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saker Carlisle ou the Prostitu
tion of the Government.
National Democrat-
One of the most discouraging
signs of the times is The growing
disposition among certain classes
of the people to rely upon the gov
ernment for assistance in the pros
ecution of their private business.
The spirit of independence and
self-reliance which in former times
constituted.the chief characteris
tic of the American citizen 1 ; and
made him enterprising and suc
cessful in business, as well as a
safe custodian of political power,
£ I is rapidly disappearing, and in
nearly every branch of industry
there is a persistent demand 10c
governmental aid ill one form or
another. So general has this dis-
positioa already become that our
legislative bodies^ sfcate.aucl feder
al, are crowded .at every session
with measures which have no ctb
er foundation than a selfish pur
pose to promote the private inter
ests of particular individuals or
’classes., and the biisinesss of real
public importance is too often en
lively neglected, or carelessly dis
posed of iu older to reach the
coT-sideWt’’c>u of these private,
schemes. Hie real purposes
these selfish, schemes are never
confessed by their advocates.
There is always an ostentatious
parade of patriotic sentiment and
regard for the general welfare^ and
by this ibeans the majority of the
people, who In every case afe coih r
pelled to bear the burdens imposed
by class legislation, are frequently
seduced with the support of meas
ures, wh'ch.would not be tolerated
if thoroughly understood.
This scramble for subsidies,
boun ties and special legislation in
all its various forms is demoral
izing and injurious in all its as
pects. It not only destroys the in
dependence of the beneficiaries,
but it prostitutes the powers bf
the government, debauches legis-
lati ve bodies and corrupts the elect
ive franchise itself. This was not
intended to be a paternal govern
ment. It is neither a charitable
institution nor a joint stock co-po-
ratiou created Tor the purpose bf
transacting, or assisting iu the
transaction, of ordinary business;
but all the powers it possesses ai e
delegated to it for pablic purposes
only, and every attempt . to exer
cise them fbf the benefit of the
few at the expense of the many,
however it may be disguised, is a
palpable departure from the spirit
of the constitution. “Equal rights
for all and exclusive privileges for
none,” is not only good democracy,
but a sound constitutional maxim
which ought never to be violated.
In the prosecution of these
schemes for private gain, powerful
combinations are nearly always
formed. The personal interests
of large classes of voters are ap
pealed to, and tlie public man who
dares to oppose them is vigorous
ly denounced as an enemy to the
industry, or enterprise proposed to
be benefited, and, if he persirtsj is
threatened with defeat at the polls.'
And too often this threat is actual
ly executed. By these means, or
others still more reprehensible
the opposition is generally over
poise sbonei or later, and the
measure is passed. ’ If an attempt
is afterward made to repair the
WTong thus done to the great body
of the people,' it is successfully re
sisted apon the ground that the
faith of the government has been
pledged, and that large in
terests-have grown up under the
law, which would be ruined by a
withdrawal of the gratuity. The
legislature is at no time permitted
to consider such a measure on its
real meritsi The passage is se
cured by coercion and false pre
tenses, and its" repeal is prevented
by arguments which have no rela
tion to its original | necessity or
propriety. The whole process is
deceptive and dishonest, and no
legislative body can be long sub
jected to the influences which
usually prevail in such cases with
out provoking at least a suspicion
of corruption and want of fidelity
ous form in which this- demand
for special legislation,. or special
favors at the hands of. the govern
ment, exhibits itself, is in the cor
rupt use of money at elections,
which debauches alike the electors
and the elected. No serieus : at
tempt is made to conceal the fact
that during every important con
test enormous amounts of money
are raised by cectato classes and
combinations of iodiyiduals, who
usually manifest little or no inter
est in the general politics of the
country, to be secretly .expended
iu promoting the election or par
ticular candidates, whose official
action it is supposed will be par
tial to the private interests of the
contributors to this fund. If the
amount contributed by these indi
viduals find combinations during a
single campaign, and the manner
of its expenditure, 'could be Cor
rectly ascertained, it would startle
the whole country, and might pos
sibly result in a general condem
nation of the selfish projects,
which ave undoubtedly the princi
pal sources of this species of cor
snption. Here, indeed, is one of
the strongholds which the advo
cates of a pure ballot Didst demol
ish before any substantial reform
can be effected. When it is dis
tioctly understood that public sen
timent will no longer tqleiete fa
voritism in legislation or abuse of
official authority for the purpose
of promoting private pecuniary in
terests, the temptation to raise and
expend money in the purchase of
votes will be greatly diminished,
and our elections will depend more
upon the merits of the public
questions involved and less upon
the CbSiipfc p> a cl ices of skill
ful and uns'criwidous eohbioaU.oos
and their hired emissaries. The
occupation of the professional ma
nipulator of. voles, in which some
have already achieved a national
reooi.riborj; will cease to be profil-
able, and the citizen who casts an
honest bailofc will have some assu
re ube.that be is participating in
on actual expression of the popu
lar will, and not taking a useless'
part in a useless ceremony.
