The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-08-26

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July 3lst, 1875. lg- ,EuIG if.GiErl
| FIFTY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LOST.
IL there man here who has no
heard of the Northern Pacific Rail
road Company and the Credit Nobi
lier? Is there one of you who doe
not know, by sworn testimony takel
before Congressional COMMITTEES, tina
by the frauds of these Companies
principally RULED and governed b,
certain members of Congress, the Uni
ted States are absolutely certain. te
lose not less than fifty millions of dol
lars IyH xst 1pd .H5flIf, >
THE RIGHTS OF THE GOVERNMENT SUR
RENDERED.
Has any one of you forgottee tha
ever four hundred and thirtv-five
Thousand dollars were used by these
companies to procure the passage ol
an amendment to the railroad charter
by the corruption of members of Con
gress-an amendment that. surrender-
ed tho most important rights of the
Government, and, in the end, entailed
upon the people the loss to which b ]
have referred? y ..,i II, Q1oiIdu-.-
Is it necessary for me te.I tsr.i =.
l'tE PRODUCE THE PROOF "
taken at the late session Of Congress-
that over seven hundred thousand dol.
lars were employed by the Pacific
Steamship Company to procure from
Congress an immense public subsidy
BRIBERY IN TEE NEW YORK CUSTOM
HOUSE.
Must 1 read to you the testimony
given before Senate committee, a
few years since, to show that bribery
of New York custoM-house officers
had become an established usage or
is it necessary to more than mention
the prosecutions by the Government
merchants, great and small, charg-
cd with defrauding the revenue out OF
millions by smuggling, or otherwise
not one of which frauds or offenses
could have been committed had not
Government officers assisted in Its
commission - .1l" its. iitI' GH.htA
PURCHASED REVENUE OFFICIALS ifZ-
Have you not heard of the practices
of the whisky rings, dsfrauding the
Government out Of untold amounts of
taxes, through the connivance and
with the aid of purchased revenue Off
cials2 i <s@ lfa= sv 1@aI tzsU
INDIAN APPROPRIATIONS. 80 isl
Must 1 do more than remind you
that the official reports of responsible
officers of your army, and the state
ments of disiuterested private citizens,
have clearly shown that. through the
fraudulent practices of Indian agents
and contractors, large numbers of In
dians whom the government is bound
by treaty stipulations to support, have
lately been on the verge Of starvation,
and the country thereby menaced
with an Indian war? Is it not an in
disputable fact that the appropriation
for the Indians and the Indian Bureau
are annually about three millions more
than they were in1S60, and that through
the frauds and peculations Of "Indian n
rings" in collusion with government
officials, millions of this money are
every year embezzled? -. . =
FRAUD, BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION.
Have you not heard how fraud,
bribery and corruption existed in the
Postof6ce Department, under the very
nose, 50 to speak, of the Postmaster-,
General himself-frauds and offenses
30 gross as to necessitats not only the
Dismissal of the detected officials, bnt
also their criminal prosecutien in a
court of justice bnt .saoa ia s,.
IN ALMOST EVERY BRANCH
OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE. tssbsed
Have you net read of the frequent
thefts i'll the Treasury, from the abb
straction of q trifling sum of fractional
currency to larceny. of, over forty
thousand dollars in a lump?. Need 1
do more than refer to the long list OF
defaulters in almost every branch of
the public service, and whose defalca-
lions in the last fourteen years amount,
1t the lowest computation, to millions
Of dollars? "g,.a
DEFARTMKNT OF JUSTICE. ~.
Must L again remind you that net
even the Department of Justice has
been free from faint, and that, under
he late Attorney G eneral, efficers
whose duty it was to prosecute the
guilty were greater criminals than the
men they prosecuted .1st ioetsf7.a "a
rHE FULL EXTENT OF THE ;CORRUprIoN. |
These, my friends, are some of the
notorious and patent exanpIes Of the
that has been undermin-
n2 public and official virtue in the
United States OF late years, but the
iull evtent Of that corruption will new
,r be known until the people, by q
change Of rulers, shall make it possi-
Die to fully and completely investigate
t. But we have seen enough to verify
The truth of the old maxim, that long
Of power in any party is
'ure to breed corruption, and that
change ofrulers, from time to time,i an
necessity Of good gov
AT the Princess of Wales garden
party, at which Queen Victoria was
present the other day, she accosted a
offer and conversed af-
able with him for some minutes. At
ase the gallant General remarked sI
I'm really very sorry, madam. for be-
ng SO stupid. am sure have seen
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