Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-10-03
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oa Everything by IncantatiOn.
The members of the new party in Mis-
souri, have just given US an illustration oi
the latest development of the fiat business.
NJ that State they have resolved that no
man shall. be put in nomination on their
ticket who has ever held office. They will
have no one assigned TO the work OF max
ing. administering, or executing laws who
BIAS had any experience in the performance
Of such duties. This. though apparently
revolutionary, sperfectly logical and con-
sistent. For If the people who consulate
the government can stamp piece OF pa
per, with its fiat and make it money, they
can just as easily put on the back of
man who can neither read nor write the
stamp .'This is statesman" and make
him pass current as such. Current. that is
to say. like the fiat money, in this country,
NOS abroad. b"What have we got to with
abroadr' And to those statesmen and
their statesmanship would attach the same
advsatsge - to the iat money--we should
have them all to ourselves, with no dan
ger Of their exploration. There has been
a delusion, more or less prevalent during
the dark and chaotic ages. before Mr.. But
Ter stepped out with his FLAT lux i''--that
apprenticeship was good thing even in
such easy and simple business as making,
administering and executing laws; that
experience In these matters, as in the most
ordinary mechanical pursuits, was rather
an advantage than Otherwise. All mis-
take. The new party have discovered it.
and in Missouri are acting upon it. They
have learned that to write and read comes,
If not by nature, at least by incanta-
tisni by the fiat process. And as
auyrother money than the fiat money is
rsther draw back than help to the gem
erf1 prosperity, so any other statesman
ship than that which comes OF incarnation
issan Interference and positive damage.
Missouri Nationals will have no other.
They have discovered that promise is so
much superior to performance, so much
more substantial and solid, that 1t should
be made permanent substitute for it !;
that The most dignifed and deserving form
ofslsbor !. idleness; that the east wind is
digestible and fattening; and that the
functions Of making. administering and
executing laws may be more safely trust
ed 70 the ignorant and inexperienced than
10 imsn who are intelligent and practised
in affairs. ion bioa1 'f iaai
"Fiatw Is the word, incantation the
process. There is familiar story of
fellow who, having witnessed Juggling
performance in which watch was poun d.
ed TO pieces in mortar and restored as
good yas new by the pronouncing of
sort of incantstion over the fragments,
made up hts mind to try the trick himself
Having carefully committed TO memory
the words of the incarnation, he proposed
to crowd In the village tavern to exhibit
the trick II any one would furnish the
watch. A credulous person was found to
furnish q fine gold watch, which was put
In mortar and duly pounded into very
small pieces. Then the amature wizard
put his hat over the mortar and repeated
his lncaDtation. Much to his surprise. il
oia MOI work. He changed word and
tried II again. but with the same result
Alter several Intellectual attempts he turn
ed At length TO the too-con6ding owner
OF the watch. aud said, as he handed him
the fragments, "Irs too bad about this
thought ] had sure thing on il.
must have forgotten something" So it
seems you cannot always depend implicit
ly on incarnation. The process seems
easy and simple, and in this case Fiat is a
charming word; it does not seem posi-
BILE To make mistake in it; but before
the American people put all their jewelry
into mortar for this experiment Il would
be well 10 have it tried on smaller
scale. Let some such magician. say AZ
Mr.. Shupe, Of the The Advocate. try !,
on his own note, or let some high priest OF
the party say Fiat" LET there be in
telligepos and common sense here over
the hssd Of Dennis Kearney. For 1t would
not te psesssnt TO end the Government by.
pnd.oy saying "Fiatr' ineGeetualI,