American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-23
Is the Administration n Failure2

Is the Administration Failure2
An earnest partisan organ of the Adj
ministration in this city specifies three
out of the seven departments at Wash
ington as worthy of great commenda-
ton. Nothing is claimed for the other
four departments. The three selected
for praise are the State, Treasury and
Post-Oflice departments. Unfortunate
fy, praise of these implies dispraise of
the Administration of MIR. Hayes. To
commend the Post Office Department us
it is, is to condemn that Department rs
it was only about three months ago.
The "Star- route frauds were de-
vised, executed and tolerated under
President Hayes. BY the money stolen
from the public Treasury through those
frauds the vote of Indiana was pur-
chased in great part for the Republican
Electors. When boss Morton died
the Republican party lost control of
Indiana, and Garfield won that State
only through the use of bribery--on a
colossal scale. AS yet no one has been
indicted OF even arraigned before a
Magistrate for ''Star- route frauds or
election frauds. and in all probability
the true inwardness of the transactions
will not be uncovered till Congress as
sembles.
If the people commend the Window
device of funding the debt at lower
rate of interest by simply stamping that
lower rate on the cd bonds they will
thereby condemn the syndicate system
under which the old bonds were pur-
chased and the new bonds issued. In
former times no such exercise of the
"one-man power was thought of.
Congress never sanctioned it. Mr..
WINDOWS act was q bald usurpation.
1t has been applauded by the bondhold-
ers because the rate was fixed at 81 pei
cent. instead of the rate fixed by Con-
gress, which was a half per cent. less.
Everything now indicates that Congress
was only TOO liberal and that p per
cent. rate would have been successful
with reasonably long bond. An era
of cheap money has evidently set in in
earnest all over the globe, and nothing
but a great war or huge expenditures
on war ornaments can check even fol
time the downward tendency of inter
est rates. Even an universal short crop
in America could only bring about a
rise in the rate of money for season.
But apart from this there are already
indications among those who last
summer worked for Garfield and
against Hancock which bode no good
for Mr. WINDOWS Presidential aspira-
tions. These aspirations received q
terrible blow in the exposure of The
"oId proprietary interests in the
Northern Pacific business. Not a few
"trooly loir' financ al agents in New
York are beginning to ask what has
been gained by defeating Hancock if
the syndicate business is AT an end and
funding can be done by the cheap pro-
cess of stamping? If he can promise
nothing to future syndicates where can
Mr.. Window hope to raise money in
1884 to defeat q Democratic candi-
dateP Mr.. Blaine cheerfully echoes,
"Where?'
But the most serious and startling ex-
posures -more serious and startling
than the Star-route" plunder-of the
laxitv and dishonesty introduced into
the Executive departments by the Elec-
toral fraud of 1867. are those which
are looming up in the Treasury Depart
ment itself. Nobody can say or know
where the rottenness of the Treasury
will stop. II has begun with what is
called a contingent fund, peculiarly I'M
der the control of the head of the De-
partment, but may it not go deeper?
The country will not get to the bottom
of this business before the assembling
of Congress.
Two items only are placed to the
credit of the State Department by the
Tribune. Strangely enough, the same
journal condemns in plain terms the
administration of that Department by
Mr.. Evarts and Mr. Hay. 1t says:
THE State Department under Mr.. Blaine
has defended commerce aRainSt the
just and selfish prejudices of foreign Nations
and shown that the attacks upon some of ouI
chief art Giles of export were without reason
1t has also asserted, very broadly and posi-
lively, the right and duty of this Government
for them from foreign countries the same rec
ognition given to native-born Americans. The
reassertion OF the American doctrine OF citizen
ship, which had fallen somewhat into allegiance
of late, may have important diplomatic re
SUITS
1t is not known that Mr. Evarts was
called upon to apply his powers OF
craftsmanship. diplomacy and wit to
the defense of American pork, but had
he grappled with that question he prob
ably would have advised the great pork
producers and dealers in America to set
on foot a conscientious, complete, sci
tifc and microscopic Investigation
to demonstrate the actual condi-
ton of American pork. Nothing
less COulu SLOW WucluOr any AIueElCstu
hogs do or do not contain the dreaded
trichine, and, if any American hogs do
contain them, whence those hogs come,
on what they feed, and on what also
feed the hogs found innocent of the
serious Indictment. The question is an
Ohio question largely. Why has not an
Ohio Administration long before this
date assembled to the height and pene-
trated to the depth thereof?
AS to naturalized citizens, MIR. Blaine
can scarcely have gone beyond the law
of 1868, which commands him to do
what it is said he has done. But were
MIR. Evarts and Mr.. Hay really unfaith-
full to that law? When, where and
how, "of late''? The country yearns
to know! What is "the American doc
trine of citizenship" which Mr.. Evarts
and Mr.. Hay permitted to fall ''some-
what into allegiance of late? What are
1.-THE important diplomatic results
which the reassertion of that ''Ameri-
can doctrine" by Mr.. Blaine may bring
to the frontP The Known othings OF
twenty-five years ago called their doc
trine 1.-The American doctrine" Can
the two be identical?-M. y. World.
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