The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-03-15
JEFFERsONIAN SIMPLICITY.

JEFFERSONIAN SIMPLICITY.
Secretary Carlisle evidently does not
believe in the Jeffersonian simplicity to
which Democratic orators refer so
fondly when talking to the working
people and appealing to them for their
votes. Neither does he believe in osten.
tations display-not when Carlisle pays
the bills.
But the story chang es when Uncle
Sam is the paymaster. and so Mr..
Carlisle has coachman. footman and
house servants all on Uncle Sans pay
rolls. The horses that draw Mrs. Car
Isle around on her calling days, the
landau in which she rides when
the weather is stormy, and
the victoria i'm which she reclines
in fair weather all are Government prop
erty. Logan Carlisle, the son, as chief
clerk of the treasury department. also
has his horse and carriage which Uncle
Sam pays for and keeps,
Hoke Smith, the eminent Georgian
member of the cabinet, also has way
of making Uncle Sam foot the bills.
Hoke is an enthusiastic lover Of fried
chicken and he longed for dish of the
delicacy cooked in true Southern style.
His family cook could not be induced to
to come to Washington and leave her
husband behind, but little thing
like this did not disturb
Mr.. Smith. Fried chicken he
wanted and fried chicken he would have
while Uncle Sam was paying the bills,
so he has his cooks husband appointed
messenger in the Interior Depart
mept, and he now draws 5000 year and
does nothing, but Hoke, he has his fried
chicken.
These may seem trivial things to
complain of, but the little things make
up the big things. The clerk who
would spend S. on dinner at his en-
ployer's expense, who, il buying at his
own expense would be content with a
80 cent dinner, acts dishonesty, and his
employer would be justified in dis
charging him instantly. The man who
is placed in position of authority, who
uses the places that should be filled for
the benefit of the country for his own
qualification, is not an honest enough
man to have charge of department
in which nearly $500. 0.000,0 900 is annually
expended. His ideas of right and wrong
are altogether too misty.
A Secretary of the Treasury who
abuses the Government privileges by
providing his family with elaborate
turnouts for social purposes is just the
kind of man who would use illegally the
proceeds of bond issue. The whole
Administration acts as though it were
under the influence of an extended and
wide-embracing intoxication. the head
of the Administration paying little or
no attention to the dignity and
honor of his Office, disgracing
American diplomacy by his blundering
and well-nigh criminal treachery toward
friendly nation; his leading advisers
guilty of nepotism in its worst form, and
of abuse of their official power;his Sec
retary of tho Treasury with a scheme to
fill a financial hole by making
it bigger, the fiat creation
bill OF Vacuum Coiner Bland the tariff.
destroying. business-depressing Wilson
bill, carrying ruin and disaster to
American Industries and beggary to
American labor-surely these must all
be the offspring Of intoxication and not
the results obtained by the deliberate,
careful consideration of man with un-
clouded brains. But whatever they are
they are SO many evidences that a
change is needed, and Uncle Sam will
begin his house cleaning at an early
date.