Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-10-14
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true equality may there be found there la
/ Dor IS honorable, and secures a competency
and individual independence wealth is accu-
lnulated, but is used rather in beautifying
life and extending the area and productive
ness of cultivated ground than in speculative
channels where it tends to create belief in
its own superiority, and often makes its sue
cesstul YotarIes look with naughty eve Cpon
the tOlling millions. OF all the aristocracies
IN the world, the pseudo -aristocracy Of money
has least intrinsic merit, and is the most con-
tenptible. Refinement of manners, educa-
ton and intelligence is often found III arlsto-
cratic classes that are recognized by the laws
of despotIc or monarcbial governments; but
in the would- be-aristocracy of money, where
mans value is measured only by the amount
of dollars in his possession, we find no such
redeeming features; vulgarity and ignorance,
dOubly repulslye and more apparent because
bedecked with gold are its distinctive marks.
He who despises honest labor, because by in
hertance, fortune or accident, means suffi-
cient have been placed in his hands 10 supply
his wants without contributing himself TO his
own existence, deserves our contempt; so
long, however, as he does not attempt to use
his wealth in oppression of his fellow men,
we may we'll pass him by with i smile. But
there Is another and a more dangerous class,
who believe in nothing but the p0reT Ct ~ NJ
eY, and who strive to rule mankind by it for
their own selfish and ambition. ends; they
endeayor to exemplify the doctrine of orig
Inal sin" by building their hopes and found
ing their plans upon the yenality and corrup-
ton Of the human race. These are often men
of wealth. mostly Of il-gotten wealth, whose
avarice or ambition prompts them To use IL
for the attainment of political power. Closely
allied with them, often their tools some
times their masters, the INSCRIPTIONS
demagogues, who, with glib tongue, feigning
zeal and honesty in popular cause, endeay-
or TO ride into Office and power by fattery and
deception. They know no scruples of con-
science and no honesty in politics success,
no matter how, or by what crooked and
shameful means obtained, is all they look to
and strive for. Loyola's famous doctrine that
the end sanctifes the means is the Alpha and
Omega Of their political faith. Intrigue and
deceit Is the native element Of the true dem
ogogue he attaches himself to Il political
party not because of the principles it repre-
SCENTS, but because Of the spoils of Office and
position which he seeks to obtain through its
machinery. IN his view, political preterment
must be earned by political chicanery and
taVOutIsm, and not by an honest and faithful
discharge of duty. The political history Of
this country, and particularly that of some of
the larger eastern cities, presents unfortunate
" many striking examples Of this kind. 1t is
in these cities especially that such men have
found "a favorable field for their operations
partly on account of the apathy of a large
portion of its citizens who so much en-
crossed with their own private pursuits that
they take little or no part in political discus
sIOus and actions, partly on account of the
large IntermiNture Of the baser elements Of
mankind, who always congregate more extern
sIyely in larger places. The purer, healthier,
more watchtul population of the agricultural
districts are not.so easily duped; they are
more Jealous of their political rights, and
generally exhibit more interest in the exercise
thereof; when once they have discerned the
true character of a demagogue or deceitfu
politician, he will find no favor in their eyes,
and though party interests and higher consid-
erations even may uphold him for a time,
they viii disuyow him in the end. Thus it i
that true democratic and republican govern
mcnt has its strongest foundation in the love
Of freedom and liberty, intelligence and indie
pendcnce Of the rural population. Far be it
from me to DENY these attributes to the in
Labitauts of cities and towns | am speaking
in a collective, not in an individual sense.
Civilization demands the existence Of large
cities as ii does the cultivation Of the ground:
they have their advantages and merits as well
as their Disadvantages and dement's; good
and bad honest and dishonest, honorable and
dishonorabie, patriotic and unpatriotic men
are found in all walks of life, in the crowded
streets and tcuements OF a city; in the more
quiet and retired houses of smaller towns and
villages in the solitary homes Of the farmer,
and even upon the deep blue waters of the
ocean that Is here and there turrowed by
swiftly gliding keel in the lowly hut, and
III tie richly furnished palace Blu, the world
over. and in all ages, marked difference has
existed does row and will continue to exist
between the character, collectively speak
inc. ana the manners of the city and the
country people, produced by different mode
of life, different pursuits, and different cir
cumstauccs surrounding, and tending TO form
the character of man. Probably this distinc-
ton = less marked in our country than in
Europe, but to-day its existence would Ice
folly Perhaps the quick-beating pulse and
more easily affected nerves of a large city
population are as necessary to the existence
of healthy body polite as the more thought
ful quiet and steady character of the rural
districts. but / would rather trust the exis-
tcnce Of tine republic TO a purely agricultural
people. than to a couglomeration Of large and
over-crowded cities living on manufactures
and commerce. The history of France pre-
SCENTS a striking example in this direction
"Paris IS France has often been said and
truly said il rules France; the peasautry of
France Is far behind the city population in
intelligence and education; whatever the
people OF Paris have undertaken, the PROV
inces have soon submitted TO- Twice have
the people OF that country established re
public after bloody revolution. by which they
DESTROYED the existing order of things and
drove their monarchs and aristocracy into ex-
lie but they have each time. after a brief
period Of trial signaliy failed TO maintain a
republican government, and have permitted
ambitions men soon to dethrone the goddess
OF liberty and press the imperial crown upon
their own temples. 1t IS not difficult to ac-
count for the peculiar versatility Of this re-
markable nation who are SO prolific in ingcn-
ious theories of free government and the
rights of man. which they seem to be utterly
unable to maintain in practice; whose mighty
shouts for freedom equality and universal
brotherhood" that to-day hurl their own mon
archs from power, make the thrones of Eu-
rope shake and tremble, and consecrate the
birth OF a new republic as the exponent of
their IouE-S0ught for liberty and freedom, are
followed tomorrow by the equally ardent
shouts Of .'Nive I EmpereUrm The half
tanned hon breaks his cage, shakes his name,
deyouyS his master, roams about in his newly
won but unaccustomed freedom for few days,
and then. under the iron grasp of a new mas
ter, docile and cowed, he returns TO his old
prison whose iron bars are freshly and more
strongly forged. Paris i France solves the
ar5.~r7a The r,eOTlp of that great mprrar0liS