Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-22
WILL THE REFORM CON.
MENCE?"

"WHEN WILL THE Reform CON.
MENCE."
In the Enterprise of a few days ago
we noticed a leader with the significant
caption, "When will the Reform Com
mence ?" Truly a most momentous
question for the American people, and
one We would like to have answered.
and answered truthfully. The ques-
ton has been asked by the Enterprise:
but it does not pretend to give the time
when this "consummation most de-
voutly to be wished" will be reached.
When will we have a man presiding
w this great nation who would hold
it n mean and di>honorable, if not dis
honest, thing. to accept presents to the
amount OF millions; or who will think
and act on the policy of appointing his
son and other near relations to sine
cures as derosatory Of the dignity of
his high office? When will VIC have
Congress which would call the back
pay steal by its proper name of steal
ing. and refuse to touch a rent Of such
nl-gotten gains from their W sense
of honor and honesty, and not, like
thieves caught in the act, be compelled
to refund under the penalty of the
pillory of public opinion; who will re-
fuse Gre lit Mobilier stock, or brides to
Swindle the people; n who. if they do
take such bribes, will not attempt to
conceal one crime by the preparation
of another and still greater one-per-
jury:
Will the Republican party COM
mence this reform at all? We have
been anxiously awaiting some move
mcnt in this direction, but our expec-
tations have been doomed to disap-
%pointment, ard all the promises so lib
orally made by theih, have, like APP
PIES of the Dead Sea, turned TO ashes
on our lips. The Enterprise thinks
that party should and will marguerite
this reform, and with most refreshing
innocence asks, when? If reform IS to
come from that party, we can answer
the query - when there is nothing
more to steal! But if the Enterprise
is simple enough to believe that any
such reform, as it speaks of, will COM
mence before that time, we can no
longer give it the credit we have ALWAYS
given it for shrewdness and astute OBJ
ServatiOn, or else we mist believe that
1t is not truthful. If the Republican
party is to, or will, commence this re-
form, why has it not already set about
it, But the idea is simply ridiculous.
When that party assumed control OF
the destinies of the Government, it
went into power with such a sweeping
majority As precluded all opposition;
many who before opposed its princi-
pies, from principle, became more than
recOnciled to its success, believing the
country needed a change. Eu1 what
has been its course? From bad to worse;
from faint tc corruption, and IRON cor
rupticn to absolute rottennes;
until its very name is a
byword and %reproach, and
stinks in the nostrils of the people.
Most of its leaders are but paid attor-
neys Of those gigantic monopolies
which are grinding the people into the
dust and have oppressed them to the
verge of revolution. Those who held
their highest places did not hesitate to
rob the people to %aggrandize them
selves, MOI to attempt to cover their
populations, when detected, by false
swearing. Well may the Enterprise
say, unless something be done, sit will
die, 0 errcrated Man any party that
erer eristCd in tie cOuatry." But an at
tempt at reform will not now save it,
1t las persisted too long. too openly,
too VIGOROUSLY, too corruptly in its
course, to be now forgiven. The fiat
has gone forth. 1t has been weighed
in the balance and found wanting, and
nothing now remains for it but to die
as decently as it may, be buried out
Of sight, and invoke oblivion as to the
ruin it has wrought upon our COM
mon country.