Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18

and 10 the next breath charges US with
being fool aud q knave. Its person
aliries 90 not harmonifs, but are on q
perfect level With its Inconsistent way
of considering questions.
If it bad said yes, the Democrat
and Reg ister last fail said the salaries
of the Government officials are too
high, and promised that whenever
the Democracy came into power they
shuuld be reduced, and now that the
Democracy have carried the Auditor
General and Surveyor Generals ofhces,
ard the Lower House of the Legis!a-
iure of this Stat. :, it ks that the prom
ises be kept, and that the salaries of
the heads of departments. and the sal
aries OF the clerks of the respective
departments, aud the salaries of the
mem ber. of the Lever House be re-
duced to what they were before the
Democratic war was organized 10 the
South then indeed We could have con-
graduated that paper on its consistency
aud honest dealings With its readers
and the public generally: or if ii had
asked Mr.. He,rek, the Democratic
member from this unity, TO frame such
a bill to be introo uced into the Legisla-
ture, it would have been something
near the mark.
Last week, instead Of improving its
case by reply, II Inflicted an injury.
As the homeiy saying goes, 1t stepped
down and out of the hot pan into the
hotter place, the FIRE, for the purpose of
getting IN parcel Of figures OF the
cost Of the Legislatures of 1873 and
1874. that we're Republican in msjiri-
ty, under the old Constitution, and then
contrasts the cost Of those Legislatures
with the Democratic House last winter
-lsi5- under the new Constitution,
and says, see how much less the cost
has been with only the Lover House
Democratic, just as if it was owing TO
the Democratic ma jorlty IN that lower
body.
Tie comparison at first sight does
appear fair enough, and the cheat IN IT
is not sible until one has refreshed
the mind with the fact that the Legis-
larure of 1875 was organized under the
provisions of the new Constitution.
which so simplifed the workings of that
body that its expenses were lessened to
such degree that the difference stated
BY the Democrat and Register was made
in the expenditures, which is gratifi-
cation to all.
The decrease Of the expenditures
was not owing to any lessening of the
salaries of Democratic members, or the
Iessenins of the salaries of Democratic
clerks. 1t was all owing to the wise
provisions Of the new Constitution, and
not to any reduction Of expenses BY the
Democratic House Such beng the
fact, tLst party is no more entitled to
the credit of the reduction OF the ex-
penditure thar the ssman in the moon,"
and when they claim the credit, it only
proves what great cheats they are.
We would like to be charitable with
the Democrat and Register, and attribute
it's false statements to its ignorance of
the real situation. If il will say that
it has been so blinded that it never
knew that the extravagant salaries in
churches, in judges benches, in Offices,
&c, were the result of the imitation
caused By the Democratic Rebellion,
an / that it did not know that the de-
crease 10 the expenditure of the Legis-
lsture of 1875 was owing to the new
Constitution, and not te the Democratic
majority in the Lower House, and that
it does not know that it is the local tax, =,
the taxes of boroughs, townships, and
counties that are oppressive, and not
the State aud national taxes, then We
have charity enough to excuse it all.
The Independent
tits at the question somewhat differ
eutIy from tue Democrat and Register.
The first and last thrust OF its answer
ing article is at the "s'cuntry Editor, y
the writer Of this article, who Is dealt
with 10 a manner that is becoming to a
christian gentleman who can pray with
as much lus,y gusto as any Pharisee Of
eighteen hun udred years ago, when Christ
was judicially murdered, for he was
crucifed under the forns of law, BY the
lawyers of that time, with the auxiliary
of false accusers. 1t is no new thing
then for a va2oring Pharisaical prayer
maker or a defuuct member of the
} Young Mems Christian Association to
) torget manhood and glide eff into un-
becoming ways and bad language and
/ foul accusation which they cannot mann
tain. Such welk creatures ought to be
pitied and prayed for Immediately
, Pray, Brother, pray.
! Between the two ends of the Inde-
pendeRf's article, the Democratic ring
which it loves to talk ABOUT, aud
which has its collar 81 stout!y Welded
/: about the neck of that paper that it ha 5
never yet dared, with ali its Legal and
) shave shop backing, to hoist any other
, names for Office than those of the ring
J 1t denoauces--Is thrust in and pounded
, with about as much effect as a boy who
, beats the air with his FISTS. BY and BY
, settling stroke is delivered plump
into the Commissioners cfice that
takes effect on the $500 salary of the
clerk of that department Of the county
! management. by referring to the
most recent publication OF the Receipts
aud Expenditures of the county, it may
be learned that the Commissioners
clerk gets si1 hundred dollars, not eight
} hundred dollars as stated BY that paper,
unless indeed the Commissioners pub
lshed a false statement, aud that i;
says they do. The Commissioners say
to the public in their published state
ment tha, their clerk, Mr.. Dean, gets
5000. The Independent says he gets