Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-10-24
JOBS" FOR THE NEXT cox
GRESS.

Gath, >" in letter from Washington
to the Chicago Tribune, gives list of
the Jobs" which will be presented to
Congress at its next session. Among
them is a Texas Pacific Railroad Job;
one by the Puget Sound Land Company
associated, of course, with the COL
lapsed "isothermal line one for a
Board of Commissioners to report a
grand irrigation system for the San Joa-
quin, Sacramento and Tulare valleys, in
California, which "Gath " credits to
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, whom he
felicitously describes as the author OF
the Emma mine and other works Of fic-
ton" one to pay the State debts OF the
South; with number of other schemes
involving, in the aggregate, an amount
Of public robberies that is something
enormous. The issue between the lobby
and the people will be fought out at the
Federal Capital this Winter. Gath
moralizes upon the sueject, and expresses
his views at some length:
The destiny of this country must be
upon the issue of prolonged encounter,
to be fought out at Washington City be-
tween the lobby on the spot and public
opinion at a distance. Whichever can
prevail with the Government will seal
our fate. No great nation ever lost its
liberty except in time of general pros
perity. The first Cesar was not Julius,
but Augustus, and the word Augustan
Age" is almost synonymous with Gold
en- Age. The great civil wars had been
some time over; Crassus was dead; Pom
pey was dead; Caesar himself died, strug-
Cling with himself as to whether he
should usurp the State; and then, to a
dull and unaccomplished heir of Caesar,
fell the easy sceptre. The transforma-
ton would have appeared impossible to
anybody in Rome or the provinces fifty
years before it happened. But men are
the same from generation to generation,
modified merely by their institutions;
that which made Cesar easy in gen.
Grafton which could also produce Christ,
might again, after ], 900 years, recall an
other. As long as the country could be-
lieve in Congress, mems minds felt a
satisfied repose under Republican gov
eminent, and, when the President and
Congress fell out, at the close of the war,
the nation supported its representative
body. But when, as at present, 1t Is
seen that those representatives had prob
ably lost virtue before the impeachment.
trial, and while measures like back-pay
are voted through while yet the land was
excited on Credit MobiIier, there is an
uneasy apprehension that the Republic
perhaps has failed, and the next step
after that suspicion leads nowhere but
to responsible center, and some one
Barkis is always at the spot, labeled
willing.
We are yet far from any such horrible
retort upon our traditions, and the spirit
which was breathed into US from our pa
triotic forefathers Monarchy never takes
its own name first, however, but slips
along from little to little as the temper
Of the time will accommodate it. Wha
might not the people OF the country nc.
cept in some financial conhagration which
would show the representative body anC
all the politics of the time to be at fault
or hopelessly corrupt or inefficient? l
may be said that Rome could have
Caesar because the change required wa
merely in the metropolitan sentimen
which governed the great Empire t.
some degree, as Paris has at times con
trolled France. But, although We hav
many cities in America, they are all per
meated nearly at the same time by tn
same chord of feeling, modern inven
tons having reduced the whole Empir
practically to one province. If the dee
exclamation should be heard in Chicago
some morning: Away with such
Congress, Give us one man we can hol,
be heard as deeply in San Francisco
Boston and Philadelphia. The necess
ties for Government are wholly apai
from its political traditions. II one kin
of rule cannot be trusted, another must
Therefore, as have said, we have a lon
battle before us between public sent
ment, led by the strongest instrumei
tally which can marshal it, and tn
lobby at Washington, seeking to captur
the Government. The newspaper-pres
Of the cities, mainly, and considerabl
portion Of the press in the small town.
without regard to party, are at this tim
working in consonance to make Ii
President feel his own responsibility an
TO put Congress under all the rigor whic
an unpatronized press can do. 1t ma
be that we have passed the time whe
a thief with Honorable " before h
name can be intimidated by mere e,
posure. The public have it in their ow
hands to put their Congress under dures
and hold each one accountable.