The anti-monopolist., 1877-03-15
The Antl-Monopol1st-

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ciety demand that the intelligent and
responsible classes OF society should con-
troll the administration OF aft .irs; that
those who pay taxes should have some
voice in the disposition Of their revenue;
that those who are alone Interested IN
| an honest government OF the commons
wealth and who alone posses the moral
and material resources tor sustaining
government should be the controlling
power in the government on condition
that that power shall be exercised with
due regard to the rights and interest
of the blacks as we'll as of the whites.
Some say Tilden would endorse every
word Of that. Then follows this
We hear it said, by those who claim to
speak as H,yes' friends, that he mettl,ates
soma compromise or arrangement 10
South Carolina and Louisiana, such as the
| Wheeler committee brought about IN
Louisiana in 1874. but though the con-
ditions are much the same in South Car
olina they are very different in Louisiana,
and it is not easy to see how any com,
, promise could be honorably effected be-
tween q government with legal title
!. amp a government with none except
what rests on terrorism, violence and
, blood.
Blaine and Morton would sing halle
f luj III over that paragraph.
The difficulty about this admirable
method of treating the subject is, that
it leaves tho mind of the reader in
pleasing state of doubt as to whether we
i should support and defend the govern
ment which represents the .'igncIan
, black canaille, on that which ''rests up
on terrorism, violence and blood" Ih'
= reader finds himself IN the condition 0
e the advice of the negro preacher wh'
said, ''my belubed bredern dar am bu
: two roads dat lead from dis yere church
If de one leads straight up to eberlas
n tin perdition. de oder leads straigh
!, down to eternal damna'ion. "Blcss q
- Lord,'' cried one perplexed old darkey
! '.dis niger takes to de hills"
A There is no way out Of this entangle
. ment of such editorials but to '.take
- de hills"
In the same issue Of March 9th we fin
;, two very opp site views OF the cbaracte
!" of Hon. james G. Blaine, Senate
from Maine. The first says:
..Mr. Blaine undoubtedly stands G
saf. and solid ground when he declar'
that if Hayes was entitled to ths ele
of toral vot, OF Louisiana under the decisio
n of the r ,turning Board, then 2 .ckard
~ entitled to tho office OF Governor I
=. Louisiana, and Kellogg to III. positic
nh Of Senator. II Hayes is obliged to T
an coguize either OF the claim.n.s 10 Il
.d Governors zip Of Louisiana, he must r
NJ cogniz. Packard. For P,cksru's prin
"a fncie legal title to the office cannot
"a |impeached-unless and until Congres
he after an inves iga,ion OF the return
ed shall find that the. r ,turning Bard Il
,r- cided wrongfuffy or fraudulentlv
~. coun ing the votes for m .mbers OF /
30 Legislature, or that the Legislature act
an. wrongfully or fraudulenlly in coun;i
the votes for G ,vernor. But until I
count is rsvors by legal methods
ion mus: seand. There is nc way TO
iii around it."
Ian This is square endorsement
'ck Blaine,s position, very strongly stat'
- Then in another editorial. probably fr'
i another hand, we have this sweepi
tar. assault O 4 the sun struck h.ro of a hi
TX dred fights:
'wo "Intoxic .ted with his pas success
III this obs ,lete role as the ch ,mpion ol
es. vindictive and intoler mt radio .lism,
lele is attemp ing to repeat in the nate
'ne putting himself os' enta,iously forw
eo in opposition 10 the peace policy
ant pr.s;.i.nt H,vos Hn will find that
the time was ill chosen for this m,nites
10 ,ion. lie is going through tn. mo'i
llIn OF ,wing an old tune on fiddle Wh
ou.u strings are broken. The country viii!
risy d,nce TO his music. He is playing in
iact dark from mere force of haoit the II
;ane odrama of which he was the hero, q
noii the curtain has been rung down anu
nen audience gone home"
..c. -. consistency isa jewel" the edi
anu Of the Pioneer Press should hold d
dry councils and harmonize on some
per- line OF thought and opinion; other'
'Ao their utterances will continue to 50
the "Like sweet bells tangled out Of tune
nese harsn.
,ugh
TWENTY YEARS AGO