The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-29
4 eoer.upf Organization.

A Corrupt organization.
The specious plea Of Congressman
Russell to shake of the respoiis bility
and odium of being a party 10 the rob
berry of the clerks employed by the Fed
eral Government, for the benefit of the
Republican party and the bosses in par
hcular, is before the people He aCI-
mits in his letter he did consent To- the
first request" but rs to what =. fhe
Executive Conimittee'f have s'nce done
he does not know, bat has forwarded 8
protest against the second assessment.
So much for one of these higll-ioned
Massachusetts Congressman lie does
not say how much any one-of his sever
al bank accounts has been decreased by
nis own coiltribiTti n TO ''the fund,
whether it was two or four per cent OF
his salary as Congressman, or anything
whatever. Does this assessrnent CONF
inittee one of whom comes from Alstssa-
chusetts. ;issess -fI4crnscites2 Is the
President of the United States assessed?
Is the acting V President? Are the
Judiciary of the United States? Are
the Cabinet Ministers? If not, why are
the clerks and subordinates, each of
whom in his department is as much in
degree part of the United States Gov
ernment as are these Office-sP This
oppression OF the poor and humble, this
throwing the burden of taxation on
those least able to bear it, is only part
of the whole Republican poliey. The
doctrine OF servants and masters. Un@
der the malign policy inaugurated and
continued by that party, the masses,
whether clerks or citizens out of Gov
ernment employ, are merely tools, sub
serVient to and mere Instruments of
al.
for such sums as may be actually neces-
sary for the imperative EXPENSES of q
Government economically administered.
but for jobs TO build mp rings and favor
ties through whose profits from public
plunder the assess smont fund may be
swelled For these ends Leavy taxes
and high tariffs are continued year by
year that large surplus may aceumu-
late, from which astaDpropriatiOns are
made, useless Offices and an army of OF
ticials yearly increased, and assessments
levied all round to create a fund TO buy
UP and demoralize the corrupt, the ig-
norant and unthinking. until at last lib
crty falls and corruption and despotism
reign supreme.
They rob the Treasury to pay high
salaries, that the assessed may pay
/ larger sums. thus taking from the
Treasury indirectly, what they soon will
take directly, TO keep the set of men in
power who even in Massachusetts have
stood mp and own they are engaged in
this business. Yet such practices have
| now become so common, that the pub
lie press treat these things as jokes, and
/ hold up one of the committee, Hubbell,
as the chief operator, when he is only
one OF an approving committee, an ap-
proving Administration, an approving
party. Congressman Hubbell aud
Congress man Russell and the rest IN "
be renominated and voted. for by their
party. They do and viii probably con-
tinue 10 represent it. PRAY, how long
would this state of things continue did
the Administration really protect their
ifsssboraiEs -eti eeEs ssr8Il tssr
dte demands, not only of this committee,
but from others of its chief followers?
There's no use fooling with Billy
Malone. - exclaims a CLERK at Washing
ton who has just paid fourteen per cent
| of his eighteen hundred dollars salary
to keep up .'the grand old party in
his State under the lead of Malone.
Why? Because the aforesaid Billy has
the President of the United States and
his Cabinet behind him to enforce his
DEGREES; the subordinate officials know
that Malone and the agents of Con-
gresham Russell comm ttee viii
be sustained by the Administration
| in their demands. They know they
must deliver their money or their
official positions Yet Mr. james g.
Blaine talks of the grand record of his
party and claims all that is great and
! good on the earth as the result of its
policy, forgetting that for sixty years
/ ere his party was, that this Republic,
under the wise and prudent administra-
tions Of the Democratic party. had
/ firmly established liberty aud made this
country great, prosperous and free, the
refuge of the oppressed of all lands.
| Had made the great principle of local
/ self-government the rule, and the SUI
/ premacy of man over his accident of
/ BIRTH or of wealth, or position, another
! leading fundamental principle. Had
made the grand results of their policy
and work possible, and the progress of
| these ideas throughout not only this
! continent, but also throughout the
world, irresistible. Their Presidents
| had some other restful employment
/ than riding fox hunts AMI attending
polo races, and a navy which could be
| used for some other purpose than for
! yachting excursions for the Presidential
and Cabinet junkets. At last the
masses of the people see that this
| policy of waste and extravaganza, this
taxing through tariffs aud -other ex-
tortions, this free trade in labor and
high taxes in everything else, is leading
to despotism meaner than any in his
| tory, and the reform wave viii sweep
out of power those who alone exist be.
cause of these things. That party
must be at low ebb when men like
Blaine and Hubbell, Malone and Ar
thur are great. Boston Post