Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-08
Sailing Under False Cslors with False
Pretenses and on a Wrspg Course.


Sailing Under False Cslors with False
Pretenses and on . Wrong Course.
The word Republican a. applied
to the party in power, is . stupenoous
falsehood. Jefferson's was the RE
publican" and Hamilton's the anti
Republican, or, more properly, the
Federal" or Capitalization party. Its
practices correspond with its chosen
designation. Some six years ago,
when the Democratic party was domi-
nant in Congress, there was q demand,
by heads o. departments, for more
clerks. The Democratic Congress
chose to practice economy, and instead
of conceding what was asked, added
an hour to The number through which
department clerks were kept at their
desks. Practically they thus added
about one-seventh to the number of
clerical employees of the government.
The clerks did not complain; but it
was enough and all that should be
exacted at their hands.
But the Democrats won prestige for
this wise and economical legislation,
and the Republicans, 30 called, think
our party has won more hy giving pa
ternity to the so-called civil service
reform BILL Therefore. when there is
no demand for more clerks or more
clerical labor, and when every faith
full. honestly lsborious clerk finds
himself exhausted by steady, tedious,
painstaking tasks, each day made more
irksome by the monotonous, weari-
some exactitude required, and even
more painfully tiresome by irreversi-
BILE attention demanded, then, that the
Republicans may get even with the
Democrats as reformers, these pseudo
Republicans would add another hour
to the number through which these
clerks must be confined to crowded
prisons, IN which the very air inhaled
becomes poisonous and the last hours
work more painful than that of the
six preceding it.
Six hours for study and three for
recitatlons, which are restful, are all
that are demanded of students in col.
leges. Continuous physical exertion,
if at all varied, may be endured ten
and even twelve hours in each twenty
four; but this tedious. painstaking
silent, sedentary, Supplying toll of,
q government clerk who discharges
tasks assigned him with, fidelity, and
for such alone Congress is supposed to
legislate, are burdensome enough al
they are, and the Republican party, in
| its shameless effort to get even with
its opponents By wronging the defense
less clerks, should not be approved
This party has been in power NOR,
than twenty years. At any time with
in that period it might have reformed
the abuse rectlfed by the Democratic
majority in Congress six years ago
but now, when it sees Cleveland,
Democrat, governing New York, anc
Patterson, Democrat set over Penn
sylvania, and another over Massachu-
sets, and Democratic Congress
elected, it becomes suddenly over.vir-
tuous and over righteous, and woule
practice its pharisaism and humbu,
the country, when no additional lahol
is required by the departments, BY
subjecting the defenseless clerks te
exactions as ruinous to governmen
interests and true public economy al
wrongful and needless. The presen
force of clerks can do all the work re
quired by the departments by toilins
till fous o'clock each day, even if th,
worthless dead. beats, and they are nu
merous, who have been thrust Int,
clerkships as parasites and washers o
dirty linen for Republican Congress
men, be discharged. They are bung
lers, and often dishonest, and, relying
for retention in Office upon their grea
patrons, are the loafing, whisky swill
ing idlers who produce the inpres
sion that the government clerk is an
idle, embarrassed, stupid ~unthinkins
government mule, only fit to be cuffee
and victimized by Republican dema
gogues.
Let any Congressman ask any hon
est, industrious clerk whether thu
government will be the gamer by ad
ding to present hours of toll, and th'
answer will be uniformly in the mega
tive, and it will he, as well, the un
mixed truth. No weary brain cal
discharge tasks most painstaking ant
always exacting minutest accuracy
every clerk will concur with us in say
ing that even now two-thirds of er
. roneous and defective work is done be
tween three and four o'clock, when pa
tient labor begins to merge int
realms of that brain WEAKNESS mex
akin to sleep. We happen to knov
precisely what we are talking about
and hope never to know it again
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