Rich folks can do wh it poor folks don’t dare
to do The public declaration made recently
; by Mr. Breckinridge, a memlrei of * ongri s, is
| awful w contemplate. Ho said: “There is not
a low that gives protection to any industry but
what yyas a private lobby. There
is not a provision that has not some
private interest Behind it and some paid advo
cate to see that it is not disturbed. Legisla
tures have been bought; governors nominated,
and congressmen purchased to keep certain
provisions in the law.”
Some times I think that may bo it would bo
better to pay tho members fifty thousand dol
lars a year and be done with it, or to ask a man
his price and pay it. and then swear him on a
skull und bones not to take a bribe or steal, or
in any way dodge his duty.
May the good Lord help us, and not put on
a suffering people any more than they can
bear. Bill Aar.
I’. S. —Please let mo say to numerous cor
respondents that the address of my boys (our
boys), who are publishing that nickle-platod
magazine, is “Editor New York Gazette, 151
Nassau street. New York.”
boothFcgnshracy.
Lewis T. Powell. Alias Payne, the Desperado
of the Party.
From the Washington Evening Star.
