The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-07-03
CLIPPINGS.

CLlPPINGS.
The effort of the Democratic papers to
make party capital out of the back-pay
matter, is rebuked by the Memphis Ava
lanch, which says cat any time the
Democrats could have defeated it. A
splendid oportunity to plant themselves
ou the solid rock of virtue and reform
was in their grasp. Did they avail them
selves of it? Not if the official records
tell the truth. A majority of them voted
for the infamous measure. Others, afraid
to vote for it, but yearning for their pros
pective share of the robbery >dodged at
roll-call, and when the bill became law
rushed to the Treasury to secure their
extra money early, to avoid accidents. %
Now that the Farmers Movement"
is becoming powerful and popular, it will
be well enough for those interested in its
welfare to see that it is carefully guarded
against the intrusion of the dead beats
and swindlers who are always ready to
join anything with money in it for the
purpose of getting some of the money
out of it. 1t is said, for instance, that
the farmers of Iowa have paid, as
dues, initiation fees, etc., to the "Pat-
rons of Husbandry," nearly half mill
ion dollars and nobody seems to be able
to tell where it has ali gone. The same
Will be true of other States if the utmost
vigilance is not exercised for its preyea-
tion.-.St. Louis Democrat. - ..s-.
A line of railroad from central sea-
port to any cetral point west of the
mountains, built In the best manner,
having four tracks, open to all trains, at
the standard speed of ten miles an hour,
at a rate of toll that would pay interest,
superintendent and repair, would furn-
ish cheaper transportation and greater
capacity than any one of these projected
canals could do, and at less outlay for
construction, Not one of these canals
would ever return dollar of interest on
the cost. More than that, their cost of
current superintendencea and repair would
be constant drain upon the public purse
The agitation of these projects is sup
ported wholly by glittering generalities
which are ignorant of the practical affair,
and which ignore the conditions that
have caused the abandonment of one
canal already completed, on route more
promising than any of these, and that
have caused the general decline of canals
as en efficient agent of transit.-C Cincin-
matt Gazette.
One of the suggestive features of the
recent Republican Convention in Maine
was the presence of several delegates who
last year were known as Liberals =
Their action doubtless indicates the re-
turn of nearly all those who were de-
ceived into the support of Democracy,
and although so few in numbers that
they are not of political consequence, it
is gratifying to know that they have been
visited with repentance. When the time
for political action arrives in the other
States, similar fact will no doubt be
mo1ibund Democratic party has derived
no benefit from the fraud of last year,
but have everywhere shrJlnk to its nor
NAL and diminutive proportions
1ork Times
Without apologizing for the part Re-
publican Congressman have taken in the
intesest of the ''Salary grab" it is but
fair to state that of the thirty-t,.o Rep
| resentatives who have returned their
back pay, twenty five are Republicans,
/ and seven Democrats. The House was
| composed of one hundred and twenty
seven Republicans, and one hundred and
| thirteen Democrats and Liberals. In
| other words, while the Democratic mem
bers were to the Republicans in the pro-
| portion of 1 to Il, the Democrats who
returned their back pay were to the Re
| pubicans who returned it in the proper
ton of ] 70 3a.-Pttsburgh Gazette.
| The opposition newspapers do not like
the new rules proclaimed by the Civil
Service Commission. What do they
want Will not some of these great
statesmen who are SO confident of then
ability to reform the civil service give
the administration and the country the
benefit of better plan !? 1t is abou.
time for these preachers of reform to be.
come practical in their suggestions
Civil service is their own hobby. VIII
they not be good enough to say precise.
ly what they want done, and how they
would do it ? To find fault is easy. but
to suggest something better appears te
be dificult.- Washington Chronicle.
And now that Colonel Mosby, of Con
federate fame, has publicly declared his
admiration for President Grant, ane
his purpose to support his administra
ton, it is in order for all the opposition
journals to denounce the man they re
Gently eulogized to the skies as very
bad man, as ''the Confederate robber ot
hen roosts, corn cribs, and smoke
houses. Their perception of public vir.
tue has strange coincidauia Wher
Colonel Mosby was fighting against tn,
Union, he was believed oy these Demo
cratic writer's to be brilliant officer ani
an honorable man. But aaw that he i.
doing all he can to persuade his old fol
'R~ws ~ support the Uuhp N d din