The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-24
The Salary Grab.


The salary -0rabbers came in for their
share of attention at the farmers meeting
here-for no public meeting is expected To
be silent on that matter-and formal notice
was served on them all that the farmers OF
Columbia county would have no further
use for their services after their present
terms OF office shall have xpired.-Portage
(Wis) Register.
The late Congressional, salary steal is be-
coming daily more an object of agitation.
disgust and abOmina;ion in the eyes of the
people Indeed. now that the people have
had sufficient time to recover from the first
shock and ponder over the outrageous deed.
| IFS venality is realized Freeport (Ill.) Bull
! letin.
We don't believe the fuss about the grab
viii blow over soon. Ii has been growing,
as we have said. for four months. 1t is not
necessary for the politicians to keep it be-
fore the people; the people will keep it be-
fore the politicians. 1t is not necessary to
bring outside influences TO work up public
feeling; for like yeast IN dough, it works
!tsel The people had
sional corruption, when Congress, defiant of
deeency. openly made the salary grab.
The doubled the price of their own shame.
Cincinnati Commercial.
or course nobody disputes the power of
Congress to do what 1t did. Therefore, |
Senator Carpenter wasted much time In ar |
guing that point. Congress might vote it's |
members $4,000 year, and there, is no |
power that could stop it; but we are not |
talking about legal rights or power, but |
about the moral right. Congressman did |
not steal. but they did which was about as
mean ahd almost as demoralizlng. There
fore it is called the salary-steal; and by that
name it will be known long after the politi-
cal graves receive and hide out of sight the
remains of those who so grossly offended
public sensibilities, and plunged the Con-
nf a inf q inoi |
natl Gazette.
The country is awake upon this subject
and no sophistry or whitewashing will
close their eyes or so cover up this crime of
their public servants as to hide it from their
sight, and we much mistake the temper and
spirit OF the people of Wisconsin If they do
not convince Mr.. Carpenter one of these
lays that he has received the compensation
provided by law for the last time.-Atchi-
son (Kan.) Globe.
This salary-steal was one of those bold
7illainies which bring their own punish
nents. No carpenter, or Joiner, or tinker,
'r cobbler can mend a character so rent and
'otten as that of the salary grab bers.-St.
Joseph (Mo.) Gazette.
The salary grabbers are receiving origi-
1al references in the resolutions passed bV |
he nominating conventions of both parties
t was an act that will long stink in the |
public nostriis.- Harrisburg (Pa.) State
Journal
1t is likely that all the State conventions
leld this year will be compelled to denounce !
his infamous transaction, and we may vet
xpect to hear of numerous cases of the re-
urn of the money to the National Treas a
Inquirer. !
Most of the above extracts are from /.
Republican journals, which are in full .
ccord with the Democratic press on the .
1t is significant that not a |
ingle newspaper of influence in all the
and, of any party, has spoken out in
Justification of the iniquity. Its only de-
enders are the men who perpetrated and
re profting by it. :