Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-04-02
THE RESULT OF BRIBERY.


obstinate Stuart family in the govern
ment of Great Britain is a striking ex.
ample. Il opposed every effort that
Parliament made to reform the abuses OF
the throne and hurled the country into a
civil war, which resulted in the behead
ing Of King Charles the First, and ex-
tending The rights of Parliament and the
people.
Some one has declared that our Jour
n,li,tic brother Allison is defendant
of the stubborn and unfortunate Stuart
family. II may have been an ironical
declaration: possibly it was pan Ye:
for all we know to the contrary it may
be true to the letter If not true, Bro
tirr Allison is nevertheless stubborn, and
puts himself in the way Of that which
tends to tie purity of the public service
of the country. If true, then it is the
blood in him that makes him as stubborn
as the Stuarts, and the opponents of
progress ard reform, as represented by
the press Of the country, generally, in its
efforts to expose and break down the
ruinous policy of bribery that has been
put into operation in Legislative bodies,
and in the Congress of the United States.
We have de, med it proper and right
10 use the columns of the SENTINEL in
the publication of news relative to cor
iuption in Legislative bodies, in the
Lower House of Congress, and in the
United States Senate. The York county
frauds, the Evans swindle, as it is called,
the stealing of Boss Tweed, the Credit
Mobilier scandal, the bribery cases Of
Pomeroy, Caldwell and Patterson have
all been published in the columns of the
rrr.r,r."r for ne its limited space
would admit. We have discharged onr
duty as public journalist, fairly and
impartially, screening neither Republican
or Democrat under the conviction that to
hide from the public eye the corrupt
doings of public men, is to become party
to the building up of system of cor
Iuption that must sooner or later destroy
the Republic We believe it 10 be the
essence Of fogyism and public wrong
to encourage INSCRIPTIONS and brazen.
faced men in their bribery of Legis-
latures and Congress and the public
service generally. To encourage such a
pol cy is to become the opponent of pro-
gross and the advocate of wrong. 1t is
as much as TO say that might makes
right-not, it is true, the might of the
sword, but what is only one degree re-
moved from it, the brazen and fiendish
might Of the rascal. Give him but H.
cense, and there is nothing so pure that
he will not attempt to pollute.
To encourage such corruption is to de-
ftroy the equality of citizens, for it
puts that which should be places of
honor and trust, in the market as things
Of merchandise, to be knocked off to the
highest bidder. Once the laboring peo.
pie of this country recognize such a
policy, it will not be long before the
equality that We all love to talk about
will have passed away like the bascless
fabric of a dream.
Bribery and corruption ale the only
enemies that the institutions of this
country have, that endanger their con,in-
uance. A revolution has already set in
against bribery. fraud and corruption,
deadly poisons to free institutions.
There is not respectable paper in
Pennsylvania, or in any other State, but
what has published the current news
relative to the policy of bribery and cor
ruption tina: revealed itself during the
past year, as miuutely as the SENTINEL
has. The few exceptions are confined
to those who have been engaged in such
work themselves, or are gagged by mer-
cenary hopes of reward from men who
are in the mire. 1t is a source of regret
that our journalistic Brother Allison be
longs to the exceptions, and has become,
if not directly, indirectly an apolcgist of
the policy that excited the whole country
during the past winter, and awakened
the deepest disgust. Mr.. Allison is stub
born. Like the defunct Stuart family.
he clings to old usages. In last weeks
be published medley, made
up in part of personal abuse of US, and
in part of sickly praise of Col. John j.
Patterson OF the abuse of ourself we
have nothing to say, for Mr. Allison az
good as apolosized for it, when he de-
,lared that his better judgment con-
lemned him for publishing it. Why
should we continue to condemn the man
rho is under the condemnation Of his
,wn conscience for his blackguardism
Mr. Allison charges US with having
bused Senator Patterson. We publish
d the current news in regard to the 1