New York Herald, “Sham Retrenchment,” January 27, 1859

    Source citation
    “Sham Retrenchment,” New York Herald, January 27, 1859, p. 4.
    Newspaper: Publication
    New York Herald
    Newspaper: Headline
    Sham Retrenchment
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    4
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    SHAM RETRENCHMENT. – The Richmond Enquirer, with all its recent aberrations, sometimes hits the nail on the head. It does this particularly in a late article on the “sham retrenchments” commenced in the House of Representatives at Washington, in the abolition of foreign missions, and in the work of reducing the small salaries of the poor clerks of the executive departments, and in indignantly laying upon the table a paltry bill of five thousand dollars for extra clerk hire from the Post Office Department, when the great lobby job of the public printing, ranging from half a million to a million of spoils per annum, is left untouched. The jobs and schemes of the lobby constitute the real business of Congress in this matter of retrenchment. Let the House proceed to work in this mine of millions and tens of millions of spoliations and extravagances, and the country will believe they are in earnest. But this saving at the spiggot while pouring out at the lobby bunghole, will never replenish the treasury.

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