Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-11-13
INMCNAN TRATMENT OF THE
.sRAG BABY"

the paternity OF its rag money bantlins
is an offense against common honesty
and truthfulness that is OF ought to be
indictable under the criminal code o
the country. Its base desertion alsC
of the Rag Baby-a child Of its OWL
begetting-an offspring that it ha.
nursed through all the ~infantile all
ments, and fed and fondled until 1t ha.
waxed fat and kicks lustily-denotes
hardness of heart and a perversion o
p%atsrnai instinct unknown to the brute
creation, and exhibited only by the
monster specimens which occasionally
disfigure and disgrace humanity. But
desertion which is bad enough, is no,
the worst of it. Its attempt to leave
the deformed little wretch upon the
door>teps of the Democratic mansion
cold, wet and hungry-and then not
only to falsely deny before the world
its " paternity of the brat, but to
audaciously assert in the face of heaven
and earth that it is the child of the
owner of the mansion on whose door,
step. it has been cruelty and inhuman.
ly left, caps the climax of human de-
pravity.
Mono, Mr.. Republicanism, the
country will hold you to your respon-
sibilities. The bantling is yours by
every sign and mark of physical de-
tormitv. You used to love and caress
it, and dandle it upon the p%aternal
knee. Why then this sudden revul-
sion of feeling? 1t looks no uglier
now than it did years ago, when with
Nicholas Biddle as wet nurse, you
used to fondle it, declare what a cherub
it was, and what a cruel old monster
lone Andrew Jackson" was for trying
to throttle it. You know you mourned
bitterly when the edict of our modern
HerOd drove your child Out of Federal
jurisdiction into the b%ull-rushes of
Pennsylvania where it was for a long
time secreted. You know that your
love for the babe broke out afresh, IN.
der Van Buren,, when your zeal in its
behalf betrayed you into the sTen
Cent Rebellion;" that your love crop
ped out again in the zone dollar bill"
war, and on several other occasions,
when in 1854, it eliminated in the
apotheosis Of the Rag Baby! Your
InEa for II Sanmad thai, fn 1o ,DIo,-l
ed. You clad it in imperial purple
you exalted it above the constitution
you invested it with autocratic pow
ers-you made everybody swear fealty
to it and to kiss the big toe of this head
OF the paper 'See," this Pope in swad-
dlings. So enamored were your Nor
tons, your Kelleys, your BoutwellS,
and your Buffers of the youthful mon
arch, that they induced their brethren
in Congress to vote him an additional
subsidy" OF twenty-five millions; but
that stolid old SPHINX, Grant, instigated
by Jones or his Satanic majesty, put
his foot on it, and squelched the
scheme for the new supply Of pap de-
signed for the illustrious infant. But
Morton IL Co. sought and obtained
their revenge in procuring for the babe
the privilege of unlimited bodily ex-
pansion under the guise of a "Fiscal
Bill" cunningly devised for the pur.
pose.
Strange to add, the Republican
party while yet fresh from the ceremo.
malls OF dedication of their cherished
offspring, from some unaccountable re.
vul,ion of feeling, all of a sudden,
turned iconoclasts, and sought to break
the idol they bad just exalted to the
highest pinnacle OF worship. They
now denounce. renounce and wholly
disown the fruit of their own loins.
They will have it that the bantling is
none of theirs; but is the child of the
very Herod who so cruelty sought it,
life, and is likewise the darling of the
camp followers of that most murder.
u king. In a fit of emotional insan.
ity they even went so far as to charge
"Old Bill Allen"-an octogenari IN
with no existing proclivities for rag
babies or any other babies, with being
its real father. Could madness &c
further? And their present solicitute
is, by hook or by crook, to get shut OF
all responsibility for the unhappy in.
FAINT, and saddle its paternity upon the
Democratic party if possible, or failing
in thst to declare its '.parentoge uu-
knoun!"
Is it not monstrous for a party pro.
Tossing to be chock full Of humanitari-
anism and claiming to have liberated
four millions Philippians in no wise re-
lated to it, to play the unnatural parent
by disowning its own flesh and blood,
and casting it out upon the charities OF
a cold-hearted, insensate world? Phys
zeal or moral deformity is not in this
instance las it seldom or ever is the
cause of the decadence of parental If
.ecfiop Than NAV yya NOT inok for tho