Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-02-26


is nothing harder to bear than the
pangs of unrequired or misplaced
affection, and well has the poet
sung:
A mighty pain TO love it la
A mighlier pain that love to miss
But Of all pain, the greatest pain
1t is to love, yet love in vain,
Before the order made its fatal
declaration repudiating everything
in the shape Of political bias, the
love of the Democracy for the farm
ers appeared absolutely unbounded.
They were prepared for any sacri-
fees. even to the extent OF suffering
the Federal Government to exercise
powers which all their party plat
forms since the days Of Andrew
Jackson had vehemently denounced
as usurpations and Casarisms. Like
Macbeth, if they could only help
the producers to tighten their bur
dcns, they had lived long enough,
and were ready for the crown OF
martvrdom. Could the Graugers
not be relieved, life would have no
further attractions and in order to
avoid such a dread contingency
they would place the party itself
subject to the order, and calmly,
even hilariously, await the lunge OF
the sacriiical knife.
But the Changers were proof
against all these insidiops blandish-
ments. They shrewdly suspected
that loyc 50 sudden and violent
could not be sincere, but must be
dictated by a selfish motive. The
result has amply justified their mis-
trust. The Democrats, who have,
since the war, adopted Russell Low
els idea in politics, that
"A mercllnl Providence fashioned US hollcr
% purpose that We might our principles
swoiler,n
no sooner found that not even their
offer of self-immolation as party
could induce the Changers to make
common cause with them against
the Republicans, have not only
ceased to sympathize with the lodges
but their organs show disposition
to go over to the eneay. 1t is
to be hoped that the Farmers will
remember this lesson, and be con-
tent to secure the reforms ut which
they aim inside and by the cooper
alton of the great national organi-
2ation whose interests and aspira-
tons are so closely connected With
their own.--Ider Ocea1.
THE final result of the English
elections 49, as summed up by the
London Times of the 18th inst
Is 35I Conservatives, aud 3O2 Lib
erals and Home Rulers. The "Con-
sentative reaction appears thus
really to have come. But will it
last! Was it not rather 10y the
apathy of their opponents than by
their own strength that the Tories
have won this triumph! The total
number of votes polled in the United
Kingdom and Ireland shows, it is
said, that large numbers abstained
from taking amy part in the contest.
May not, then, the Conservative
reaction bc simply Liberal WEAKNESS
after five wears legislation, and
therefore the recoil which England
takes before She ventures larger
"ieap in the dark than before The
passions and aspirations which have
been aroused among the masses
within the past decade are not casi-
~ alayed \ Conservative govern
mcut is more likely to hasten than
toretard the decisive struggle which
n4pendS. The lines viii hereafter
be more sharply dawn-class inter
asst will be more mcompromisingly
mGayed against each other The
Wing element viii he apt to take up
with the Tories, and this must
naturally drive the Liberals to ally
themselves with the Radicals. The
boundary between the aristocracy
and die proletmi3t will he distinctly
defined. Conservatism and iconu-
clGSln viii take opposite sides. The
prediction u Lord Salisbury in the
London Umtyta|H that such an
alliance bp5WeeuWhjgs and Radicals,
thmcnnen and DsseuterS, Us the