Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-11-12
SUBSIDIES.

we nave DeeD favored Win BOou
deal OF talk from Democratic sources re-
specting subsidies to railroads and other
undertakings. Now we want to see
whether their works will carry out their
professions. In the Congress that or
ganizes on the 4th of March. 1875, there
will be decided, available and working
democratic majority. Before that Con-
gress number of schemes will be pre-
scented, asking for aid in more or less
covert form. That will be the time
when the strength of those professions
will be tested. If the then Congressional
majority is formed of the average mate
rial that has for years controlled the ma.
ton. it will be as marketable and pur-
chasable as any other commodity that is
exposed for sale in huckster's STALL and
will find some buyer at some price. But
let them beware. The people have had
enough of the .doings of that class of
men. The shameful frauds shown in
the Credit Mobilier, the North Pacific,
the Washington robberies, the Louisiana
scandal and many others, have set the
nation on its guard. 1t will forgive mis-
takes, stupidity and Ignorance; but
thieving in all its phases it will not con-
done. 1t may be covered up, disguised
and be called by any name that its orig
inators may please, but still it is stealing
and the people will signify their displeas-
ure and censure, no matter who it in
volves-if it includes President Grant
with his extra grab of twenty-five
thousand dollars per annum down to
the COW county Congressman, who steals
a few dollars under the guise of postage,
letter paper and pocket-knives. The one
thing needful in political affairs, is its
rarest quality, and that is honesty. The
people will have it at whatever cost, and
nothing in their eyes will compensate for
its absence. They have had enough of
those rascals who were continually
preaching loyalty, devotion to the Union,
their war record, and what not besides,
but meanwhile their hands were busy
stealing every dollar that came in their
way. The people are tired of these
cheap-lip professions and want the loud
ly Wanted faith of such men supple.
mented by works. On the other hand,
they will not be a whit more considerate
OF a set OF men who were not faithful to
the Union in the time OF its trouble, and
yet are not honest and trustworthy in
other respects. For these, there will be no
mercy. They will be hooted, fouted and
kicked from the control of affairs with
less consideration than was offered to the
dirtiest, scoundrelly scamp of carpet
Dagger that ever disgraced his birth and
humanity, by prostituting every decent
instinct he was ever possessed of, to his
desire for acquiring wealth. So, there
fore, the next Congress had better look
closely to its footsteps. Keen and crit.
cal eyes will watch and shrewed wits will |
discuss every movement. Unless it
showes that it deserves the confidence of
the country by its thorough, unequivo-
cal, stainless honesty, backed with an
evident determination to originate legis-
lation as broad and free from sectional
bias as the whole broad, vast confines OF
the United States, from Canada to
Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. then better by far had it never
existed as political entity and power
in the nation; above oil, let it beware of
subsidies.