Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1877 — A Point Wen Made, if the Premises are True. [ARTICLE]

A Point Wen Made, if the Premises are True.

It appears’that, on one occasion, Mr. Schurx moved 'in the • Csbiimt of the Fraudulent President to ostrtbitth the rule that no editor or publisher of a newspaper should bo appointed to utry dflfefe under tbo present Administration; and this prop-’ osition he is said to have maiitiiarned with pertinacious argument. If Mr. fjchurx will look into the Constitution find the laws of the country, U 6 will find that there is not 1 ono wofd in them authorizing sueh proscription against newspaper editors or publishers. They are cit- - ixens with the same rights a 3 others, and there is no valid reason for putting them under the ban in the manner which' My. Schurx desires. So far as our experience goes, i* very rarely happens that newspaper men are willing tq take office. Sometimes, however, tho case mpy-ariso in which it i&iheir duty to lay aside their own occupuiio.y.s, no mutter how interesting or lio.w profitable, iu order to devote themselves to tue service of their country in hu official sphere; and whenever one ,Of them can discharge the duties of a public office better limn any other person, it is certainly desirable that he should be appointed to that office if he is willing to take It. Mr. Seinin'h prohibition in ;n«t os foolish as it is illegal, ft is aii ias ructiva fact that if the rule which Mr;'Schurz auvucates had been .established by law a year ago, it would have been impossible for him to occupy hjs present place iu the Cabinet of the Fraudulent Freeideni, because when be was appointed t*’ that place his name appeared ntl'ihe head of the YVestliclie Post of St. Louis ns one of i s editors. So far. ns 8oh«n-is concerned, it would undoubtedly have been a good thing if such a law had, been in force; but'it will not do to set aside the Constitution in order to prevent every tharlafan from getting into public station,—-New’York Shin.