New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-03-16
The Inspection, Laws.

,,o, I'm, believe that the People would 50 reo''NS
",.;.s ,t.t ,hev would never afterward be SAT
;.sed with any other And yet the Prospee' y.
e,,, eniovog such an Administration Is da'A 'au
,l;s,snt. You may have a party organized on '',e
.o,ndest possible principles, contendlng bravery
CIR ,be most universally benefcent measures ana
49,. tho ,oomon, i, has chance of victory--lf they
M, before driven to it by the exposure %
their characters or the disappointment Oh lneii "'i
bi,iou-lde unprincipled the vcna, the scllis' WIN
rnob 70 ;,s standaId-wiil make themselves con-
s,;cuous and noisy in its advocecy-"i'l eou'e
,t,nselves 10 be regarded as its leaders and cban-
,,;ons. and their accession, which was but a conSe-
ouerce Of its approaching success, will be tiuhi-
pe,ed as the cause OF 1t.
Well the victory is won, and the party pro-
ceeds to exercise the power SO noe'y acheVeu
Ru 5oo exercise it The honest and Patrlotic'
who whether insensible to personal advantages,
not. have clear conception OF what Is que - soou
faith and TO the People, readily say we must
.nroceed to do now just as we pr0mtSs@ Deloie
the triumph: We must reform this ilasra1t ABUSE
abolish that useless Office, reduce these eXofoitan'
salaries, and SO conduct in all Things tha' Tue
whole People shall profoundly reaiize that though
the victory has been ours, its best fruits are eu
phatcally aad permanently theirs
But the other class. whom we have just de-
scribed, step forward with very different pro-
gramme: " What nonsense to talk about ABOLISH
inc Offices aud reducing salaries now, when we
have Just got a chance at them! Have n the
other party (,he rascals9 enjoyed these o'hces
and salaries these ten or twenty years and no"
shall ue throw them away the moment they
come round to as Here are we, a. Is. and T.,
who have given all our time and spent all our
fortunes in this contest, Lgammon and now we
are to be turned off to starve! pretty wayt this
of building up party These saueaInish gen.
,lemen will ruin the cause, to dead certainty, II
you give them their way for there are thousands
who never will vote for the party again if they
don't get something. No, no; hold on to what
Eve havc q. II. year, and pass this oi that bill to
satisfy the People; it will be lime enough to re-
sauce salaries by-and-by when we are likely to
lose them.
The less experienced members of the party are
perplexed and confounded--they patch up some
compromise between the Right and the Conve
nient-,he time for action passes, and little or nc
thing is done. Old abuses perpetuated; the
only change is that new set of political gam'''''
Get the benefit of them. Such l. o P'c'ure' 'l'o'e
or less applicable To oh Tolslicel nsSo'u''o"''
car,o;, sreat measures of Public Policy may be
adopted or condemned; but those practical abuses
in Government which every where prevail are
mainly left unredressed.
The Wing party, when it last came into power
in this State had been destitute of patronage and
power long enough to be essentially an honest
party, and it II corrected many and fla
grant abuses of power; the Auction Monopoly,
the corrupt monopoly of Banking, and several of
minor moment. But it failed grossly Of perform
ing its duty with regard to the compulsory Inspec-
ton laws. 1t great wrong-our leading
men kneu what was right; but il was very conve
nieRt to have Wing officers, with emouments of
five TO ten thousand dollars each per annum-
these officers were frst-rate clever fellows who
had done and doing great deal for the
party, and so the iniquity was CLOSED over. Our
heads are clear of it; publicly through the press,
and by personal cxcrtion, we did what we could
TO dcmol;sh il, but in vain.
At length power has passed into the hands OF
the other party, and we shall soon see whether
shey viii DO any thing. We presume they will
not. And yet their failure to do will be so fla
grant outrage, not merely on the pubic veal,
bat their own cardinal principles, their tunda-
mental naxms of government that it would SEEN
to pass the linits even of political audacity. But
wait and see
But not merely are these compulsory Inspections
especially hostile the protested principles Of the
Loco Foco party-,o all its talk about trade resu.
latins itself the world governed TOO muc!a .he
Iarges, liberty &c. &c. but the subjec, has of late
been extensively discussed, aud is now so well IN.
ierstood that TO uphold the existing abuse, unless
tor selfish reasons, not consistent with the pos.
session ofcommon sense. The ,imes of ignorance
might be winked az, but now defending these In.
sPecsions is on par with jus,ifying piracy or the
slave-trSde. Here comes Bes,en merchar, mr.
Loweii neutrality-suspicious. Maine lumber
inaH--wao has bought thousand barrels of Flour
IA OHIO Tor his trade or consumption, and is bring
ing them home with him. He wants no Inspec
iioa-the highest privilege he asks is to be let
alone Yet the moment his vessel touches our
dock, gang OF Flour Inspectors deputies jump
aboard, and proceed TO bore into his barrels har!
out and waste ms -four, mark, and plug and ham,
nes, and at last the owner, who has protested
against Tho whole proceeding, and whose property
Is seriously damaged by it, is called on 10 pay a
round oil for the mischief done him If this is
93saaaoie, then ear Country very wrong il
A'sA'as war en- Alsisrs and fripoli for doing sub
sss -. Inc same thias
We have 5ess