J. G. CGiivrsLK
An Anecdote of Stephen Girprd. | Don't Men tic n the Briers.
American Union.
Seeing a story about old Stephen!
Girard the other day reminded mel It is not only a wise and happy
of an incident that showed one of | thing to make the best of life, and
his pebhliarities, says a writer in : always look oh the bright side, for
It may be stated with confidence
that a democrat will be electfd to.
succeed the late Congressman
Cox. The district is strongly
democratic.- It is probable that
there will soon be another vacan
cy in the New Yoi.k delegation.
Congressman Nulltogis in wretch
ed health, and His dtofcli may be
expected at any time. If he should
die while in office, his successor
would no doubt be a republican,
as His majorities have been above
10,000.
A young man in Hahford, Cali
fornia, called upon a barber and
bad his hair cut. As usual, the
barber applied sopie oil to the
head ’of his customer, and the
young man retired to his blankets
that night, but about 2 o’clock to
the morning he awoke wITi the
feeling that somebody was trying
to saw the top of his cranium off.
Upon lighting a lamp He found
that the only trouble was that the
oil on His Hair Had attracted a few
thousand ants.
Dakota, Montana, and Wash
ington Territory are as large as
Great Britain, the German Em
pire, the Netherlands and Switz
erland, all of which have 90,000,-
000 population, while there are
only 1,000,000 people in the for
mer territories.
The Georgia farmers and edi
tors who excarted to Ohio have
had . their pictures taken in a
group.
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the Globe-Democrat. Girard had
a drayman who was decidedly a
doorman. One day the drayman,
who whs an industrious, bright
fellow, with a good many mouths
lo fill at Horae, washeard to re
mark that he wished he was rich.
“What’s that?” sharply said
Girai’d, who had heard the grum
ble. “Oh,” said the man, “I Was
only wishiug I was rich.” “Well,
why don’t you get rich?” said; the
millio’.K'ire, harshly. “I don’t
know how, without money,” return
ed the drayman. “You don't nee j
money,” said Girard. “Well, if
you tv ill tell me how to,. get rich
without money, I won’t let .the
grass grow before trying it/’ said
the oilier. “There is going - .; to, be
a shipload oI confiscated tea sold
at miction to-morrow, at the wharf;
>0 down there and buy it, and
then come to ,me.” The man
laughed. “I have no money to
buy a shipload of tea with’,” He
said. ; “You’do.i t need any money!
l tell yon,” sni pped the old ma-iV
“Go down and bid. in the whole
cargo, and then come to me.” The
next day the drayman went down
to the sale. A large crowd of re
tailers Were present, and the aud,-
tidbeer said those present would
have the privilege of taking one
case, or the whole shipload, ar 1
that the bidding would be on the
poun'd. The sale the a began. . A
retail grocer started the bidding,
a ad the draj man raised him. On
seeing this the crowd ga zfd with
no small amount of surprise.
Wee 3 Jifie case was ^knocked ilifwn
the drayman, Lhe auctioneer
d he supposed the buyer de
sired o ily one case. “I’ll take the
whole shipload,” cooUy -returned
the sncdefjiall bidder. The auc
tioneer Was • astonished, but on
some one v hispering to him that
it was Girard’s man who was the
bidder, hifi manner changed, and
he said he supposed it was all
right. The news soon spread that
Guar d was baying tea in large
quantities, and tlie next day the
price rose several cents! “Go an 1
sell your tea,” said Girard to the
drayman next day. The drayman
was shrewd, and He ifelithgtaiid
inadecontracts with several brokers
the to take the stock at a shade be
low market price,thereby makiMg a
quick sale. In a few hours he was
worth $50,030.
took at This Picture, Too.
While the high-tariff journals
fere directing attention to the fact
that the London strikes took place
in a free trade country! and are
due. to, the! Carrying out of the
ideas bf Cobden and Blight, it
may be well for them to turn their
attention to the condition of the
people in highly-protected Germa
ny. According to Mr. Moeller,'
the American Cogsul-Geneul at
Frankfoittofi-ffce-main, German
Workmen are now worse off at the
end of the year than they were at
the beginning, although the crops
have been good. This lamenta
ble state of affairs is, iu Mr.
Mueller’s cpinion, due to the high
duties laid on breadstuff 1 even
more than it ia owing to tlie. ever-
iacre--lug demands of the govern
ment for money to ■ be expended
qn lie army.—Eroni the New
York Post.
Lord Suckville-West, who. at
tracted extended attention hereby
an autograph letter he sent to one
Murchison, is about to begin a
contest of the late Lord Sacksnlle’s
wilt I t had been . expected that
there would be a compromise, but
this is no longer looked for. Sir
Henry James will represent the
four maids of honor, who are’ par-
1 ties of the second part
Springfield, Ohio, is piping nat
ural gas.
one's own sake, but it is a blessing
to others. Fancy a man forever
telling his family how much they
cost! A little sermon on this sub
ject was unconsciously preached
by a little child one day last .fall.
