National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-03-04
AN ONSLAUGHT UPON LABOR.

LAKE MS DOne from nuupry uOB anu Ht
will snarl and snap most furiously, and
Democrat who is out of meat is in very
much the same temper when n fat job that
has long been coveted disappears from his
clutch like dissolving view The Demo-
cratic organ at the National Capital has had
its bone kicked from beneath its nose just
as it supposed that the prize was within its
clutch. The Government Printing-Olfice is
its bone If il is to be believed, it had
forty-two Senators pledged to lease the Gov
ernment Printing Office and all IFS proper
ties, that crowd u million of dollars in
value, to GIBSON Brothers for the paltry
sum of $4,000, aud to give them all the pub
lie printing and binding at discount Of
10 per cent from the nominal pricescbarged
against Congress and the Departments,
which do not represent strictly the absolute
cost of the work. This Job had been
fastened like a barnacle upon the sundry
civil bill and the Vice-President promptly
| kicked it of as a rotten eXcrescence on
the motion of Senator SARGENT. OF course
Senator SARGENT is now snarled at in mad
ness and disappointment; but no Senator
can better afford it, for no one stands be-
fore the country with purer record relat-
ing to schemes of plunder. The true in
wardness of this measure, aud its designers
and architects, were discovered and that
was what was the matter with the fling.
1t was job of shameless plunder, and rs it
became so revealed to the understandings of
Senators, they were made TO rejoice in the
summary disposition made Of it. 1t would
not have passed the Senate, even after it had
been properly ventilated, as it would have
been by Senators of both political parties,
who had examined into its true character.
Inits fury and disappointment the post
serves the following fair notice upon the
Public Printer:
At the next session it UU he taken up. We
desire at this time to notify Mr.. DEFREEs that
the DAYS of his official career, as well as of the
institution which he mismanages and which
for the past year he has allowed 10 become an
engine of oppression, of mob violence and oil
terrorism, are numbered. The post will be
published until this object is accomplished and
by the writer Of this article, its present pub
Usher.
can be made of this Democratic WkaSe is
first that the next Congress is to second the
schemes of the plunderers and jobbers with.
out why or wherefore; second, that Mr.
DEFREEs, after having passed through Tho
fire of persecution unscathed, is to bC
brought to a summary termination of hi,
official career at the bidding Of these plum
derers; third, that GIBSON Brothers art
merely used in this matter; and fourth, thai
, the post, having been established rs m Ell
CINE of plumber aud robbery, :" will be pub
, "lished until this object is accomplished.
confession, which should irrigat'
the soul that makes it. Will
; the "fair notice. it has given the public o
: the intents and purposes Of its existence
it remains to be seen how far the Forty
5 sixth Congress can be made party TO The
f incubation of its schemes Of jObbery ant
/ plunder. 1t has published its own pro
, gramme and the chief end of its existence
and in that the post has only confessed Il
the true object of its being, 1t has hoisteC
its piratical flag, and now its real characte
and purpose are fully understood and can bt
properly appreciated. Any money that il
to be made under the proposed scheme fo
capturing the public printing and bindin!
must be wrung from the bone and snew o
= those who perform the work under a reduc
: ton Of their compensations. In othe
words, two hundred thousand dollars an
nually are to be taken from the shelter, food
and raiment Of the workers, to be bestowed
upon the iobbers and plunderers who seek
livelihood without industry and labor. Thi
is the proposition when stripped bare, ant
when understood, woe TO that political par
ty which espouses such cause.