The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-09-20
Expense Of senate aud house 1886, ,236 4
Cost Of each member, Il ,977.

Expense of senate aud honse S496,23 Al
Cost OF each member, II ,90.
The bill is $3.50 for postage. This
would pay the postage on $4,000 letters,
which would be an average Of about 1886
letters to each member, and as the session
continued IA day. -(incIuding adjournments)
each member, to Use his postage, would have
to write daily 23s letters.
Thus it has gone for many years, and thus
it will go as long as the present dynasty
shall rule the state. Under Packer, our last
democratic governor, it cost AZ cents per
head to govern the people for three years.
Under the first term of llartranft it cost 81
cents and under his present term it will cost
95 cents. Aud in this increase no expenses
arising from the rebellion and no interest or
pensions are included.
And in return for those heavy growing
burdens what have the people received?
What ruggling industry has been aided?
What monopoly has been caught by the
throat and taught obedience to the law?
What legislation has teen passed to enable
individual shippers and producers to secure
Justice in relentless warfare waged against
hrm by corporate wealth and ring combi-
nations? What single measure urged by
the people and opposed by corporations has
been coined into law?
Aud upon the other hand, what PROPOSE
ton for the creation of sinecures and the
ia, ther oppression of the people has failed?
When the ears Of the Legislature were deaf
20 tho Appeals in behalf of the depressed oil
int, r,s< of the state, they were open wide
to the lmperlous demand of the ruling cabal
to pass the recorders bill. Unwilling to
give helping hand to great industry that
develops the resources of the common
wealth and employs thousands of men, the
law-naking power was yet servile in its
haste to create new office. with enormous
and underlined emouments, with the extra
ordinary tenure to its appointee of ten year,.
Why not give him life estate at once? If
the people are to be plundered under the
t1ims OF law, to raise funds to debauch elec-
tors and perpetuate the rule of rings, it
would save the expense of repeated legisla-
ton to declare by general act that the Off
ces and courts of the state do, and of right
ought to, belong to the Republican ringsters
their heirs and assigns forever From the
: Judge upon the bench down even to the no.
l tary public, the commission passes through
5 the same channel. Strangers to honest la
Dor, with politics as profitable trade, few
n desperate men have by desperate means in
, stalled themselves in all the avenues of state
e power, and now, like birds of prey, they
: claim the people as their own. Need name
e them? No; for there is scarcely child
k from the rivers to the lake, able to prattle at
t. its mothers h lee, that cannot moan the roll
t. THE VITAL ISSUE,
II The vital issue of this contest is Shall
e. the government of Pennsylvania be rescued
= from ring rule and be restored to the peo-
d pie. Upon this platform all honest men
e can stand, and together they should make
n common battle against common foe. In
rs the presence of the great peril minor differ
h ences should be trampled in the dust; disor
d ganizers should be hung to the lamp post
If and the army of the people, under the ban
a ner of reform borne by our gallant leader
n should march with resi-tess tread to victory
y First drive from the temple the hands ths
pollute it, and then it will be time to ar
range the order of our worship. 1t is noon
tide madness for any one who desires the ut
ter overthrow of hateful personal rule in
PENNSYLVANIA to waste his fire in this bayo
. net charge.
And, my friends, it is well for you and fo
;, ;, all taxpayers that the democratic party pre-,
sents candidates whom it is an honor to sup
port. In the full bloom of vigorous man
hood ripe in experience and rich in virtue
loved at home and esteemed abroad born tc
V toll and schooled in adversely; faithful to
" " friends and fearless in duty, their lives anC
NJ their houors are alike lesson and legacy
- to every young man in Pennsylvania. And
U when the decree of the people shall have
been recorded and the aged minister shal
n greet his son as governor, the child of the cir
o cult as executive of the state will be true tc
% the early training of his pIous father and
" faithful to the Interests and the honor of the
M commonwealth.