I A man met a Tittle fellow in the
load carrying a basket of black
berries, and said *tq him: “Sammy,
where did you get such nice black
berries?”-
“Over there, sir, in the briers.”
“Won’t your mother be glad to
see you.come hone with a..basket
ful o ' such nice, ripe fruit.” ,,
"YesMlr,” said Sammy, “sfe
always seems glad when I hold up
the bern'es, and I don’t tell hf.r
an) thing about the briers in my
feet/’ , . •
The man rode on.. .Sammy’s re
marks had given hi.it a lesson, and
he resolve! that heiioefotjih ; h§
would try to hold up the berries
and sav entiling about the briers.
Wield the Eight Influence.
Savannah News.
She Couldn’t Be Fooled.
The'Italianwho.ruDS the pea-
hut stand at the corner of Wood-
arc^veuae and Congress street
was turning his peanut roaster the
other., akeniqon with sibtk and
measured hand, when an old wo
man cc me to a halt and carefully
observed the operation. After
scrutinizing the roaster frgm ev
ery side she finally gave it up find
reiharie!;-
“No, sir; you don’t get a cent
out of me for no such music as
that. Why* I can’t catch: half of
any uf the tunes, fend it smells as
if something was burning inside.”
—Detroit Free Press.
An Accommodating Boss.
A gang of men were at work on
a city street when a slight, beard
less youth, laid down 1m pick, and
approaching the foreman, said to
him: -
“Can 1 take e-fit, sir?”
“Take what?” asked the fore
man. f
- &■> -*»
“A fit—I feel onq coming on,’
replied the young man, without
emotion.
( “Wby, eerlainly/* said the fore-
thani
So the young man walked over
to a bit of grass under a.Ieafy tree-
it was a new street in the sub
urbs—and had a fit.
Then he went and washed his
face, came back to his place in the
line, took up his pick and struck
into work. After ,the ; dqy’s work
young man said to
A good many- - northern people
are investing money in the south;
It pays>• 1 them ! to^p so.. ‘ r If they
are wise they will nae-^heh' influ.
ence to neutralize the 'effort the re*,
publican party is making to create
a fueling of hostility between the
whites and blacks in® the south*
with the hope of inducing, the
blacks to go to the polls and- vote
the republican ticket>. If the . rer
publican party continues to -pur£
sue its present course the labor of
the south will soon ,b e disorgan
ized, and the prosperifcy-kol the
south will receive a Bhopk - from
which it will not, so.on recover. ;) >
There are. well-meaningu people
in the north; doubtless, who be«
lieve the stories .of; the politicians
that the blacks in the., south . are
not well treated. Such j people
ought to visit the south aq.d satis*
fy themselves ou this point.^to It is
doubtful if any where, else in. th?
world is the laboring population
treated so well. • '
The blacks have the advantages
of the public schools without ,payj
ing anything ^toward the iuppeii
01 the schools. And it can be
truthfully said that the fichobls
are being steadily improved. • In*
deed, more money is being spent
in the soutl^, for school purposes:ip
proportion to her taxable w^altbi
than in any other portion of the
country. * :> n - .j.:./ <{
. The. whole amount appropriated
for schools in the south in :188Q
was $6,145,706. ;This . year it ia
$13,905,304. In behalf of publie
schools the south has put its- .
shoulder to the whe.el, and the rfe-=
suit has been great prepress in ed.
ucatjonal.matters in fill the south
ern states. ...
In the division; of The school
mphey no discrimination. iA ihad^
agfiinst the ,blacks. : They have all
the advantages,the whites havey
If they don’t improve it, it is their
Own fault.
.If the republican politicians,;of
tfie north will let the south alone,
and cease their efforts to make the
black vote a power in behalf of
their party, the south, by tfcq
of the century, will show-, an -ad*
vaflcement -fot,; material wealth
that will surprise the world,. and,
will prove her ability to solve the
race problem. -
over
thfi foreman
“You don’t mind my having fits?’
“No—I guess not if you do a
a fair day!s work.”
“Well, you see I used to work
for a butcher an’ he wouldn’t let
me take fits—said- -it interf erred
with business^—an’ 1 thought yon
might feel the same way aHcjutJt/’
And the young man works hard
with pick and shovel and takes a
fit once in a while as you or I
might take a drink of water!—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
When Presidefit Harrison .was
te the United. States Senate, , he
said in a speech: “I lift up a beaVty
prayer that we May never have, a
President .wfio willnpi | eitiiejr
pursue, or compel his: cabinet jad-
viserfitq pursue the,civil, service
policy pure and simple and, upop-'
a jdsfc basis.” That is the kind.of
civil service reform we would have
continued to have if /President
Harrison had not been elected.
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ceilings. Mortar made of quick-,
lime and sawdust, mixed with.-ce*
ment,ffc>es well for brick or stone
work. . ,----- ;•?
The queltion of whether a goat
could really eat rubber shoes was
settled in the affirmative, beyond
a doubt, in Williamsburg on Mon
day. A fireman provided the re
past and 4 venerable goat ate
them, red flannel lining and all.
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