The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-10-06
spee.A D!spAisk to y 7. world.

cAl Fair, low holding at Pimlico, near
Baltimore, Senator Bsyard, Of Delaware,
skis afternoon delivered the address.
After quoting from Sir Thomas More's
Utopia of the advantages of manual
occupation, Sand of agriculture especially,
and citing the examples of Newton, Watt,
John Hampden and Wade Hampton, as
those of men who had acquired eminence
and leadership away from cities and under
he inspiration of rural life, the Senator
rent on
Far away from the busy haunts of men,
distant from cities aud their tum alts, with
the q 1iet walls of the ulonasteries, during
all the violence and wars of the Middle
Ages the lamp OF learning and science was
faithfully trimmed and kept burning and
art and rcieEce and history in that long
and dark period Of unrest lay hid aud
safely preserved aud cherished by the pa
eient, modest aud conscientious labor and
chronicle u the poor rec!ase and bum bic
max.
Uncon sciously, perhaps, striking aud
-Dos. practical Illustration of the truth !
have euggeEted is given by the means
adopted n mAoy States OF tue nion, some
Sy Constitutional amend dment, as il Illinois
AID Perusy .yAn!s, 10 others by statutory
anenduea: Of municipal charters, to
arrest the appalling Increase of the debts
of cities ard large towns, which have
yrcWp With slch rApidity as to threaten
absolute cCLnscaiion OF the property within
.beir JarIsd !ciion. And many city govern
10ents, 60 far from being q protection TO
he Eeeu Il c!stion Of industry and An en-
3oUrAgeDeIt 10 enterprise, have come to
&c regarded As their greatest danger.
Under oar system o! suffrage as con-
deetAd - tie cities public expenditures
have become go excessive, go Wild ard
layr ~ nTt b.
7IaEo- hare come to look upon the public
eTeascry &c their Tigttful means Of support,
I'D tte corrupt improvement OF private
property :: p1blc coet has become 50
cou uon, at tie power 20 incur further
.odeutscreEs bas been withdrawn from the
:o>ai coctrU: etittt II
EaG 20 tie Tss;rsiniug lLf1ence Cf State
Legisla;aIes, which are composed chlehy
Of GepreSe natives from the country dis
Jict4- Does rot ttIs fact constitute a
yubllc ad salon thai more reliable sen
inert. 2 more 'saylug Common Eeuse" 10
rS%1e care AID ad dmin!strAtlop Of property
exists amor the ciuLecs OF the rural Cls-
-Ttets THAI wOald seem to coatro! their
sharper ~ltted brethren uiassed at the cen
tree Of poPulaIion.
barely gaLce at this serious problem
OF the government of men in large and
dense N mssses, not proposng on thIs occ4
soc 30 treat of the obvious evils of our
municipal 50 stems or their proper remedies,
bat merely 20 draw your attention to the
confession contained 10 the fact referred to
of the Ii mauI Ifest reliance exhibited upon the
cAImer aod slower and, as it would appear,
more wise aud conservative judgment Of
.he Inhabitants of the rural dlstricts.
Never was there q time in the history of
our country when calm, Independent and
reeolute resistance TO Wild and dangerous
popular fsllscies wSs so needed as now.
Every thiukIng man must have felt that
q an nf al ka .lA -,
che United States has created what may
-oe likene TO q broad prairie land of pub
lie sentiment, over which every gale that
becomes popular sweeps with unobstructed
force and levels all individual oppos.tion.
This is one of the defects and dapRers of
our Democratic form OF government,
against which its friends must guard it,
and which especially needs the opposition
of outspokeu individuality of opinion, and
is yet so indisposed to tolerate it.
4 talsehood is not the less false because
Thousand voices shout it :: it is only the
more dangerous and should encounter more
active and strenuous resistance. We do
need, and need badly, vigorous utterances
Of independent opinions. 1t is from the
coutiict OF honest, outspoken minds that
truth ls obtained, just as the steel and the
1int are both eQRired to strike the light.
And to the tyranny of unchecked popular
opinion is added the terrorism of political
partiEanship by which American Intellect
and personal conscience are 30 rudely
aSSailed, overcome and dragged in the
dust of wild and clamorous error. Upon
the thoughtful minds of men who love
their country, and whose lives are passed
remote from busy crowds, l earnestly press
the consideration of their duty and respon-
sibility to remedy these defects.
If, in the midst of such financial distress
and beWilderment as now surround ne,
remedies, illusory and yet Plausible, should
be urged schemes which promise imme-
diate relief, unbounded, easy and seductive,
and which have caught the popular mind
suR ciently to promise the possession of
temporary political power to their moot
conspicuous advocates, how plain is the
dEty and responsibility of every man who
sees the lurking error aud concealed dan
geE of such measures to bear his testimony
In loud warning against themf What
answer should the farming classes, the
landowners and the hardy yeomen Of the
rvfw A.