North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-04-06
The CHICAGO Tribune says:

presidents advisers should be the better
press Of the country, and the cry OF the
many headed poor the overtaxed farmer,
the idle sailor, the immigrant. 1t Is NOR
tifying to our conceptions OF the Ameri-
can chief magistrate that he should feel
the contact Of a.y man, much less a mere
ly rich one. This is the weakness of Gen.
Grant, the real weakness! lie is used.
He is impossible He is an abused nam!
His relatives have not fe.t, in the nice
sense of delicacy, the duty they owed him
to abstain from soliciting federal favors.
Many Of them are in Office. Others have
tried to grow rich by obtaining his ear.
1t is more than probable that Corbin
swindled Fisk and Gould out of 100000
by using the name of President Grant.
But if Corbin had grown rich as Croesus
by his high relationship, it would have
been less dangerous symptom than the
known fact that people who have climbed
to opuIence by the barbarisms and slips of
legislation arc looked upon by the Prcsi'
dent as the best opponents Of American
citizenship"
The republican press Of the country
more accustomed to the party bit, sing a
different song. Directed by their leaders
in power they tell their readers Of the
purity of Grants administration of the
continued reduction of our immense public
debt; of the rapid strides toward civil and
political excellence &C., &c. A few, how.
ever, like the Tribune, too independent to
be hampered and just little too honorable
to stoop to that sort of low trickery which
seeks, by administering deceptive opiates,
to lull the masses into semidreaming
repose while their masters practice their
multiplicity Of covert crimes in high. places,
occasionally publish truths which startle
their extremely fastidious natures and
sometimes render these plain spoken
journals, spasmodically, odious in the eyes
Of these most devout, long-faced and pure
ly loyal saviors ofthe country from ruin.
Let these holder sheets denounce
gold swindles and the whole system of
official bargain and sale; expose the out
RACES practiced under the name of
Freedmans Bureau, and the many other
institutions Of fraud, and thep dare pro
nounce the repeated story that "the
national debt is gradually, but surely
being reduced, at the rate Of from Eve to
seven millions of dollars month"; a
falsehood. Do not deny, as the weak
CIR journals of your party do, the
fact that, according to the recent report Of
the secretary Of the treasury, our
national bonded debt has increas-
ed during Grants administration,
at the rate of fifty millions,
nine hundred and twenty four thous-
and dollars each year, or about one million
dollars week and do not herald the
often repeated story that Iowa is OUT of
debt, merely upon telegraphic report
made up by some unprincipled reporter
who finds it convenient to forget that the
tax payers of the State annually pay
interest on nearly seven hundred thousand
dollars of State Indebtedness.
We confess to entertain feeling Of
delight in seeing prominent republican
sheets willing to come out, at the risk of
the party lash, and expose wrong at home.
1t gives us reason to hope for better things
in the future.
Recently the New York Times (radical)
gave publication to the following, which
sounds good to US in these days Of politi-
cal misrule:
Zone western member of congress, whose
majority at the last election was over six
thousand, remarked day or two since,
that unless the tariff was revised and re
lief given to the people by such action, he
did not believe a republican candidate
could carry his district next fall. There
are others who do not hesitate to predic
the loss to republicans of the house of re-
representatives. unless action is taken on thu
tariff question" &c.
Let US hope to see the time when thu
interests Of the producers of the west viii
be considered as well as those Of the non.
producer Of the east; the time when clasl
legislation will be done away, and wher
capital will not control the actions of TIL
Congress which processes to deliberate i.
the interests Of oil the people.
Since our last the president has sent
in response to the appeals of Senators, I
special message to Congress, accompan
led BIZ the official notification of the Stat,
department, announcing the ratification
Of the Fifteenth amendment as part Of tn
Constitution Of the United States. Their
was considerable excitement when tn
matter came up. As the official notifca
ton showed that the State department
had counted Indiana to make the required
IS States to ratify the amendment, Mr.
Niback Of that State. declared that tn,
so-called ratification by Indiana was
fraud and untrue. Mr.. Fernando Wood
with great emphasis, declared that Ne,
York had never ratified.
Therc was quite gathering in the ant
room Of the white house when the mess
age and proclamation were signed, hall 0
the number, however, being newspape
men. An attache Of Washington news
paper begged the president for the pei
with which the documents were signed
and it was handed him. A venerable oil
gentleman who was in the crowd crie
out, when tha announcement was mad
that the negroes could now vote every
where: swell, gentlemen you'll be d.
sorry for this p The speaker was D&pt
ST., fatherinlaw of the president.
The motion to instruct the judiciar
committee to inquire into the legality Q
the ratification of the Fifteenth amend
ment by the Indiana legislature was nc
made in the house. as was anticipated,
having been discovered that it would b
voted down by party vote. The specia