The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-04-14
with False Pretenscs.

VIJU I0lSC IICVSuoCSs
The word Republican as applied
to the party in power, is . stupendous
falsehood. Jeffcrsons was the IKE !
publican" and Hamilton's the anti-Re-
publican, or. more properly, the Ped
erap' or Capitalization party. Its prac-
tees correspondent with its chosen des-
ignation. Some six years ago, when
the Democratic party was dominant IN |
Congress, there was demand, py
heads of departments, for more clerks.
The democratic Congress chose to prac-
tice economy. and instead of conceding
whist was asked, added an hour to the
NUM- err through which department
clerks were kept at their desks Prac-
tically they thus added about one-sev-
enth to the number of lerical employees
of the Government The clerks did not
complain bat 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. so called, think
our party has won more by giving pa
ternity to the so called Civil Service Re-
form bill. Therefore, when there is no
demand for more clerks or more cler-
ical labor, and when every faithful, hon.
estly laborious Gle finds himself ex-
hausted by steady, tedious, painstaking
tasks, each day made more irksome by
the monotonous, wearisome esactitude
required, and even more painfully tire
some b. irreversiblc attention demand
ed, then, that the Re ublicans may get
even w til the Democra as reforme 8.
Al L. Do. n son WI odd a n
other hour to the number through which
these clerks must be confined to crowd
ed prisons, in which the very air inhaled
becomes poisonous and the last hour s
work more painful than that of the six
preceding it.
Six hours for study and three for
Rotations. which are restful, are all
that are demanded of students in
colleges. 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 Govern
ment clerk who discharges tasks as
signed him with fidelity. and for such
alone Congress is supposed to legis ate.
are urdensone enough as the; are.
and the Republican party, in its shame
less effort to get even with its opponents
by wrouging the defenseless clerks,
should not be approved. This party
has been in power more than twenty
years. ttaiy time within that period
it might have reformed the abuse
rectitied by the democratic majority in
Congress six years ago: but now, when
it sees Clcave'and a Democrat gov.
| poff q
Democrat set over Pennsylvania, and
another over Massachusetts,, and 8
emocratic Congress elected, it be
comes suddenly over virtuous and over
righteous. and would practice it!
pharisaism and hnmbug the country
when no add tional labor is requ red BY
The departments, by sub. ec!ing the de
fenseless cler to exactions o
ru nous to Government Interest,"
and true public economy as wrong
Iul an needless The presen
force of clerks can do all the worl
re uired by the departments by toilins
till four o'clock each day, even if tn
| worthless ad-beats, and they ar
numerous, who have been thrust int
clerkships. as parasites and washers o
, dirty linen for Republican Congress
, men, be dsch,rge |. They are bunglers
and often dishonest, and. relying TO
, retention in o ice upon their grea
/ patrons, are the loaling, whisky-swill
, ing idlers who produce the impression
/ that the Government c'erk is an idle
: embarrassed. stupid. unthinking Go,
eminent mule. only fit TO be cuffe
and victimized by Republican dema
. gogues-
Let any Congressman ask any homes
j, industrious clerk whether the Govern
mcnt will be the gamer by adding
!. present hours o. toll, and the answt
|, will be uniformly in the negative, an
J, it will be. as well. the unmixed trutl
No weary brain can discharge rasl
!. most painstaking and always exactin
. min test accuracy. and every clerk wi
= con ur with us in saying that even no
= two-th rds of erroneous and defecti,
! work is done between three and fol
u o. clock. when patient labor begins
. merge into realms of that brain weaI
= ness next akin 10 sleep. We happen
I know prec' sely what we are talkir
= about, and hope never to know it agai
y -Anieric IN Register.