The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-02
A Paying Business.

| ltfOm the chicago Times. Ind
The Republican party has now been
in power soEne twenty yesrs. and yet,
despite this long lease of the Govern
ment, it as hungry. as voracious, as
| iHsatiate as ever-as it was when it
came into power after hsvisx been
starved and out in the cold for quar-
ter of century; whether this be true
or moi, 1t is at least certain that it has
stolen it twice over since the period
at which 1t claims to have saved it.
| 1t has made lnillions on millions in it's
rail way subsidies, in its manipulatlons
of stocks, and in other directions too
numerous to mention. Everybody
who has been faithful to the party has
become rich. Blaine was poor man
when he begun his political career.
He has done nothing since that time
except TO serve his country. His elec-
ton expenses have always been in ex.
cess of his income as Government
official; and yet he is to- day believed
to be worth over million dollars.
Sherman began the work of saving
the country when he was in very
| humble circumstances; he has had no
income outside his salary as Govern.
| ment official and, despite this, he is
| worth more to day than all his earn.
ings from the Government, provided
he had never spent a single cent. Mr..
Grant, who commenced saving the
country at time when he had 10 bOr-
row the money when he wished to buy
q drink of whisky, has saved a dozen
times more than he has earned, aud is
o-day one Of the moneyed princes of
this 80 called republic. In fine, all
these gentlemen who have been at
work saving the country for the last
twenty years, have more money than
they know what 10 do with. Saving
the country in these times is the short.
est road to fortune which; presents it.
self among routes TO wealth. Hence,
there is going 10 be a desperate fight
to obtain place in the ranks of those
who, for the next four years, will de. |
vote themselves to the arduous and
lucrative task of saving the country. {.
to have hand in this labor 10 spope'
Robert IngersoH. Heis a thrifty sort
of person. anyhow, lie reaps no
small returns for telling people what
not 10 believe; and he demonstrates
that thereis no hell, aud that Moses
was an old ass, at the rate OF SIOO per
lecture. Il He also has been demonstra
ting that. the Democratic party is a
very dangerous institution, at the cur.
rent rates-:hat is to say, Al the rate OF
$l00 per demonstration. Now he pro-
! oses in view of his great services
campaign which has just
and for which he received on
fy irthe cnrrent rate, Sl00, etc, To de-
maud from a grateful country that, as
n reward for what he has done to save
her in the late erieis, at time when her
liberties were menaccd by such trait
ors as Hancock. rrumbull. Farnswortb.
ct iS On,ne genus, he shall be given 3
foreign mission. He will probably
get it. Anybody knows that 500 per
night is no compensation for making
speeches and being patronized by the
best friend OF Mrs Triton, and all that
sort of thing. Ii Robert does not miss
his calculations, there is likelihood
that, between his efforts TO prove that
Jesus Christ and General Hancock are
both unmitigated frauds, he will accu-
nulate The wealth he will know what
to do with.