48 HISTORY OF THE GRANGE MOVEMENT; OR, 



some Kansas men who showed a vast amount of right- 

 eous indignation over it, before their reelection, are, 

 now that their places are assured, helping the swindle 

 on. Alta Veta is coming up again, and to crown all 

 things,'if it is possible, the change in the Indian Bureau 

 is to be so managed as to place the present Indian ring 

 on a firmer foundation than ever. 



" The Republican party can now afford to rectify the 

 irregularities which have crept into all portions of the 

 Government while the great political battle with Rebel- 

 lion was going on. If those here, as its Congress, will 

 not free themselves from such things, the party need 

 not die if it only throws them overboard. There are 

 honest men enough who can take their places. Let the 

 press watch jobs when the recess closes and the outside 

 lobby, which is here in force, begins to work through 

 its Senators and Representatives." 



Commenting upon the same subject, the New York 

 Herald said, editorially : 



"The corruptions which have grown up in the 

 national government, from the general demoralizations 

 of our late civil war, are fearful to contemplate. One 

 hundred millions a year lost to the Treasury from the 

 spoliations of the whiskey rings ' beats out of sight' any 

 thing in the line of whiskey frauds under any other 

 government on the face of the globe ; but on a corres- 

 ponding scale with their field of operations, the Indian 

 rings, the Post-Office and Interior Department rings, 

 the tobacco rings, the frontier smuggling rings, and 

 various other rings, insiders and outsiders, jobbers, con- 

 tractors, Government officials and private speculators, 

 are pretty well up to the percentage of the enormous 

 stealings of the whiskey rings. The latest develop- 



