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About Liberal Republican. (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1??? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1873)
J" WmA IB in D i J X M 0 y If 3 i VOL. 4, gte liberal flgsMca Official Paper for Polk,. Count)'. It limed Ever 8 at ar day Morning, it DallM, Folk County, Oregon. P. C.SULLIVAN PCOPRIETOR, BUBSCEIPTION BATES. - .... IftNGLlS COPIES One Year, $2 00. Six Clonths, $1 25 .Three Months, $100 For Clubs of tea or more $1 75 per annum. Stbicrtptlen viuat be paid ttrictly in advance ADVEETISING BATES. One square (12 lines or less), firgtinsert'n,f2 50 Bach subsequent insertion.. 1 00 A liberal deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly advertisers. Professional cards will be inserted at $12 00 per annum. Transient advertisements muFt bo jnid for In advance to insure publication. All other ad rertising bills must be paid quarterly. Legal tenders taken at their current value. Blanks and Job Work of every description arnished at low rates on short notice. THE ILLUSTRATED PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL, ia in every respect a First Class Magazine. Its articles are of the highest interest to alL It teaches what we are and how to make the most of ourselves. The informa tion it contains on the Laws of Life and Health is well worth the price of tho Magazinoto every Family. It is published at ?: 00 a year. By special arrangement we are enabled to offeo the Phrenological Journal as a Premium tor A new fubscribers to the Oregon Republican, or will furnish the Phrenological Journal end Oregon Republican together for $4 00 We commend the Journal to all who wnt good magazine PROFESSIONAL CARDS. P. C. SULLIVAN, Attorney & Counsellor -At-Law, Dallas, Oregon, Will practice in all the Courts of the State. 1 TL C tlXFSOtf E D STONE IMPSOI.&STOIVE. Attorneys at Law. Will practice in all the Courts of the 3d Jo dicial District. OFFICE la Executive building oppo?H O hemeketa Hotel ralem Mav 10 7:t 1-je R P Boise PL Willis BOISE & WI L L I S, .Attorneys at Law SALEM, OREGON. I Will practice in all the courts in the State ri5 T3 It JOHN J. DALY, Att'y & ConscIlcr-at-Law DALLAS. OREGON. W ill pastiee in the Courts of Record and In- eilor Courts. Collections attended to promptly OFFICE In the Coart House. ' 41-tt fU SITES, H. D. .J J C ORCBB9, A. M., II. D SIS SITES itGlU BRS, 3?hvsicians and Siaro-eons, O FEB THEIR PROFESSIONA SEF Fes to tho citizens of Dallas anl viciu Ufft7E 1 1 r ir of Nichols k Hyde's Drug Store. Feb22 73 tf IV. II. Rll B E L L. D'BNTIS f. tffioe one door North f the Post Office DALLAS OGN Particular attention given to the!reeulati on children's teeth. work warranted Jan1l'73tf PUBLIC AND OFFICIAL MORAL v ITY. In his celebrated Ohio speech, Morton of Indiana undertook to justify the unparalleled corouptions of the present administration,- by the most umtnitigated bare faced falsehood ever uttered by the tongue of man he said ; " The standard of public morals is to-day higher in this country than it has ever been before; that public morals have been improved and elevatod during the last twelve ym; that it is not that Congress is more corrupt than formerly, but that public opinion demands a higher standard of rectitude on the part of public men than was ever before exacted." This statement is not only fulsep.lsolute ly, but it argues therottenand daugerous doctrine, that public servants have a right, to be just as ccirupt ns the general moral and patience of the people will permit, and so long as the sovereigns of the country do not dtrnand a more close adherence to honesty public men have a licedse to steal, rob and plunder without limit, just in proportion to the gulibility of the people theyrepresent and serve. Morton also says : " I have searched history for the past hundroi years, and find that public morals today are higher than they have been at any date within that time." This is paying a brilliant tribute to i he patriot fathers and mothers of the revolution, but the whole statement is as false as hell itselt The truth is, this old thief has been searching history to find something to allay the constant ravings of a j uilty conscincc, and cover up his own perfidy and crimes The mac who, in our judgement, would tor the purpose of covering up his owu infamy, publicly state, thnt the stundard of public morals was higher at this time, that at any time, dring the existence of tno Republic, woild disinter his grand-mother, for the purpose of stealing the copper cents that held down her eyelids. But for a complete answer to Morton's speech on that subject, we prefer to give the comments of the Chicago Tribune as the expression of our sentiments: "Against this declaration we place solemn records of the Government. Leaving ou the transactions of the War, the fraudulent contrats, the general swindling and rascality practiced in the hour ot the national troubles, we will begin with the time when the war , closed. It is a matter of record that during the next four years, much of the taxes collected from the people never reached the Covernment; that the whole Civil Service