The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-01-29
Mr.. Stickney, of the Pressure Isle Sun

Mr. Stickney, Of the Pressure Isle Sun
rise. wants to have this government run
according to the Mosaic dispensation
This is what he says:
In the oracles of wisdom which we as a Chris
tian people have been taught to believe are the
oracles OF God, we are told =
"Thou shalt not revie the gods nor curse the
ruler OF the people"
This prohibition is the dictate of infinite wis
dom. If public men lose the confidence of the
people, their usefulness is gone. If Congress
is composed of men base and corrupt, if our
public men are unworthy of confidence, if they
| are of the class represented by the papers, then
it is time that our government come to an end.
Infinite wisdom has dictated a good
many things that will not exactly apply
to the present time For instance the next
verse in Exodus to the one quoted above
enioins that
Thou shalt delay offer the first Of the ripe
fruits and of thy liquors the first four Of thy sons
shalt thou give unto me-
Now let our brother OF the Sunrise offer
liquors to any one, and he will find 4
sheriff after him with one OF GOV Ding
ley's letters in his pocket and the Police
and costs. And if he does it again he viii
go TO jail. The act Of delivery is the
not Of sale, BY the prohibitory law AS
an authority we here find Moses running
plump against the wisdom of modern
times We don't know what this plurality
Of gods amounts to, which il disrespectful
II printed with a small g, nor how serious
ii W i'll be if they are revilcd but the
luxury OF cussing is too great to be light
IL dispensed with To see Congress-
man getting bis Credit Mobiler dividends,
on Attorney General Williams riding in
his carriage, without an cXccration, would
he expecting too much of human nature.
Somebody has got al the Senate records
at Washington, which shows the traudu
lent use that was made Of government
property for elcctionecring purposes iii the
late campaign The Tribunc'S summary
from Washington puts the odious business
about as briefly and pointcdly rs It is pos
sible to shape it: From the first of July
to the first Of November. 1872, when con-
grcss was not in session. there were pur-
chased for tho use Of the senate folding
room 200, 900 speech envelopes, at cost
Of sc. 900 and these were in addition to
the 40, 100 envelopes furnished to senator's
and committees. The number Of ''speech
Ell for the folding Of which the govern
mcnt paid during the same time, was
, ,2O+ 900, and the cost Of this work was
S.. 2S3 o. The payroll Of the folding
room during the same time was $500.
The amount Of salary paid to department
clerks during the same time, Of whom
from twenty to thirty We're detailed to di-
rect documents, etc, is moi giyen in the
report from which these figures are taken
During the same time there We're used III
the folding room 1S5 buckets Of paste
costing Sl5G.2J; AZ SO pounds of twine
costing s449.S5 32b rcams Of wrapping
paper, costing 81, 22SlS; and ~ paste
brushes, costing s. 10 arrive at the ex-
act cost to the government of this cam
paign document distribution, the postage
on 3, 600, 900 documents ought to be added
and it may be remarked that as the docu-
ments were not speeches made in Con
%ress their ranking was illegal and the
franks nearly all iorgeres