The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-11

"tS q lasenoOd, lot all tuati I've uasplS1u |
hn ever since | heard hun mAk5 that
sp.ecb. This is excellent, but it fors-
sha3ows much trouble. Wa can assure htm
that II he criticizes spesJhs- IN this spirit he |
Will speedily fluid himself at daggsrs drawn
with host OF good men," sound on ]
main questions" and brlmiul of "moral |
issues" whose friends wilt not relish the ap- |
phcaiion OF the army standard of truthful |
nsss aud caudor 10 thsir great eli prts" to |
help humanity along the road OF progress aud !
this great country to fulfil its dsstinies. IL !
must be more careful in his analyses.
As regards economy, he is opposed to all
machirery of government and all government
undertakings which facilitate the growth or
existence of "ripgs," or which promise to
make the pay ment of the national debt doubt
ul or difficult. He hopes somehow to secure
peace and freedom at the South. through the
cooperation of the Southern people, it post
BILE; without teer cooperation, if necessary
About The Tenure-of- Office act he says aud
has said nothing; about his opinions on the
Civil Service bill the correspondent makes no
report; but the Generals views with regard to
the appointments in the civil service appear to
be precisely those on which Mr.. Jenckss' bill
is based; that is to cay, using the discretion
which the absence of such bill leaves him,
and obeying the party traditions to the extent
which prudence and eXpediency seem to var
rant, he will select his employees, whenever he
can do so with a proper regard to he public
interests, from the ranks OF the Republican
party; 'but his aim first and last will be to
get upright and efficient men, rather than to
reward party services" "Copperheads, poiti-
cal time-servers, and blatant Democratic poll
ticiaps" may, however, ''as we'll send in their
designations, to take effect on the 4th of March
next" the fact being that no person answer
ing to this description can possibly have got
into the public service during the last four
years by any honest arts or for honest pur-
poses.
This all reads very well, and is very assur-
ing, but does not furnish sufficient basis for
judgment as to the character of the new ad-
ministration, without some account of the
strength with which the Jobbers and intrigu-rs
and plundereTs of the Treasury are mastering
for the defense of the old regime. The cores
pondent of the AdcertiSer says that 'if he
could show how the jobbers are organizing
their forces, and how adroitly they are laying
their plans" people might DO afraid about the
future. The accounts which appear in nearly
all the papers are of pauch the same tenor and
effect. There is to be during the coming
winter real gathering of the clans Of corrup-
ton at Washington. The various 'rings"
were never so strong or so well organized and
audacious. The beauty of the case is
that they all, knowing the noble weakness
of the American public, pretend to be
operating on behalf of some great
moral or humanitarian idea. For instance,
there is great Ring working, as in the case
of Alaska, tor the extension of "the area of
freedom" They want to purchase Cuba and
pieces of Mexico, and it has even been sug-
gested to annex Canada by force. Now, no
great purchase or annexation of this kind can
be made, in the present state of the art of
peculatiOD, without the ring pocketing enor-
nous profits. They probably i'll the
first place share of the purchase money by
bringing the scheme to a head and getting it
through the Senate; they then secure another
share by having the vote of the money hang
fire in the House long enough to frighten the
| vendor, as in the Alaska case. We pass over
| without notice the smaller fees to Counsel"
and patriotic editors of wholesome and inde-
| pendent papers, and the dinners and cham
payne to lobby agents. We pass over, too,
the arrant dishonesty on the part of a nation,
as of an individual, involved in borrowing
money to buy real estate on speculation,
when it is unable to pay debts already con-
| tracted.
The Indian ring in like manner is fighting
its battle by drawing fearful pictures of the
cruel and inhuman treatment which the In
dians would be subjected to if they were trans
| ferred to the jurisdiction of the War Depart
ment. 1t accordingly demands for them con-
tinued subsection to the enlightened ministra-
tions of the bureau, with its gigantic yearly
almsgiving, its snug "agencies," and its total
exemption from real responsibility; for it is
easy to see that when an agent opens an ac-
count with "Black Kettle" the balance at the
end of the year, owing to "Back Kettles"
limited knowledge of book keeping, is hardly
tikely to be in "Black Kettles" favor. 1t
says, moreover, that all would go well if the
naughty white men on the frontier would only
treat the red man properly; but as there is
no immediate prospect OF any change in
the white mans character, the excuses
for the present abuses promise to last as
long as the Indians. The whisky ring are
confidently reported by the Western press to
be preparing to operate on the temperance
line. They are, it is said, going to call for a
rise in the whisky tax from fifty cents to two
dollars, in the interest of "morality" aud
''public order" They are going to show the
desolation to homes, the injury to health the
increase of crime wought by the poisonous
bowl, and they are buying up all the whisky
they can find, aud advising all their friends to
do so, so as to create an interest strong enough
TO force the rise through Congress. Then they
will sell out, pass the profits to their bank
account, make contracts for future deliveries
OF whisky, and begin to work for reduction
OF the tax next year, on the scientific prin-
cip!e of "undulations.'
Whether General Grant can stand firm
against all this, or whether il he gives way,
we shall not see a worse crash, a greater
loosenlpg Of the bonds of morality, than has
yet been witnessed in American history, are
points on which great many people feel 8