The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-11-03
EcLAnAeuzz11ro AND so FORTH.
CORRUPTION IN Politics.

CORRUPTION IN PcLITICS.
Whoever blows through the puddles of
politics, even with pure breath, naturally
throws up dirty water. In the days of
Hamilton and Adams, men brought into
politics the noble qualities of great man
hood now they save their best qualities
for other uses, and give their meanness
to this art. American politics has
reached the bottom Of degradation !;
it is one of those historic periods that
always precedes a moral earth quake.
Purity hal hal Purity in a town
where every block gives fat support to a
liquor shop? Purity !-ha! ha! Good
people laugh when libertines talk of pur
ity. Better say bold thing for the sake
Of humanity, if it must come through
the mad, than to be sneak-dog hypocrite
that spends his whole life in bubbling
rottenness from his vulgar throat in OBJ
scene secrecy. Such pure men are like
those old time hypocrites that sought to
| make clean the outside, whilst within
they were like whited sepulchers filed
with dead mems bones. Moral A
strong hand always creates alarm among
silly people.
Intellectual liberty is the true genius
of our Government. But l observe
everywhere a contemplate slavishness to
party. Here in Manitowoc the slavish-
ness to party fills the entire ground;
and the fore ground is painfully crowded
with representations of wild race prejnd-
ices, and fierce contests as to individual
| rights to stolen property.
Worship a party !-ha ha! Is a
party a god that it should be worship
ped? Does organization have a magic
power to purify? Then [ am to under
stand that we all should feel reverently
bound to do the holy work OF pirates be-
cause they have an organization?
I land so with every decent person.
care for party only so far as it repre-
sents principle. IF man is so unfor-
| tunate as to belong to corrupt party,
| and takes offence when it is attacked, he
simply shows to the world that he identi-
fies himself with the dirt. These rever-
ent ''cusses'' should withhold some of
their zeal for beer bottles and pay little
attention to Jesus Christ. Gentlemen,
this slavishness to party shows one fact
a contem ptible narrowness Of character
and lack of culture. A narrowness, gen.
tlemen, (here [ might put in plea for a
High School, or some other decent insti
tuition that naturally comes from bull
headed sectarianism engrafted upon the
red eyed influences of saloon twaddling.
What can be, expected, when to political
ignorance is added fierce hostile clan
ishness? Moral: So I am to be modest
in my words, and conceal the truth, lest,
forsooth. Offence be taken by some druid
ical clergyman, some silly woman, or
some red haired pedagogue. Some ped
agogues (mind me, son,e) may have a
little knowledge of orthoepy; but are
asses in politics.
PERSONALITY IN POLITICS.
What means these vile personalities
used by party papers? It means the
degradation of American J Journalism. 1t
means that editors, for their pockets sake,
love to cater to a dirty sensa tionalism
1t means that such writer has brains
whose convolutions are like barley straw,
and that his pineal gland has been dis
placed by gimlet vortex Of dish-wate1
1t means that the writer, who resorts
to this method, has not brains enough
to advance principle, and so every week
the eyes of people are blasted with such
stuff as would ilcompare with the con-
temptible composition of the merest
school-boy. However, it is we'll enough.
when attacked, for one to make few
passing kicks. There is but one way
out, the people, that Hercules of intel
lectual liberty, should turn river thro'
this Augean stable.
PAP ENT-''HE SEEKS NoToRIETY AND
GAINS IT. ?"
Parent whom I know attacked me
with pudding stick instead Of a Toledo
blade. [ had made up my mind for fun
and blood. [ was calculating to cut to
pieces some home bred author and pile
him up like so much cord wood but,
alas my hopes are fed, and am obliged
to lay aside four columns OF hell bile for
future use. [ drop parent with a
passing notice. If | judge rightly he
has powerful nose, which, like the pro-
bosis Of an elephant, serves many pur-
poses. As to his lower members adopt
the words Of Frenchman to an Irish
girl who had large feet and ankles, and
leg advancing smaller: Madam, you
have one very fine little foot, but your leg
commences too Immediately
Parent" have you daughter, or
some other female? Why in thunder
do you not Srike hands with Bollmeyer,
advance the capital, and let him switch the
quill. Then would you have paper
that would kill every man, woman, and
child in northern Wisconsin,. Pantomine
an old kind, toothless, Parent has
just dropped teaspoon from his trenbl-
ing hand after eating the last skimptom
of porridge-in comes sweet offspring
and slapsthe rheumatic sides of the old
man with a single.
FUESSENICII.