The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-05-29

Its evident to all thoughtful individuals,
no difference what party faith they profess,
that political campaigns OF the future must
deal with new problems. Subjects intimate
" associated with the progress OF the Nation
and the welfare Of the whole people will en-
lit the attention Of all parties, and it seems
uost likely that better class of public Ger
wants viii be called out to deal with the new
problems.
1.-THE people expect to get the standard
of poIitical integrity and ability any higher
that it is now, they must begin the work OF
reform at the very foundation. 1t is not
enough that We have new men to I'LL our
Office: we want better men. Let voters
resoIutely resolve to repudiate every man
who goes about the country spending a few
dollars here and there to gain friend
in the Legislature or Convention. Let
every politician who buys into newspaper
Office, directly, or indirectly, just preceding
political canvas, be looked upon with sus-
picion. Let man who neglects his every
day duties 10 "work mp strength"
and make combinations be discountenanced.
The whole burden OF reform rests with the
voter. There are men in every communi-
" who accept dollars for their votes and IN
fiuence; but the majority OF voters will not
sell their franchise. Hence it is plain du-
Nv to resist the election of man who gives
The bride instead of wasting time and talk IN
censuring the man who accepts 1t. The Peo-
ME should no, be content with the single
qualification of honesty in their servants.
Men are sometimes honest only because
they have no, sense enough TO steal. There
are living illustrations of this truism In
Kansas to-day. The employment of the
hest ia,eliect and vigor will be required In
the settlement OF future questions, hence the
best men and the ablest men are imperative
Nv needed at the front. In reviewing the
subjects which must arrest the attention OF
statesmen the Boston Transcript speaks as
follows:
"Qnes:ions local and universal, Of interest
already and TO become nomentous in the fu-
,ure, are coming up rapidly for discussion
and settlement The last Congress neglected
them almost entirely. Popular talk about
them is largely too superficial to meet their
comprehensive and far reaching demands
upon Philosophical thought and analytical
Investigation. They need at once the bold
grasp OF the ablest craftsmanship and the In
sight of the deepest thinking. That they
have arisen in The nature OF things, grown
out OF social changes, are involved In the
progress of the race, the upward tendency OF
a civilization which Is to embrace the whole
of humanity, az opposed 10 limited and ex-
elusive classes, il obvious enough.
but being here, and making themselves
more aud more urgent, they must be met
and considered at once, and in right and
unseilish spirit, If commissions and revolu- |
lions are 10 he avoided. The day OF compro-
mise il past The currency, the power OF
monopsii-s, the enforcement practically OF
The declared doctrine o: equal civil rights, |
Protection and Free Trade-these are espe-
peciallv OF immediate home Government.
Then as TO the relations OF church and state,
The rn,ers and the ruled, the collision between
capital and labor-such and others are the
topics sure to acitate all Christendom and
extend their conylsions even beyond its
boundaries. We are living in an eventful
,gs; not more eventful, perhaps tlan other
iges, but an age for patent reasons, likely 10
e full OF events, the results OF past Normal
developments or of past errors. Criseses are
impending tia; cannot be escaped or whistled
own. Hence it is none too early for the
xerci-e of that vigilance which accepts the
omplicated situation and that complication
f mind and policy equal TO dealing with it.
Wise men, homes. men, and men O. large
dimensions are wanted for the times, and
ran:el at the front