Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-04-30
Upderthis system the fcrtile prairi,

6crapcu IN Order 10 feeu the great
monopolsts and add coin 10 tho pletho.
ric stores of tho great capitalists
Under this system our commerce has
dwindled away, we have lost the car
rying trade of tho world, and our
merchant seamen, who numbered 300,-
900 in 1860, are now only 100000 all
told. Under this system the sources
Of law and fountains OF justice are
equally corrupt. The statute is fitted
to the partisan purpose, aud the par,i-
san judge adjusted to the invidious
statute, SO that the party or the indi-
vidual gets the service of the ordi-
nance and the person, both naturally
without function except as servants Of
tho State. II is inscparable from u
regime Of high moral ideas (and to
do it justice the Republican party
seems quito content to recognize the
concatenation) that judges like Durell
and Sherman should be the corollaries
Of judges like Bradley and Strong
For when men have such lofty ideas
about humanity, progress, social re-
generation, and al, that sort of rot as
to be willing to give up to party what
was meant for mankind, it is natural
that they should seok pecuniary ad.
vantnges and opportunities less by
legal and established methods than 10
accordance with personal and ex-
aggerated measurment of their own
Importance. This was the rock upon
which Pomeroy split, and it was a
noticeable feature in Collax's squirmy
testimony that be made q forcible
merit OF spending all his legitimate in
come in his housekeeping, and SO per.
haps thought he was entitled to lay
up the illegitimate and clandestine
earnings which came TO him by letter
or otherwise, against that rainy day
when a well-seryed but ungrateful
people should dismiss him to 90 whence
he came. The same feeling seems to
have actuated Schenck when he went
abroad with his ambassadorial and
plonipotentiary credentials in one
pocket, and the shares of the Emma
Mining Company in the other. The
same feeling was palpably at work in
Sickles's bosom, when he endeavored
TO pocket pay as minister and pay
as soldier. And the suspicion which,
whether well or ill-foundcd, was al
least very generally entertained, that
the President was accustomed TO bar
ter the public Offices at his disposal in
exchange for contributions to his pri-
vate purse, must be accepted as a com
plimentary testimonial TO the belief
that he had grown to be full-nedged
disciple Of the party Of high moral
ideas, and so thought himself entitled
to rewards in proportion to his deserts
and not merely within the measure oil
his statutory salary.
The revenue officers who admins
tered their offices, first for their own
emolument, next for the advantage Of
their party, and lastly for the benefit
Of tho Government, were brought ul
in the school Of high moral ideas
This same school has likewise con.
tributed the swarms of carpet. baggers
who have overrun the South. The
principle of interference in all sublu.
nary thing which begins by appropri.
ating the profits OF legitimate trade to
the bolstering Of illegitimate enter,
prise, which proceeds by squandering
on privileged corporations and swind.
ling monopolies the peoples common
estate in the public lands, and now
wants TO seize upon our educational
systems In the interest of publishing
cliques, and upon private lelegraphy
in the interests of consolidated job.
berry, has naturally encouraged new
tangled notions in respect both ofper
sonal liberty and State and municipal
scIf.government The act of hobsaS
corpus, once our birthright, has grown
to be mere tradition, and the party
Of high moral ideas is restivc and i'm
patient even against that small vestige
of once sacred franchise. The power
which assumes to create provisional
governments over the conveniently
lapsod sovcrcigntics Of States has no,
been content until it has reached il,
present position of overturnng at viii
such executives as are distasteful 10 il
and setting up others more convenient
to its purposes. 1t might have seemed
a long road in Abraham Lincolns day
from military governorsbip TO 4
civil satrapy, but the journey has beer
made, though Lincoln has not beer
eight years dead. And tho worst
feature of il is that the party of high
moral ideas, while thinking no grea,
things of Casey, Pinchback, Durell
and Kellogg, do not seem to find th,
least cause for alarm in the disastrou.
and despotic precedent set by The
Presidents interference in Louisiana
Abroad our power and our aggrcs
sive forces are no longer questioncc
but dreaded, but our word would no
buy us q breakfast OF bread and cheese
in the markest of Europe. Our fnan
cial arrangements and revenue pro
visions are common laughing stock
like the late Secretary ofour Treasury
and, rich as We are known TO DC, oul
bonds are not cxchangcable for the
bonds Of Canada, New Zealand, Austria.
liz, or India. Our navy inspires nc
more terrors than the Amsterdam her
ring-heet, and when our fiuancicrs &c
abroad with proposals for foreign cap
! ilal fhov nro forced IN brin, Nc n,ouv