| Show A COSTLY POLICY if congress enters into this business of excavating canals new york will have her share of the government con tribu triba tlona tiona as well as new naw jersey ind and ohio as well as west virginia As it has been with these land grants to railways so it will be with these bounties to canals there will be no end to them till tho tha spring is exhausted so too it if we subsidize two or three steamship lines we shall have to subsidize two or three or a dozen more for the arguments of the lobby are potential in proportion to the margin for pickings and lings ina lna in a word these splendid in improvements suggested as the future domestic policy of general grant we rear fear are splendid schemes only for widespread corruption public deamoral and national bankruptcy the projected foreign policy of th the administration so far as we can judge judg from present indications and rumors embraces a vigorous preparation for war in reference to our complications with spain and ind cuba the revival of the st bomin domin domingo go annexation scheme an ship canal and new treaties of amity amit and commercial reciprocity with mexico and the central and south american states with an eye to a few more subsidized steamship ste amshl p lines this pro gramme in addition to the budget of internal im prove ments suggested may well cause the secretary of the treasury to shudder at the prospect i before him of course au ail these kra gra krand grand nd projects will re quire a prod aply of bonds and greenbacks green backs increased instead of reduced taxes and a suspension first of the payment of the principal and next a suspension of the inheres interest of the nai mai tonal debt in order to make both ends meet the president tells us in bis Afes message sage that in view of needful expenditures any further reduction of our national taxes is for the present im practicable we presume that for the present he intends to indulge mr boutwell in his pretty conceit of a redemption demp tion of the debt at the rate of a hundred millions a year until these other uses are found for his hia surplus funds the whole outlook is anything any thing lhing but that of relief to the toiling tolling masses of met the people peoples from the material facilities odthe of the age such as railways and telegraphs every country concerned in these agents of modern progress is inevitably tending to a strong or stronger centralized government ern ment this tendency is the modern law of gravitation if there had been no southern rebellion the railway and the telegraph would have banished by this time the state rights doctrines of calhoun even fron south carolina but these interventions lu in southern local entanglements entangle ments and these internal improvements prove ments and steamship subsidy projects suggested by general grant indicate a tendency to a centralization as patriarchal as that of pekin and as complete as aa that of st petersburg but there is still this encouraging c compensation 0 apen before us that when like red bed cloud and rud aud nud spotted tall we shall all come under the care of our great father we shall all be relieved of the trouble of taking care of ourselves new mork york herald |
