Ellsworth American., 1875-11-25
Vol. XXI. Whole No. 1887. No. At.
The Result of q Hundred Years.

If aman should recommend clerk to
u merchant by telling him that The chief
excellence of the friend whom he CON-
monded was that lie would not forge
| The merchants name, or an engineer
| should offer as his credentials trustwor-
| Thy evidence that he would not stear,or
carpenter should be pressed upon man
about TO build II house because he was
not pickpocket - all these sug-
gestions wou d be thoug
excellent iooling. But an employer
would TALL into very grave thinking if,
when he said that he wanted m,n com
peient To do his work, he should be told
That that was secondary consideration
TO the question whether they would
steal. lie would probably come out of
his thinking to remark that if he had
| come into community of sharpers, he
| would go elsewhere and find people
who Were at least and OF course honest
\ man may well be aghast il he is told
that the important point in voting for
Judge Is to be sure to find one who will
not be b.ibed, and that, in calling n
physician, the essential question is not
Il he can cure, but whether he will
poison. II hundred years have brought
IT., in casting about for officers and
magistrates OF every kind, to assume
that only very great care can secure
common honesty, and that if we elect to
office men who will not forge, or steal,
pr commit burglary. or set fire to houses,
we ought to rejoice and celebrate the
great victory, what have we invited all
mankind to come and look at?
1t we show them great buildings, is
81 Al
them to be monuments of great ra.cality
and robbery? Ii we heap mp inventions
and machines of every kind, il we dis
play the exquisite tineness and elabora-
iion OF our manufactures, magnify the
results OF our industry. carry them down
into the mines, whrl them from sea TO
Sea upon cloud OF vapor, uuroll our
dazzling statistics, aud challenge the
universe to show so much done in SO
little time, is there no danger-if the is-
sue be what we aIc told-that the world
may admire aud applaud, and agree
that such mowers and reapcrs and ted
dcrs and sewers, such cloths and silver
and coper and coal, such notions and
kuiCk hnacks and comforts and con-
Vcuienccs aud luxurieS, such school
houses aud sleeping -caI and North Riv-
81 ''lllb''ttN. Ntit llfNFi hH'H H. anu
are evidently tie best OF their kind.
AND then ask, since the things are 50 eX-
ccEcnt. how about the people! and are
the, as intelligent, and, above all, hon
ct, a., with such advantages, they na'ur-
dI.y ought to be: Wouldn't it br awk-
ward TO have 20 reply To that, simulta-
nro sly w itn the magnificent results Of
machine, y and enterprise and inventive
genus which We had the pleasure 10
present to the universe. we were en-
gt-rd in a tremendous struggle to fiji
uur public offices with men VINO would
uut steal: Ii that bc TIE TACT, there
Stems to be a good opportunity for bu-
ur.,ty a. we'll a. congratulations. II our
pru.i,s have uO come mainly AN effort e.
-cr1.c holc~. 3 Ia olliae, il j. something
Which we ought to be thoroughly
ashamed.
\ c, there I- 10 duHbt That it j. largely
ttae. la hl- Gulogy upou Mr.. Seward
tcIore The Legislature of New York,
Nh. CHARLES Frnuci, Adams said: "Our
iotcinher- wouli marvel could they
Imagine it possible for me TO claim credit
ipr Mr. Seward on the score OF his hon
c-ty i, "a public man. Yet the time has
come when We must honor one who
never bought or sold vote or a place,
and who never permitted hi, public uc-
tun To be contaminated in the atmos-
phcrc OF corporation influence" No
one can deny il, a"i the one chief con
trlJu' ION thai we can bring to The Cen
tcuulal Exhibition j. the res olution that
II shall be true no longcr.-EpITOK
EASY CHAIR, IN HaTpeJ'S Magazine for
December.