dengeneratcd into a system of plunder and robbery ; that personal gain became, to a great extent, the exclusive motive for seeking office. The Civil Service, including all branches of the revenue collection became . notoriously and confessedly corrupt and dishonest. The constant theme of the Republican party at that time was the depravity which prevaded the administration of the public service It was true that andrew Johnson was then President, but he could not mako an appointment that did not require the previous approval of tho Senate nor was ho allowed to dismiss any officer without the peraii?sion of the same body. How has the service been reformen Bincc ? Let the reports of the various Investigating Committees answer, as to thc unquestioned corrupt- INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS AND RELIGION. DALLAS. OREGON. SATURDAY, SEPT 13, 1873, tion of tho various Custom-Houses, the Leet and stocking jobbery and extortion and the new Orleans Custom Hou affairs. Nor did the exposure stop there. A member from Massachusetts, rising in bis place ia the ITouse, announced, that ' gigantic fraud had been matured under the eye and approved by a member of the Cabinet to rob the Treasury of over four hun dred thousand . dollars, annd ouly waited for its completion the signature of a subordinate officer in the Treasury To arrest that .fraud, ho nsked the Home to pas a law instantly to prohibit the payment of the money j and the House and the Senate, in view of the notorious facts, passed the law. Where is that Cabinent officer now? has he been dismissed ? Has the party been purged of him, or does he not rule as uual 'over his Department ? We need not refer to tho Secor fraud in the Navy Department, or the Tort Snelling fraud in the War Depart ment, or to the payment of the money by the officers of the pacific railway Company to the head of the Interior Department, to show that, if public morality has been elevated to an un precedentrd high standard, it has failed to reach official circles. When in the history of the Government has fraud and corruption been fostered in such high places as of late years ; and when jn the history of the Government has any man been suspected even with complicity with fraid been permitted to retain his high office as if to brave and defy public or inion. The rcveUtions of last winter are too fresh to require a statement of them. Let Mr. Morton eill over the roll of those detected in and exposed in Credit Mobil icr fraud. He will find no obscure names in that list. Ho will find names con spicioua in tho political history of last twelve years, and names indentified w ith the moral regeneration of the couutry. Where are they now ? Has an? one of tho men implicated respected the high standard of public morals by resigning his office ? For over four years they had f-ecretly enjoyed the profits of Oakes Ames liberal donation of Credit Mohilier, and wheu it was accidently exposed did theguilty resign? Did the Senate or the House expel the convicted: When, in the previous . history of Congress, was any member accused and convicted of official turpi- u. UUUy io u.ca " defeated expulsion by resignation ? In this case, did uot the Senate refuse to act on the case of its own members, and did not the Houso refuse to expel the most conspicuous of its own actors in the crime 1 Mr, Morton, last winter, in person made a report that the purchase of eats in the Scoate was a crime of such magnitude that that body should, by a prompt declaration that elections by such means were void, protect the honor of the Senate and the country. He demanded the virtual expulsion of a Senator supposed to have been elected by bribery. Does not Mr. Morton know that there are several other cases where it is charged that elections to the Senate have been obtained by tho same n.cans, and does he not know that in tho ! history of the Senate, prior to the last twelve years, no such thing was ever intimated, except in the case of one Senator who, at this time, is a member of the body 1 Mr. Morton frankly confesses in his speech that the act of tho last Con gress giving back pay was of a most M dangerous " character ; and that the money taken by the. members was a gift " to themselves for which there was no consideration. How many of the three hundred men in the two houses of. Congress have refused the money? Mr. Morton rejoices that its purposes than other railroad cor there is not now an habitual gambler in J porations. Whoat aud corn, tho farm Congress ; but he is forced tot admit J crs declare, rate as theso hard assessors that but very few of the three hundred members of the last Congress have had the decency or honesty to return the $5,000 of money they woo- by passing the BackPay bill.S The trouble, according to the- IndU ana Senator, is thaf the public have such high notions of official honesty that the member of Cengress to-day, though equally honest with his pred ecessors, finds it difficult to keep up with public sentiment. Thus the public sentiment that disapproves of members of Congress sharing in the S3:,000,000 stolen by the Credit Mobilier Company is moro exactirg than the public sentiment that prevail ed from 1789 1SGI j the same public sentiment complains that the license, sanction and encouragement given by Congress, and the Government Goner-, ally, to all manner of frauds and peculations in the Civil Service is not only wron ii itself, but has had a most demoralizing efiect upon cffieial integrity in the States and municip: li ties. At this time there is perhaps tn or fifteen St3tes officers who are default ers ; all over the cow. try there arc town city, and county officers who lave practiced in municipal affairs the loose morality and defiant irresponsibility which is genera! in the national service and when Mr. Morton arraigns public sentiment as altogetner too high when it in.