New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-11-09

pence she wrote them out with her hand
but she did not get them into her heart
Foe years Baptist clergyman was an OBJ
ject of contempt. As late a. 1901 the few
points Of Massachusetts, decency was to
trace the family back to the Mayfower,
graduate 1T Harvard College, be Q doctor,
Q lawyer, or member of the orthodox
children to sleep BY crying Thomas Jefer-
son: (Laughtsr.] Sidney Smith said it
took surgical operation to get joke into
Scotchman's head, and 20 it takes ct least
| generation to get an idea into the head OF
the masses. Men are afraid of reforms.
The danger don't lie in that direction. The
danger hes in the man being contented to
run in the ruts where Lis father did, sit in
the same pew corner, and sing out Of the
same hymn book.
In illustration OF this Mr.. Phillips referred
to the time of Jefferson and the fear in
which the people were placed Of the re-
forms which he proposed, when it was
erOaKed that Christianity was gone, and all
was gone. "But," said Mr.. Phillips, I'VE
all survived. No harm was done. Jeffer-
son himself, intellectually, was Democrat,
but he had no Democracy in his heart. He
announced what he did not. believe, the
people were drawn by herds and by pO-
itical machinery, and for forty years our
politics were only q sectionlzing of of 80
many people here and SO many there. From
That state OF things we were emaucipated
finally" This emancipation Mr.. Phillips
accredited much to the press.
Had not another power intervened we
should have seen . fair expression Of the
popular rule: But in the meantime, from
mean the power of wealth and Of capital.
A wealthy man is great power, but he
may have little Of regular purpose. If he
leaves this earth at certain period his dis
sipatcd wealth hardly remains power. If
he leaves it to one SON, he certainly will
have lost it in the third generation, for he
will be d0lt. Our fathers thought, when
they provided for the distribution Of estates,
that they had erected . bulwark against
could combine, that the moneyed corpors-
tiOu was like the papaey, . succession Of
persons with . unity of purpose; that it
never died.; that it never by active pro-
ciivity became imbecile. The grandson Of
. king is necessarily an idiot, but the third
generati0n.0f Q money corporation is wiser
BY the experience Of its predecessors, and
observes-the same unity Of purpose.
Wealth in this country shouldered three
war gave us debt with taxation, and they
gained q second vantage ground. 1t ar
ranged a'system of national banks. 1t was
only natural that the workingmen should
combine for defense The battle is to be
fought. The hosts are already marshaled.
The land of England has ruled it for five
hundred years. The corporations of Amer
lea mean to rule it in the same way, and
unless some power more radical than that
Of ordinary politics is found, they will rule
it inevitably.
confess that the only fear 1 have with
regard to republican institutioasis whether
in our day any adequate remedy is found
for this incoming flood of the power of in
corporated wealth. But the English people
have always settled every thing by argu-
ment, and our labor movement is child of
that portion Of English character, and We
rush into politics because politics is the
some immediate action. The labor party
goes into politics because the whole prac-
ticai mind Of the English race is in politics.