The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-07-13
rHr CORRupT REPUBLICAN RULE.


THE CORRUPT REPUBLICAN RULE.
Almost every week We observe some
Grant organ holding up the present Ad-
ministration as a model of purity and
commencing the rule of their party as
remarkable for economy and propriety-
so much so that they claim a continuance
Of their lease of power. We doubt much
whether these gentlemen believe what
they proclaim. Knowing, as they must
know, the wanton and unexampled ex-
travagance of their party at Washington,
the mammoth fortunes their leaders gem
orally have made in a brief time, exceed
ing anything related of British India a
hundred yearssago. Iflthe men in power
at Washington are so pure and spotless,
what is the need of Civil Service RefcrmY
All concede the necessity and Importance
of Reform and the late Congress was COM
PEELED to pass an act authorizing the
President to appoint a Commission to
investigate and report on the subject
This Commission is now at work. In
this connection we may refer to the mon
strous land grabs and other plumber
schemes. But we give in proof an article
from the Pittsburgh Commercial of last
week, a leading Republican paper. 1t
will be seen this paper and the N. Y.
Tribune confirm all that Democrats charge
upon the party in power. Grant and his
Congress seem to work tremendously to-
gether in the plnnder business. They take
care of themselves. their relatives and
friends munifcently. But read the arti-
Gle and preserve it
CONCERNING SUBSIDIES.
No business that has been set up and
run for a season, though with only partial
success, is usually given up in haste in
this country. Perhaps the partial success
of the subsidy business at the late session
of Congress will serve to increase rather
than dampen the ardor Of the patriots en-
gagged in 1t. A huge prize drawn now
and then, though the blanks be numerous
as leaves in Autumn, always stimulates
the zeal of lottery ticket purchasers. A
member of Congress, formerly impecuni-
Gus, with shares to the amount of one
hundred thousand dollars in a Pacific
Railroad that has an untold amount of
subsidies, is a seductive example to those
who have been less fortunate. Other
members Of Congress with like morals are
simply hidden to Ego in and Win2-Any
number Of schemes are ready, all partak-
ing more or less of the t"Ouentar' glow.
Oh some OF these the Tribune has this to
say ~
Nobody need suppose that these wild
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feated, are at an end, This coming winter
Win see them reinforced and as Vigorous
and determined as ever, External i'm
portunity Is the price of subsidies. The
expectations rom.a long session are great.
Already from Australia we have warning
of an attack from that quarter. Among
the brood Of subsidy bills which was
hustled INTO the general smash was one tc
give an annual stipend to an American
hne of steamers from New Zealand to Sar
Francisco; already literally subsidized by
the New Zealand Government. That line
despite fearful protestations and prognos,
tications of subsidy seekers, is running
comfortably with the AID of honest profits
and the cash of the Austrian colony. EN-
boldened by. the partial success of this
another precious scheme has been breach.
ed by an American Australian Company
which, according to the colonial press
contemplates making the following sepa
rate hauls Victoria, $4,000; New
South Wales, 925,000; Queensland, 8l0,
1000; British Government, $1,000 Soutl
Australia, $4,000; Tasmania, $4,000
/ United States and Hawaii, 417,000. Ant
, if this $380,000, or 976,000, is raised from
: the different Governments thus markel
> for spoil, the Austrians think they car
sustain the line Of crazy English steamer
: which they have Just established to run il
competition with the American line alrea
lin operation between Auckland, yPor
. iChambers, Honolulu and San Francisco
We should say they could. ss'1 -s.
Whatever has become of the othe
magnificent and bottcmless schemes 70
ocean steamers which afflicted Congress
last winter, we wot not. But here is
budding expectation which may as we
be early pipped. We have no money +
spend IN subsidies for British ~colonies. o
hare Drained combinations which have n
other purpose than paying the expense
of ships which, if they ever exist atall, ar
e not called into being by the needs Of CON
merce. The rout of the subsidy'seekei
/ last Congress is, we hope, the earnest {
what is to overtake the supporters of a
such schemes untl the United State
Government has money to squander o
J enterprises having no other excuse tc
: existence" ga ss 80 t--I l
! All this IS quite to the point-bat it
9 TO be hoped that the Tribune will cease I
: lend its influence to elect those who mott
%riously are among the worst subsidy
e seekers that infest Congress, and who at
u single session can make more money
the business than they could make homes
{ lty were they to live a thousand years.