Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-03-26
TIE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION
Damage Done the Country by Two Years
of MIsmanagement.

Damage Done the Country by Two Years
of encouragement.
President Harrison has completed
one-half of his administration. 1t would
be difficult, if not impossible, to match
1t in the history of our country in tur-
pitude and corruption. Its record is
such as no American, with feeling Of
respect and love for his country, can
contemplate with Indifference 1t is
record of evil administration. of foul
deeds, of betrayal of the people
The sacred trust which Grover Cleve-
land surrendered into the hands of Ben
jamin Harrison, two years ago, unsul-
lied and unstained. has been dragged in
the mire of corruption, and is now the
scott and scOrn of the world. Every
department of the government, which
was then model of honest, economical
administration, has since become an
unclean thing. permeated with the poi
son of the spoils system, rank partisan
ship and private aggrandizement.
The ordinary expenses of government
have vastly increased. until each de-
partment has become reservoir of cor
ruption, extravaganza, favoritism and
abuse of power. The treasury has been
made the common prey of every one
who helped materially to put Harrison
in the white house.
The third or fourth rate Indiana law
yer, the law partner of the president,
who was foisted into the position of at
torney general. has brought his impor-
tant department down to the level of
pettifoggers and legal sharks. The
secretary of state has bungled some of
the most important international ques
tions, which his predecessor so ably
handled, and has evolved a queer
scheme of jug handled reciprocity,
which he calls craftsmanship. The
secretary of the interior has so mis-
managed his department as to make
his administration the shame of the
country.
The pension office is rotten to the
core. One wretched, discredited COM
missioner has been kicked out, and
worse one put in his place. The Indian
bureau has been conducted in such
manner that an expensive war has been
precipitated on the country, and reli-
gious bigotry has been permitted to in
jure the conduct of the Indian schools.
The la nd grabbers have again swooped
uDOh tlc uOlldII, anu II1c
census has evoked the heartiest con-
demnation of the entire country. There
is not one redeeming feature about the
entire administration of the various
bureaus of the department of the in
terror.
The navy department has gone into
the expensive and wholly unauthorized
business of aping the extravaganza of
European nations by the building
of battle ships which this country does
not need. The war department has ex-
hibited proneness toward the demon
alization of discipline in the army, as
the recent Indian outbreak sufficiently
showed.
The Sunday-school Chadband who
was taken from his bargain counter in
Philadelphia and made postmaster
general as a reward for his contribu
ton to the republican national cor
ruption fund, has increased the ex-
penses and diminished the efficiency of
his department until it has become the
synonym of maladministration
The treasury department has been
managed with view toward covering
up the frightful drains made upon it,
classifying the real situation and con-
cealing from the country the true
state of things. In every sense of the
word the Harrison administration has
proved disgrace to the country. a
libel on free institutions, a cesspool of
corruption. a byword of shame. a re-
proach to it's party and curse to the
nation. 1t is a subject of deep regret
that only half of its career of infamy
has run.-Albany Argus.