Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1879 — Facts Against Fiction. [ARTICLE]

Facts Against Fiction.

The Sentinel, with an au^ acit y which makes the polar wave seem t» opical by comparison, says that “if, during 110 past two decades of years, the logic of events has proved anything at all, ii has demonstrated beyond all National , controversy that the Democratic party of the United States must rule, or the institutions of the Government, founded by the fathers, must perish.” The past two decades of years reach back to 1859, the last year but one of Democratic rule, and embrace the entire period of Republican ascendancy. Any person who should deny that the last two Democratic Administrations with which the Nation was afflicted, those of Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, were the most disgraceful ip the Nation’s history, the most disastrous to its name ana fame and honor, would deny what every intelligent American knows to be true. During the last months of Buchanan’s administration money had to be borrowed to meet current expenses, and so low had the credit of the Government become under Democratic management that it had difficulty in "borrowing a comparatively small sum of money at. the ” exorbitant , rate .of 12 per cent, a year. Never before or since has the Government paid so high a rate of interests When the Democratic party went out of power it left the Government with an empty [treasury, ruined credit, its Civil-Smfvice honey-combed with tteaspp, every branch of public business demoralized, the navy scattered to the four quarters of the globe, the firmy debauched through the intrigues of Democratic traitors, and a formidable rebellion fully organized with the purpose of destroying the Government, We simply state the cold facts of history whefiFwe say that this was the condition of the Government in the last of Democratic rule. Did the Demoojratic party do. anything duringithe war/, or it done anything since, reverse this damning record? What has itdoneduring “ the past two decadea o#-ye«rsj’ to advance the cause *Or Ifnerty; to Tn -0 " mote good government, or to strengthen” the' pmvef, * <>e Jdffbf ‘ .Ita*7he .etaditofthe .Nation?, absolutely nothing. We defy any person to point to one measure, one accomplished policy* or one act of the Democratic party during the hurt. ttrenV;/tars which has inured to the .inters&a of humanity or the cause of good government. On the during all these years, it has opposed'every measure looking in that direction, has constantly pandered to the passiomhnd prejudices of men, either ojmnly favoring or practically aiding and abetting treason, repudiation, Communism, and everv other dangerous movementetiiat has sprung up, an! djy could hope to gain power. To say that the logic of events has denaunskrdfed that the Democratic party must -rule in the United States or the government must perish, is about as monitfous a statement as it would be to assert that society will go to pieces unless professional criminals are allowed to make and execute the laws, or that the only way to insure good government in heaven is to put Satan in power;— lndianapolis Journal. _ ~ —A story of a wonderful memory comes from Sydney, Australia. A prisoner set up in his defense an alibi, claiming that at the’ time of the robbery he was at home listening to the recital of a novel, “-The Old Baroh,” by a man named Lane, who had committed It, with other works, to memory. Lane’s recitation, he said, took two hours and a half. The Attorney-Gen-eral holding this to be incredible, Lane began: “In the time of King Henry, when the good Duke Humphrey returned from the wars in the Holy Land, where he had been sojbnrnfrig for a number of years, there lived ” After the witness had recited several pages the Attorney-General told him to stop, as he was satisfied. But the defense insisted thatas the veracity of the witness had been questioned he should be allowed to gp os. Finally a compromise was effected, Line gave a chapter from the mjddle df the story and its conclusion, and Ahe> accused was found not guilty. . On the tramp—The fleai —Aferiden JBecorder. -I