Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-07-13
The Tribune on shoddy.

The New York Tribuae does not agree
With the lately issued phamples of Jay
Cooke, In which Il Is asserted that Ma
sional Debt is a National blessing. Mr.
Greeley does not choose 20 stand with
these who think tbas, to that canoniza.
tioh of S.. sb3dly, which be says be par
siealarly esehsws. In tho course OF an
article be thus photographs the ti.alsr
Saint whilh Air. Cook seems desirous Of
elerating to the calender:
sin cur judgement, Of all the men who
bava sinned against the Republic in her
recent dag OF trial, those wha have sWil.
died her with exharbitans charges, rotten
transports, poor iron, aud aey other Of
the kindred resorts Of raseRliiy, should
be the las: fofgiYen. Tho natural geru-
ine Rebel is a bad egg; there vas scarce
| Iy q bIaekieg, lihertlne. rowdy or proai.
gate in the South who vas not one of
them, or in the North who did not wish
them success but the reyeiler in shoddy
was a mors byroc.itieal, dctessable
seaundrel, in that be oftcneF affected pa
triotisul If not pisty also, and, while
Rebel vas saving 81 the throat Of Uncle
Sam, Shoidy was picking his pocket
| ofFeaeT With bis eyes turned up toward
heaven and With protestation Of loyal
" on his iips-the ineorrigble xiliain -
Several hare been easbiered from high
Official trusts for swim ding their country
| when she was on tbe very brink Of ruin; !;
others have just escaped a similar fate
by hiring Senators and other 'big bugS
to engineer for thgm-as 'counsel,' OF
course. One, If We mistake not. was
Surgeon Geseral, and bought millions
Wprth of ms3iciaes for our armies at
rates twenty-five per cent. higher than he
need have psid; one, we heyr, bought
So ,000, 900 worth Of coffee FOR the Gov
ernBent just waen our currency was most
deprecated and coffee consequently high
est--and so on. Probably, some hum
dreds Of millions have By such means
been added to cur National Debt, and
Dir. Cooke must excuse US for not re-
gaTding THOSE who thus line their own
and their friends pockets as public benez
factors. As building monuments scems
now 10 yagur, we suggest the erection Of
pyramid on which the names Of all
these gentry shall be chisclcd deep in
everlasting stone, with tho amount Of
each mau's stealings debitei opposite
his iilic. 4 good portion of our money
ed aristoeraey might be thus favored,
While our ftst families Of following ages
might trace back ihcir pedigree 10 one or
more ancestors here emh!azoncd, being
thus enahietl TO establish a strong pre-.
sumption Of hereditary talent for 6nance.
'No, SIR Co5kel you mist not prove
| the magnates Of shodiy entitled to Popu.
lar gratitude, or you will compel us TO
dissent from your theory, if only to
avoid this detested dodu3tion. Take
any form but t5at!'"
During she meeting Of the Democracy
at tue Coutt House last evening. ibe fore
gpiRg was read by Gel. r. J. ualdeman,
with a moss appropriate aud Just applica-
tion Of its stiBss % the sh1ddy patriots
of Harrisburg, who, although attaiHtcd
wi;h the crimes Of spsculatipg in the ''ne-
eessitits Of he Government" have as
sumed to themselves all the "decancy"
genius" and .srespcctAbility" of the city,
anI thus ulumed, have eudeayored to CO.
cree The Democracy iuto u position at the
stall end of Fourth Of July procession.
The Calanel -helieyed that there was
enough patriotism. genius and rerpecta-
biliiy among the Democracy to obviate
any presumed necessity for afiliating With
Shoddy. There vas no necessity for the
Democracy to thus japan the character Of
men whose private fortunes are due to
the enormous profits of horse, mule, and
other contracts. Patriot & Union.