-ists that all this shall be reformed, and that the country must leave the correction of all these evils to the He publican party.acting through its caocu se.a nd it? Congressmen, he fails to do justice to the intelligence ns wtll as the inlcgrity of the people at Urge. GKIEVANCE AM) KKMKIIY We Yankees are sometimes accused, as a neople of a mean thriftiness Vet our national housekeeping is on a scale ot free, not to say profligate, expendi ture ; and when we want any new arti cle of use or orjament, as a frozen peninsula, let us say, we do not haggle about the price. For example, liavir g been wheedled by smooth tongned pedlersof tho.se wares into the belief that a varied collection of railroads was a kind of furniture which no genteel nation should be without, wo have, up tQ tjlJa timJ) cxchanged therefor two hundred and twenty four millions of acres of public lands, not to speak of 8liii coatilcr iruarantcea of public credit And as if it were not enough to have parted with an area three times as large as that of Great Britain, and one day to bo of vast value, tho canny hucksters of lines yet unbuilt haunted Washington all last Ttiuter, offering to manufacture thoir invaluable and in dispensable goods for the ruinously small consideration of only one bun dred and eighty nine millions of acres more. While the fun of tho thinjj is if one is so good natured as to call it fun, that the trade turns out as bad none as trades with itinerant venders i commonly do, and government is found to havo no rights in tho matter which the railroads are bound to respect. For instance, whilo tho Treasury drops tho annual manna of two millions of dollars in tho desert-path of the bond-holders of the central Pacific, and California adds the honey and quails ot a yearly one hunred and five thousand dollars more, that Com pany grimly closes its cyos on the distresses of the of tho general Govern ment and calmly refuses tho requisi tion of tho State for its taxes. More over, it demands, and plainly means to have, tho Government military station of Goat Islan for its private uses. Nor, say unimpeachable witnesses, is tho Central Pacifiic Directory more aggressivo in its intent, moro unscroup. ulous in its methods, more sordid in determine. Coal to day, is forty per cent dearer than in August 187-, and is pre-determincd to advance ten cents per ton a month during tho carry Fng season, at the arbitrary decree of the cloe coporation cf transportation com panies which controls its conveyance. Y"et at last year's prices, these seven companies, each and all, declared divi dends varying from ten to twenty per cent. If, this year, the cains rise to forty per cent, they will have been paid chiefly by men whose richest earthly dividend is endless labor . The owners of salt-works hint that unless they submit to be ' struck," the tariff of freight (n their wares is virtually prohibitory. The share-holders of certain mines whisper that the rates on orcsMnft as their vot?s and iufiuence are valuable or worthies to the railroidp. Small land owners falter, that when they have improved their property along the line of suburban roads, they have no assurance that the manage ment, having acquired new tracts! will not shift the route, on some pre text of flortening or straightening it, and make their estates valule. We bring no railing accusuations aaist diguitancp. Wc do not swear to the truth of this indictment. But many sober and judicious men make oath to it, unresorvedly. And if it be false, then the railroad leagus, . like dive, mut stand astonished at its own moderation. For the seventy thousand miles ot railway in the United States are today controlled, if not owned, by fewer than ten companies. And these ten companies are mauibulated by fewer than one hundred men. The Pennsylvania Ccutral, for example, operates more than four thousand miles of track, makes leases for a thousand years, guarantees dividends for the fame millennium, and reaches out its hundred arms for every new aggran dizement. The New York Central sits, spidcr-like, in the web of its original charter, and daily catches new flies of weak, or unwary, or mismanage-! feeders. It is hard to say where this menacing monopoly will pause. The peopl feil themselves 'so helpless against it, its possible results are so appalling, that we are not surprised at the appeals ; mado to tin; Government to take con trol of th-j railroads. Yet, to our thiukiug. the