The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-26


today How do they GiGer ON the questions Of the
national banKs-tne pubic debt-the h3athcn
Chinee-the Isthmus Canal, the woman quection-
the profoundly significant labor movements-tcrri-
torial expansion as pOlicy9 Who speaks ro1 6 re-
sumption policy that coming after the national
bank currency "shall be preferred before it, for 1t
was before ltr' Do parties differ thaJs Is there
any telling to which party regulators belon27
When an Ohio democrat spoke for reputation some
dated MS views In the House OF Representatives.
Even the greenback theory brings Pendeton and
Butler into each others arms. Here Is an immgra-
ton scheme initiated not by any party. IL Is OPP
posed, but not by either party. Do you con-
slider the magnitude Of that question: I do
that has not and may never come But as ques.
ton II involves the most tremendous and colossal
lions are governed BY laws as inevitable and as
extra volltional as those which govern the lorna
tlon 81 glaciers me great Inc Of
ambition IN our schoolbooks; bat science reveals
That the water got scarce in Central Asia. and
movement OF the mOngrel masses westward. 1t Is
80 with all great migraions The Impulse Is q pls
tered the will push It Tor the fabric OF the
universe stands sponsor for the scheme. Suppose
four hundred and fifty millions are great many
people. He that can pore gimet hole into the bot
tom OF Lake Geneva can rend the Alps themselves by
unequal to the pressure. do not say we shall thus
initiate an overwhelming tnundatiOn OF Chinese.
Of Monaghan Immigration. II such q momentum
were once iairly started hitherward we might XIII
ti0n and yet what would lei, OF ourselves wo uid
have to go back to our ancestral Europe. What
have our politics 10 do with thls2
The acknowledged necessity OF an Offset to Sue2
In an istnMian work which may cost hundreds Of
But what are the politics Of that measure And so
OF annexing Canada, Mexico, Cupa and the whole
island OF Hayt, all the Antilles, for that matterp
m
posed leebly by democrats and 80 powerfully ~
epuDlcans tnat lts defeat anden,aoy repudr
And which party do che labor 0rganiz8tOn5 be-
long TOT It has been publicly estimated that three
differently organized are now pledged TO each othsr
IN partisan action. The vast power these Or
and common leadership. How soon may that
changer What political party Is ready for the
sisli6le party obscure designs, but compact or
gaulzation and daring actionf We're there no other
question put these labor movements ,,na would de-
that Ignored So great part OF the concrete situa
ton.
S1ch and many more are the elements OF the pres
ent political situation III the United states. po-
htica party that Ignores all the great circumstances
OF the times is one OF two things--viz., u chmera
or an importune; and politician who has opIn-
IONS Oh the stump ON actual great social. industrial
the people wlthou. deserving their contempt either
as an ignoranus or a swindler.
And yet the good people Of the United States suffer
each other to be set by the ears about force bills,
Ku kux bills, &c, as If there anything in them
whereby to divide parties; Between constitutional
enough TO divide parties, indeed 10 the last leaf
the wnoe tree OF public opinion. They did thus
divide, and the people are trusfu enough to think,
because all the ola arguments are reashed and is.
sued anew IN the GLOBE that the issue Is still alive
Bless their confding sous the democratic polti-
clans know to a man that the thing Is as dead as
George Masons opposition to the constitution In the
Virginia Convention In 1888. We 1--we under o new
constitution, not yet all recorded but IN force.
They acted on tnat knowledge Gil this past
Winter, WINTER and, the thing had yet had lie,
opposition made by democrats was for the sake OF
their record" They did not try to prevent sucn
o bn The a veI{
democratic members Of both houses compared
with the merry, strenuous, indelatigable, bold
struggle OF the old black republicans oil 1855 and
1861 against The democratic majority As game OF
croquet compares with the assault on the Malakon.
politicians that the force bills Ku Kiux bills, &c,
could be turned TO account well by the democracy
Simply TO throw all the nc responsibility on inc Latter
whle, considering these 6llS what they really ereJ
sene a sSey she former would
Upon the hypothesis that these measures are Ia
their nature unwarrantsble by the constitution end
seditlous CONSIDER now noDstrous Is this For thu
purpose OF carrying an election the politicians OF
opposing parties agree to subvert the law Inname
the country ana demoralize the people and then
see which crowd OF demagogues can make most OUT
OF the rum. have been told to my face by repubIi.
cans that the measures were TO eiecuoneef In The
were fools-that the bills would help the democrats
IN the South and. therefore, they were desirable.
Tne democratic mind could not countenancc them,
but II the radicals chose To take the possibility
Oh their passage the democrats would he glad. But
knew before, independently OF what these states
men OF the respective parties told me, what was
the true character " the mea sure. and how their
dctestaole demagoguery all round was to squabble
over the distresses or the people.
Sir, the country Is IN bad condition, surcharged
with ignored, mi5represented or perverted agen-
ces That at the same time are OF tremendous power,
II not OF immncncy, while the public attention is
drawn 70 Tue theatrical gimcrackery OF the horde OF
degraded SWaggerers Ignorant, corrupt and IN
nated-who pretend To DIVIDE into two great parties
the better 10 hide their invncibe mutuaiity In the
real business OF public IL these days-vz., general
partnership In plumber aud general reciprocity In
wnitewashing. One word more. The private cor.
poratons OF the country, when they have occasion
10 n.y. can undermine the bold, c0nravenc The hon
est and buy all the rest OF Congresses and leglsa
lures. such, then, are our "politcs" Political
falth IS dead In the pol tica priesthood, and the
people bow In the temple before goddess altar. A
general political atheism reIgns over the country.
some new ana Irlgntful revival Will burst out II
something be not done. Let the people abiure the
whole present race OF politicians. They are un-
worthy TO lead Me xicans. MERLIN.
ONE or the MYSTERIES EXPLAINED.