The Evening critic., 1882-01-17
pcrecs. the Orprcssor.

To The Editor Of Tho ErciiRg critic:
So spakc tho nend, and with necessity
The tytants plea excused his devllish deeds.
NttiOH.
When We take into consideration the fact
that the disposition of the laboring classes
of this country is to submit quietly to wrong
and outrage and that they seldom speak
except when tyranny and oppression force
them TO speak in tones of thunder, we must
conclude that there is abundant ground for
complaint at the Government Printing
office.
The hoarllcss and tyrauncal dotard who
controls that branch of the public service
has set his ancient aud withercd heel upon
the neck of Justice, of law and of reason.
lie is the biltcrcst and most persistent en-
emy of the working classes who has ever
been permitted to represent any depart
mcnt of this Government. He has deprived
them of their most ancient and cherished
rights, and every petty privilege which n
spirit Of justice and humanity should per-
init, has been by him shattered and broken.
He has squandercd the money which was
appropriated TO do the public printing in
the purchse Of useless ma aihinery, for the
sole purpose of robbing honest toll of the
means to purchase bread. He has incon-
venienccd and retarded the public business
by needlcssly furloughing his employees,
and then turning large sums of money back
into the Treasury.
When his outraged subjects have recited
their tales of want and Woe he seemed
to gloat ON their miserics; aud each
morning, when Mt Berkeley Springs as he
slipped into his lean and slippery pauta-
looms, he grinncd and chuckled like y
fend to think how he had thrown Justice
and economy in the eyes of Congress at
the expense of The unfortunate poor.
] have heard and believe that the Presi-
dent is both statesman and politician. If
he is politician he must know that De-
frees is political renegade, whom no State
will claim nor no constituency appropriate;
that he has been abundantly ovcrpaid for
the paltry service he has done the Republi-
can party; that he has no influence; that
he is past tho age of usefulness, and is noy
in second childishness and mere oblivion;"
that he is heartily despised by every ono
in his employ except the few behind the
the scenes who pull the string, and
that he is grossly incompetent for the posi-
ton he pretcnds to fill.
A man who governs like a despot has no
right to hold office in land of freedom,
and the President has no right to inhict
such punishment upon his innocent sub
.iects.
Then why is he permitted to remain I? Is
it because he is old and childish, and would
be sorely aggrieved if the official teat was
torn from his toothless gums?
If statesmen are governed by sentiment
the other is the stronger side, for TO cut of
this one official head would be to pour oint.
ment on thousand sores. Would senti-
ment permit him still to force unfortunate
men and women to remain idle three
months in the year, and either starve or
Iun in debt? Can sentiment not hear u
widows children cry for bread or see her
trembling steps, as she with faint heart
and bowed head approaches store to ask
for trust? She is refused, and turns away.
Her check is stained with tears, and every
tear is freighted with grief as pure and
tender as a mothers love. But sit is much
more touching to see monarch than n
peasant weep"
Are we to have another "milk and
water Administration 2" The President
has seen two eminent examples of its work.
ings and must know that instead of gain
ing new supporters by such course he will
lose what he has, and only make the rest
Indifferent.
Docs the President desire to oppress the
laboring classes of this country? Docs he
wish to discriminate against the printers ?
Is he opposed to giving labor just remuner-
alton? Docs he wish to crush out the
trades unions and thus deprive mechanics
| graspng cruelty of avarice? No, think
not. But if such is the case lie could not
| have chosen better representative than
| Defrees
VIII the President permit a political
| noIdescript to occupy position that should
be filed by Republican?
No, he will not, and Defrees knows it
and this is why he is putting every mas
to work that comes along. Typo.