The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-05-11
THE PEOPLE REspoNs1sLE.

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THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE. sH.
) "A Secretary of War stands impeach
ed before the bar of the Senate Th,
Secretary Of the Navy is charged will
!, peculation and frsad. A Minister II
England is recalledte answer the in.
dictment of fobbing the people o.
: England by giving the influence of his
name to gigantic swindle. The pri-
4 vate Secretary of the President Of the
j United States has been indicted by Z
Grand jury for conspiracy. Trusted
d confidants ofthe President are serving
terms in the, penitentiary for defraud.
i ing the revenue. The brother of the
j President has been proven to be .
broker of Office and government con-
j tracts. The brother-in-law of the
President sells the judicial ermine Of
the United States for gold, and Bill
i ings, sits in Judgment on the rights of
the people of Lonisiana. All the de-
partments of government from center
to circumference are rottOn and reek-
ling with corruption. The ingenuity
of avarice and dissipation has been
exhausted in inyenting new forms of
rebhery. Offices from the highest to
/ the lowest, services of every name
and description, contracts to feed SOL
| diers and Indians, contracts of all
kinds, are all mere subjects of barter
and sale.
IL Such in part is the picture of the
centennial year. From the golden
fields Of the waving prairies, from the
slopes Of the Sierra Nevada, from the
vast beds of minerals of the Lakes.
from the magnolia forests and cotton
fields of the South, from the marble
columns and granite beds and coal
mines of the Allegheny and Blue
/ Ridge, from the spindles and looms
and forges and machine shops and
manufactures of New England from
the palaces and the cabins, from the
artists studio and the students library
from North to South, from East to
West, in those vast halls in Fairmount
Park, are garnered the achievements
and products of one hundred years. It
is splendid display. Over all floats
the aag of a free government, with
the stars and field of blue symbolizing
the light and purity of heaven, The
nations of the earth have been invited
to the spectacle-kings, queens, em-
perors, sultans and princes.
Turn to Washington. Look first on
this picture and then on that, and
there is no bottom to the fathomless
degradation. 1t is time to ask, have
we representative government?
Whom does it represent? Of whom
are Belknap, Robson, Schenck, Bab-
cock. Shepherd, Harrington and their
like representatives? OF whom is
the once proud Senate, now servile
oligarchy, the representative? Who
elect to office? Who pay taxes? Who
are swindled and robbed and oppress-
ed? ea
Let the answer be given and that
answer is THE PEOPLE. The people
are responsible. The people them
selves are corrupt and ignorant and
Political reprobates gev-
ern the ballot boxes, hired and venal
wretches barter away the rights and
liberties of the people, and every.
where there is servile, abject and con-
temptible submission.
The people need education. They
need teaching. They need to be
aroused and melted to the rescue of
the government. They need to be in
doctrinated with the principles of the
and of law and of honesty.
The supervision of national, and state
and county and city and township af-
fairs must be wrested from the hands
of political bummers and gorrillas and
to the morality, the intelli-
gence and patriotism. The constita-a
ton Of the country must be rc-estab-
lished and its defenders supported by
the united voice and votes of the peo-
pie. There is no time TO be lost
The soldier who halts and hesitates
should be shot. The opposition, by
whatever name called, should unite
and harmonize TO banlsh from office
the one mans ring of Republican poll
iticians. The country demands the
ablest craftsmanship, the highest hoE.
or, the most incorruptible integrity
Honesty, morality and intelligence
must assume the helm, or else the gov
ernment will be plunged deeper into
the Guagmirc of that fathomless cor
ruption that has poisoned the life
blood of the nation.-.Sk. Paul Dis
match.