The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-07-21
The Republican Leaders Mad,

The gods seem to have determined to
destroy the Republican party They
have certainly made its leaders mad
The most extraordinary act of public
prohigacy ever heard of in the United
States, or in any other country in the
world, was Monday perpetrated by the
Republican majority in the House of
Representatives, when a bill appropri-
ating one hundred millions OF dollars
was passed without word of debate.
with only word of protest and under a
suspension of the rules.
The country viii now begin to see
what Robeson and Keller were after in
what they impudently described rs = the
struggle for honest elections Their
anxiety was not that Republicans should
Ibe voted into the House whether they had
4been elected or not. twas simply that
I ihe rules might be suspended when the
j Jobs in which they We're interested came
mp Tor h.. s,.,.',.;,
may cover. 1t knows that Dudley NAV
be trusted to get rid OF every dollar that
Is appropriated to his Department. and
that keifer made up the committee in
the interest OF expenditure Every body
knows that two-thirds of the pensions
that viii be paid under this bill are sim
ply robberies of the Treasury. aided and
abetted by the Republican guardians of
the Treasury.
One hundred million dollars, Does
the reader take in the appalling signifi-
eance OF these figures? II is the labor
1or year of two hundred thousand la
6orers that was yesterdavvoted without
debate! 1t is the full pay for a year Of
an army of five hundred and fifty thou
sand private soldiers that the rules of
the House were suspended to distribute
among claimants for pensions,
The total pension list of Great Britain,
loaded down, as Keifer and Robson
and Hiscock and Dudley would declare
II TO be with abuses, amounts to how
much thinks the reader? To S15. :
600, less than one sixth of the amount
which the majority of the House yester-
day voted was not of Importance enough
70 occupy the time of the House with a
discussion,
The total payroll of the British armv.
with $4,000 on the active list was n
1SSO-Sl S22, 800, GOO. The whole war
budget OF the German Empire. the mil
ltary model of the world, with 4I9.O14
men and officers under arms. for the
current year is $40, 27S, 552 less than
four-htths of the pension list of a coun-
try whose happiness it is to be relieved
OF the necessity of supporting an enor-
nous army; and the general pension list
and invalid fund of the German Empire
together amount TO less than SO. .OO0.-
900. The whole army budget of France,
with an army in active service OF 502. 600
men. was last year but S14. 600, 600 more
than the sum yesterday tossed away IS
a bagatelle without a division in the
American House of Representative.
Besides this vast and corrupt waste,
of which less than one-quarter repre-
sents all that the country honestly owes
TO its pensioners, and all that its honest
pensioners will get, the colossal job of
the River and Harbor bill, by which
S17000 600 We're flung away the other
-ets9 l5cSofricS I mere piece of piIfeFinz--
And let not the people forget that IN
this waste and all this theft are n nre-
meditated and systematic attaek uDon =
surplus collected by methods of taxa
ton the productveness of which "a Re-
publican Congress has secuted the idea
of diminishing system of taxation
which Republican President has
packed a Tarff Commiss on to keen =.
full force. he Republican maioa;% OF
Congress is voting away hure@aeus OF i
millions at time, money -TlHch ought
to be in thu pockets - the taxpayers,
for fear tb taxpayers should ask them
how theyame by it.
The cy of reckoning for these
things canOt be far OILY. T. IPorid-