Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-10-06
A Corrupt Organization.

The specious plea OF Congressman
Russell to shake off the responsibility
and odium of being party 10 the rob
berry of the clerks employed by the Fed
erai Government, for the benefit of the
Republican party and the bosses in par
tlcular. is before the people. He AL
mits i'm his letter he did consent to the
first ..request," but as TO what "the
Executive Committee" have since done
he does not know, but has forwarded a
protest against the second assessment
So much for one of these heightened
Massachusetts Congressman. He does
not say how much'any one of his sever
nj bank accounts has been decreased by
hiS own contribution TO 1.-THE fund, ="
whether ii was two or four per cent. OF
his salary rs Congressman, or anything
whatever. Does this assessment COM
mittee. one of whom comes from Massa-
chusetts, assess themselves? Is the
President of the United States assessed?
Is the acting Vice-President! Are the
Judiciary OF the United States? Are
the Cabinet Ministers? II not, why are
the clerks and subordinates, each a
whom in his department is as much in
degree part of the United States Gov
10 dIC lutSt 1nlS
oppression of the poor and humble, this
throwing the burden of taxation on
those least able to bear it, is only a part
of the whole Republican policy. The
doctrine of servants and masters. I'm
der the malign policy inaugurated and
continued by that party, Sthe masses.
whether clerks or citizens out of Gov
eminent employ, are merely tools, sub
servient TO and mere instruments of
those in power, to be taxed, not merely
for such sums as may be actually neces-
sary for the imperative expenses of a
Governmentoconomically administered,
but for jobs TO build up rings and favor
ties through whose profits from public
plumber the assessment fund may be
swelled. For these ends heavy taxes
and high tariffs are continued year by
year that large surplus may accumu-
late, from which vast appropriations are
made, useless offices and an army Of Of
1lcials yearly increased, and assessments
levied all round to create fund to buy
up and demoralize the corrupt, the ig-
norant and unthinking. until at last lib
erty 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 up 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 APP
proving Administration, an approving
party. Congressman Hubbell and
Congressman Russell and the rest NAV
be renominated and voted for by their
party. They do and will probably con-
tinue TO represent it. Pray, how long
would this state of things continue did
the Administration really protect their
subordinate officers from the extortion-
ate demands, not only of this committee.
but from others of its chief followersP
There's mo use fooling with Billy
Mahone," 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 il
his State under the lead of Malone
WhyP Because the aforesaid Billy ha:
the President of the United States anC
his Cabinet behind him to enforce hi:
DEGREES; the subordinate officials know
that Malone and the agents of Con
gresham RusSells committee will
be sustained by the Administration
In their demands. They know the,
must deliver their money or theil
Official positions. Yet Mr.. James G.
Blaine talks of the grand record of hi
party and claims all that is great .anC
good on the earth rs the result of it.
policy, forgetting that for sixty year!
ere his party was, that this Republic
under the wise and prudent administra
lions OF the Democratic party, haC
firmly established liberty aud made thi
country great, prosperous and free, tn,
refuge of the oppressed of all lands
Had made the great principle of loca
seli-goyernment the rule, and the srl
premacy of man over his accident O
birth, or OF wealth, or position, anothe
leading fundamental principle. Ha,
made the grand results of their polio,
and work possible, and the progress O
these ideas throughout not only thi
continent, but also throughout tn
world. irresistible. Their President
had some other restful employment
than riding fox hunts and attendin,
polo races, and navy which could !
used for some other purpose than 70
yachting excursions for the Presidential
and Cabinet junkets. At last tn
masses OF the people see that thi
policy of waste and extravaganza. thi
taxing through tariffs and other ex
tortions. this free trade in labor an,
high taxes in everything else, is leadin,
10 despotism meaner than any in his
tory. and the reform wave will sweel
out OF power those who alone exist be
cause OF these things. That part,
must be at low eb6 when men Xix,
Blaine and Hubbell. Malone and AR
thur are great. Post.