, 1873-04-10
NOTES AND OPINION.

Dodds WAS elected in Cincinnati, 1aEt October,
to serve out term in Congress, vice Perry, who
had resigned in July. Dodds voted for back pay,
and now wants it. He wants it dated back to
July and tho officials at the treasury will honor
his formal application. Perhaps nc should use
somo other word than shonor"in this paragraph.
Sam Marshall, ono OF our Illinois Congress-
men, finds tho back pay rather unpopular on the
Wabash, and gives out word that ho is 'f consid-
ering the propriety Of paying it into tho treas
urics Of tho counties composing his district. y
Hereupon Democratic editor remarks:
II the money honestly belongs to Mr.. Marshall, OF
money does not honestly belong to him. then he would
be- thief to ake It, and his constituents become re-
cevers Of stolen The people
Certain panic-strickcn congressman affect
fear that our Watchdog Of the Treasury, the
good old Gen Spinner, is dishonest, and not to
| be trusted with orders for the Sums they " have
not drawn" Others affect different fear, which
we find expressed in the Dubuque Times, which
| RGys:
The Muscatino Journal understands thst the Town
Congressman entitled to back pay under the saary bill
1nve been corresponding for some time. to como to
some agreement in regard to It It Is now proposed
that tho scvcra1 amounts due them he expended in
purchasing United States bonds, which are then to DO
Cancelled Thus much Of the Government debt
eGectnay rcstorod to he Government tlan by simply
leaving 1t in the Treasury to be appropriated and er
pended in some other way.
The back pay steal by the Forty~second Con-
gress becomes more and moro enormous the
more we look at it. Our only regret is that a
wear and ha1f must expire before my OF the
authors Of the great wrong can be brought be-
fore the people for the Condemnation they so
richly mefit.-St, Louis Democrat.
-ILe treason of corruption is q more 1einous
crime than the treason OF war; and not q single
one of the guilty culprits should escape the IN
famy Of q justly inflicted obscurity. Now: that
Congress has passed away, and Legis1atures are
naturally grow fainter and fainter the further
timo carries us away from them but it is the
sacred duty OF tho citizen never to forget and
never to forgive those servants, from tho least
unto the greatest, who havo been recrcant.-
Lafayette (Ind) Journal
1t is bad time for new parties to form, and
a still worse ono for the old parties to keep
thoir lines firm. There is tendency on all
sides to forget pnrtIsanship, and to look moro
closely to honesty and olIlcicncy IN llSh places;
the public conscience after it's long aleep,-e
thing more to be desired than the formn-
ton Of new parties.-Ne,0 Iork Tribune. i:
When the new party, which many nows-
It will bo formed by tue people, and not By pro
fessed politicians. It will DO party Of the peo-
ple and for tho people. It will be Q party born
Of the peoples nocesnitieg, and advocating
the protection or laOOr.. IL Will DO party
which will resist tho encroachments and cen
tra1ization OF capital, and admit OF no legis1a-
ton for the benefit Of the few, and the injury
Of the many. Such . party is sure to CONC
Stone By stone it's foundations arc Being laid,
and its progress though slow, and to some i'm
perceptiblo, is nevertheless sure: The people
are not educated in q moment Great reforms
obtain their footholds By degrees, but when once
established they arc hard to shake The or
ganization of the party Of tho future rosts with
the people, and, when formed, twill be the poo
ples party existing in their interests and est&b-
1iahed for their protection OSHKOSH (Wss)
Times.
The opportunity presents itself, properly
improved, to achieve one OF the most magnificent
victories in favor OF simple Justice, and the
rights of man, ever obtained In North America,
except the triumph Of freedom over slavery:
Tho masBes through the length and breadth Of
the land are ripo for this movement, and, when
the nature Of the contest is fully app1ociated,
and concert Of action attained it will carry such
an accumulation of moral power and grandeur in
it's trrin that adverse decisions Of Supreme
Courts, viii furnish but tri1ing obstacle to its
onward march.-Fdr7ne1 City Qu) Journal. "
The capitalization ct the new e1ementsIinto
party having the Constitution for its platform,
and honest men for its candidates, viii be great
II aided by this farmers movement, and, "a it's.
ctrtaia result will be the overthrow of Radical
n1e, il must do good, and We are willing to vel
come it, and Wish it God-gpeed-- Davenport
(Io.cd) Democrat
AT a time When the great railroad monopo-