Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-08
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Tearing Things to Pieces-GogerBments
Smashed-C0urss Observation-Disclosures
Radieastsm.


Drs. Ramsey & Williams vaecinate
about nifty to seventy persons daily.
Most Of these subjects Of surgical skill
come from the country. People here
care little more for smallpox than the
prevalent disorder among horses. Small
pOX Is not as destructive now in SodOm
and Happy Hollow as it has been in for
mer years. The doctors think it more
widely prevalent in the country than in
the city. The Mayor shuts the stable
after the horse is stolen, and now goes
about the business of caring for the
victims of an epidemic that moves
steadily owe the whole country. A
smallpox hospital is to be erected by the
city in conjunction with the county
The dOuble-barrelIed governments are
now fired, both at the same instant, and
terrible work viii be done. Smallpox
will be knocked entirely off its pins.
The tax-burdened and plundered people
would be well pleased TO see the two
governments well "pittedn-both Occu-
pying a common grave, and only one
destined to hear the trump Of resurrec-
ton. If the Legislature perform well
its appointed tasks we will attend the
funeral Of some weighty engines Of op-
preston beneath which poverty struggles
IN vain for bread. Terrible is the tax
alton of Federal, State, county and city
.gOvernments-the four stories of a fright
full temple, of which the tOiling poor are
the mudsills. 1t is this that makes rents
high and bread costly. There was never
money enough collected on executions
Issued from the Federal courts, in all
the years Of their existence, to pay the
cost of their maintenance for a decade.
1t is a system, like that OF foreign
ministers and plenipOtentiaries, up
held to furnish places for good
old fellows too jolly and COM
Portable to excite envy or en-
nifty. Taxpayers, after a time, will
grow weary Of the stupid forms, Of the
slOpping-Over addresses of IOafing grand
juries and of the intOlerable twaddle
used in reply by courts and iuries. 1t is
the verieSt, emptiest bOsh. The jury
slathers the court, and the court
pities the jury for its fearful Iabors. See
the miserable, Oyerworked feIlowsf How
they sweat How they consume thirty
days in doing nothing! How they draw
two dollars per diem and serve an hour
per diem! 1t is good The people like
it! Taxpayers will always chuckIe with
delight when contemplating it!
The time will come when
we viii no more vaccinate the Federal
Court. 1t, too, may take the smallpox
and rot. 1t is a mighty running sore
on the body polite. 1t is more terrible
than smallpox. It breeds ~contagiOn in
the shape of men taught by it to live
without toll through Office, and without
contributing to the public wealth. There
are pests, you viii observe, worse than
smallpox. Ramsey, Williams, Maury,
Mitchell, Malone, Brown, HobsOn,
Avent, Allen, and the rest, may vacci-
nate myriads of our race, but there is a
more destructive maIady than
smallpox eating at the very vitals
Of society and destroying the surest
foundations Of good government. The
are weary of burdens imposed by
those that govern, weary of the multi
Of place-men, weary of govern
ments duplicated and quadrupIed. There
must be reform. Grant will give us
none in the Federal administration.
Let us have it at home. b. p. T.