The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04
STATESMEN NEEDED.

SIAIESmEN NEEDED.
A nation is always more or less heteroge-
neous, according to their form of govern
ment. The narrower the views entertained
and practiced, as to human freedom, by
people, the less inviting is their government
to minds of broad and liberal notions and
the fewer of such class will
be found among. them. But on
the contrary, the more catholic a govern
ment in the range of its hberality the more
inviting it will be to men of comprehensive
powers and a corresponding spirit of enter
PRISE. Our government being the freeest in
the world, and opening the broadcast fields
for the exercise of the most valuable mental
and physical endowments, has invited to its
hospitality aad its nch remunerative re-
sources the nobler classes of all nations.
And they have come. They are here from
the east. from the west, from
the north and from the south
from the highest cultivated portions of the
orient, from lands with more modern forms
of civilization, from the less civilized nations,
and from countries where enlightened Chris
tian governments are unknown. They have
for all coming time.
As a matter of course they have brought
with them their habits and much of their
national popularity. This Is to be expected.
Humanity is not educated out of one mode
Of life and line of thought and into new
state of things in day, nor in month. So
that we are mixed up with heterogeneous
mass of humanity. In on: midst are men OF
the highest culture and broadest views. and
the poorest, the humblest and the lowest
Forty millions of people of all possible reli-
gous views, of all varieties of CONNER
cial notions of varied national pecu-
liarities, and of various habits and
prejudicss under government whose most
distinguishing Characteristic is that the gov
erning power is the will of this hetero-
geneous mass, is q spectacle to be seen no
where on the face of the whole earth but in
these United States.
twill be seen at once how important it is
| to have men of both brains and morals
the leaders of such a people. Brains
alone will not do. There must be moral
/ integrity as well as sense. For fifteen or
/ twenty years past there has been continued
degeneration of craftsmanship in this coun-
try. 1t has not come from q lack OF brain
power. The mental attainment of the
present age is second to no preceding period.
But, unfortunately, moral worth has been at
discount, while low cunning and perfect
4 recklessness of all moral obligation have
been away above par. Intrigue, supported
by power or winked at by authority, the
disregard of all sense of honesty
and perjury black as perdition
and poisonous as the sting Of scorpions,
have been used for the dethronement of
justice and judgment, until our country
escutcheon is stained with political crimes
as dark and foul as may be found in inIqui-
tvs most putrid cesspools. The voice Of
Justice has been drowned by the clamor for
the spoils of office; the poor have been
robbed of the wgaes earned by toiling hands;
want, and even starvation, have stalked
through once happy dwellings and flung the
pail Of death upon innocent victims. All of
this in land of freedom and of unequaled
plenty, because men have decended to
line of conduct where justice and mercy, the
arms of moral obligation, were not permitted
to WELD their wonted influence.
1t is time for the people to look for men as
their leaders who can hear the voice of JUS
tice, and who have the nerve to heed
her warnings. A suffering people are
longing for deliverance. They have
ceased to hope for anything good to come
from the management of the politics of the
country under the administration of the past
few years, and they are anxiously waiting
for change.
The man who hunts up the poor in the
lanes and alleys, and distributes help and
sympathy. inspiring hope and instilling new
life into the fainting, and leads many OF the
victims of poverty and of encouragement
out into the sunshine of a new life, and with
words Of cheer and helping hands sends
them on to a glorious manhood and to fame,
} is engaged in a glorious work, and is already
harvesting great reward. So he who lives
and labors for the moral good of his race,
who teaches them how to live and love
as the Master lived =. and loved,
and instills Into their souls a
faitn and hope which link their destinies
I with Him who is the prince. and ruler Of all,