Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-09-23
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER %, 1882.
River and Harbor Rats.
n the Cincinnati Gazette.

River ana HarbOr Rats.
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
To see public journals and public men
bawling stop thief, while reaching to
steal, Is enOuyh to shake confidence in
the great moral ,ngine, and in the puri-
flying influence of politics. 1t is OBJ
served that the papers which assail the
river and harbOr bill most Justify as a
steal. and the congress as a den of
thieves, each approves its own local
share of the grab" and calls for more.
And now swiftly upon the heels of the
ruin OF one set Of representatives for
voting for the river and harbOr bill,
comes the necessity to elect another set
who shall be the most able to get more.
The ferOcity with which the Chicago
papers assail the river and harbOr bill
Is mild compared to that which they
would turn on local candidate who did
not favor the making of the Hennepin
canal for Chicago sewer, or local
candidate who failed to get the 100000
for Chicago creek. And the secretary of
war of the President whose veto of the
river and harbOr bill was greatly ap-
plauded by the Chicago papers has dis
tinguished his local interests in Chica-
go by swiftly following the veto with an
order to the engineers to make swift
survey of the Hennepin scheme, so that
it may be acted upon at the next session.
Under such auspices who can doubt that
the report will show the work nation
al necessity?
The Toledo Republican papers, which
N ri ha
river and harbOr bill steel, and the
voters for it thieves, present as the chief
merit of Mr. G. A. King, the nominee
against Hurd, his interest in and zeal
to get appropriations for the rivers and
harbOrs of this district. Said Mr.. King
in his telegram of acceptance: IF
working for the protection of American
industry, and for appropriations of val
lie to commerce, meet your approval, l
accept your nomination." This he gave
as the key note.
The Toledo papers sound this key note
as If all unconscious that they have pro-
nOunced river and harbor apprOpria-
tiOns steal and had blackened the
fame of congressman for making them,
and had given them a bad name which
will scare congress from making any
more until this fame dies out. The To-
ledO Telegram, which has echoed the
cry of a steal, copies with approval an
editorial from the Ottawa County Re-
porter, which "calls attention to the ap-
preparations made for the improvement
of the Toledo harbOr, for Fort Clinton,
Sandusky city, the Sandusky river at
Fremont, and then charges that Frank
Hurd would vote against such apprO-
priatiOns.
Thuo tho Tolado nonora houo - -
the prOtean part of cOndemning the bill |
which made these appropriations as a
steal, and Representative Richie, who |
voted for them over the veto, as one of |
the thieves, and of supporting q new
candidate because he would have a big |
clutch to get more of the same, and Of |
applauding the President for vetOing |
them, and of opposing Hurd by the al |
legation that he would oppose them. |
And they are simple enough to think |
that after this hue and cry, giving all |
appropriations for river and and harbOr |
improvements an infamous name, they |
are going to get them all the same.
This rather surpaSses the admirable |
duet played on the river and harbOr bill |
by our friend and able representative,
the Hon. Thomas l.. Young, whose letter
to Judge Hagans, anent a denomination,
recOunted the appropriations HE had got |
for the benefit of Cincinnati, including
therein that of the harbOr of refuge,
that for all the Ohio river, and that for
the Kanawha. all to show his merits,
and who soon after came home and
claimed as merit that he voted to sus-
tain the veto of all these.
Thus has the river and harbOr bill
made public journals and some congress-
men play antics so strange that they
know not which end they stand on. But
the simplest part is the supposition that
after they have made the very name of
for internal improve
ments infamous, and vote for them
the destruction of the character of a
of congress, they think they are
going to get them all the same next
year. They are mistaken. There will
be no more appropriations for long
time for rivers and harbors, and none
for canals.
An Expensive Filtration.