The Shasta courier., 1871-08-26
NUMBER %.
DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY.

We publish in another column list Of
the attaches Of the last Senate and the psy
of e.ch taken from the Anlador edger.
member of the Senate had one servant and
a half to help him do business, aud that
the whole cot of the corps Of attaches
was $3.50 day. 2 his does not look well
when taken in connection with the reiter.
ated assertions of the Democracy about
the economy they have prscticed while
| they have had the State Government. II
is another count in the indictm-nt against
them which they will have to m ct before
the people, and adds another to the long
list to which the only, plea has been tha
silence Of guilt. They have not attemp-
ted an extenuation of the crime of increas.
ing the fees Of their officers in the various
counties in the face Of the fact that they
united with the Republicans in the prev
Gus Legi ,lature, when tn. Republicans
were in pow'r, to pass reform fee bill
demanded by the people and the times.
There has been no reply to the charge
OF creating somewhat less than hundred
commissions. thus increasing Offices in the
State for impecunlous secessiouists. Nor
has there been, or can there be, doubt
| that the assessments Of these commission
ers in some cases, such as the Mon tgnme-
ry avenue, have been notoriously partial,
and ruinous to some property holders along
the route Of the proposed street. The
Second street cut affair was disgrace to
legislation. and the better classes of San
Francisco regard the whole batch Of CON-
missions created for different purposes IN
that city as designed more for the benefit
of se,dy individuals, who in turn were to
serve the party, than to further the in.
terests , f the people 1t is notorious here
that since the Democrats took charge OF The
Capitol building changes have taken place
in the plans, Ly which expense has been
Increased without corresponding benefit in
the way of Improvement III architecture,
aud good men cosnlzant of the facts aver
that the work is not prosecuted with the
speed aud ecououy of former management.
Here in Sacramento, where the Democrats
have full swing, we see disposition to
pursue the Same line of policy that charac.
terzes Tammany in New York. The
Court house and Hospital have had money
far beyond any decent estimate squandered
upon th, IN; the stock owned by the county
in the Pacific Railroad has been sacrificed
when it should have realized splendid
premium, aud general sl,p-shod way Of
doing business practiced that AWAY results
in financial ruin to any peuple OF any in-
dlvidual. The sole idea of the Democracy
in obtaining and retaining the c,utrol Of
the Stats aud county go, ernments seems
to be, if we are to judge by the record,
to secure fat pickings to party tsvorites,
and with no view to the publ, veal. In
what respect has the State been benefited
by the last eyislture. which was Democ-
ratio in both houses? Beyond passing a
few bills to keep the wheels OF government
in mot on, it did nothing tt at might not
have been /, 1T undone. In fact, il some
sweeping epidemic or the fool-killer had
left both houses without quorum, aud
the State had relied upon voluntary con.
tributions for the ordinary wants Of govern,
ment, the couu ry would have been better
Oft, aud how could it be otherwise?
Such another collection of inefficient and
unprincipled mel has never bsen assem-
bled probably in any State, certainly not
in this Sacramento Union.