga and tha rich nun buys linn tor lus own purposjs. Tue unsse are giatiiit-d by linteniug to a vast amount of fulsome ttaltdry, and ara not clavar enough t- perceive that by the action of their represen tatives johtics are being turual into a gam a of stock-jobbing, in whioh bull, and henrs take the place of the old-fashioned Whigs and Tories. The state of things which is sup- Eosed to give a fair chance to every man, owever humble his position, is really used for the benefit of his superiors through a oun ningly devised system of log-rolling and wira- f Killing. The State is apparently governed y universal suffrage, and, in roallty, by a railway company, or two or threo overgrown millionaires. HAMILTON FISH KILLING THE 111;. PUBLICAN BAUT1'. from the A". Y. Sun. It seems a singular thing that Hamilton Fish should be able to kill the Republican natty. He was never a leader in it; has never influenced its opinions or its polioy; could not command its votes for any offloo what ever, either in the ward, the county, or the State where he lives; has absolutely no stand ing as a Republican beyond that of any re speotable private citizen: and could never by any possibility have been elected President: and yet at this moment he sways the power of the Presidency, and is using it to kill the He publican party! And if he is allowed to con tinue, that party will soon be so dead under his hands that bo miracle can ever bring it to life again. Of course General Grant did not intend any such result as this when, iustead of selecting his Secretary of State from amoug the known statesmen of his party, he chose that official from the list of those who had given him pre sents, and conferred this great post of autho rity and honor upon a played-out politician of a part age, a man of very limited intellect and much wealth, without influence or follow ing among the people, and without any olaim whatever to such distinction. Thus if Gene lal Grant had not put Hamilton Fish in a place for which he is utterly unqualified. Fish could not have destroyed the party by leading Grant into the black and damnable crime of making the United States an active ally of the basest and crnelest of European despot isms against an American people struggling to be free. The final deed which dostroys the Republican party is Fish's; but the ability to do it was given him by Grant. If, instead of submitting his mind to the direction of Hamilton Fish, the President had chosen for his Secretary of State some statesman of earnest patriotism, disinterested wisdom,' vigorous character and American instincts, such as John A. Bawlins, for in stance we prefer here to mention the dead oulj his policy would not have been on tha side of Spanish despotism and the slave trade, but on tbe side cl' freedom and of Cuba; tho administration would not have been placed iu the att.'tude of enforcing tho neu trality law when it operates against freedom, and refusing to enforce it whan it would operate against slavery; the gunboats would not have been allowed to go. and Cuba would be safe. But more than this, the message, instead of a shambling argument iu favor of Spain from the pen of Hamilton Fish, or his son-in-law, the Spanish lawyer, would have proposed tho recognition of Cuban indepen dence and tha formation of an alliance offensive and defensive with that infant re public. This would have electrified the coun try, and would have given to tho Republican party a new Jeaso of life. The Spaniards and the Democrats alone would have been dis appointed; tha former because they would huve lost without indemnity the rich colony they nave so long oppressed and plundered; the latter, because tney would have seon the greatest American question of the day appro priated by their opponents, and made the basis of a generous and noble party policy, destined to prevail for many years to come. Such was the opportunity held out to tha Republicans, but Mr. Fish this ltepubliean of favor and accident has not only crowded the party away from it, but has even com pelled it to enlist in the hateful work of forcing an odious and disgusting European despotism upon that fair and friendly island at our very doors, and of re-establishing sla very and the African slave trade where they have been effectually abolishod! No wonder that under this revolting and shameful pro cess the party whose fate he thus accidentally dictates is gasping in its death throes, and unless it is freed trom his control must soou give up the ghost. FORNEY AND CAMERON. From the X. T. World. There was a time when the arithmetic of Mr. Forney did not awaken transports of approbation in the bosom of Senator Came ron. That precise mathematician and inflexi ble economist found the addition of the clerk improbable and visionary; he found the accompanying subtraction irregular, and hinted that his division was illicit; that his fractions were vulgar, and represented in adequate subdivisions of the unit. To his mind, these digital vagaries and aberrations imported injury to the public pouch, and ho desired that the sums of the cipherer should be summarily reoiphered. That was during the last session. But in the in terval the Senator has changed his mind. He now thinks that the figures are all right, and recommends that they be put awaysomawhere, and that the republic bo enjoinodfrom bother ing Mr. Forney