Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1881 — The Programme. [ARTICLE]

The Programme.

The financial policy of the Administration, as set forth by the Presi dent and Secretary Folger may be put down briefly, as—1. The demonetization of silver, by stopping its coinage. 2. The retirement of the greenback circulation. 3. Opposition to a 3 per cent, funding law, by continuing the3£ extended bonds. 4. The repeal of all taxes on National Banks. Its foreign policy seems to be about this: 1. The abrogation of the ClaytonBulwer treaty. 2. Interference in the South Anferican war between Chili and Peru. And its domestic policy runs on line: 1. Increase in the army. 2. Increase in the navy 3. Subsidies to revive our shipping interests pjostrated by Republican legislation. 4. Lavish appropriations for inter nal improvements. 5. Increase in Federal pasronage by the creation of new offices. This will do for a starter.

Philadelphia Times : “Old Man Bassick” came to Amerioa from the mining districts of Australia several years ago. He was very poor, and upon reaching Bosita, 01., found it necessary to seek immediate employment at the livery He did odd jobs, earning a few dimes a day, and his wife and daughters helped at the washtub to support the family. Everyone who knew him regarded “Old man Bassick” as one of the world’s unfortunates. He had been a miner since his youth, and yet his hat was as full of holes as a sieve. But, at Bosita’ Basiiek continued to search for silver. One day he wandered off among the hills. He walked for hours looking for a point to touch with his pick. When he sat down on a hillside to rest he scraped the earth mechanically. At the grass root he struck mineral. Surprised at his unexpeetd luck he began to dig. The result was entirely

satisfactory. Returning to Roeita, he told a merchant the storyjand offered half his claim for SH. The merchant pooh-poohed the idea. A few days afterwards j*o- - talked of the Basaick nine. In less than a week the “Old man” was admitted to be worth several hundred thousand dollars. At the spot where Bassick idly dropped his pick is the town of Querioa, named by Mrs. Franklin, in whose Long Branch cottage the late President died. The population of the town is 500, and is about aa prosperous as the majority of places of the kind. The Bassiek family are well known here, Mrs. Bassiok, who is a sister of Mrs. Austin, having juet returned home from a visit of several weeks in Rensselaer.