The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-01

could stand that it would not be sufficient
to buy my butchers meat to make my
SOUP. Very well, Mr. Butler. we could
find some one who could do the work that
would not need so much butcher meat and
so,.,,. consequently would not havr use for
\ So many spoons
i Yes, au for reducing the salaries of
all officials and have them correspond with
the work to be done. Then if the present
incumbents cannot afford to serve the dear
people at these reduced rates there are
plenty of men to be found upon the farms,
in the workshops, and behind the counters
and desks who would he willing to serve
the people, and who could and would do
the work # those offices just as well and
as faithfully as those high priced fellows
| do.
Another change the reformers want to
make is, to
TURN OUT OF OFFICE AND PUNISH EVERY
| THIEF
and every dishonest and corrupt dema-
gogue and forever keep them out.
Oh yes, say our Republican friends and
economists. we are for that. That is just
what we have been doing all those fellows
who have left US and gone in with the re-
formers are either thieves who have been
turned out of Office or could not get it be-
cause they were suspicious men; conse-
quently the Republican party is becoming
purified. renovated and incorruptible. A
most beautiful story, this.
This is the same kind of demagogism
used by such men as Senator Morton, OF
Indiana, to whom the Hon. D.. W. Nor-
hees,of the same state, makes these truth
full, convincing and humliatlng inquiries.
Mr.. voorhees, exclaims:
Punished Who has been punished z
| Were all those members OF congress who
held stock in the credit mobilier punished
by being reappointed by the speaker tc
the craftsmanship of all the leading COM
mittees of the house,"
| Was John A. Bingham, of Ohio, pun
ished for his shares of this stock, by being
sent as minister to Japan? Did the Re
publican senate punish him by its contir-
nation of his appointment?
Was Richardson punished when he was
taken in disgrace from the treasury and
appointed to an exalted judicial life office
And was Senator Morton infictng pun
lishmcut On him when his confirmation was
carried through the senate?
|
Shepherd when upon the close OF the in,
vestigaton, which deprived him Of one OF
fee he Immediately appointed him to
another?
/ Has Sanborn been prosecuted for his
offences ? Is he undergoing punishment
in some state prison for his crimes? Moth
ing Of the kind, The political naletactors,
attended to by Senator Norton, are all IN
| II l. III
nearly all of them in Office Let me be
understood on this question of corruption
do not believe that human nature chang
es according to the political party 10 which
he belongs The Republican adminl3tra
ton of the government has become very
! CoRRrrr BECAUSE OF ITS LoNG coNTINU
{ ANCE IN POWER,
{ and bv the inuumerahle temptations and
e opportunities by which its officials are sur
n rounded. Such is more or less the history
/ Of all parties when to0 long retained II
/, power The Republican party is perhaps
y more corrupt at the present time than any
o other party of modern time i'll this or any
} Other country, by reason of the patronage
If and specuations of the war, and its subse
# auent policy by which the entire south was
e turned over to official punderers and high
}. waymen.
/ A change is impcratively demanded by
t every public interest. Yes, a change we
e must have for the good Of the whole coun.
II try. Itwuuld be impossible to make il
} worse than it now is, we would not have
d the opportunity to learn to plumber
aud steal that. the leaders had during
l. the war and since, which has accomplished
their education in these arts, and has
made them so proficient in the art of tax
ing and robbng the people, OF course
the masses of the Republican party are
not dishonest and chargeable with the acts
+ of dishonest officials. But If they shoulC
d, knowingly help to continue thieves in Office
q will they then be clear Of guilt?
/ Thisnew party is made up from both tn
J. old parties, not out OF thieves and sor
Is heads as is charged by our opponents
but by men of honest hearts and true pur
m poses 1t is a work Of necessity and no
w of pleasure, work by which we hop
III that the interests Of labor will be placed /
ny the rising scale of the world. 1t is tru
, that some doubtful ones may enter on
70 fold but with the experience Of the cor
~ ~ rupt ones marked, we will at last make a
No Improvement.
. Concluded tomorrow