The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-01-14
Tho Public Demoralization.

The Public Decentralization.
The United States Economist, a
commercial paper that uniformly snse
tanned the late war and the course of
the Abolition administration in COM
mencing and continueing it, has come
to the conclusion that the war, instead
of the good it was believed by the
loyal to be, was curse of irreparable
magnitude. That paper crnfesses that
at no period in the history of the
county has there been such a general
and utter deprivation of public morals
as now exists, and summarizes the
presentconditi0n. The rights ofprop-i
erty and of person, the obligations of
of truth and the sacredness of social
virtue, appear to be losing their Won
ted hold ON the public mind and as d |
people we areFushing into a condition
of social anarchy and casting away all
the bonds that hold society in healthy
cohesion. The evidences of this de-
plorable tendency are appar event on
cry hand. Crime abounds everywhere
Shooting has become common meth
cd of avenging the most trivial wrongs
and every day brings its list of brutal
murdefs, committed for the sordd
object Of acquiring paltry amount of
pelf or to satisfy an unbridled passion
for revenge In the South, we have
a society, with extensive ramifcations,
the object of which is to assassinate
citizens. on account, of their political
opinions and even whole districts are
subjected to piunder and murder for
weeksby an organized s@militia,,
witk6ut sen1biallee OF law or authors
ity. In the North, we have voters
corrupted by tens ofthousands to car
CIV the elections by fraud. The young
men of the country are corrupted by
the inordinate thirst of wealth and the
extravaganza Of of private expenditure
and as the consequence are resorting
to forgery and deffaading their en-
ployers, to an alarming extent. The
revenue officers Of the Government
are shown, by constantly occurring
revelations, to be little better than an
armyof pidhdefefs, ehriching them
selves by collusions with fraud and
robbing the taxpayers to the extent
of untold millions every year. Even
our largest capitalists, who from their
great wealth might be assumed to be
above any dishonerable expedients,
are found using their positions in the
management Of large corporations for
the purpose, Of .augmenting their pri-
vate fortune, at the expense of the
stockholders aud the. interests they
hold in trust. Wrongs of this charac-
ter have now become SO. common, that
transactions which ten years ago
would have consigned their authors to
infany are regarded.as shrewd finan-
ciering and excite but passing re-
mark fact which .strikingly, shows
how sheS general moral sentiment of
the public has deteriorated.
This deplorable condition of things
as our cotemporary admits, is to be
regarded as one of the natural conse-
quenees Of the late war. War, and
especially civil war, is essential bar
barism. 1t is barbaric method of
settling the questions of civilization.
The same passions areacalled into op-
Grafton, and the same ascendancy OF
brute force over truth and right OBJ
tain, as in the case of wars between
barbaffc races; and when hostilities
cease, the lawless and violent habits
ofthe public mind dneohseiou sly rnr
on inlthei9 same dirertion. producing
justine state of things we are at pres
emf passing through. These barbara
tendencies are now running through
every ramifcation of our social life
and are retarding much more than W
are aware Of the progress of ciEiliza
ton, There is danger that a remed,
for this course of things should b
sought, in increasing the RESTRICTIVE
powers of the general government
this, indeed, is more than a danger
weseethe result being actually accom-
plishedp on,ea large scale; but this
clearly not the true remedy, but q
rggEavation Of existing evils Crisi
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Music schools are great institution
Mr.eJiggers, known in public as Sig
nor Jiggers, got hold of a pupil la'
week who was q horse and a hitcl
strap ahead of him. 70 iifitaii -...lll..i &. q
S.What iss ayoice ~ asked Jigger
sThe compound extract of wind" !"
sAWhat is. music r. IS Z Z. ''-,.'.' s = E,
San atmospheric banking institJ
tionaWhich never retieems the notes
4.'What are wind instruments p
aGreat blowers" g 5.,,7 @ s.
4Name few Of them" ~ =
swell, ,buglers, sensation preacher
politicians, trombones, French horn
Gothamites, porpoises, Englishma
claronets, and daily papers," 80
3fF'What are musical bars for z"
"To make a division of measures.
some three fingers are counted as
fair measure for a horn" 5se
Jiggers puts the new pupil down
Asharp who could B flat under Al
circumstances. e r.. e. s=.- 81
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