Wilmington journal., 1873-08-08
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:. RADICAL VIE y" OE 4 k2 e
WORKING: NAN'' AND POLL
TAGS.
The New York Times says

WORKING MANI AND POEa.
Tzas.
The New York Times says:
Z: When a working man neglects his
own trade and takes to ''politics," the
chances are that he will do politics 30
good, and infiict great injury upon
himself, and still more inexcusable
injury upon his wife and children, If
he have any. OF this truth Mr..
Odger supplies fresh illustration. As
Il shoemaker. he might have been
success; but he went into business as
an ''agitator," and the result is that
his affairs stand thus, as disclosed be-
fore a Bankruptcy Court: Debts,
&t,S65; assets, $50, gold"
1t seems to be a fixed idea i'll the
average Radical Northern mind, or
rather in that OF the Eastern capitalist, /
that politics is trade or calling, sepa-
rate and distinct from everyday life, |
by which some men gain their live!l- !
hood Just as others do by making /
shoes or practising law. 1t seems to /
lie equally 81 fixed idea in the mind OF !
these same Eastern capitalists that the /
business of politics is peculiarly
favored one, and that only a privileged
few have any right to engage therein,
Senator Carpenter told the people OF
Louisiana to attend to their business
and s.let politics go to he'll" Mr.
Attorney-General Williams also thinks
shat IIoglisianians would do we'll to
attend 10 their own business and leave
government affairs to Kellogg ana
himself.
Tie New York Times has conGr&tu-
lated itself and the country at large
that the Southern people generally had
come into u wiser and more proper
frame of mind, in fact, that they were
attending to their business and letting
politics alone.
OF course we poor wretches at the
South expect 10 better from ouF he
loved brethren of the North. It would
doubtless be very gratifying to the
average Radical mind to see Southern
people leave the control OF both
National and State affairs entirely II
the privileged few, whose proper Husi-
ness it is to run the politics of the
country.
All this was to have been exPerir1,
but when we find such an Utterancc,
rs that quoted, in the great organ OF
the Radical President and the Radical
party, it shows that Radicalism intends
to narrow the circle OF the favored few,
n Jr
and to narrow it so niue il that none bIt
men Of wealth and leisure are 10 be
permitted to enter the sacred precincts
of politics, in word, to create IN
America an aristocracy of wealth aud
officc-holders. The '' working lnau "
will be graciously permitted by the
Times and it's party to be 81; success
rs a shoe maker or n carpenter, or Il
bricklayer, but the green fields and
rich pastures of politics are not II }l,
,lcfiled by his profane tread. They are
to he reserved strictly for The sacred
few whose peculiar and especial priv
lcge it is to engage III the business oi
politics. "When working man he
elects his o,f1s trG1C and takes to ''po-
itirs, says the New York Times, "thc
chances are that he will do politics no
good, and inflict great injury upon him
self and still more iueXcusabie injury
upon his wife and children if he have
any"
No such sentiments as these prevail
At the South. Here no man desires or
dares TO say that any particular class OF
men have an exclusive right to engage
in politics. Everybody here admits
that it is a matter in which men are
all equally interested.
Eastern capitalists seem to think the
government of the United States was
formed for no other purpose than to
accumulate money for themselves 1t is
this influence, it is said, that desires to
Tetaip President Grant i'll office for Il
In 'rd time. Itneeds little discernmeutt to
rtes. lat. unless something shall be
done O.. ~. up the money influence
that l. exercises such great control
in the political affairs Of the country,
the government of the United States
will ere long be changed in form as
radicallyas it has already been changed
in spirit and substance.