The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-04-05
Some People.

in the GAzETTE, give offence to some
sensitive people. Well, we can't help
it. We are not a very prudent man
never were and never will be,-but will
\ always speak right out in. plain, rough
| language and tell the truth without fear
! When we said the modern Legislature
of Tennessee were like a corral of
wild asses, there were those who turn
ed up their noses in horror at the insult
which had been cast upon the dignity
| of the great State of Tennessee When
we ask about the railfoad tax and en-
quire as to the whereabouts of that deep,
dark, mysterious hole into which the
Sinking Fund of the Rogersville and JEFF
ferson Railroad Company has -beenefor-
ever and everlastingly sunk, we are called
''impertinent:" And when we complain
ut the pig-headed mismanagemcnt Of the
school fund in Hawkins county, where
by the tax payers are choused out of
nearly ten thousand dollars year for
nothing, and the children swindled out
of a whole years schooling, we are
"meddlesOmc" and don't know what we
are talking about.
When we come down on that thing
ycnder at Washington and denounce it
as "rOtten, rotten, rotten, covered over
with scabs and running sores from head
to foot and sinking in the nostrils of
the universe, why then, we are an i'm
pudent scribbler for a dirty little paper
and throwing mud on patriotic, loyal
gentlemen.
Well, we suppose these things must
be so. We are not going to. say much
about politics or political parties-we
have no respect for either-but when we
6nd out who it is that steals the peoples
money and who it is that speculates on
public funds we will denounce them as
thieves. As long as this hand is able to
hold pen 1t will write in defense of
virtue and honor and truth-will uphold
those who are struggling to bring about
a reform, and will denou~ce villainy,
.scoundrelism, roguery and robbery in
high places and low places. We are
writing for the people ana trying to
guard them from a set of unprincipled,
remOrseless political cormorants, wolves
and hyenas. Here and there you see a
poor, miserable, scrub-scalawag, who
to save his life could not make five
hundred dollars at any honest work at
home, but for some partisan service he
is either appointed or elected to some
political office, and behold in a short
time he is worth thousands and hun
dreds of thousands. He lives in fine
house, drives fast horses, drinks i'm
ported brandy and wine, purchases dia-
monds and pearls, silks, satins, laces
and all the costly fashionable frippery
and fiounced tom-foOlery for his wife
and daughters, and pays for il all with
money he has stolen from the people.
This sort of rascality has been going
on about long enough. The people of
the United States have been robbed and
swindled by public officers Of the Ma
tional Government; they have been rob-
bed and swindled by officers of the State
Government; they have been robbed by
Corporations and HRings" and Compa-
nies, by Banks, Railroads and Turn
pixies. The country is lousy with Off
cial swindlers and licensed robbers
Taxes are increasing year by year. Ex-
travagance in every department of life
is growing faster and faster; and under
all these accumulated and still accumu-
lating burdens and expressions the peo-
pie are getting FESTIVE and fretful. They
arc not going to bear up under the load
much longer. They are going to have
a change in the. manner of conducting
public affairs both National and State /
They demand a-change of conduct in
every channel of Government and in
every department of society-and a
change they are going to have.