The Portland daily press., 1876-07-04
NEW YORK. July 1, 1876.

again about Yaryan! Bohemia is hysterical
over the fall of Yaryan! The independent
editors alternately bluster and SWIVEL on the
subject of Yaryan! Yaryan, but yesterday an
Insignificant atom in the teemng multitudes
that swarm in the Treasury department at the
capital, is now lifted upon conspicuous
pedestal and has become candidate for
crown of martyrdom. "Wide spread corrup-
ton" has found fresh illustration in the
sudden taking off of Yaryan! The need OF
more stringent observance of the rules OF the
civil service code is demonstrated by the treat
ment of Yaryan! What can the President be
thinking of when he thus peremptorily de-
mands the decapitation Of Yaryan! LIS he so
perverse or so blind that he will not cognize
or cannot see that the fate of the Republican
party may turn on the removal Of Yaryan-
that out of the blood of the slaughtered Yaryan
may spring the seeds of that great revolution
which is to reform" the Republic at the very
dawn of its second century? .fa
Whatever the motive the deed has been done
and the headless trunk of Yaryal is shown in
the market places. The teegraphc wires
screecA with elegies of Yaryan and every "re-
former" in the land burns to ayenge him. If
Yaryan could have got his ticket of leave a
little earlier there isno knowing what rewards
and honors might have been vouchsafed him
by the st. Louis convention. Perhaps it was
part of the malignity of the Executive to
delay the stroke until the time had gone by
when Yaryan cnnld profit by exhibiting his
wounds. At any rate there is little prospect
now that the sympathy which will be lavished
upon the injured Yaryan will beiof that prac-
tical and substantial sort that will recompense
him for the sufferings he has undergone.
just as matter of curiosity, and not because
it is of the least consequence have taken the
trouble to inquire what all this fuss is about
And find that as usual it is a desperate effort
to get up sensation concerning something
that isn't of the slightest Importance anyway.
The President has done, as he is accustomed to
do, a very sensible and proper thing without
giviHg himself particle of trouble to ascertain
what political effect it would have.
The facts are these. Yaryan was a special
agent-that is, a detective officer-of the
Treasury Department He was very much
such man as Jayne-employed the same
methods-pursued the same policy. He had a
marvellous faculty Of hunting down citizens
whether innocent or guilty. He carried on a
system of espionage which made the govern
ment a terror to every human being who con-
tributed to its revenues. He believed all tag
payers dishonest unless he had proof to the
contrary, He brought odium upon the whole
internal revenue service and rendered the COL
lection of take, excessively onerous and OPP
pressve.
He may have been actuated by good inten-
tions in this rigorous administration of his
functions He was accused of being lin the
interest and under the pay Of wealthy dis
tiller in Cincinnati. But that was never
proved. The merchants who were brought in
contact with him complained of his conduct
precisely as the importers did Of Jayne's two
years ago, and with exactly the same cause.
AT last when he was fast making the govern
ment as odious as the Spanish inquisition-
when he had got to waging indiscrimnate and
unrelenting war upon every tax payer in the
land, and when he had become so demoralized
by his Objectionable calling that he aspersed
his official superiors and grew to be a peripa.
tetic slanderer, Gen. Grant quietly sent him
adriit. That is all there is of it.
Of course he had certificates of good char
acter. Gen. Dristow was no doubt deceived in
him. Commissioner Pratt thought we'll of
him. They only saw one side of him. To
their eyes he seemed watchfIl, jealous pro-
of the interests of the Department.
Uss-o carried on his crusade against the i'm
porting merchants with unchallenged au-
dacity for three years. It wnnld have been
perfectly easy for him at any moment during
that time to have got recommendations by the
bushel for his efficiency and devotion to the
1;o A.
the people began to be opened to the fact that
he was establishing tyranny of the most re-
voting character-that his course of procedure
was wicked trampling under foot of individ-
ual rights in utter derogation of the principles
OF liberty and justice-that a determined
effort was made to get rid of him.
As IL to show the weakness aud inconsst-
ency of human nature, it appears that many
of the very men who clamored for the removal
of Jayne now protest against treating Yaryan
in like manner. That cannot be said, how
ever, of Yaryan's especial champion and de-
fender, Solicitor Wilson,. He never took excep-
tions to the practices Of Jayne, The moiety
system always had in him persistent and un-
hinching advocate. So when he bears witnse5
to the ability and disnterostouness of Yaryan,
he simply expresses his idea Of the proper way
of dealing with merchants and manufaetur.
ers, which is to make them feel the power of
their government, to pursue them through
scouts and detectives-:o incite their employees
to betray and prosecute them, and to interest
them in carefully woven webs of ENHANCEMENT
and conspiracy. 1t is doubtful whether this
fashion of doing things is beneficial to the
exchequer or promotive of public morals, but
it is the style that has prevailed since Mr.. Will
son has held the solicitorship, and the removal
of Yaryan is the first indication there has
been of a disposition to change it.
That act evinces determination ON the part
of the President not to permit the government
to become scourge to its citizens The sys-
tenn of direct. taxation, rendered necessary by
the rebellion, has led to the creation of ar or
der of spies and informers, whose very exist.
ence is cause of irritation to the sensibilities
of free people. The fellows who COMPOSE
i. this order must be, from the very nature of
their calling, of ungentle bearing and sinister
aspect. And experience has shown that many
of them are not to be trusted. When one of
them gains the implicit confidence of his sumo
riors as Yaryan appears to have done, his op-
portunties for making the administration be
PAoAOoSco w SOL Q oil iutOieTaDl6 prosecutor of
the people are commensurate with the mowers
delegated to him. He has greater chances
too, than it is safe to throw in his way. of es-
tablishiDg policy of favoritism by which he
may profit, and the honest dealer suffer.
To conclude long dissertation on a yery
poor subject, the effort to make political cent.
tai out of the summary eiectment of Yaryan
will turn out an utter failure except among
people whose reason has been dethroned by too
much indulgence in the partisan rawlings of the
hour. 1t is of piece with all the rest of the
abortive devices to cast reflections upon the
wisdom and honor of the executive of the ma
ton. 1t is difficult to determine whether
meanness or puerility predominates in them.
but they abound with both.
think it extremely fortunate that the St.
Louis nomination fell to Mr.. Tilden. The pre-
vention of complete surrender by the De-
mocracy to the imitation frenzy is a positive
gain. Besides that, no matter how sure the
Republicans may be Of victory it is very de-
srable that the opposition ticket should be as
unobjectlonable as possible. Mr. Tilden has