Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-26

sahus VI lhtelllBenti nhppys prosperous
workingmen were enjoying Labor's holi-
day while in Free-Trade England thou
sands of discontented, suffering work
ingmen were striking for better wages.
Perhaps our contemporary will now
comment on the fact that in Free-Trade
England the strikers seem to have been
successful and to have secured the con.
cessions they asked, while the last great
strike in the United States was dismal
failure and the wretched miners of
Northern Illinois are now "locked out"
because they yearn for human treatment
and better wages.-New York World.
THE Iowa State Register, Guillotine
Clarkson's paper, has discovered an easy
way of "helping business" 1t is SIM
ply to have the Federal Government in
crease it's expenditures. The particular
plan which it has in mind is the passage
of law giving pension to every widow
and orphan of Union soldier. The
Register points out that if this is done,
'the money will be distributed among
the people in such a way as to get
promptly into circulation and help ev-
erybody's business" But why not ''help
everybody's business" still more by Civ
ing pensions to other widows and Or
phans than those of soldiers? That
would result in distributing" a good
deal more money, and, according to this
theory, the more the merrier.
"THERE are nearly eight million COL
ored people in the Democratic Southern
country, and they have but one member
OF Congress to represent them," says the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette (Rep.).
There are nearly eighty thousand col
ored people in the State of Ohio, and
they have not so much as one postmas-
ter to represent them, and there are
oyer twenty thousand colored people in
Cincinnati and Mr.. Halstead has not ap-
pointed one Of them to a place on the
editorial staff of the Commercial, but
during the war, in his Chase letter, he
sneered at "a little more nigger," and
said the Emancipation proclamation
was disgrace" Now this same Hal
stead has been bought out by Foraker
f& Senator, and expects to get there by
co1ored votes.
81 DO lift up hearty prayer" re-
marked Benjamin Harrison upon Ger
tain occasion, "that we may never have
a President who will not either pursue
and compel his Cabinet advisers to pur-
sue, the civil service policy, pure and
simple, and upon just basis. y
Either that kind of civil service, or, for
Gods sake, let US have the other bold
If brutal method, of turning
men and women out simply for political
opinion" Also upon another occasion:
"In appointments to every grade and de-
partment, fitness and not party service
should be the essential and discrimita.
ting test, and fidelity and efficiency the
only sure tenure of Office" Hence out Of
txehty-four appointments to post
Offices made by the President twenty
were to take the places of postmasters
removed" for no known recent or spect-
aed reason, save that they were Demo-
crats.
AN Administration organ prints, with
out any EVIDENCE Of appreciating It's
Seahdalous nature, dispatch from
Washington asserting that Ex-Governor
Warmoth is not to got the Collect9rship
at New Orleans because he failed to
elect the Republican candidate for Con-
sress ii the Third L6ulsiana district.
Warmoth was rendered the place six
weeks ago, it is said, with the qndeg.
standing that he SHOULD help Henry &.
Minor to whip PRICE for Congress" Is.
stead Of doing this minors friends d.
clare that the ex-Governor's apathy *as
to- great extent responsible fQt the Re.
publican candidates overwhelming de-
feat" AS consequence, it is under
stood that sit has been decided not to
award the commission to Warmoth."
And so this Pharisaic Administration
tenders offices to notorious rascals as a
bribe to induce them to carry elections,
and pulls in the offer upon their failure
to perform. Elder Harrison is truly q
daisy!
"CoRP." TANNER appears i4 a some
what new light in tho revelation which
comes from Detroit concerning q pen
blob agency there. The agent applied
to Tanner some time ago asking Tor an
increase of $500 in his allowance Tor
office expenses. The Corp" with cIs-
t6hary liberality to the boys, no Sooner
received the application than he granted
it twice over, giving to the Office an
extra credit of 5000. One can imagine
him saying, on reading the request: hAh
extra allowance Of $l,5O6? Why, Of
course. Bat while you are abodt it,
hadn't you better take $3,OOO?" The
agent joyfully accepted the So, 600, raised
the salaries of all his old clerks, and en-
ployed new clerk in addition. The
Office was enthusiastic over the liberal
Tanner policy, and things went merrily
on till the vouchers for the extra ex-
penditures reached the Auditor
at Washington, whose business
1t was to consider them. HS
refused to allow the increase. Then
there was panic in the agency. The
agent had to supply in some way the
new clerks salary, while the old clerks
failed to get the increase they expected.
Worse than this, the agent, rather than
pay the new clerks salary our of his
own pocket, assessed all the old clerks
sufficiently to make UP the necessary
amount. He says of this extraordinary
act: "The extra expense was incurred
under the supposition that a larger ap
preparation was to be made for the Office.
The appropriation was not made and the