Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-03-09
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Is 1T THERE'S
The constantly recurring disclosures
OF Official rascality committed by the
highest officers of the federal govern
ment are rendering the purely partisan
press Of the country jubilant or down.
cast. Is its members Affect Democratic OF
Republican politics. The San Francisco
Examiner will grind out its columns of
grandiloquent verbosity while the virg.
Enterprise will probably quit its silly
snappish yells about the "high names of
the administration party being caussless-
y and maliciously assailed." Bot what
Of all thata The people want something
more than the dose Of leather and pru-
nslla usually prescribed ~ partisan pot
wallpapers. The nation will say, with
honest Mercutio, "a plague on both
your houses" The ordinary prescrip-
tons Of political quacks are absurd and
worse than useless. Even Delano's Ave
thousand bottles Of patent medicine is mol
equal to the emergency. The seat Of the
disease lies deep and its qualifications.
like the far-spreading roots Of cancer.
have penetrated the whole system OF
bureaucracy. In every transaction con-
nected with the administration OF public
affairs there IL steal of greater or less
magnitude. Some one has to be seen.
Somebody has to be propitated and his
cooperation secured This is done in
various ways. Sometimes by the offer.
ing and tho acceptance Of valuable pres
ents. such % houses at Washington, car
riage and horses, cottages by the sea.
In other cases tho direct payment Of
money is made either 10 person or
through broker or go-bstween. The
latter varying from the welded wife Of
the delinquent to any one. These
things have become SO general. SO much
the rule. such matter Of course, that
an honest official Is SGT down as rara
avis and fool. VIVA. horrible con.
summation to be reached in this Gen.
tennial. After one hundred years OF
existence the experiment Of self-govern-
ment is threatened with strangulAtion by
tho bribe.stained hands Of dishonest
men, who ought rather to have died than
inflicted such deadly wound upon the
best interests Of their country. In this
emergency the appeals Of demagogues
and Drawing bar room politicians are
intolerable. Those fellows must be
made to stand inside. The Office OF
the partisan press has for the present
filled it's mission. II is useless, out OF
place, dead, for all benefit to be derived
from it. What Is wanted is the simple
quality Of honesty, of integrity in the
actual dealings Of official life and in
heart and purpose. From the President
to tide-waiter, this 10 the one thing
nsedfnl and the single attribute, which
Is most conspicuous by its absence. The
matter of party affinity is not worth con-
sidering for an instant. In the choice
Of the peoples officers. from it's chief
magistrate to o door-keeper, let the
grand cardinal requisite be honesty.
Honesty. that will not permit even the
appearance OF evil. that will recoil with
horror from the trail of the Shiny ser.
pent Of temptation. That will not erect
any halfway houses between perfect
stainlessness Of conscience and the COM
mission Of crime. That will spurn all
gifts. lest they be brides in disguise. That
will avoid the society and endorsement
OF those whose criminal practices are
more than suspected and who have only
escaped the grip Of offended justice by
technical defenses urged by ingenious
lawyers. That will not use Its official
patronage for the advancement OF self.
ish private interests and the pecuniary
gain OF relatives TO the detriment Of the
country. Such is the character of the
integrity, that the Americrn citizen who
sits in the curule chair OF authority
should possess. 1t is indispensable to
the good name and we'll being OF the
nation. Look at the national capitol,
and answer If that quality is possessed
BY those who now sit in the high places.