petitioners would over turn the dynasty of King Log to establish the throne of Kinj; Stork. With a civil service which lives and moves and has ts beings in politic.il considerations, no remedy would lie in such an upheavel For the present underlying evil is the league between capitalist and politician. While, therefore, we suffered the passive disappointment of finding like the sinner in the old hymn, that " 'tis a poor relief we gain to change the place but keep the pain,'' we should have committed the active error of creating a dannerous precedent. We have not yet ovcrcomo our war habit of looking on with approbation while the govern ment assumed extraordinary powers. And tho projects of a national universi ty, a national telegraph line, natiooal railways do appeal to the imagination. But, abstractly, government has no more business to mcddlo with these interests than it has to regulate the price of flour, or the rates on a turn piko. If we give up this principal, our last state will be worse than our first. But, if government cannot interfere, governors of government can The remedy of these sufferers lies, as it seems to us, in their own votes. Individually they are poor and weak. Collectively they are rich and strong If they will combine for their own protection as the railroad oligarchy has combined for its own advancement, they are masters of tho situation. If is an easy formula. It is a hard achieve ment. For these men arc biunl hand I and foot, in many cases, i by the companies, and an independent vote is NO 26 bought with present loss or "J ruin. Nevertheless, it is the only way, and the sooner it is followed the better. The unple&aant truth is that the farmers have shirked politics as being to busy to attend to them, while they, have gloried in the goad and made their talk of bullocks, . and forgotten the general good in their selfish seeking of narrow ends; while the railway corporations, not fiends nor stones, but men also forgetful of the general good in their selfish seeking of narrow ends, have easily outfitted them. One plain moral of the story h, that no American citizen eao afford to palter with the clear duty of casting an intelligent, honest, fearless baJbt. TTie- poor farmers, who have despised this obligation, reap a great bwden- of personal hardships. The rich corpor ations which have defied it, bribing-, selling, buying aud stealing votes when ever they found it necessary, reap the greater loss of personal probity. And the great Republic -sits shame faced because of these money-changers in their holiest temple, but knows, meanwhile, that the whips are slowly phiting which shall scourge thett forth. Christain Union. . o COMPULSORY EDUCATION. It is a fact, conceeded by all, thai nDt only in the pulpit, but on the lycfum platform, Henry Ward Beecher is one of the mot effective and able speakers in this country. We present the fullowiog as the essential points in bis lecture on Compulsory Education. Mr. Beecher began by ayiog : Thought passed in wares. At one time all Europe was discussing war problems ; then politics ; again theology. Very many of those matters which once commanded the most thorough research and study wore now considered of no account whatever. Now a more important and practical question was attracting universal attention educa tion occupies the mind of the civilized world common, rudimental instruction of the masses, and not the peculiar privileges of the more favored casses and for this he pleaded. In Great Britain the church question had be come; subordinate to that of education, and now the query of most importance was, Who shall instruct the children shall the priest or the people ? Plain ly it was the duty of the citizen and of goverment. The priesthood had done good service, but their day had gone, and education h d become the duty of the State. In Great Britain it bid como to be considered the God-given right of the people, and German influence was being felt all over Europe. The German Empire owed its solidity to its schools. It was the intelligence of the North Gcrmsn soldiery that conqurcd Austria, and she was learning wisdom from her conqueror. In Italy and Switzerland education has been made compulsory, while France laga behind ia the bottom State because her masses ate ignorant; and may never hope to cope with her neighbors while such is the ease. Governments have long been trying to learn how best to ride the people, and it has proven that the best saddle is intelligence that knowledge implies good citizenship. Education is military' force, and our civil conflict was leally the Northern school against the South ern plantation. The most intelligent people produce the greatest wealth per capita) our country leading among, the nations, and Connetticut among the States. The patent records showed one invention to every 831 people in that State, while in Arkansas only one in 37,000 knew enough to invent anything Priocs aro regulated by the amount of brains required in prodution, and combinations can no more produce uniformity than they can make men look alike. The man who has tho most brains receive the best pay, and CoutluJ(J on fourth pnCe.