Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-08-19
FREE GOVERNMENT.

The experiment Of self-government as
onstituting free government has now
,een in successful operation nearly one
hundred years. Viewed at first with
then with interest. and now
With respectful and deferential attention
Dy the Old World monarchies. it is in
fair way Of closing ito first century in a
successful manner. demonstrating to the
world that liberty and equality can be
put into practice and lead the nations in |
civilizing attributes while the principles
Of the government itself are in no danger
Of subversion. II was Macaulay, we be.
lieve, who predicted that the twentieth
century would Sitness the overthrow Of
the American system of popular govern
ment. The idea conveyed was, that
lack OF general prosperity would develop
communistic principles. overthrow right
and inaugurate reign OF terror, resulting
in battle between blind force and vested
rights In which the latter would have to
yield. The London Standard, and the
English journals. have recently brought
up this matter in the affirmative, argu-
inc that universal suffrage alone is sui.
ficient to overthrow all rights OF prop.
erty aud capital, on the ground that as
the majority rules. and the poor and
needy always form majority. they. to
forward their own interests, will disre-
gard those Of others, and adopt illegal
and violent measures to carry their
point. But those journals argue from q
wrong standpoint. They write but from
heir experience. and not from actual OBJ
lervation or acquired knowledge. The
Institutions of this country are never in
ny danger from the educated voter; the
My danger lies in the deleterious influ-
noe exercised by the crowd Of ignorance
hat every wave strands upon our shores.
The journals in question 60 on to prove
" the numerous schemes Of fraud and
orrupt rings, that all morality is being
rushed, arguing indirectly that uni
,ersal suffrage is the experimenting
,ause. The rings are made up entirely
u rich men and plunder-swollen rascals,
md have no connection with poor
Individuals and no possible bearing
On the question of suffrage. In the
matter Of rings, without attempting to
palliate fraud or corruption, tis safe to
assert that there is three times more ras
cality in England to-day than there is in
the United States; the difference being
that here We drag everything to the ligh
Of day and discuss alleged fraud or gross
vsnality with all freedom and condemn.
ing comment, while in the older coun
tries those things are cloaked over, con-
cealed and smothered. That there il
much to condemn in our Government
and great deal of reform necessary II
not to be denied, but the hundred year
of national existence comprises q thou
sand years of progress in oil that goes t
make nation great. Some one ha
sptly said that a dwarf standing ON tn
shoulders Of giant can see farther tina
the giant himself" Blot out Americ
from the world and what is left? A fe
effete worn out monarchies. two or thrt
distracted hermaphrodite forms of go
eminent, neither fish nor flesh, and on
or two semi-barbaric powers. In O
that tends to make nation great, in O
that Is conducive to the advancement
man as q man, in all the ennobling a
tributes of civilization and the almo
deifying advancements OF science al
discovery America stands pre-eminer
The century closing is to be taken, not
proof Of eliminating grandeur and
cipient decay, but as an exponent OF I
future, a showing of what free COVER
ment can do, and though as a nation
have within us the elements of corrr
ton and decay. we also possess the
viving and vivifyins properties Of
newsl and Immortality of existent
ProfitiDg by the experience of past l
ooho nuo tuc AcCOiuS u
building on the substrncture laid do,
in Magma Charta, the United States c
rise to a power and a grandeur, best
which our present hight of success sb
be but as foreshadowing and introd,
tory stage. When Maculay's New Re
ander sitting on the ruins Of Lond
Bridge muses. on the fate Of the on
great but then deserted metropolis, /
Western Continent will be the site o
nation the power and extent of VIII
would dwarf the widest dreams that e
British Minister INDUCED in, and
scene of degree of civilization nit,
sclipsing the present proud stand
British science and advancement.