The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-12-08
A Stable Government.

ment." They do not refer, thus irrever-
emily, to the well known partiality of Gen.
Grant for his horses, but rather to the vast
Augean stables of corrupt despotism.
They want a stable administration which
will not be liable to change hands every
four years, and break up their closely coiled
rings and we'll woven schemes of pecnlation
and pluDder. The great demoralizer Of q
people is the inordinate taste for great and
rapidly made fortunes. These are acquired,
generally speaking, either BY gambling OF
mouopolies, and both of these flourish only.
under corrupt government. - -
Immense fortunes are made by railroad
joba, credit-mobilier jobs, slaughtesshouse
jobs, and thousands Of other ingenuities by
which their authors and promoters obtain
possession of public property, or get a.
patent right to plumber. the people on an
enormous scale. These things can't be
done with bonest men in power. a.
Again. The gentlemen gamblers in
stocks, bonds, gold, etc, those who teongre
gate about such financial centres as Wall
street, and Carondelet street, too, on .
small scale, con do nothing unless there are
fluctuations in their market. They do not
make their living by a mere buying and
ceiling of merchandise for the legitimate
demand Of consumers. There are, Of
course, men who do that, but the class
to whom We refer are gamblers 10 every
sense Of tho word. They speculate npon
the rise and fall Of their wares just az others
do upon the chances of lottery, or "a
professionals who bet upon horse race.
The future Of their operations is as much
| unknown to them as ia his next hand of
! cards to euehre-player, and it is only
| those who know how to stock the cards
that can calculate pretty surely on win
| ming. Stocking the cards with them con-
, sists either in making what they call q
"corner," or in finding out how the Secre-
tary of the Treasury is going to act ON the
market, or in some other similar raseality.
| Enormous fortunes are built up in a short
time in this way, and millionaires multiply
around such gambling centres with q rap
who yet entertain old fashioned notions of
big fortune. A one hundred thousand
dollar man used to be thought extremely
wealthy; how would he rank now in New
| York; Unless a man can count his mil
| lions on moro than one finger, the moueyed
aristocracy of that enterprising city have
no use for him. He is not one of their
guild.
| Now az absurd, eid-fogy policy of State
sovereignty which would construe strictly
the powers of plant Congress, and which
| would prevent Secretary of the Treasury
from organizing a den of gamblers, is-not
| to be thought of by these moneyed gentry.
Their day would be over in such case,
aud they would have to come down to hon.
| eat effort on eq uat terms with better men.
Consequently there Is one grand universal
| outcry against States rights and in favor Of
o consolidation, ON the part of tariff mono
polists, railroad kings, kiee-hying bankers,
gold and stock spectators, and the money
| ed interest generally. We do not say she
property interest, but that interest of mo-
bilized money which is ever on the alert
for rise or a fall. There is great MOVE.
ment on the part of all this mighty asd
Influential army towards q central, cOnsoli-
dated government, which can be easily
controlled by rings and cliques-anGu this
they call "stable government" The
more fuctuatiDg the market, the more
'stable" the government according to their
sympathies.
Aud so we go. If money is to rule, if
avarice is the reiguipg power over American
sentiment, our short-lived experiment of
Republication is destined to q speedy ter
| mination. JQdge Durell is already called
on to extinguish our State courts, and put
OR State Executive in Jail. The next
move will be to turn the State Legislatures
iato rilicule, and reduce them to impo.
tence, by creating rival bodies claiming
that title. Indeed this is already the case
in Alabama. The next step will be the to-
tai abrogation Of these Legislatures, and
the annulling of all State laws. and codes.
OF course State courts will pass away 81
multaneously with them, and We shall have
one homogeneous system of laws and courts
he ~. No H.,