New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-23
SOMETHING TO BRAe ABOUT.

| spolls among the cla1norous pack that de
mand them. These spoils are like the
garments stripped from the infected dead
They convey to the one wearer the SAINT
disease whereof the other died The aver
age applicant for Office is the last mar
that an administration would have sought
but he is SO 'pressed by his friends
the consequences to the party viii
be so destructive If he be not appoint
ed that the administration is com
PEELED to confer upon an importunate so
licitor powers and responsibilities which
sometimes cost an administration more
than the most impudent pretender could
have ever claimed to have accomplished
for the good of the party.
The administration of President Grant
has had its troubles OF this sort, and he
has been obliged to institute the most in
exorable Investigations, and to punish Of
fetal offenders with the most uhrelenting
severity. Frauds in the customhouse, in
the treasury, in the Indian bureau have
been arrested and the wrong doors pun
ished, and the persistent pursuit of these
offenders continues. 1t could not be
otherwise than that, with 100, 900 offices to
fill, there should be some incompetent
and flagitious incumbents. The system
OF distributing the spoils, which origin
ated with the Democracy of New York,
and continues with them to the present
day, does not permit the exact and con-
scientious appointment of officers accord
ing to qualification. President Grant has
favored system under which subordinate
offices shall be filled, not upon the Or
ac- cf politician politician, ~! -rc- : !esst &c
moral and professional knowledge of the
duties to be performed. The English
government has gone through precisely
what our own has done, and its present
civil service system is the result of its long
and costly experience
In contrast, however, with the respon-
sibility of defending the misdeeds of am
bilious, INSCRIPTIONS or incompetent
officeholders, it often becomes the pleas
ing duty of q party to proclaim the public
services of those whom it has aided to
place in power A popular law, profit
able treaty, q generous act of amnesty
andoblivion, all these are measures which
make man proud of his party. He can
stand upon its impregnable principles and
point to the benefcent fruits of their
adoption.
1t is in this sense that we hail the bless
ing which the Republican Postmaster
General has bestowed upon the American
people in the comparative ''annihilation
of time and space" by bringing New York
and Chicago within day of each other,
and showing capacity to reduce the
time between New York and New Orleans
to less than three days. What a service
will be thus rendered to commercial and
social intercourse, what an impulse will
be given TO the system of inboard trans
portation by rail, aud what future will
be opened to New Orleans: The time be-
tween Panama or Aspinwall and New
York, via New Orleans can be reduced to
less than eight days. From Vera Cruz to
New York will be-with the new Alex
andre schedule than six days. The
voyage from Vera Cruz to Liverpool may
be made within fifteen days This is not
all. The city of New Orleans is the
proper postal centre for all intercourse be-
tween the Spanish American States and
the interior West, as well as the Eastern
Coast States. All commerce and cor
respondence intended to connect these
two great, growing and reciprocal inter-
ests will be conducted by way of New Or
leans, and the demonstration of this fact
will be greatly due to the business enter.
prise of Republican Cabinet officer.
There are, however, some other meas
ures of great consequence to the Ameri-
can people which Republican Senators
and the Republican Secretary of State
could do much to promote. These are,
indeed, of great value in promoting the
intercourse with Spanish America, for
which the Postmaster General has pro-
vided by his fast mail.
We are compelled to say that our De-
partment of State has been very careful
lest the United States should depart in
anything from the policy of non.inter-
vention sanctioned by so many years of
successful observance. The war in Cuba
has gone on until, at the ordinary rate of
births and deaths in a community, the
normal increase of population within
Cuba Ibre will surpass the loss by dis
ease and war. We have stood by and
waited while. Spain was republic, and
while she Wofessed abolition inten-
tions. Now she is again under mon
archy, and only postponing the per-
petuation of slavery until she can
spare troops enough to annihilate freedom,
and the only men within her dominions
who have proclaimed the American prin-
ciple of universal liberty and equality OF
rights. What is eveL more singular,
large part of the revenues by which mon
archy is to be established over repub-
lican form, and slavery riveted anew upon
the necks of people struggling to be free
are derived from an excessive tariff of du-
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