The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20
PiIIage Must Cease.

Ii has been said that since the access
sion Of the Democratic party to power
in both houses Of Congress the lobby
has disappeared. This fact speaks
louder than platforms or speeches. The
people know that it means smaller APP
preparations and lighter taxes. The
ruthless application of the knife to exc
cutive estimates, and the large reduction
of expenditures made by the lower
house in the Forty-fourth Congress
had much to do with the election OF
Tilden and Hendricks in 1876. This,
with the economical administration Of
Gov. Tilden in New York and his war
upon the rings, undoubtedly produced
the great majority against Hayes and
Wheeler which was given, and was
| falsifiod in the interest of further COR
ruption and extravaganza. Mr.. Blaine,
Mr.. Sherman, the third-termers, and
the fraudulent administration may make
speeches, and more speeches, and do
what they will to turn the public mind
off upon other questions, but the real
issue is this of honest and economical
government. The people are deter
mined to stop the plundering and the
squanderiDg, to reduce their taxes, and
pay for nothing but the support Of their
Governments. They know that extrava-
gance is the parent of every other evil,
and that a people who permit the earn
ings OF industry to be taken and en-
ioyed by their rulers, either with or
without the forms of law, are mere
slaves. The political history Of the last
few years shows that this great truth
has leavened the whole public mind.
The real struggle nowis for the enamel
patton from corrupt combinations,
rings, and corporations, which, in ways
too numerous to mention, prey upon
the people and eat out their substance.
The campaign in Pennsylvania shows
perhaps more clearly than any other
the fact that the popular apprehension
is fully alive to these issues. There
State and in the chief cities, rings Of
political criminals, growing visibly rich
from public plumber, controlled every
thing, and their despotic rule was
scarcely questioned. The treasury
ring embezzled millions, with but fee
BILE popular protest, which the leaders
of both parties took care should find no
efIectual expression. The Pennsyl-
vania railroad debauched and used the
Legislature, and, in collision with the
rings, owned and directed the State
administration.
But they overdid the business. The
recent attempt to filch 100000 from
the Commonwealth by bribing the Leg
islature to give it away was too startling.
Men began to figure up how much it
was proposed to steal from them in
d1vidually, or from their counties, by
this single tremendous grab. Had this
operation been successful, Lancaster
county, for instance, would have been
required to pay up, as her share of the
rings booty, $121,00O; York, $4,000;
Chester, $1,000; Franklin, $4,000;
Berks, 100000, and so on through the
list. Decent householders over there
have begun to cipher-it is high time
and while they are about it they propose
to find out to what extent they are
robbed by the unconstitutional freight
discrimination against them by this same
Pennsylvania railroad, which they
created and endowed, not to be their
master but their servant.
When they get this sum done, there
will be q revolution in the old Com
monwealth, and the Republican ring.
which openly sustains these iniquities,
refuses to let its convention condemn
the four million steal, and forces it to
declare against honest men in, Office"
will be broken into fragments. The
people are evidently determined that
pillage must cease.-Nelo York Sun.