The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-08-30
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MIR. HASA UREK'S SALUTAT0RY
Translated from tho vOlksblatt, CInclnnatl,l

savant, and Professor at the University
at Salamanca, had been arrested by the
inquisition and kept in prison for five
years. After the expiration Of this time
he was discharged and reinstated in his
place. 1t was natural that, under these
circumstances, great many persons
crowded into the lecture-room on the
occasion of his first appearance. 1t was
expected he would makessome allusion
to his Imprisonment and persecution
but to the disappointment Of everybody
he began the lecture with these words
AS we remarked when we met last !;
and then quietly resumed the thread Of
his dissertation where it had been inter-
rupted by his Imprisonment.
Precisely in the same way the under
signed resumes torday his editorial
charge of the Volksblatt. resume the
thread of my editorial discussions where
it was interrupted by my temporary with
drawal in August, 1876. For what was
said and written in the meantime ass
sumo no responsibility with some ol
the things that were done by the paper
during my absence l might have agreed
with great many others, and perhaps,
with most of them, should have disa-
greed. What has happened in.this re-
spect belongs to the PAST and as for a
daily newspaper property there exists
but the PRESENT, | shall not waste any
time on a discussion of what is over and
cannot be changed.
Time, reflection and experience have
but confirmed me in my political views,
which are known to the readers of the
Volksblatt. AS | remarked when we
met last am still of the opinion that
our country suffers with two fundament-
al ills, namely:
First, our present system Of ELECTIEG
TOO OFTEN AND TOO MUCH, inclusive Of
the election of a great many officers
whose places should be filled by AP-
PoINTMENT; and second, with a total
want Of proper understanding Of what
the real functions and purposes Of Re-
publican Government should be. To
the former of these two evils we owe the
power of the so called political or party
machines, which, ] am afraid, has grown
too strong to be broken. To the latter
we owe our complicated and expensive
machinery of government, with sys.
tenn of des ruclive taxation, which, like
an incubDs, W, ighs down the business of
the country, and has paralyzed our in>
dustral and commercial development.
Unfortunately, the great mass of the
public seems to be struck with blind
ness as to the true causes of our political
and financial miseries. 1t searches and
gazes for them in the distance, but does
not discern what is right before It's nose
1t cries for all sorts of artificial political
nostrums and patent medicines, but it
does not understand that the greatest
healing power lies in nature and an OBJ.
servance of national laws which State
interference and Government quack-
cry cannot counteract with impunity.
Nay, it even demands MULTIPLICATION
of the causes of the disease, instead of
insisting upon their DIMINUTIoN. A
baseless, irredeemable, and huctuating
Government paper money, has plunged
the country into want of confidence
and insecurityi yet the people will not
give up this paper money, but prefers
cruise among the reefs and shoals to a
landing upon solid earth.
A suicidal system of protective tariffs
has spread over the country winding
shroud of business stagnation and want
of employment, and yet the American
people will not give up this shroud, but
cling to it as ifafraid lest healthy veget-
alton and fertility might develop in the
place of decay and decomposition.
Instead of a simple and economical
government machinery which would
have but few functions, but would then
be able all the more efficiently and sat-
isfactorily TO discharge them, we have
built up a Government COLOSSUS which,
polyp~like, stretches out its thousand
useless but costly tentacles and fangs in
every direction. And instead of doing
away with one-half at least of these USE
less and eXtravagant bureaus and de-
partments, we have constant demand
for the creation of new bureaus and sim
ecures Our ship-building, ruined by
the tariff, was to be revived by a 'Bu~
reau of Commerce and Navigation.
The suhferings of the workingmen are
to be alleviated by Labor Bureau
The frauds practiced upon emigrants
on their arrival in the country are to
be prevented by Bureau of Emigra-
tion,' &c.
When will the public realize that no
salvation can be expected from bu-
reaus, Government officers and poliu-
clans, but that every new bureau is but
a fresh burden and new elephant
feeding upon taxation? Public pros
perity can not be decreed from above
downward. 1t must develop itself from
below upward, and it WILL thus devel.
op itself the moment we stop to place
obstacles in its way by political quack>
cry and Government interference.
AS long as the people themselves do
not or will not perceive the real causes
of their troubles, we must not be sur
prised by the lack Of such perception
among politicians and political parties.
Justly do we complain of the worthless
ners Of the two party platforms in
Ohio; but why should the politicians
understand and discuss what the peo-.
pie are unwilling to understand or to
take an interest in? AS the people
are, so its politicians and legislators
will be AS long as the many will not
learn the lesson of the hard times, but
continue to live beyond their means,
in dHIci jN6iIO, running into debt all
the time: so long as our city, country
and State governments will continue to
waste borrowed money and run into
debt: as long, as in business, a spirit
Of wild venture and speculation pre-
walls, SO long will this same spirit re.
feet itself in our public administra.
and Enl