Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-31

But, ms nm example TO mankind, Il would
be well IL some state or section Of country
could stand up vermont, for instance. Why
notP She Is doing her best this year.) in the
beauty and dignity Of true moral ideas and
principles. Hitherto men have been con-
tent to keep along 10 tho deep-worn cart
wheel ruts Of old habit and custom. An
must join in the annual and quadronnial dog
fight Of party politics. It Is a periodical
plague or pcstilence we are forced to endure.
We go In, though each man feels meancr
and dirtier every time. And why do WEI
(Pity the women can't vote to shame us.) Il
is shrewd checker game, ut which the of.
flee mongers always win, and the working
men always lose. Tho people, AS Dean
Swift says, seem MS well pleased with being
cheated MS to cheat. They mako 1t kind of
political play, and the fun compensates for
all the sacrifice. Aud there Is no end 10 II.
The same Babel confusion of tongues, the
same shameful slang of newspapers, the
same party tricks, over and over, regularly
us the planets revolvo around-a tircsome,
sickcning monotony. This wo proudly call
government. Is il democracy real I'M
"
tho diGerencsP Tell us, o yo editors, cru
dlte and wise.
| Professional politics has ever kept in our
midst class of mcn-sharpers and deina-
gogues--determincd to shuttle political cards
for their bread and butter. They study the
popular winds, and go with the strongest
current. And they win, of course, on one
| oil thn oil all
filed Such men, rs II rule, are utterly
selfish and unprincipcd, and they covet the
nice positions for the big pay and little work
there is in them. This explains the official
corruptons so universal. They can meyer
be rcmedied by changing one party for anoth-
er, for that has boon the method of centu-
ny. We want new system and philosophy.
The corrective element needed in our poll
tics is the solid principle of brotherhood and
humanity. rs IA basis. That will give 1t sub.
stance and character, and take out tho wind,
which will contract its cumbrous bulk. Tho
fact Is, We are governed too much. Our
farmers, mechanics, and workingmen are
not like wild horses, that they should con-
tinually be tied to governm ent hitching
post. Honest industry renders them tame
aud trusty. With the blue vault overhead,
and the firm ground underneath, il is safe to
lot them manage for themselves, MS it is
their plain right so 10 do. And, rs u healthy
man needs no medicine, SO neither does an
intelligent person require the constant tam
pering of political doctors and quacks.
Here the economy of biennial sessions may
be discussed; for, if the grnngers save fifty
per cent. in the purchase of farming Implc-
ments and sewing machines, why not de-
mand an equal reduction in the expenses OF
our national and state legislation.
Perfect machinery is the simplest and
least complicated in its construction, and
runs the cheapest, and with tho most noise
less efficiency. The machinery of govern
ment ought to be of this character. The
high moral sense Of the people. with their
intelligence perfected, are the moving force
and the regulator. Where these qualities
are wanting there will be irictions and
breaks, and all sorts of mischief. 1t is a
great responsibility TO be II citizen and voter,
Aud if it be essential TO the country's well
fare to educate u fow at West Point, at the
nations cost, in tho barbarous art OF human
butchery, il Is certainly thousand times
more important 10 train the public mind in
peaceful, economical. and selEgoverning
method, instead Of the old, bloody, military
style. This will involve more thorough
training of the laboring masses-a mighty
work TO be accomplished by tho oranges
and industrial lodges and clubs, which should
be organized in every town. Stir up, all
around, my good working brothers and sis.
tiers. Don't delay.
Up to the present time the old parties
manage politics by Tammany caucus rings,
while the people, rs a body, know and dc
very little on their own account. Therefore
to call ours peoples government is n huge
deception and burlesqne. 1t is II mere poll
tician's government.
Chanplin, Mimi, Jnne 81, 1874.