The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-08-14

some Of her own sons and daughters
take it upon themselves occasionally,
to administer black doses OF the pro-
siest prose to the middle aged mat
ron, who wears . front, and yet IS
pronounced q frontless creature by
her very progeny.
Notwithstanding all the cry about
corruption, and with which the sham
Democratic journals SO frequently
amuse themselves, very few Amerl-
cans believe that their country Is rot
ten, and that their contemporaries
are knaves aud corrup.ionists. These
few are composed Of two classes:
men who are too stupid and too ig-
norant to have any conception OF the
country, either as it is Or as it was,
and whose opinions, therefore, are
not worth the wind expended III CIV
ing them expression; or. men who
have tried to sell themselves, but
who have found none so silly as to
buy them. There is no one who does
not admit that there is much wicked
ness in the country, aud that much
Of that wickedness takes the form OF
corruption; but this is no more than
| could have been said Of every year
! In ous aaififGry. and no more shan
what has been said of every year OF
all history. There are corrupt men
to-day, there were corrupt men yes
terday, and there will be corrupt men
morrow.
| The mistake is in supposing that
the great body Of the people ever are
or ever were corrupt. Corruption is
greater in 1873 than it was in 1903,
because the country is greater now
than it was seventy years ago. Cor
ruption increases with the means OF
corrupting, and it IS a fact that the
very means by which civilization is
promoted, afford means of .corrup-
ton. There Is nothing in this world
that is altogether evil or altogether
good. All things are imperfect, and
we must take the evil with the good
Nothing has tended more to promote
corruption than the rapid accumuia
ton of National, State, mnnicipa
/ aud corporate debts, Of late years
3 debts which were created out o
nothing, and placed as permanen
burdens upon the industries of th'
country and yet those debts repre-
4 sent the perpetuity of the Union
! and the abolition OF slavery, tina
toul blot upon the cscutcheon OF tn
nation. Thus it is, evil and goo
standing side by side-or rather run
ming INTO each other-and thus 50 in
termixed as to be inseparable. Nc
corruption is one OF tbs effects Q
! malignity Of matter, and mind is notl
ing but matter in motion; and Their
5 ding the world Of il, that did not re
:. semble the conduct of man VIII
f should have his head chopped off il
order to get rid OF a headache.
a Ceasarism and Capitalization
y are the two bug bears that render III
, lives of Democrats and Liberal Re
, publicans (who, by the way, are fight
| ing like cats and dogs, and rcpudiat
, ing each other) intolerable just now
Their organs have, for the last few
| weeks been waillng over these mag
mary dangers to orr liberties in
manner that would be touching, wer,
it not amusingly absurd.
, According to these oraclcs, the Re
publican party, with Grant for fig
ure- head, is plotting for the rosses
sion OF the Presidential Office for a,
indefinite period, and is thus paving
:. the way tor that dreadful condition
OF things expressed by the word
"Ceasarism."
1t is possible that very few weak
minded people may believe this, be
cause there have been those who
have been made to believe things
quite as ridiculous about the Repub-
lican party before. But if such per.
sons can, by the aid Of medical treat
ment. or otherwise, calm their fears
long enough to give glance at the
past record OF that party, they will
be obliged TO. CONFESS that a. coup d.
etat at FREQ institutions, Is the last
thing to be reasonably anticipated
from that quarter.