Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1866-05-26

Ian TIL lEFt
The conviction is forced upon the reo-
pie throughout the country that every de-
partment Of the government,-stlt and
nasional-under the control Of the radi-
cal disunionists is reeking with corrap-
ton and fraud. The most shameful acts
Of whoI>Dhle stealing, stupendous frauds,
and corruption and malteasance, in all
their various forms aud conditions, are
pract'ced in open day, and with boldness
that would startle the mos. ckless and
daring highway robber. In our State
tens Of thousands of dollars Of the peo-
pies money is stolen by the highest off,
ciaIs at the Capital, and the transaction
is winked at and dexterously white
washed by blunt-scented smelling COM
mitsee, selected from the dominant party
Ia the National Government, it is iupos-
sible to pariicularizs the exploits of the
innumeratle thieves Of h; III aud low de-
gree. They range in character and ex-
p'oits from the petty piiierer Of an OBJ
scure "drawer' in the Fleedmen's Blu,
reau, to the princel y contractor who APP
propriates bis millions, or the beastly pur-
loiner Of gold coin and silver spoons in
conquered city. Of all the long retuue
of ''loyal' officials Of the regular govern
meEt or those created by the war and its
adjuncts in tha way Of "Freelmen's Bu-
reas' and Civil Rights "there are
none honest, NJ, not one Even the
sanity atmosphere which of yore encir~
cled the portly person of Parson Harlan
has been dispelled by the god Of public
plumber, and the "old man reverend has
fallen victim to the greed for i'll gotten
wealth. This charge is not the offspring
Of copperhead maIice, but is made by
paper whose radicalsm and loyalty'
will no. be Questioned by The most exal,-
ed and punctilious Jacobin. The an
nexed notice of the workings Of the In,e-
rior Department, under the management
Of the ''sanctimon;ous talking, long faced
disine,' Secretary HDrlan is copied from
the St. Louis Democrat, where it origi-
na'ly appeared:
The truth Is that the Department Of the
Interior has grown to he such a cum
brous machine that its efficiency demands
its entire reorganization. Whether any
reorganization can save it from the cor
ruptions to which it has long been subject
is very doubtful. The Indian Bureau
of governmental machinery that was ever
hooked on to the treasury. Think Of
batch Of long faced diynes, santimonious,
ly talking Of conducting the political bu-
siness entrusted to them on the somewhat
lofty basis Of Christian Virtue, and pro-
Tossing deep phlan;hropic regard for
the welfare Of the wards committed to
their charge, and them see them hand in.
glove with gigantic companies Of con-
tractors and jobbers, managing the trust
fund 30 that fifty per cent. of the money
the Indians have received from their
lands goes into the hands Of such parties.
So open, notorious and fragrant are
these things that everybody can see them.
Nothing can be more disgraeeful to the
Government than that the indians, whose
moneys we hold. and for whose welfare
we make hypoc.itical professions, should
thus be made n paddoc into which to turn
pet stock to iatten. Several changes have
been made in the past few years in this
departm ent, in order to remedy these
abuses, but they steadily get worse. TO
secure the services of honest men in this
branch seems hopeless, and the Govern
ment is loudly called on to take such steps
rs to choke off these vampires from the
teats to which they cling SO convulsiyely
in all changes.
If the prayer Of the Democrat should
be granted, and the old vampire" Hsr-
Ian should be "choked off," and he should
return to Iowa, we sugges. that he, in
with r. G. Orwig, be made
the custodian Of the Swamp Land Fund
Of Iowa, or agent of Hdbbard's Niobrara-
ohristianizod Santee Indians.
Plat Smith Of Dubuque and Lyman
Cook of Burlington are the corporators
Of the Niagara Ship Canal Company.
A several thousand dollar horse race is