The Sunday globe., 1901-06-09
SUNDAY, JUNE g, 1901
OUR UNCOMPROMISING CRUSADE
AGAINST PUBLIC CORRUPTION.

AAHAlNNA ~ hAaiN A'AhiNh WV
Under the domination Of libertines,
their go-betweens, respectable CD
thieves and their accomplices our
Temple of Liberty has been converted
into a den of corruption and rotten
ness, and The Sunday Globe has no in
tention of calling a halt upon its re-
lentless crusade until the Anguean
stables have been cleansed and the pub
lice service so purified tin it ceases to
be a stencil to the most sensitive Oh
factories.
It is an open secret that the public
service of the United States at Wash
ington is honeycombed with filth. cor.
ruption and rottenness of every kind
and character. from pilfering station.
cry on small scale and doing a brok.
erage business in appointing, promot-
ing and transferring incompetents
upon improper considerations to de-
grading, prosecuting and dismissing
persons Of honest merit and blameless
character upon considerations founded
solely in backbiting. littleness, lasciv-
ious wantOnness, sporuve licentious-
ness, sordid selfshness or sueaking Chi
canery that ought 10 make the hard
ened features of the veteran criminal
Of a thousand convictions blush with
honest shame behind the bars which
protect the great public against his
further depredations.
Corruption Of every form in public
Office should be exposed, that respect
able .EI thieves may be brought to
the bar OF justice. nroAiEates removed;
ucenuousness suppressed. lasviscious-
ness paralyzea. IoyhaHos punished.
Hbertines held up to public excavation,
and prostitutes turned out into the
slums of this wicked world, where they
may follow their nefarious vocatons
i'm the wallow and mire Of their own
ilk. without leaving the trail of the
serpent upon those of honor virtue
and respectability who are associated
with them officially. The guilty
Aeeth when no man pursueth,' and
only those who have a skeleton in their
own closets find fault with the great
fearless and commendable public SER
vice which the Sunday Globe is per.
forming not only for those who are
employed by the Government, without
any stain upon their escutcheOns, but
also for those who pay "tithes' to sup
port a government in the interests Of
the people-the honest self-respecting
and decent people-of the United
States
This crusade is not prompted by a
partisan spirit and it will not be con-
Quoted in that spirit. The Globe has
no quarrel with an honest opponent
who got into the public service in the
regular and orderly way which the
civil service law and the rules and reg
ulations hereunder provide, If that
opponent demeans himself properly in
the service Of the people, who are pay
ing him for his pulic services; but
The Globe has a quarrel with eyrry
one (be he a political friend or a po-
litical foe) who trample- upon the pro-
prieties Of law, order and good gov.
eminent or helps 10 bring disgrace
upon the public service and those who
are wrongfully besmirched by moral
political or legal malfesance in public
office. and it is not unrea sonable for
The Globe TO court and confidently re-
" upon the hearty support of all right
minded persons, in or out of office,
who are i'm sympathy with law order
and good government which can be
maintained only by the union of hon
est advocates under one standard. the
suppression of public vice and the dis
missal Of the vicious from public Of
flee. If anyone fayors vice in public
Office, Doe na'u N p.".e- rhr crusade
which The Globe is conducting. but
if he i- "a good citizen and believes I'm
public purity and honor Doc must throw
the weight of bis influence upon the
side which The Globe has espoused in
the interest o., publi. deroucy and civ-
IIized government