The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-28

cooking his eyes on the Senators and
Congressman as cOntemptuOusly and as
deiantly as a street gamin with cigar
in his mouth contemplates his natural
enemy, a fierce and pOrtly policeman.
No respectable community or society
will prosper as long as it harb0Ts a thief.
a bully and rake, for the sparrow is as
great a Mormon as Henry Ward Beech
er or Brigham Young. and sets all social
laws at defiance. o. that at an unguard-
ed moment we admitted the English
sparrow to enter into the very citadel of
our liberties. The sparrow question is
one that | am unable to solve Law
it down with the conviction that human
intelligence and human ingenuity can
not solve it. 1t is devoutly TO be pray
ed for. that our i0usirious anti Chinese
statesman will turn their attention from
the Mongolian 60 the sparrow. Let the
gentle and peaceful Flowerv Kingdom
celestial come. but deliver us from the
beliigerant British bully.
COULD STAND robson BUT NOT CHAN
DLER.
Notwithstanding the doubt the Dem
Ocratic Congressman entertained about
the morals of Robesoa's ship building
character. thev would have helped him
carry out his $50 00U 600 steal had not
Chandler come in the way The naval
scheme. evolved from the Fertile brain
of Secor Robson, to construct six steeI
ships of war, at n cost of S11 600 600
each. was nice patriotic scheme and
the Democratic patriots were getting
along swimmingly until Chandler was
named FOR the Navy. From that hour
the big $50. 900 600 scheme Jagged The
trustiest Democratic patriots could have
stood Robson, but when it came to
Chandler they were abashed. They
were afraid of the grand possibilities
that might be carried out by that states
man and Navy yard manipulation
There was at once great iOv IN the lob
by. Every shipvard was lavishlv repre-
sented in anticipation of the big things
to come
THE JUNKETING FUNERAL.
The majority report of the committee
to audit the expenses of the illness.
death and funeral of President Garfield
is a disgrace to every man that signed
it. The reckless folly, the downright
robbery of admitting the iunketing fun
eral expenses bill of S.. 900 without an
exhibition Of its items and the giving of
princely rewards from the peoples mon
ey TO physicians and others whose work
was of questionable value, was robbery
of the meanest character. As to the
physicians. DIR. Bliss, who got S25. 600
Agnew and Hamilton. who got $4,000
/ each. Reyburn. BoyntOn and Mrs. DIR.
I Edison, who got so. 600 apiece, no quack
{ who practices under a bought GiplOma
could have done worse. Until the dis
, secting knife told its humiliating story,
President Garfeld's medical attendants
were utterly ignorant Of the nature of
" hT1 Tr0TV haT- = L !. !
j that it was a gun-shOt wound. There
+ is not man or woman of average intel
/ igence in this broad land but knows this
+ to be fact While the doctors were
1 cutting in one direction the work OF
/ death was going on in another. From
! that fatal ID of July until the 10th OF
! September, when the end came, the
/ track of the assassin's bullet h ad not
/ been discovered by Drs. Bliss. Agnew
/ Hamilton, Revburr, BoyEtOn and Ed.
son. There is everything to condemn
in this majority report. 1t is down
! right robbery, and a disgrace to every
i man who signed it. If the men who ia.
/ vOr this barefaced grab had anv. sense Of
| honor they would hang their heads in
I shame. The idea of making two dis.
carded physicians. Barnes and Wood.
ward enlarged pensioners uDnn the ma
/ tiOn for life is perhaps tie most ridicu-
. lOus Of all ridiculous features of the
grab The people of the whole country
/ would freely sustain alIberality consist.
ent with justice in providing for the
I expenses of Garfeld's sickness and fu-
neral, but honesty aud Justice fades out
the long list of extravagant exnenses.
G. n. s.
p. 81 learn that DR.. Bliss stock
( speculatiOns on Garield's wound has
( panned out 50 rich that he threatens a
/ European tour.