The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-08-06
REDWOOD Falls, August ID, 1874.

the public veal demands some sacrifice
Of personal feeling and leasure, from
each and every one who is worthy to
be hailed as citizen Of tho country Of
his birth, or Of his adoption. There
are times when it is neces.
sary to break away from old associa.
tions. aud parties, in order to assist
effectually in bringing about that state
of things, or public sentiment, which
is necessary to disinfect the the body
politio. There are times when the
rulers should be reminded that they
are servants and not masters. It hath
been said by one Of old, 1T is worse
than folly to stay within, and talk to
the body, which has become all BELLY
$50 from the presence of a foolish man,
when thov perceivest not in him the
lips of knowledge"
It has ever been so, that VIXEN any
person or pers ons come out and declare
for new parties or new ideas, to be ira
duced and mal,sned by the prejudiced,
the lion Of ignorance or the scorpion
of circumstantial elevation, from
the past Of immediate and urgent need
to present Of Superficial shodyite afiu-
ance. They stand and stare, with
ignor ant and bl, ared eyes, at the Stal.
wart Hurcules of public indignation,
who cometh forth from his plow, who
raiseth up from his toll with great
drops of sweat on his brow, to give
day to his country, to honesty, to hu :
manity, and to right principles; to
claim his own, to reassert his birth-right,
to loose the chains of tyranny. To
correct the burthen of and sbate un-
necessary taxation; to take for time
the government into own hand, which
periodically is usurped by the idle and
impecunious who have not the energy
or ability to successfully enter into the
legitimate and honorable industrial
vocations of life.
Whose petty pride will not let them
be useful, whose Incidence aud inabil.
ity, whose presumption and insolence
are equaled by their desire to be placed
in juxta-position to the public purse.
The magnanimity Of the people has them
mad
"Why listen to the reins no more
But in their madness bear headlong down,
The very friends that fed them
These reasons and many more Mr..
Editor has stood God father at the new
awakening of the people, who for time
thinking all things we'll, had turned
their entire energies into the very
proper channels Of producing, manu-
featuring, invention, leaving trade and
traffic through which alone can result
personal or national wealth and pros
perity, to the fact that their liberties,
and property were being taken away
from them little by little, that
the bow of some demagogue migh be
crowned with laurels, or that some Off .
cial creature Of circumstaucial prosper
ity might sit back in clean shirt and
starched hickey, with soft hands and
cigar in mouth, with the smile OF a
patron and the sardonic scowl Of con-
tempt, rolling in luxury incidence aud
ease, in consequence of the more than
ample salaries and percentage wrung
from the toiling sons of labor, who
labor like that Mythical character on
whose shoulders the superstructure Of
both social and political prosperity.
These people in high places have
voted themselves, and others, salaries
for which their services and abilities
are in no wise commensurate.
The people, aroused at last by the
imperious, constant and unctuous voice
of the tax-gatherers, are beginning to
look about them, and the enquiry has
gone out, and is being echoed from
farm. house to farmhouse, from laborer
to laborer, from workshop to work
shop, from store to store, throught
the land, "What has become Of the
thousands and millions Of dollars which
we paid into the State and National
treasureys? and the response is sent
back in one universal acclaim s'squan-
dered." The people impoverished and
growing under the burthens imposed
on them by the shoddyites in Office,
and out of Office under the sanction Of
laws, passed by succession Of legisla-
lures, so cumbersome, unwieldy, and
indefinite that the ordinary practition-
er in answer to question can do but
little else than in the classic language
of one Jacob Schmahl. sit back in
comic silence and ''look dam vise,"
1t is thus we drop the uncious burden
on the ground
Swing our strong arms, and ring the
shores around,
Back shrink the Myrlnidons with dead
surprise
And from the broad e!fulsince turn their
eyes.
Unmoved the hero, iAnti- i-Moacpoly)
kindles at the slow,
And feels with rage his bosom glow,
From his fierce eyeballs living flames
expire
And flash incessant. like streams of fire.
In conclusion We will state the OBJ.
ject Of those who are opposed to the SO
called Republican parties, Is to edu-
cate ourselves in the art Of politica.
philosophy, which is ever right and the
duty Of the husban imam, to organize
ourselves into solid phalanx, SO that
We may effectualiy oppose encroachment
of influential wealth on the right and
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