The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1871-01-14
Politically Changing.

Many people who have so steadily adhered
| TO the administration Of Grant, and quietly
allowed themselves TO be followers Of base and
unserupulous politicians-whose only objects
were TO glut themselves with the emoluments
Of official plumber, aud create AN unbearable
amount of taxation even upon those who had
raised them high in political power-begin to
realize that as time has advanced their lead
| ers have become more uncertain; and expert
ence having taught them that the examples
shown were delusive. have finally recovered
from the exciting events since the formation
of the Radical party, and are awakening to
the truths pictured to them; and now, begin
ming to look more closely around themselves,
they find not very satisfactory state of af-
fairs. With the constant increasing facilities
they have had of compromising the true stua-
ton. they find that the welfare and perpetuity
of our noble and free institutions have gradu-
ally crumbled away under the present rule,
and that the wise and harmonious laws that
held our people together so long, have become
obnoxious to the ambition of the party
dominant. The truth flashes to their vision
that it would be ignominious for succeeding
generations to find themselves retrograding III
the advancement of political and social wis
dom to those who had preceded them. Why
should condemnatory and warning voice 20
forth from the councils of the country to pro-
claim at home and abroad the inefiiciency Of
our legislative assemblies? Men are learning
that they must enter into the affairs of life to-
day with vigor, that they may be able to en-
counter the strifes of tomorrow.
The industrial element of our country is
now burdened with an unbearable and intri-
cate tariff, which reaches almost every article
of consumption. IT is plainly evident that
those interested in each particular manufac-
turing department, are constantly introducing
schemes to bring Legislative enactments to
bear for the increase of tariff rates on thous-
ands of articles, which increases the burden
of taxation on the consumer that the manu-
facturer may be enriched and an unjust reve-
nue. raised to carry on the present extravaganza
of the Radical administration. The people
have learned that the collection of our ma
tonal revenue has been committed to the Gus
tody of men, appointed by the Administra-
ton, Of oftentimes questionable character,
many of whom have proved defaulters to large
amounts; and it is well known that in the
process of the collection of our national in
come about one-fourth is annually lost or
stolen; and the laboring portion of our country
have to bear the burden of official misdeeds.
1t is time that every man should study for
himself for the prosperity and perpetuity of his
country; and now that the interests and pur-
poses of those who have controlled the affairs
of our Government have become so glaringly
obnoxious to the great mass of our people.
the work of regeneration, that il now pro-
gressing should continue until the last yestige
of the present corruption shall be erased, and
the practical application of new system
adopted to relieve us OF the ills we have suf-
fered. The monitory voice of experience
warns us that we should avert in the future
that which has proven to be deleterions in the
past. Let it be blotted from the page of his.
tory that in many of our older States legisla-
tors have become SO corrupt that they have
suffered themselves to be the willing tools of
lordly capitalists, whose transactions have
oVorridden the public good-parties who have
become sufficiently powerful to even command
the leniency Of wavering Judiciary. The
unwritten annals of the world should not
make known to posterity that unbridled will
rode supreme in times when better Judgment
should have guided the bark of progress.
But the time approaches when n new order of
things will be inaugurated, and the corruption
of the present political partisans will succumb
to the control of power that will provide for
the better interests of every department of in
dustry and furnish just and equitable laws
for the sustaining of the burdens of our ma
tional affairs-laws which will not devour the
entire substance of the people in exorbitant
taxation to support a horde of grasping off,
Gals in luxury and ease.
AnH NOT ONE AND THE SANE-Tho Rcesc Riycr tcv