The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-28

American people TO play "follow your leader"
but If everybody were TO follow the possible
President of the United States, we should all
fall plump into social and political chaos
Why need these radicals and ultra-radicals
olamor for confsoation, and even for an equal
division of property 7 The war has antici-
pated their wishes, as far and as fast as 1t is
possible to realize them. It has already dis
tributed and scattered wealth with ven
geance. We are now "paying the piper" in
the distribution of the national capital at the
alarming rate of five hundred million dollars
year, and but very few years will be re-
uuired 70 consummate its wholesale oon6sca-
tion. Why cannot Mr.. Wade and his friends
rest satisfied with this cheerful prospect
The extravagant ideas which Senator Wade
has expressed can have been generated only
by the pure and rarafed air on the Western
prairies or on the Western mountains, by
"mountain dew"
When the excursion party visited Pine Knob
Chevalier Train stood and spoke aloud on the
summit of the mountain ftseven hundred feet
above the plain below" As a Bowery b'hoy
would ask, "Isn't that high 2' But this con-
tractor for railroads and ramrods, organizer of
political parties, fifth wheel of the Fenian
coach, pufier of water-cure establishments,
and ubiquitous traveller, was on tip-toe for
yet higher flights. 'Exoelsior' is the text
which he took for a farrago of nonsense and
self-laudation. He whirls his Kaleidoscope
around so rapidly that bewildering confusion
makes 1t difficult at first to see what he is
driving at. But with little patience we dis
cover that he deems il necessary to deny that
he is ga d--d fool or a lunatio." In his own
opinion, at least he is afflicted, not with soft
ening of the brain, but only with hardening
of the heart. His cry is, 'Down with England
and up with America"
He advocates high tariff, saying he "could
forgive the Bounty bill, the confscation threat,
the military reconstruction, and the impeach-
ment fizzle; but there is no excuse for Con-
gress playing into the hands Of England on the
question of life or death to America" He
asserts, correctly enough, "that Columbus was
right about the short road to India, and that
America could build, while battlefield were
red with blood, great railway across the en-
pire." He recognizes woman as man and a
brother. To sum it all up, he concludes by
exclaiming, "If were demagogue my plat
form would be, woman suffrage, Reputation,
and hell fire ~
We know nothing which resembles in alb
surdity what Chevaler Train calls 'these Iron
Mountain ideas,'' and what Senator Wade
jumps at as ''the new ideas of the age;" unless
it be the folly of Gerrit Smith and Horace
Greeley in going bail for JEFF. Davis at Rich
mond. The former are absurd in theory, the
latter absurd in action.
The letter of Chevalier WilSof requires no
comment. We must say, however, that it is
refreshing to turn from such ridiculous demon
strations as those of Senator Wade and Cheva-
lier Train to this lucid and forcible exposition
of the actual political situation, of the causes
which have led to it, and of the responsible
|. ties which grow out of it.