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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
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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.
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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.