any more about them. Whether Mr. Cameron has spent the interval since last session in straightening out the ki;;ks ia Forney's bo'jk kuepiii. or whother Lo takes it for grautoj that timo corrects in acciuutc computation, or whother tha two ctleLratod and spotless Ivnnsylvaaiaus have meantime reconciled old differences, and made a solemn league and covenant to en doiso each other's morality and back up each other's tiguies, we c.iuuot know; but th.it si me potent influence of conviction or per suasion bus wrought with tha Senator is evi dent. Ho not only endorses Forney's figures, but solicits for them admiration and oblivion. Ho wants thorn upprovod of and put away. Tho Second Comptroller ot the Treasury fcuys, likewise, that they foot up with that exactitude which is, perhjps, oua of tho most attractive and satisfactory attributes of a sum. so that iu all likelihoo.t tha documents will ba duly cancelled and pigeon-holed, and that they will henceforward return no mora "to pla.nue tho inventor." This is a veiy gratifying termination of i'orney s Jittla monetary misery. It is plea sant to sco on lrremuar account made the in strtiiuent of restoring to each other's arms two alienated cherubim robed in light and crowned with amaranth, like Foruey and Cameron. Since tho latter tried to bri'oo his way into the lu-nato, u fewjjyeais ago, ha has Heeded foiiio conipanionsnip of unusually pure and saintly character lo pull huu throiiKu. Ho has tot it nov throunh tha medium of n little damaged arithmetic; and it is to be hoped that it will do him good. EDUCATIONAL. P 11 E E D (i E 11 I L I, S C 11 O O L. 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Kt.rwt,. Phil.(i4lur. A. LEAKY, Jit., 8. E. corner o ili'IU and WALNUT ISM FLAVORING EXTRAOTS. wiirisi:iM;i:Ri's FLAVORING EXTRACTS Ara warrantod equal to an made. VANII1A, ORANGE, Ll'-AiO.V, ULOVKS, KOr-K. MJTMFO, PINEAPPLE, BITTER ALMONDS, UlNNAoiON. Prepared at A. Wilt bcrccr B)rus Store, No. 238 North SECOND Street. Depot tor BARLOW'S INDIGO BLUE, the best artiolt uijuu lor Blueing clothes. 11 8 mwHlmru DRAW INQ INSTRUMENTS. ETO QRAWING INSTRUMENTS AKD Dra-Vv'Ingf Material or all kinds. CATALOGUES ON APPLICATION. JAMES W. QUEEN & CO., 22wfmtf No. 924 CHESNUT Street jyj E R R 1 C K. & BOMS BOUTHWAHK FOUNDRY, No. 450 WASHINGTON AVENUE, Philadelphia, WILLIAM WRIGHT'S PATENT VARIABLE CUT-OFF STEAM ENGINE, , Regnlated by the Governor. MERRICK'S SAFETY HOISTING MACHINE, ; Patented Jane, 1863. DAVID JOY PATENT VALVELESS 8TEAM HAMMER D. M. WESTON'S PATENT SKLF-CENTKINU, SELF-BALANCING, CENTRIFUGAL SUGAR-DRAINING MACHINE, AND HO EXTRACTOR. For Cotton or Woollen Munufaotaren, T 18 mwf I. TAUOBI MKaVaMOX. , KEAalOK. JOB aVOOM. OLOTHINQ. DURABILITY, COMFORT, AND ECONOMY Ara combined ia our Scotch Cheviot Suits, Which wa ere makln tntussiure for '' Ut Also, ear Frieze and Caisimere Suits at $18. 8TYLE, FIT, TRIMMINGS, AND WORH UUAL TO ANY HOUSE IK THE CITY. HsvinaT determined to make a Quick Bale of oarlarfe Stock of Gooda, Ready-made and Uncut, wa bava reduced prices so low as to render COMPETITION HOPEI.K.SH. We (ruarantee satisfaction in every particular, or tha sale annulled and money returned. EVANS & LEECH, N. 6S MARKKT Street. II i7 lmrp OAR P E TIN Q S, ETO. C A R P E T I N G 8. (iitLii hah; iiti:vioi TO REMOVAL TO OUR NEW STORE, No. 635 MARKET STREET, North Side, one door east of Seventh, ON TUB FIRST OF JANUARY NEXT. We will offer, till then, our entire stock or , Carpetins, Oil Cloths, Mattings, Etc., AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. LEEDOIM Sc SHAW, No. 910 ARCH STREET, !ltf PHILADELPHIA y E W C A R P E T 8. AXMINSTEB3, WILTONS, VELVETS, BRUSSELS, 3-PLYS AND IMOUAIN8, Venetians, Drnggett, Oil Cloth, Etc LEEDOM & SHAW, No. 910 ARCH STREET, 2S 3mrp PHILADELPHIA. XX O L 1 1 Y . SUBSTANTIALS FOR 1369 Trices Down with Gold. CARPETINGS, OIL CLOTHS, 1 RUGS, MATS, OTTOMANS, HASSOCKS, DRUGGETS (Bordered and Plain). R. L. KNIGHT & SON, Io. 1239 ClIF.SrvIJT Street, 11 26 fmwl3t PHILADELPHIA. FURS. 1107 CHESNUT STREET. MUFFS GIVEN AWAY! We are Riving away Fine Black Astrachan Muffs FBEK OP COST, and retailing tha finest . PUBS AND ROBES In tbe city at WHOLESALE PRIOES. M. MARTIN & CO., 12 H lmrp No. 1107 CHF8NUT Street SABLE FURS, RUSSIAN ' AKD HUDSON'S BAT The Bnbserlber having; made the above articles SPECIALT Y in ha business, has prepared a large as sortment In different at j lea at hla Store, No. 139 NORTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. EatahliHhed 44 years ago. losfwnmrpi J A HIE 3 IlDISinr HOUSE F JKMSHINQ GOODS. EDWARD J. WILLIAMS. ."Vo. U2 CIii:.SAa,T Street. IIousc-Fumisliing Good?. IVill redvfo our hIo1; fircvioiis to removal, At Very Low Prices Indeed. Chi'istmaH CJ-o otl w OI FKBED AT 008T, flj I wfrntnip QREAT BARGAINS TOR TUB ZIOIIDAYS IN Hcuse Firnishing Goods AMD AT THK KI3W MOU1), No. 824 ARCH Stroet. 18 8mwfli J. H. CHRIST A BltOS. STOVES. RANGES, ETO. THOMSON 8 LONDON KITCHEXE3 or KUROPKAN RA NO K, for families, hotels, V"h'l iujt'tutions, in TWKNTY IMKl KKKN ?. h.. Also, Plulaiiulphia lUiives, Hut Air r'u Portable Heaters. Liw-iiwn llr.i... k-,,.j... naoea, . Kuives, Stoves, 11 W Ilatu Boilers, htuw-uole Vlatea, Hollers. Uookina elo., wuultnaka aud retail, liv tun lUauuiucturHrs. . SUA UPK A THiiJlMiJN, & Mo. tMU. dHUOND JbMtwt
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