The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-04-10
IDAHO CITY. THURSDAY. APRIL 10, 1873.
JOURNALISTIC DEPRAvITY.


on cotemporary, if not by shame of the ex-
posure certain to follow, at least by the desire,
which has sound policy to recommend it. If
nothing else. to appear trustworthy and re-
spectacle in the eyes Of his patrons. 1t seems,
however, that there is occasionally one so lost
to every feeling Of pride and self-respect;
which has descended to such infinite depths
of degradation as to have become incapable OF
longer assuming virtue which he has not "
Conspicuous among these is the Sacramento
Record man. He has not only lost all suscept
ibility to fear and shame, which have been said
to be the most potent checks to evil men, but
actually delights in Haunting the evidences OF
His moral obliquity in the eyes of an insulted
public Accordingly, in a late issue of that pa
per, in aneditorial entitled" "a Significant Fact.
the editor remarks in the most aiiectlngly IN
nocent tone imaginable: 1--WE have observed
with some surprise, that the lending Democrat
ic journals of the Eastern States have under
taken to defend the increase OF salaries adopt
ed by the Forty-secoud Congress just before
il adjourned The New York Horid has flung
itself into the breach and argued vigorously
in behalf of the measure, and many other Dem
ocratic papers have taken the same tone
We do not believe the editor of the Record can
name one single leading Democratic paper
which justiiies the increased pay of Congress
men, and we know he was neither msinformed
nor ignorant of the New York World's posi-
ton in relation to the matter; for In the same
issue of his paper. on the opposite page to the
one on which the editorial in question appears,
in published an extract from New York
Horld editorial, defining its position so clearly.
and in language so reireshingly free from the
contemplate jugglery Of the mere weather
cock politician, that no man need misnnder-
stand or misconstrue it The opinion Is be-
coming pretty we'll settled among the thinking
classes of all shades OF politics, that the Presi-
dent of the United States and the Judges OF
Supreme and Circuit courts arc underpaid ;
and the question Of increasing their salaries
has been discussed ~ some extent Tor num-
ber of years. and by no paper more ably and
,nanf,illy than the New York Horid But let
It's quote from the Horii editorial as published
| in the Record: There are ofopnion,"
saws the Horli, 'as to the salaries which
should be paid to the chief officers OF the Gov.
ernment. and the Judges of the Supreme
Court. Many men experienced in the condi-
tons Of public life, at Washington, hold that the
increased salary of the President, Is even now
not too large, while that of the Judges OF the
Supreme Court il still too small. though the
paper were equal to the gold dollar. The
vote in the House. and in the Senate. shows
that n few men whose uprightness cannot be
called into question, 60 so far rs to think that
our Congressman. too, are underpaid' And.
further on i'm the same article. it says: "Ex-
travagant as the rate Of our national expendl.
ture il, heavy NJ is the burden of our annual
debt.charcc, needful as are economies in vsry
department of the Government, we cannot find
lpround 10 condemn severely the increase OF
the salaries of President and Vice President
and Speaker We mustdeal fairly with our read
ers fa plan the Record would do well to adept
and whatever might be the political advantage oi
their indignation, we cannot conscientiousy ut
tempt to arouse it in the case of the increase
of the salaries af the executive officers named
3 while as for the increased salaries of judges
they are not, in our opinion, dollar too high
Z and we could even wish the salaries Of tht
a Circuit and District judges had been doubled
Again. in the same article, the World says
1--WE cannot afford to pay any body of Con
+ rressmen as much as they would be willing t
Iexpend while in Office So that the extrava
cance of an increase of Congressional salaries
we arc obliged to condemn 1t also condemns
the retroactive effect Of the bill, with whicl
! and with the whole Of which most If not all
i Democrats will concur The trouble with tn
: Record Is that Democratic papers always dis
= cnss whatever questions Of public policy COM
up for the acceptance or rejection of the peo
y pie upon their merits; while papers of its III
know Of no means Of establishing or refntinI
theory, but brides and bayonets, and, whe'
deprived Of these, resort to lying to cover a
the vantage ground Of their opponents. Thu
men in Congress wearing the livery Of Democ
racy voted for the passage Of the infamous 81
nrv bill il not denied; but the onus Of the ofens
must be borne by the Republican party and b
the President who refused to strike down n
q. robber that he might share the spois.
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