The daily gazette., 1879-10-08
Setting offices.
From the Delawarcan.

From the Delawarcan.
In the New York Sun of Septemb Der
9th, in an article entitled The pur-
chase of offices in Washington" that
paper copies a few of the mary adver-
tlsements that are put forth through
which offices are Obtained under the
government, many of which are as toll
lows: "a situation az watchman or
messenger in any sf the departments,
sl5 per mouth will be given as long az
retained in office;" another wants EN- |
| ployment anywhere, especially IN the |
departments, backed by the best en- |
dorsements, will pay excellent per cent |
age" another will let any man draw his |
first months pay could they secure him |
an appointment in any of the depart |
ments as common laborer or any |
where" then follows that of another |
from the clerical profession which would |
seem 10 Indicate that the clergy were |
very much crowded , and Que might |
| infer that the good time had C ome when |
| there were none to be called to repent
| ance, and that those who wee called
| to that once necessary and honorable
pr ofession were now out OF, employment:
! and the work completed or the work
ove,crowded with lahorers. The adver.
tisement i- as ioows:"A good ,etii cient,
clerical gentleman win give fifty per
| cent. of his salary for six months for any
| clerical pOsiuou." We have bee n
taught that time would come when all
would become christians, but we have
never been prepared to believe that 1t
would he in one day, and that efficient
clergymen wouli not be able to find
some sinner who needed to be warned
of his danger, and believers assisted by
the Instructions of good, efficient
} clergyman. II may be that we ar, not
Keeping apaee with the effect of the
republican administration at Washing
IL. i,,,.
, we are not ready TO believe it. There is
much yet to be doEe by the clergy.
There is plenty of room, and II the
: clerical gentleman who has thus adver-
a tised, has been called, he can find plenty
= to do, and that IN the city of Wasning-
y ton, as the very advertisement sufficient
% ly Indicates, when such can be published
iy respectable newspaper. Let hin
IL take for h s text corruption, bribery ant
ia dishonesty, which will furnish him with
a sufficient basis for all the sermons il
1t his short life he can deliver. and that ii
IN and around the city OF Washington. TIL
- above advertisements but show the ter
y ribe state INTO which the people hav
es fallen. This is not confined to men OIL
side of authority, but corruption ha
/. been traced to men in high places, an
~ they have been compelled to vacat
"a. their seats and surrender to others III or
, honest or vastly more cunning. Tha
'ie there has been persons engaged in tn
,rs otfi ce brokerage busin ness at WASH NJ
:, ton for fifteen or eighteen years last pa,
IL has been known to many aud doubte
Gil by a very few. Even women of doub
nj ful virtue have in many instances liza
ready access to the Chiefs of Bureau
all and n some cases the heads of depar
nd ments where honest and respectable a
plicants could not obtain hearing, an
ea, were rot allowed even admissio ion. 1t
lot no unusual occurrence tor applicants
4; employ, at fixed compensation, pc
'h- Sons who have the entree of the depar
by ments and the ear OF the appointii
ant power, 10 pro u for them position IL
der the general government, thus ignd
OF ing honesty. capacity and quali ficatio
E a Cor upion and bribery are at a pref
ium, aud honesty and integrity AT a d
'or count.
get These things are the legitimate fru
of war, whether Internal extern
Oh which brings men Sto the surface
we their daring, and, in some instanc
an, their fool hardness, without moral
y" integrity or virtue. We hope the d
md is not far distant when corruption a
mt dishonesty will be dethrcLed, and h'
esty and int gritty will again assu
Ano their former positions, as In the days
,er- our forefa hers, whose memories we
-. delgh ed TO cherish, and whom we
;ia- pleased