Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-12-19
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Grants Jobs

TIE Presidenfs recommend alton that the
govern ment purchase the telegraph lines OF
the Unlttd States, is a JOB. IL is The last
aud worst aud greatest joe OF his official
career.
As President, Nr. Grant pu hes The use 4
Seneca saadstons in the puohc Dalldlngs,
sidewalks, &C., of Washington. As stock
holders Of the Seneca Sandstone Company :,
MIR. Grant aud his military entour&ge pocket
the profits.
As President, Mr.. Gfaut pushes the pur-
chase and obsunAteiy maintains the var
power protectorate OF SAnto Domingo. Sue
cess therein-Bow impossibs-would have
teathered his own nest and the nests of all
the White House rang.
As President, Mr.. Grant appoints or re-
moves Internal revenue officers at Chicago.
AS thrifty investor Mr.. Grant sees his bro
Iher Orvllle, by ioreknow!edge and iutiuenc CO
In appointments and removals, make HIM
self and his whisky ring rich.
AS President, MIR. Grant dictated, before
and on Black Friday, the policy of the In
ted States Treasury Department 10 Wal
Street. As a fond husband, be had the
pleasure of seeing the Fisk Gould COrbIu
job pay over $25, 900 on the Fisk aud Gould
transaction. BY the by, will not Mr.. Ste
wart disclose how it was invested
As President, Mr.. Grant u dominates persons
to the civil service of the United States. A,
plain Mr.. Grant he receives from them pres
EMS by the score, from part-priee Of hi
cottage at Long Branch 10 bull pup frou
Sacramento.
As President, Mr.. Grant especially recon
mends favorable consideration" of the tele
graph purchase. As honest Mr.. Grant if h
bought one year ago through friends" o
course, 5000 shares of Western Uniol
Telegraph Company stock at A, which to
day is worth 90, he has made four times hi
annual salary, and what with the power @
his office and the margin of profit still re
naming ION par sale to the United States
open to venal Representatives like tn
late Thad Stevens and carpet bagging Sena
tors.
AMr. Grant stands fair to make his ofic
Just about twice as profitable as his re cleo
tor. Grant is a jobber. So was TweeC
This is his tone. This is his conception {
public and private morality, He is not il
deed an absolute thief, but Grant is ia,
becoming a millionaire by precisely tn
same methods which made Tweed rich b,
fore he turned thief to become richer.
Grants Seneca sandstone job is a wea
imitation of Tweed's bluestone quarry jol
1t is even more scsndslous, for the Senec
sandstone is a miserable stone. costly, chiy
badly n'cutting aud is not durable. Tweed
bluestone was the best of its kind. Meth,
Grant nor Tweed see wrong in such use
official position for private profit.
Grsat's telegraph purchase job bes
Tweed's County Court house job hoilo'
Tweed's net profit of the $6,000.O 900,
tracked in Mr.. Tilden's affidavit, is fle
bite to the profit which will go straight
the pockets of Grants ''next friends wht
the Western Union Stock is at its highe,
Grant will rank higher than Tweed for d
tributine the cost of his private gains OF
the backs of forty millions of tax payer
For Tweed cruelty ssddled his extortio
upon one million. But as between Grar
ism and Tweedism, morally, there is lit
= to choose.-N. T. World