The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-05-27
rmE cesrEL or MEDuoCRrrx.

THE 000REL OF MEDuOC6AH1s
The organs Of Alexander Ramsey ana
his clique have, for years, labored 70 DO
monstrate that, in public affairs, talent.
eenious and ability are An absol disad-
vantage; and that the highest statesman
ship is chat which can be made By tai
lor. halter and mailing clerk.
"With the same cement ever sure 70 ono,
They bring to one desd level every mmd; !
Then take hi a todevelop, if you can; :,
And hew they block of, and get cut the man.
And hence they have preached the
millennium Of mediocrity; they have advo'
Gated the divine right Of ounces to rule
mankind.
i.All my commands are easy, short and fnll;-
NV sonsl be proud, BE- selfish, and De dull"
They are at it again. The Pisd-Press
says:
His (our) one radical and invincible ohjec-
ton to Fisher is that he is not stump-speaK-
er. Stump-speaking is the whole art and SCI
ence of political warfare with Donnelly The
man that can't or won't "saoot off his mouth"
Is no man at all. and the man with the most
month carries the heaviest artillery, ir his es-
|timation There is not particle OF gap IN
Fisher. He can't spout He IS no wor Lug
eler. or reeler off of endless oratoricai nbDons.
He Is no orator as Brutus Is.
Now while we do not 60 to the extent
Of this extravagant Misrepresentation OF
our opinion, we yet hold. that the two
great essentials to public life are ca2aci-
ty Of thought and capacity Of expression;
and that, in moving masses Of mankind,
the capacity Of expression is quite As i'm
portant IS the capacity Of thought be-
hind it.
Every great revolution. political o.
moral. in this world, has been wrought
by public speech. When Christ founded
his religion he did not create IN organiza
, ton; he did not establish library: HI
did not write essays; he preached to tn
+ multitude. And when he sent his di:ci
+ pies forth he told them to Ego, teaching
!. all nations And that marvellous Re
/. form was, humanity speaking, effected b.
; word Of mouth. by oratorical appeals, p
: arguments, by disputations;--in short 3.
9 what We would call stump-speeches, mad
t BY Door, bare-footed, bare-headed men o
street corners and in the shade Of paga
= temples and Jewish synagogues.
}. What would the Revolution OF III
have been but for the burning oratery I
# John Adams and Patrick Henry! Th
thrilling words Of Henry will rim
:; through all the ages, swaying counties
% generations Of human hearts with grea
h passionate love for liberty. Dasid Blak
It lly, if he had lived then land sorry We Al
e he did not,) would have suppressed Pa
81 rick Henry; he would have told him
stop shooting of his mouth and go
ic sucking his thumb, and let Fisher or
,e Ramsey lead the masses to liberty.
il Take out of the anti-slavery Revolt
u ton the speeches Of those mighty teac
ers, Lincoln. Seward, Chase, Sumner Al
IN Schurz, and what would remaini
is No, no, David. Your order Of mi
he m az do to fill contracts, holl post-offic
tn and pluck the public. We have no dou
re that while Paul was preaching at Ephes
Or q whole generation Of industrious Eph
On sian rats were gluttonously busy filli
e. themselves in the granaries Of Egypt
IS. wheat; and there wasn't ono ofthem b
up thought his own distended stomach
re infinitely more Importance to the VOL
nd than al the utterances Of the home
e: little Jew who was thrilling the mn
en- tude with his strange oratory. To the
IN Paul was simply shooting of his mouth
nd he was '.spouting gab;" their knowlet
an Of zoology taught them that it was =
ce, silent SOW that sucks the swill. II
Nv would have subscribed to the doctrlI
eir of the Pied-Press If it had been in
The istence then. David.