The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-08

| denomination, to said inmates children he
| respectively belong to such clergyman's church
or denomination and be granted all reasonable
facilities for the proper discharge OF his duties
such clergyman.
SEC. 9. The corporators OF any industrial sch ool
| organized pursuant TO this act shall consist oi
| such persons as shall contribute TO the expenses
| thereofin such manner a. may be provided in its
| bylaws.
SEC. 10. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication
| Approved March 5, 1878. sas s~COPY.
|
Democratic and Republican Reform.
The Democrat is very much alarmed
lest the efforts of Gov Tilden to reform
the administration of canal affairs should
convince the people generally .hat what
is being done in New York under Dem
ocratic rule is a sample of what may be
expected on a broader scale should the
Democracy obtain control of the Federal
| Government The product of this alarm
is a lengthy article in which the organ of
pure and undefiled Republicanism en-
| deavors to show that Tilden is nothing
better than an unusually shrewd dema-
] gogue, perhaps trifle more honest than
| the majority of demagogues, but still
not to be trusted, because his politics
| are of a different stripe from those which
were inaugurated by Lincoln and are be-
ing illustrated by Grant.
Now as the Governor of New York has
| a political and personal character and
reputation OF sufficient soundness and
| strength to survive several such attacks
as the one to which we allude, there is no
special necessity to say anything in his
defense. No criticisms in which the
Democrat may choose to indulge, unless
they happened to be favorable, are like
1y to shake the confidence which the im7
partial and intelligent men of all parties
feel in the conscientious and consistent
integrity of the distinguished gentleman
who is setting an example which other
Executives may profitably initiate. We
only hope that example may prove con-
| tagious in the highest degree, and spread
throughout the length and breadth of the
land; for surely there never was and
never will be time when such healthy
infection was more needed.
1t is easy, however, TO understand why
Republican Journals and leaders are in a
ever a prominent Democratic official un-
dertakes to abolish the frauds and cor
ruption which have accumulated and
consolidated within his jurisdiction dur
ing a long term of Republican suprem
acy. Such an undertaking always cuts
very sharply two ways. 1t encourages
the people in the belief that genuine De
mocracy is The natural and determined
foe of political rascality, and it shows
where that rascality is most firmly 10
Gated and most persistently practiced
| Consequently, what is being done in New
York and elsewhere operates upon our
opponents like the shaking of red flag
before the eyes of q bull. No
party that ever had an organized
existence has been as profuse in
preaching and promising reform as the
Republican. Reform was its main stock
in trade when it was beaten under Frc-
! mont and when 1t triumphed under
Lincoln. The Democratic party and pol
icy were arraigned as utterly and hope
lessly demoraliZed and corrupted; the
people were assured that further eX-
tension of Democratic power could only
serve to make bad matters rapidly and
irretrievably worse, and that the only
possible chance to secure national saliva
tion was by kicking out the old party
and putting in a new one. A new one
was put in, and for fourteen years has
had every opportunity to run and be
glorified. How it has run, and the guam
| tity and quality of glory it has achieved,
is now part of history. There is no
| risk in asserting that during these
| fourteen years we have had more whole
sale and shameless roguery perpe-
| trated with and without the sanction of
law than can be collected in all the pre-
vious career of the Republic from the
first day of Washington's Administration
| to the last day of Buchanan's. Not
merely has there been no attempt to
abate the numerous abuses which had
t1a Ctatr o,,I ~
| ernments under Democratic sway, but
these abuses-which we were told would
| be speedily and permanently abolished
have been made the excuse for inventing
and practicing others which had never
| before been so much as even heard of.
From the office of President down to that
of the lowest tide-waiter the chief object
has apparently been to invent new ways
and means for tapping the popular
pocket and enriching the elected guard
ians of that pockes. The war for the
maintenance of the Union was converted
/ into a gigantic steal, the proceeds OF
which were divided among "loyal
men" and their friends. When the
war was over the habit of stealing had
become so deeply fixed that neither pro-
| tests nor prayers from the victims could
avail to change it; and it has therefore
| continued ever since, sometimes being
displayed on large scale and sometimes
on a small, according to circumstances.
The $27 100000 debt of the District of
| Columbia, which the people will in the
end have to pay, is case in point. As
might have been anticipated, where the
spells were so rich and abundant, the
spoilers multiplied in proportion and
considered no work too dirty, no appli
ances too vile, which would insure them
an opportunity of participating in the
carnival of robbery. Therefore has
there been under the Republican regime
an unprecedented amount of trick
cry, bribery, and general scoun.
drelism. Therefore have our political
morals been debauched to an extent
which makes the process of restoration
exceedingly difficult, if not impossible
and therefore is it that Presidential sci
fishness and greed and Congressiona
treachery and corruption have almos
ceased to attract public attention
Familiarity with all these species o
iniquity has not bred contempt. but i
has bred something very nearly equiva
! lent to despair.
We do not predict that the establish
ment of Democratic Administration
will at once be followed by the uproot
ing of the innumersble evils which the Re
publican party has interviewer with ou
whole political system; but we do pre-
,, dict that these evils will, to use a Lin
colnian phrase, be "put in the process
of gradual extinction" More cannot b
reasonably expected, and less no tru
Democrat and NO good citizen will b
I content with.-St Louis Republican
. The Parisians devour 100 600 900 O
!: apples every winter. An eminent Frenc
j physician thinks that the decrease o
! dyspepsia end bilious affections in Pari
: is owing TO the Increased consumption 0
4 this fruit, which, he maintains, is an &C
, mirable prophylactic and tonic, as we