Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-07-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from Regular Correspondent.


from Our Regular Correspondent
WAsnINeToN, D. c., June 80, 1884.
The Developments that have been made
recently that involve The cupidiy and
corruption OF several Government officers,
simply demonstrates the present condition
OF Washington society. The pay Of no
officer, civil or military, is adequate TO
1.-The demands made upon him for his ma in.
tenance OF any sort OF socinl status, and
30 resort TO the commission Of crime be
comes n necessity simultaneously with Il Q
taking up Of n residence at the capital,
BY this | am not to be understood ms say.
ing that all who stand we'll In Washington
soclety are thieves, though / might say
that thieves are among those WHO hold the
highest social rank, and some Of them are
absolute satellites in the galaxy of snob-
dom.
The Republican party leaders have
given out word that they arc runishing
their own thieves ns fast ns they find them.
But the thieves hero are developing 80
rapidly TIM, they are getting n good ways
ahead of the party. Close upon the heels
OF Burnside, the Disbursing Officer OF the
Postofiice Department., came batch OF
rascals connected with the Navy Depart
ment whose pilfcrings have just been dis
covered, aud now the State Department
shows mp some good strokes of grind lar
ceDy oggregating some thousands OF doll
lars, committed by Col. Morgan However.
Morgan is dead, aud the Government is
saved the expense OF a ili,l and acqnittai.
don't know what nny ordinary business
man would tlrink Of himself or what lie
would think of any other ordinary busi.
meas man who should let his finnucipl
agents go on collecting and dishur~ing
money from. year to year for years nt n
time without examining such accounts to
see how he was standing with the world.
Yet the Government is doing this very
thing all the time. Here was Burnside
drawing money from the Government AZ
often as heswanted it, and in such sums as
the capriccs OF oil stock would dictate.
He disbursed money for the Government,
butto.wliom, for what amount, or for wi! at
purpose, nobody can find out, for nobody
has kept any record of it. Since 1881,
Burnside has regularly made sales of the
waste payer, twine, sacks and other con-
demned properly connected with the Post.
Office Department, realizing therefrom
more than $4,000 per year, not adollar of
which has ever reHched the Treasury, nor
n whisper OF inquiry from any source ms 10
the disposition of the proceeds of the sales
of public property! Ii il then a serious
question as to which.is the most culpahle
in tile carrying on iof this System of Gov
!. ernment spoliation, the men who do the
stealing or the men whose business it is
to prevent il, tostand by and see il done
without milking the slightest effort to
stopi
I Z Although Washington people. can take
/ DO hund in the election Of President, they
manage tosget up more enthusiasm over a
business that belongs TO other people than
4 is consistent with sincerity. Naturally
enough they don't care straw whicl,
pnrty elects lis President, if lie is good
provider and spends lots of money in the
dry goods, jewelry and furniture shops
lHcy HHNe u. n''iy ttrEOr hanging over
them necessarily, from The thought that
another Hayes may get into the White
, House. When Grant was there, he and
his family patronIzed the Washington
stores incessanlly, and Washington peo-
pile will all declare that Grant was the
best President that the country ever had
Hay esswasi the worstYe evenhad, becanse
Mrs, Hayes wept to- New York ,Sw6enevei
she; ;deitealQ ,inyest in n new paper fel
Ehairf fpbls. Acknowledgment in Wash
I, ',Esington that;he- capget i'm New York as
3 well, and that is the reason that his post
E master here was the only friend that he
: had at Chicago from the District of Co.
lumbia. If Washington people had th,
; selection of the President, Ben Buile
t would hold The Office perpetuallv, for frs
4 and last Butler has done MS much for TIN
city as any man in the country, save per
laps "BosS" Shepherd, who, in coniunc
: tion with Grant and Butler, had mad
e Washington one of the most magniicen
u cities in the universe. Shepherd was got
!. ten rid of all too soon for had he rename
e and been permitted TO pursue the eve
t tenor ot his way, the city would have bee
I, freed from its only present serious draw
{ -7nlalaria-whioh hangs on in spit
I leOf the enormous sums of mon ey sunk i
9 The Potomac Flats. Dom PEDRO.
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