The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-04-28
IDAHO CITY, THURSDAY, APRIL %, 1870.
OUT OF THEIR OWN MOUTHS ARE THEY
CONDEMNED"

"OUT OF THEIR OWN MOUTHS ARE THEY
CONDEMNED"
The Chicago Post, q leading Radical journal
in the Northwest, in recent issue says of the
Republican administration of Governmental
affairs:
Corruption is the rule, honesty the excep-
tion, in the different departments and bureaus
of the Government. The most thoughtful men
in the country have for months we'll nigh des.
paired of the republic; the most intelligent
friends of freedom and America in the old
world fear that, although we have met and put
down gigantic rebellion. the ship of State,
rotten as it appears to be. may yet founder in
a calm. This despair and this fear are not the
mere creatures OF imagination nor of crOak-
ing spirit The integrity of the body politic,-
of the masses of the people,-is not doubted.
The sacrifices they have made, the noble pa
triotism of the men and women of the land.
during and since the war, shown in ten thous-
and ways, are proof positive and conclusive of
the elevated spirit and true nobility of the
great body polite at large But the greatness,
the patriotism, the honor of the people are all
in marked contrast with the littleness, the cor
ruption, the total want of principle, and the
rapacity for money. Office, and power of the
office-holding, office-seeking set. The nation
is glorious; the Gorernn,ent as administered Is
a burning shame. From the Executive Man.
sion to the post Offices at country crossroads
there is tawning-there is peculation, fraud,
bribery, stealing,-corruptio reeking erery-
,ehere The raids on the treasury are perpet-
ual and enormous; but this is not the worst
phase of the gloomy situation. Corruption is
hOnored 1t seeks and finds place "where the
woodbine twineth' NOtoriously corrupt wO-
men distribute the Offices of the Government,
and the bribes Of the fortunate, in broad day.
light and men of reputation, so far from scorrl-
ing the lascivious favorites of men high in off,
cial station, do what they can to give them
power and honor. The most corrupt "riugs Z"
are politically omnipotent. They control every
branch of the Government Their ramlfca.
tiOns extend all over the country. Their effect
in demOralizing politics is very great, and most
unfortunately rapidly becoming greater. 1t is
very seriously to be doubted whether the Gov
ernment can much longer endure the ills of
this era of fraud, corruption, wrong and scoun-
drelism
This testimony cannot well be discredited by
Republicans, for it is from an acknowledged
Republican source. Can such leading Repub-
lican journals as the Springfield (Mass.) Re
publican. the N. Y. Sun and Tribune, the Sac
ramento Union, the Chicago Post, the N. Y.
Christian Union, and many others which might
be enumerated, and all of which take similar
view of the situation as that above quoted, we
repeat, can these journals be believed by their
own partyl If so, the sooner they set about
cleansing the "Augean" party stable the bet
ter When the administration of public affairs
of free people has become stencil in the
nostrils of the very masses of the party in pow
er, is it not about time to select other agents
and servants of the people to carry on the gov
ernmentl We venture the assertion that the
pages of history, ancient and modern, sacred
and profane, may be searched in vain for any
record of any worse venalty, y,-more shame
less disregard of all law, human and DIVINE
and more reasonable intent to utterly over
throw the government of country formerly
cxistng,-among any people at any time than
to-day exists in the present Congress and Off
ces of this government. What say the people