| Show RAPACITY OF THE LIBERALS THOSE queer local partisans partI who are so fond nond of styling themselves liberals 11 are equally fond of boasting that they are greatly given to reform and to public economy and that they are the unadulterated friends of the peaple in these respects and in everything that conduces to the prosperity 2 welfare and happiness of the community upon any one at all acquainted with the of the more kroml 4 nent cent t and energetic of those liberal fellows such pretensions have very little effect a smile of derision or a frown of indignation being equally a waste of expression in tile the connection with positive incredulity are those pretensions invariably rec received elved asare as are tile the divers slanders of lio nored citizens by the rabid I 1 ill gli liberal beral in mouthpieces ou th pieces professions fes feas lons ions of political virtue are made with infinite facility unblushing impudence and reckless unscrupulousness lou ious ness by Li littral biral characters whose genuine virtues it would be difficult to discover with a microscope of moat roost searching power to us there is abut sjanet c tf f sil sll faction that tho choso so boastful 4 liber biber als are among tile tiie most rapacious of mortals with all their trickery i and misrepresentation and sweeping together of disaffected turbulent lawless elements V of r society they actually make out to muster one tenth of the innabi tants of the territory those few persons imagine and add proclaim that it is their due to rule tho the other I 1 nine tenths notwithstanding the fundamental principle that all government ern ment general and arld local in this republic rests tests upon the consent of the people that is upon the con bent petit of as many of tho the people as I 1 possible and especially upon the colasent consent of the fair and clear majority of the people so far as the people at large have the opportunity to fairly indicate their wishes those liberal fellows do da not have the faintest t shadow of a chance to occupy the tiie least ti 0 most insignificant ollace office in lil tile the gift of the people chicanery misrepresentation slander and pr prejudice judice iudice have more or lebs leps iol lol influence luence with tile the federal appointive power and this is how those corrupt liberals attain to power in this community they do not stand upon the their own individual merits but upon lies hes and slanders and prejudice concerning infinitely better citizens than they are those liberals have now the federal offices for lur the territory a almost wholly in their unclean hands and have recently goaded congress to passa pass pabs a law ma increasing their offices and emoluments by correspondingly diminishing the offices in the tile gift of the tile people and still till they are unhappy they covet more much more like the horseleech horse leecil leech they are continually crying give give 21 their lust for power and plunder is insatiable such is their rapacity that though representing by their own showing not nol more than one tenth of the tile people they actually lunge after and endeavor to seize seize ty hook or by crook no matter liow how all local offices that they may dip their sticky fingers into the public treasury and spend the taxes which the whole people pay how those taxes would be spent if got at by those liberals liberali would bourd be a stinger of a caution to the tax pay erh ers they would melt away faster than the morning dew before the blazing sun and the leephe cry would still be give givel give such has been the rapacity of those libe bibe liberals ra is that they have llave already procured red a provision provi sion of U S law jaw unprecedented in its cha character and made applicable nowhere only in this thu terii Teril territory tory where those economical liberals prey a provis provision lonto to pay federal officials out of the local taxes paid by the people for very diffie different rent reut purposes this is 14 a very apposite illustration of the wonderful carefulness with which the Liberal liberala 0 mean to handle the local taxes I 1 if they tiley can get their hands into the treasury box those liberals liberals are so stupendously economical and liberal that they are anxious and have procured a law to take of the local taxes contributed by the citizens of this territory to pay the public officers of the united states which has hag forty millions of people and a revenue of between and this is the way those rapacious liberals would reform and economize in the tile disbursement of the local taxes |
