The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-10-12

whole nation was sick with sorrow after
the worst Disaster that ever befell any
country, there were public men who, at
public expense, guzzled and swilled
and staggered on the way to- Cleveland
and on the way home from Cleveland.
Read the wine bills and the whisky
bills of that occasion, which you and |
helped to pay for, If we have paid any
taxes. Cleveland, one of the most beau
tifnl cities ofall the earth, never had
so much drunkenness and debauchery
as the night before Garield's burial,
when the Mayors and Common Council
and Congressman OF cities and States
were there waiting for the obsequies.
Z call up another illustration from the
last Legislature at Albany. Look at the
years and nays and the lodging of
members onTthe General Street Railroad
Bill. and the Convict Labor Bill, and
the Railroad Commission Bill, and the
Elevator Grain Bill, and the Canal Bill.
and other bills, and have your eyes so
widely opened you can never get them
shut. As a specimen, they decided for
ever to ruin the finest street in the
world. Broadway, by a railroad. There
has seldom been q day of more relief for
the people of the State of New York than
when this Legislature went home.
draw the fourth illustration from
the accident at Spuyten Duyvil. The
bany having OverpOwered the conductor,
turning the car into dedlam, and one
of them pulling the rope Of the air
brake till the train halted and another
train swept round the curve, and the
lives of valuable citizens and the bridal
tour ended in massacre and horror, the
flames finishing what the collision left
Idraw another illustration from the
River and HarbOr Misrepresentation
least $50,000,000 infamously misapprO-
priated. Gentlemen going round max
ing campaign speeches for their re-elec-
tiOn may try to fix that up, but never
can fix 1t up this side the day OF judg-
ment and that will fix it down. During
this summer l saw two OF the places for
which large appropriations were made
| in the River and HarbOr bill. The one
was dry creek in West Virginia. There
was not drop of water there then and
there seldom is water more than two or
| three feet deep. 1t starts in no particu
lar place and ends nowhere. ThOus-
ands of dollars voted for the develop
ment of that creek The appropriation
! for the improvement of that creek is of
no more public value than an apprOpria-
tion for river or harbor on the top of
the City Hall. Swindle, all swindle;
nothing but swindle of the public! |
saw this summer also one place off the
| coast of Massachusetts, for which many
| thousands of dollars were voted. sea
captain who had spent his life on that
coast told me that the change which
was to be made there would have but
one effect, and that would be to pile up
the ice in winter and impede naviga-
tiOn. SO there is one laugh of derisiOn
going around the land at that Congress
sional outrage. But the people who
pay the taxeslseemltoO stupified to UNDER
| stand the joke. Oh, it is such an easy
| thing to vote away other peoples money.
Many of the leading men of both pOliti-
cal parties voted for that natiOn-insult-
ing, God-defying outrage. What beau
tiful opportunity 1t was for Congress
practically to say: THE people of the
United States since the war have been
| taxed till the blood came, now let then4
i up, and with this vast surplus in the
Treasury we can afford to put the taxes
| away down. Let us give them sur
prise party by tightening their burden
and giving the young men and women
of America better opportunity to take
| care of themselves and their families -
| Not sol Let the people sweatl Keep on
| grinding the faces of the pOOrl Draw
| the buckle of the harness one hole
| tighterl Let Dives have finer linen and
| the dogs be left to take care Of Lazarus
sOresl The OppressOrs of the common
people had better look outI God will
| mash some of them yeti He hath de-
clared that he will want the hairy scalp
of him who goeth on still in his trans
| gressiOns. frIT
| draw another illustration from the
| Star Route swindle. What a precious
revelatiOnl All the prominent miscre-
ants of that fraud are politicians. Their
| guilt was proved beyond all question,
and had they been poor men the trial
would have lasted four days, and they
| would have been thrown into the Peni-
| tentiary. But they had plenty of money,
so the trial lasted four months and left
| them comparatively free. The reason
| that people get condemned in this coun.
| try is because they do not steal enough.
| If you must steal, steal over 100000 or
| there is no chance for you. New Star
| Route trials are to be instituted, but as
| long as there are such large resources of
money to draw on there will be no con-
! viction Of Importance.
| But there never was anything more
| beautifully consistent than that this
| great crime should have retained on its
l side the leading infidel of America. The
| only foundation for virtue and good
| government is the Bible. Overthrow
| that book and Star Route thievery runs
| up to a premium. The champion inf
| del says he does not see any crime In his
| client. Of course he does not. There is
| no God! There is to- be no Judgment
day There are no commandments of
Divine althorityl Let everybody be as
he pleasss. What a pandemonium such
| theories would soon make out of this
Worldl But this is certain-write it up
| so high and so plainly that all the earth
| may read it--that the behavior of these
| Star Route defendants is in harmony
with modern infidelity. Colonel Inger-
soil says so. am glad that tnfldeltty
has gone out of the abstract into the
realm of practical morals, and we are
| having demonstrated beyond all con-
| troversy what 1t favOrs and cOunten-
| ances.
To come down to the present time l
| draw another illustration from this
| present time. There were three factions
/ in the convention at Saratoga. You
know about the forged telegram used in
| the State Committee in behalf of one
faction, and thai forgery has been right
| ly exeOriated from one end Of the earth
| to the other. But there was an attempt
| % eraud hu nno of tho Ofhar faafinno of