The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-10-01

| eXnlDlClOn at our grand cenLennlal SnOulu
be hustled out into the streets to do patrl-
otto duty as Barbados against oppression
and repression in new &c. The sea is
not SO wide but that ship going on a
straight course at the rate our government
is going must strike the lee shore some
where.
A Hard Outlook.
Throughout most of our large cities
serious alarms as to the condition of the
laboring masses of the people force them
selves on the attention Of all. The crops
are abundant, especially that of wheat,
1.-The staff of life" but wages have de-
creased; last winter diminished all saw
ings, and the prevailing belief is that
the approaching season will witness an
amount of destitution unprecedented in
this country.
The Albany Express, a republican Jour
nal, under the appropriate head Of The
Wolf at the Door" says; Poverty the
most stern and glazing, suggesting itself
at every period of dullness and stagnaton,
has assumed such hugeness that it calls for
immediate relief, knocking at our doors
this moment. and arousng us from the
lethargv into which we have been lulled
by the discouraging slugglshness in all
business during the past season, and the
desperate prospect before us. As a phil
| mthroplc community we cannot stand
aside and witness the wretchedness and
distress which the approaching winter
will levy upon the poor in our midst Dire
calamlties all over the country have tapped
the resources upon which we could fix q
hope for an Improvement IN the prospect,
and with the same hand thrown thousands
| upon us, whose despairng condition and
discouraging outlooks clamor for immedi-
ate attention. Our large cities are flooded
with the unemployed and suffering, OF
| both seNes-distress is on every hand, and
the situation is becoming perious to our
| domestic peace"
The workingmen know very we'll that
| this condition Of affairs proceeds from the
corrupt administration and extravaganza
OF the party in power They do not for
get the demand of one of its leading
senators for an increase OF salary on the
| pretence that he could not Give like a
| gentleman on less than $40 900 a year,
| the reluctantly repealed salary grab, nor
the extent to which the sentiments of the
senator must long have pervaded the lead
ers of his party before they We're brought
to such a pitch of insolence that the re
publican national committee could pro
claim through its elaborate manifesto its
hatred and contempt for a plain, honest
government suited to the wants OF the
people, simply on the ground that lit
was not even SNOWY
In noticing a recent meeting OF work
ingmen in Brooklyn, the Argus of that
city, under the head of The Working
men in Convention, torcibly stated their
view of the case as follows "'Reduce the
armies of otfice-holders and dandy sum
mer tourists, was the text of the working
mems resolutions at their meeting last
evening. While laborers are begging
work at Sl.3s per day and living on grass
soup, it is quite natural to suppose that
their affection for those who receive
s., 600 per anuum and spend u couple of
months NJ the Iahe~ Hamnu. ne great
In the two highest republican officials
in the nation and state there are fagrant
instances OF the abuse of the confidence
placed in Our rulers by their tellow-citi-
zens, and of the perversion OF office to the
sordid agrandizement of those in power
at the cost of the people who had trusted
them. Grant, the head of the party re-
against the wise demands Of the constitu-
ton that no president should have his
salary raised during his continuance in
office, and succeeded in having his S25, 900
doubled to $50, 900 by republican CON
gress, besides having his $50, 600 year
to support his house and stables, where
his horses and pups are better and more
extensively cared for than the families of
many labOring men, while he spends most
of his time when at Washington in dreamy
vacuity and HES away as soon as he can
to the seaside to spend the summer in ille
gal neglect OF public duties Tor the per-
Torrance of which he is paid salary
twice as large as that Of any Of his prede-
cessors.
The doings and tendencies OF the repub-
lican party and the shameless etfronterv
and boldness with which its vices are pa
raded, can scarcely be more plainly eNem-
phtied than in tracing the official career
of President Grant. They might be little
noticed in the days when the tide of false
prosperity induced by imitation was at its
high water mark, but we have reached
the point where we touch and can see the
bottom. The natural reaction enl CITIZENS
the understanding Of men and MAKE them
vigilant for the future
Besides these considerations, tina large
| laboring class of New England, the fac
! tory operatives, have already found their
| employment cut off by the resolve to re
| duce the production and run the mills on
| half time. The farmers and those who in
degree produce their own living. will do
| better, but the signs all point to coming
hard times. Enormous taxation and evil
| policy in the government have done the
| mischief
The Progressive Age explains the unex-
pectedly large vote received by Sheriff
| Norton in the town of Belmont. 1t SAYS
that the Sheriff, having a writ to serve on
a widow in that town for damages com
mitted by her COW that broke down a
| cnff lad a.