Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-11-02
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From Our Regular Correspondent. ]

WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 80, 1888.
The country will hail with unalloyed
the news of the dsbarment and
probable punishment criminaily of as
choice a set OF rnpacioms swndlers as ever
infested the capital These comprise
certain class of claim agents who have for
years flooded the country with circulars
announcing to the credulous pubic that
they have secured extraordinary privil-
eges and superior facilities for prosecuting
claims TO n successful issue before all of
the departments. More recently they have
added TO these false representations the
further assurances of their ability to secure
nm increase of pension TO those now on the
pension roll, as well as to obtain pensions
for those whom they perfectly well know
were not entitled TO II pension at all. Ac-
companying there circulars was the grand
demand for an advance fee ranging all the
way from two dollars to Twenty-Five, and
many have been the deluded, poverty
stricken soldier who has forwarded his
claim and his money, never to see either
again. To say that fortunes have been
realized by these relent less sharks is sim
ply TO say that the government has been
tolerating these Infamous practices until
the duped and defrauded cl,Imams from
one end Of the country to the other have
sent up their appeal for protection. Sec
retary Teller, of the Interior Department,
upon the recommendation OF the Commits
sioner OF Pensions has not only kicked The
swindlers out of his department, but he has
struck hands with the prosecuting officers
of the government in proceeding against
them by indictment before the grand jury
The instances OF hardship under which
many of these poor claimants have been
deprived OF their money and then sub
jected 10 cruel disappointment call for the
vigorous enforcement OF the law that land =
offenders into the pententlary for crimes
much less in magnitude than that Of which
these precious scoundrels are clearly guilty.
More than three years have elapsed since
| our decennial census was taken, but rs the
| whole business is safely anchored in the
Government Printing Office, the Census
| Bureau doubtless deems that its mission is
at an end. With some 700 clerks employed
in tsbulating the statistical data of the
census, which tabulaton was completed
eight months ago, there is yet no possibili-
! ty OF obtaining any official information
touching any of the important facts of our
national resources, or our commercial con
diton or the extent of our manufacturing
interests, or the number and variety of our
Industries, or the value OF our productions
1 n n N vi in Ia. Il, Al
knowledge that is daily and hourly in de-
mand by the people OF what use is the
taking OF a census every ten years if we
are to wait ten more years to ascertain
what our political condition is? There
has always been screw loose somewhere
in this census business, but in view of the
promises made prior to the last census, that
the work should be done under new sys-
TEN, and therefore more expeditiously than
ever, il would seem that the bureau is yet
sadly out of repairs.
Last winter Washington was forced to
the necessity OF organizing II Citizens As.
socintion to protect itself against the mar
andings OF nm army OF burglars and night
thieves who became the absolute terror of
the whole population. The ASSOCIATION
entered upon a thorough work of invesii-
CATION finally running down to the une.
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