Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-04-16
THE VIENNA EXPOSITION

We will be pardOned for another appeal
to the people of East Tennessee to bestir
themselves to have full specimens of our
mineral wealth at Vienna. Only few
days remain, when these specimens must
be shipped from New York. 1t will cost
twenty dollars per ton to send them to
Vienna. We ought not to allow the
opportunity to pass. Coal, iron, zinc,
lead, marble, &C., should be sent in at once
to Mr.. J. B.. johnson, of this place, and
immediate steps should be taken to raise
the very small amount required to ship
them to Vienna. Two or three hundred
dollars thus expended would do more good
for Knoxville and East Tennessee than all
thepublic speaking or newspaper writing
for years. The very class of men will thus
he reached that we want to reach. We
want capitalists to know that we have
something in which they can invest their
money and make it pay? This is a fine
opportunity and we ought not to suffer it
TO pass unimproved. ~ . .t.-sl s. y s
We. copy the following from the New
York Daily Graphic - a. &c
In q Republic there is constant danger
that every popular movement of reform
will be seized upon and diverted from its
original and legitimate objects, by class
of demagogues who care only for their own
interests, and would sacrifice anything for
place and pay. eAF@
This is eminently true It is now abso-
lutely certain that the people of this coun-
try must, at no distant day, meet and Crap
pie with questions connected with fast
growing and dangerous monopolies. In
deed they are already moving in the mat
ter. Just few days ago, there
was an immense gathering of far
mers in Illinois. They met to dis
cuss certain questions growing out of
what they considered an Infringement
upon their rights and privileges by the
railroads. But the willy, unreliable place
hunting politician was there ready to-
shape the conclusions of the convention SO
as to have political bearing. The dema-
gogues were ready to take part in the pro
ceedings and control them in their own
interest. --..r-4.re
SO it is, and will be in every species of
reform. 1t is eminently so in the matter
of civil, service reform. Those who talk
the loudest are the veriest demagogues in
the land. They care nothing about
honesty and efficiency in the civil. SER
vice, . Nothing is farther from. their
thoughts, No sort of change would please
them, unless they were able to dictate the
terms. They raise their voice against cor
ruption, theft, robbery, inefficiency, when,
if they could control the Government,
they and their friends would steal it bank
rupt. We say this is so of those who make
the greatest noise about it. There are
men who earnestly favor reform, be-
lieving nothing perfect, as it cannot
be under the direction zef human
intelligence alone. But such men do
not make half as much noise as the dema-
gogues who at heart, care nothing about
the country SO they succeed in their selfish
designs 81
In all reforms honest men will have to-
contend with such demagogues, and ii will
be well to consider this and guard against
them before embarking in any reform of
any character, and more especially where
there is an inviting field for intrigue and
political corruption. g