Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1868 — HEALY & JAMES. EDITORS [ARTICLE]

HEALY & JAMES. EDITORS

Utilize our JTavy. Ond half the ships of the United States Maty are of nopraciieal service whatevor in tinje of peace. Tiny arc posted in squadrons in different seas and ports of the world absolutely doing nothing. Four and five ships hover .about maratime cities in the Old Wprld toperform the duties that one vessel would prove, got ample, but much of the time, > superfluous to accomplish. Of what possible benefit is it to the people of this " cbunTEyTllar’ a dozdn Tnen-of-war should be sent as an escort to one . of their servants, simply to add eclal to his visits at foreign courts? The Yankee nation is proverbially a nation of utilitarians, republican in manners, and proudly boasting its ’ contempt of all aristocratic cere-, monies and conventionalism. It is these views arid peculiarities, together with its intelligence and fertility of resource which gives to hits distinguishing prominence among tlic great Powers of the world. As a nation, our people are remarkable for their faculty of utilizing their, ■possessions. No other people demand so much of their officials. No . other people expect so much from the capital invested. Yet, perhaps, no other people make such sfoncndous blunders when Grfy do blunder. Millions of trtxes are squandered annually liy us in the support of a navy,, made almost absolutely worthless because unemployed.— Here is a great waste of public treasure—taxes of the people—which demands Congressional attention. Turn our superfluous war shipping to practjcai account. Make the officers and crews of our idle navy earn their pay and pay for their living. We have a large area of territory, rich in minerals, wonderfully productive, with unsurpassed climate and unequalled commercial advantages, revelling in primeval wildness, Millions of acres, rich in the alluvial deposits us centuries, capable of feeding to their fill the starving thousands of Europe, are uncultivated and unsettled. Mints, whose richness no human eye has seen, are unworked. Unnumbered leagues of choicest timber stretch 'across the continent from sea to sea, singing the anthems of ages, and sighing greetings of invitation to the freezing, shelterless millions of the East, to come, possess, and be. happy in the wealth of untold time. We want a revenue from thede uncultivated wilds and unexplored mines. Wu need it to assist us in paying off a burtbensome public debt. We need, have room for, and are anxious to welcome a v.ast tide of immigration. Let it pomin by its hundreds of thousands. Millions of poverty-stricken siimlies in l World are anfi'i-.ring for the very plenty we daily waste. The’Old Country is groaning with an overburdened population. Let its surplus come'to America and choose a home upon our fertile ‘unsettled acres, IVliy don’t they leave a land where their existence is a curse and come to a people who w ill receive them with outstretched arms and words of joyous welcome? Because they are too poor to pay the paltryribstofpassage! Here, then, is employment for our idle navy. Turn our unemployed ships (pto transports. Bring over the idle, starving -thousands of Europe find set. 1 hem at work in .America. Bring them oyCr for the bare cost of trans portation.—Bring them across free. Let -the Govcrmneut monopolize the business. There v. ill be but little additional expense incurred,' and the investment Will jocry. It w ill pay a thousand fold. Our millions of unprodijctivcHK-res will bo made to yield an imnjensc rcypnue. AVe will as a na? . tifin And wealthier. It would be a work of charity that would not only bless the receiver, biit"“l)enetit the giver ten Inindred fold, ■; ' —-i‘Gen. Grant-hud for Coroner in Jasper County Xndianii.” —Standard. Chicago 111., Nov. 20th. Not a w or,d iif it true. Not a vote of the kind was polled in the County. x • . . 1 J