The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-09-20

Difference in two years.. 53,675. $50 0S
From this difference should be deducted
1881 ,G63,20, deficiencies appropriated last
session for the years 1873 and 1878 leaving
an actual saving to the government by the
democratic house OF representatives in two
years of SIS, IA, 1868! And it should be
remembered that this reduction in our ex-
penses would have been much greater had
it not been for the action of the republican
stnlte, which increased the appropriations
in many cases as passed by the house. No
party, intoxicated with power, ever reforms
itself The people must reform IT, The re-
puolicaus, tossing millions as pennies dur
ing the high tide of the war and the years
head nor the heart 10 return to the plain
ways OF peace. Their measures, their meth
ods and their leaders all tend to the centra
lization of power and to the oppression OF
the people. Aided by corporate capital aud
by assessments gathered from Office holder:
and ofice-hunters, the republican party will
neither correct its abuses nor willingly sur
render the high trust it has betrayed.
With quarter of a million of the popu
| lar and majority of the electoral vote
against him, we have in the scat of Wash
ington and Jackson man who represents
the success of the foulest conspiracy against
free government and constitutional liberty
known to the apuals of time. And the mel
to whose fraud, forgery and perjury he owes
the name of President, instead of wearing
chains and manacles are loaded with re
CARDS and honors are made judges of court
and keepers of the peoples treasure My
friends, if beggar, starving, takes loaf OF
bread not his own he is arrested, tried CON
victed and sent to prison. But here band
of political desperadoes, located in three
states, by nameless crimes have stolen the
jewel ofthe republic and instead of being
overtaken by the swift hand OF the avenger
theyito-day mock the people in their calam
| ity and riot in their substance. If justice
has not fled the earth, the day, the hour, i,
near at hand when her sword shall merci
lessly behead these guilty wretches
STATE ISSUES.
Let me now turn briefly to state issues
We are all proud of Pennsylvania. Baptiz-
ed in the blood of the revolution, she has
reared some mighty men. Her people hon
est, intelligent and industrious her forest,
rivalliug the cedars of Lebanon, and her sol
rich in minerals, she invites to her border,
the best brain and Drawn of the earth. For
getting party names and party divisions, heI
citizens should make her peace and prosper,
| ity their common inheritance and their com
mon joy. But state with so many diversi
| fled interests and 50 many sources Of wealth
is too inviting to escape the placenan and
| the trader, and to-day it may be said with
| truth that no northern state has been SC
cursed with machine and ring politics. OuI
people feeling the Soison in the system
| sought deliverance a radical change OF
the organic law, aud the new constitution,
in many respects model, took form and be,
ing, not, however, without bitter struggle
for the old order of things died by decree
and not by choice.
But more was expected by the change
than has been realized, Overwhelmingly
defeated at the polls, the political cabal wht
had been controlling the state, reluctant tc
retire from the scene of their past trumphs,
taxed their ingenuity to defeat the spirit, II
not the form and letter of the new constitu-
tion.
One of the complaints of the people was
that corporations had too much power. The
creatures of legislative will, mere servants OF
the peole, they were hardly out of their swad-
ling clothes until they assumed TO be the peo-
Piles masters. Manufacturers and producers