Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-10-30
California PoIities.

IL Is hfghly gratifying TO those who desire
to see the Empire of the Pacific prosperous
and happy, to know, that there is not pa
per however small, or whatever it's political
predictions may be, but can tell the pre-
else manner in which the desired end is TO be
attained. All, Of course, are willing to
grant that it is TO be accomplished by the
aid of the California press. There is no ques.
tiona bout that. The press is powerful en-
gine." The only reason that a political
millennium has not arrived long since, is SIM
ply because these powerful engines" are
divided as to the modus Operandi of bring.
ing about the desired end, and their hun
dred imps are tngging at the Archimedian
levers in different directions. Perhaps. af-
ter all, it is best that such is the case, for if
this immense power was pulling in one di.
rect:on, it would, as matter of course out
strip all other powers, or combinations, and
might become powerful for evil. If this was
not the result, the immense force with which
such power would reverberate from Las
sens Peak to Mount Diablo, and from Judge
Cranes Congressional District to the more
populous territory of San Quentin, would
leave fearful wreck of Editorial heads,
scraps and scissors in its wake.
If the great majority of the people on the
Pacific slope, would realize and acknowledge
one little fact which portion of the press
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heavy skulls, there is no doubt but that
political millennium would at once be realized
at least to the class known as professional
Office seekers. The people must admit and
acknowledge that the right to hold office be-
longs exclusively to them-that but one
section Of the Union is capable of pro-
duciDg patriots and statesmen, or even
men of good common sense--and when they
signify their willingness to accept of public
positions, they must be given them without
why or wherefore. The people should un.
derstand that, when these professional office
seekers "ope their mouths" no other dog is
to be permitted to bark. They are pecul.
iarly qualified to become Office holders or
gamblers, and the latter business is on the
decline.
Another class, and probably the more nu-
merous, seek avenues of legitimate business
for livlihood, regard politics as privilege,
and official position as a reward of merit, to
which the talents and requirements of the
recipient should be justly entitled--as fa-
vor not to be sought nor declined. They
have no inclination to neglect business, to
dabble in politics.
To our notion of things, the true policy is
between the two extremes. The former err
ror is absurd and symptomatic of shallow
understanding, as it bears upon practical
questions and Obstrncts useful reforms. The
latter may be equally absurd, and redeemed
only by its modesty. Both should be COM
batted, for both produce prejudical effects,
by placing the best and worst men upon the
same level. The one is bad and the other
very indolent, specimen of American free
men of the nineteenth century. The advo-
Gates of the former wonld have the press re-
main silent upon the merits of their class,
or merely relate what it is scandal not to
know, and leave it to the self.complacency
of the class to convince the public that they
are the true statesmen and patriots of the
age, and the authors of the most important
inventions in political science, while in real
ity they are but the devotees, whose vile
abuses cluster thick around every glorious
event, and every venerable name. These
evils assuredly call for vigorous measures of
literary police, that the people may clear
the precincts of their political temple of the
gangs of thieves and prostitutes, and licensed
stews that infest and surround it,
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FERoclous BEAsT,-A little boy, not quite
two years old, was attacked by ferocious
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