Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-11-11

Thucydides, the historian; of Diony
sius, the elder; and thousands of ft.
sIauces "f tho iniquity practiced by
people, 10y many led astray by bad
lner in the histories of living tireece
and Rome, and our own beloved
country.
THE TRADING POLITICIAN.
Forty years Of close intimacy with
and arduous toll for, professional
politicians, has not implanted in our
breast YER exalted veneratinn FL
that class OF men.
Those who have once given away
To the allurements of office. aud have
yielded up the entire aspirations oi
their souls for place, antl the emolu.
ments connected herewith. have
already sacrificed that sacred regard
for the principles of justice which
should be the basis Of every tran sac
ton, for the regulation and contluct
nf every upright nan. For thei.
own promotion they will cell any
friend. aud forfeit any friendship.
They will prove false To every pledge,
and taithle-s TO every trust.
Intent solely on their own promo
tion, they become coldly selfish. and
meanly reacherous~-elead to every.
thing that is not Wrapped up ip their
own little pGNtirM interests -daykl,j
tpruppsd ia hcdchcry. ndtignity and
rerepge-carricd away by that Kind
of blind maligCity which will stub a
fricqd, because they cannot defeat
any enemy.
These politicians are the rocks and
guiCksands most to be dreaded
Many worthy, honest, confiding ed
itors have gone down from hope and
prosperity to disgrace and poverty hy
trusting, confdiRQiH, to the profes
sions of political Caligulas. Put not
your trust In politicians.
BRIGHTER PICsURE.
But thank God, there are good and
honest men everyw here in and out
Of office. There are men who are
good for goodness sake, aud can be
trusted in all emergencies. In 0h-
security, In retirement, In ten thnus-
and huts on the hills and along the
valleys, scarcely known to the world,
aud never asking to be known, :here
are good men. In poverty, I'm adver.
sity, amid temptations. aud amid all
the severity of earthly trials, there
are good men, whose lives shed
brightness upon the dark clouds that
surround them, There are true
hearts which neither disarpOint.
ment nor defeat can chill. There
are good men and candidates who
are faithful to the hOliest trusts. .--
There are honest men and officers to
diStrust whose virtues and integrity
would ilupeach our own intelligence
and good Judgment.
TO SOUTHWESTERN EDITORS.
And you, editors of Southwestern
Iowa, have a nUhleT mission than te
Pander to the ha-er passiOus, and un.
reasoning prejudiCes of the oncom-
ing millions who are To occupy these
fair lands. with your own strong
arms aud honest hearts YOU must
n"bly meet the responsibiIities be-
fore you.
Hew out for yourselves n distinct
ion I'm the empire of letters, which
shall comfort you when your year
are nearing the Wrstrrn horizon
aud of which your posterity will be-
proudcr than n penny's worth Ol
ribbon, transmitted from generation
tO generation.
Covet rot the regal honors OF the
old world, nor pine for the fame
which il gathered on tho CORY
field Of battle. A nOblcr field H. he
fore ynn. GAtfer inspiration from
the great events which are mouldiug
the worhl, Overturaing empires and
aholishing hOary erruA with uu,
shrinking fortiiude push forward
with The great enterprises of the age
Nobly stand AT your posts, and the
light which will reflect honor around
Your names will be something more
glorious than the phOsphoric rays
that CLEAN from amid the bones ot
a buried ancestry.
In these free and bOundless regions
of the West, where ruritanism ts
already sounding empires into form
by Planting school houses and
churches, and all the other appiian
ces of wealth and refined society up.
on every hill aud in every valley,
there would be no song Of triumph
40 shout of victory, did not the
press accompany the star of empire
az westward it takes its way"
The Almighty has touched with
| living fire the inventive genius %
this age, and has subiugated To the
control of man the mysterious fOrcel
which fill the earth, and sea, and air
until time is not counted by years
hut by heart throbs. And hs alone
will be crowned in time aud eternity
Who thinks most, feels noblest, ant
acts best"