The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-20

Internationally ruined in character and
position, never more to rise in the world; with
q wife and children doomed as II should seem
to ruthless poverty. We manage these mat
ters differently nowadays, not that we would
approve Of a proper sympathy being withheld
from the erripg, but to our own erring in the
opposite extreme. II is scarcely too much to
say that il in looking into our daily Journals
we should read that Mr.. B. was yesterday
arrested by the Government officials for de-
fraudiDg the Government Of million OF dol
lars, IL would by no means occasion not to
say as much talk as the comparatively trihing
Distraction OF the few thousands we have just
been speaking about but so frequent is the
occurrence that we would not think 1t worth
while to talk of the matter at all, so accus-
toned are we become to populations OF all
kinds, gigantic robberies, City, State, aud
Governmental, which are almost daily being
made known, the aggregate amount Of which,
could any one be found to sum up the entire
mass, or rather could any approximation by
any possible means be made, gigantic as
these frauds weuld appear, and heavily as the
taxes are continued on everything we eat
drink, or wear, yet it only affords another
proof of the worth of our argument, when we
say that beyond a slight struggling of the
shoulders, people would for the most part
remain as Indifferent to the ulterior conse.
quences which inevitably must ensue as il
nothing wrong had been going on at all.
The revelations made by Mr.. Parton of tha
of
men, although they would compare in suda
city and magnitude with some Of the greatest
feats ever attempted by the fictitious rasoals
of fiction, are but as a drop in a bucket, when
compared with the great maelstrom of rob-
berries which before and since Mr.. Parton
made his statement have been proved too
clearly to have been committed, even to recur
to his statement as a further proof, if any
were needed, of the general indifference. Here
was given names, dates, amounts received, ac-
counts of jobs parcelled out by this board of
sonservators of the public morals with as
much nonchalanoe as if the parties were en-
gagged in meritorious employment. So deep
rooted has the evil become, so Indifferent has
the public become, that we doubt whether
anything short of general collapse, partly
induced by this deep.seated cancer, shall
awaken the community to do something more
that listlessly oonnive, if we must 80
speak by their manifest indifference at these
outrages.
One of the most striking instances of this
almost criminal apathy is in the selection o.
jurymen. Indeed, when we reflect on the
subterfuges resorted to by many to escape
jury duty, our wonder is that so many good
juries are so often constituted A business
man is summoned to serve on one; he is vexed
that he should be asked to leave his business,
to bother himself, as he calls it, about other
peoples affairs. 1t never seems to occur to
him that if he should have an important case
coming on before one of the courts, how dis
appointed he might feel if it should be left to
the Judgment of men in whose opinions and
probity he might have little conf lence.
If we turn to the political situation, we see
faint glimmerings of the signs of little fright
on the part of the old whisky and water
caucusses. The exhortations of the Union
AS we remarked lately while on the subject Of
parties, we think neither party need disdain
to take a useful hint from the other. Our
Democratic friends will want all the good men
on their ticket they can muster, to countsrsct
the good example adopted by their Republi-
can opponents If in this we see a slight
change for the better, it is some consolation at
least that there is q little attempt being m ade
10 shake off the slough OF utter Indifference.