Arizona citizen., 1873-06-07

at the close of the last session of Con gress as an extra gift to the Senators, Represen- tativas and Delegates, Unless he was rich before, the 5000 would furnish him . the means of many personal comforts and
 luxuries, his constituents never enjoy nor crave. We see quite number of Con gress- men have taken the donation, but have be- slowed it upon some cOmmendable charity
 or interest in their districts.-TNew Mexi- r can, May P.
 We do not believe that it is right to steal; in fact one of the command
 ments expressly forbids it. Nor can
 we imagine precisely how we should
 feel if our empty pockets were lined
 with S5OOO in those beautiful stamps,
 ornamented with a profile of Lincoln,
 Stanton, Chase, and other great men.
 We might pull them out and look at
 them, then put them back, then take
 them out and look at them again and
 again, until the sight became so fa-
 mlliar that we would really believe
 they were ours, and that we had a
 good valid title to them :; and if so, we
 would fight to hold them against
 every one except road agents. If we
 were in the position of those tempted
 by this brilliant offer of $50O0, we
 might reason that 1t is common to de-
 nounce politicians and particularly
 Congressmen as thieves and scoun-
 drels, and now here goes, here Is
 chance for a little game as we'll as
 the name If our conscience was
 likely to be stricken to such an extent
 that we could not drink the stimu-
 lants or eat the food paid for by this
 money, then of course we would be foolish to take it because it would do
 us no good. But we think we could
 bring our conscience up to the stick ing polnt of appropriating little of this 5000 for our poor constituents; and while we would not Intentionally
 lead any one from the E straight and narrow path, we will throw out this suggestion to our friend Mccormick
 We have large number of poor chil- dren in the Territory who are striv- ing to get an education; their Uncle Samuel, who is able and ought long ago to have done something for them, has never contributed one cent. Now, as we understand 1t, you have got a little the best of the old man, and either have or can get about $5OOO out of his miserly old strong box. Would 1t not be we'll under the cir cumstances to let the old gent whine and complain and say 1t was not fair to take this money, and give 1t to the children for their education. If the old man says much about 1t, re- tort sharply and tell him plainly that he ought to be ashamed of him. self for not giving this amount and more long ago. If you have any fears about the hereafter, we will pray for you and get Marion and all the good men to join us, and we are sure the little children will never cease to pray, and as they grow up and their minds become enlightened through the agency of this muulf- cence, they will ever hold you ill grateful memory. Congressman Farnsworth undertook to give his back pay to his constituents, but they spurned it. There is no danger of Arizonans doing so foolish thing We have lived on low diet, been roo- bed by Apaches, and have worked for nothing and boarded ourselves until we are not at all sensitive about such | small trifes. It is we'll enough for a people who can afford it, like Earns worth's constituents, to be high toned; 1t does not cost them much, and looks | well on paper; but just now we would prefer to have the stamps, and when we get able we will put on airs, too. We once heard man say, who had been a most exemplary class leader ill the Methodist church, but who at the time had contract on a canal, that it was moral impossibility to per form contract on the canal and be Christian at the same time. "For," said he, "I must sell whisky in or der to make any profit, and an Irish man fresh from the bogs Is not con- tent to work for me until 1 have pounded him over the head with a pick handle" This illustrates the fact that circumstances alter cases. A thing that is very commendable with Farnsworths constituents out in I Illinois, would be the height of folly with Mccormick constituents in Ari-