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Show WHERE WILL IT END 1 " It is tho Infer-(hean, that grand administrative journal, which, pub-: lished in Chicago, undertakes to lec-1 ture the entiro western administration press, and teach them their political duties, that asks this important question, ques-tion, "Where will it End?" having reference to another of those public defalcations of ninety or a hundred thousand dollars. The first Napoleon, when his faithful faith-ful admirer, and honest historian, Bourricnne, was accused of this grave and great crime of peculation, acting act-ing upon the principle that " Cesar's Ce-sar's wife should be above suspicion," did not even wait to give his future historian an opportunity of explaining, but turned him adrift without explanation. expla-nation. This was deemed unjust by the numerous friends of the discarded minister; but our "later Napoleon" somebody will please pardon the quotation takes a course so directly opposite to tho Corsican, by retaining retain-ing in office public thieves, and condoning con-doning the offences of others, that the query of tho Inter-Ocean comes like a piece of keen sarcasm which few have the courage to admit. We are told that General Grant, having fears of the Republican organization or-ganization at the next Presidental election, is already coquetting with the Democratic party, hoping by their increased influence to secure a third nomination and election to office, of-fice, as a repentant Democrat and a good member of the true fold, led astray for a tunc. To use the expressive phrase of Chaucer and Shakespear, this is "too thin." He sticks by his party as he did when he played traitor to Andy Johnson; and he manipulates his army of office-holders as he did his host before Richmond; slaughters companies, battalions or regiments, but keeps the grand army intact for political purposes by judiciously made recruits. We might amwer the In(:r-Or,'in's query briefly by saying, "When rogues are punished and honest men orotected" by government. Last year there were some nineteen thousand thous-and dollars of government defalcations defalca-tions in Prussia, and every culprit was Bent to the public prison; in America you can find defaulters to the tune of more than nineteen millions, mil-lions, who are honored and respected members of society. |
