, 1874-12-06
EXIT THE OLD COUNTY BOARD.

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EXIT THE OLD COUNTY BOARD.
The g old Board" of County Commission
| ers is q thing Of the past. Its term has ex-
pred It is dead, done for, defunct, and the
fact will cause general relief. It's last official
act was an organization into q COMMITTEES Of
the Whole for the purposes of mutual admi-
ration. The Board admired the retiring
President, and the retiring President admired
the Board, which is some compensation for
the fact that nobody else :>drnires either in
their official relations Tho President was
courteous and efficient. All retiring Presl-
dents are. The Board had been kind
and indulgent, he said, aud incorruptible. All
Boards are about the time they are breaking
up Under the genial influences Of this
mutual admiration he thawed out and
gushcd, and at last stated his conviction that
"to-day We command the admiration Of the
world" It seems q pity to disturb him
in his rhapsody of admiration, or to doubt
that the South Sea Islanders, the Patagonl-
ans, and the Esquimau1, Us we'll as the civ
ilized nations of the world, nre to-day lost in
k'AA2ANA
the recent Cook County Board Of Commits
sioners. The hallucination is excusable
enough, since it is very universal, and
greater men than the President Of the
Board have indulgcd in it, and thereby min
istered to their love of admiration and vanity.
Even Napoleon lending his troops through
Egypt had to stop at the Pyramids and inform
bis soldiers, not only that all the world was
looking at them, but forty centuries of dead
and gone mortals also, when in fcct there
was nothing in the world looking at them
but those huge monuments of masonry and
the mummies Of the mouarchs they COM
memorate. Whenever any numlber of peo-
pie congregate together for any set purpose,
be it for military trimming, to de-
bate some tedious generality, to organize
bricklayers' strike, to elect ward constable,
or to fx the price Of peanuts or green ap-
pies, they at once imagine that the world
is looking at them and ad:niring them, when
it is doing nothing Of the sort. It cares no
more for them than for the wind that blows
he climbs upon his pedestal with effort and
strikes IN attitude, and exhibits himself to
the world for inspection, should reflect upon
these facts and remember that only the few
people who can gather about the base of the
pedestal are looking at him, and even they
nay not admire the spectacle very much.
While the President of the Board an
nounces that be shall always look buck "ppon
our relations and friendship with feelings Of
pride aud satisfaction" it is sad to observe
that he cherishes some vindictive feelings and
that his happiness is traversed by fine vein
of melancholy,-in fact, that he is saddest
when ho smiles. Says he:
We hare been found fault with BY some, and charged
With corruption in Office by others, Which charge
have to-day, standing in this pare, denounced fase
hurl It back in the face Of the author and c1zcuator
Mob law should at all times be deprecated, bt,
or ater tlis community will hare 10 meet s issue in
common decency.
Considering the fact that all the world is
lost in admiration of the Boarl and himself,
and what they have done, such condition
Of things is mournful 1t is to be hoped that
none of the dreadful things limited ut by him
mny come to pass It is to be hoped that
they are only the reflections of some OF his
morbid moments, and that, when they have
disappeared, he will no longer anticipate
howling mobs, nor fear that the time may
come when we may have to strike for our
fresides and our homes because the re-
cent Board Of County Commissioners has
been charged with corruptiona- There
are two facts in connection with the
recent Board, however, which entitle it
to ad1nirution. First, that it did not expend
its genius in erecting monument to itself in
the Courthouse Square; and second, in the
words of its President: ave have reached
the end of our official three -yenrs' term"
These are the most grateful words he has
ever spoken. Beyond them, there is little or
nothing III the records of the Board to call
FOR any cnacin1 admiration