Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-11-05
REMEMBER,
Ion Che New York Tribune
Everything 6y Incarnation.

Everything 6y Incarnation.
If the American people will only give
heed 70 the lessons they are daily receiv-
ING from the National Decentralization
party, they will presently be able to dis
pense with hard money, accumulated cap
itsl. labor, sweat, history, experience, IN
telligence, brains and everything else that
has usually been deemed necessary in
business, political and social transactions.
Everything will be conducted upon the
fat plan. Mr.. Butler, the lawgiver Of the
new party and leader IN the new political
exodus, has led his followers up to the
edge Of the Pentateuch and offered the
solution Of Sll the problems Of business,
political and sOciAl life IN the FIRST chap
Ter Of Genesis. You have only TO say
Fiat" aud it is done. So came light
out Of darkness and creation out Of chaos.
The voice Of Omnipotence proclaimed
"Fiat lux and there was light. The
voice Of Government has on y to proclaim
"Fiat money and We shall have il ing
ling in all our pockets; OF if not jingiing,
then rusiling, crisp, new and beautiful In
our pOcketbOOks, and swelling our assets.
Everything is to 60 by fiat" 1t is not
quite certain that incarnation will not
take the place Of water-power, electricity
and steam, and furnish Us with the new
motor which the inventive genius Of the
age is so snxiously seeking to discover.
The fat people are every day pushing
their theory toward It's last logical results
They despise steps and processes; labor,
growth and development are quite out Of
their vocabulary; they have no need OF
them. If they can stretch forth the hand
and say Fiat let there bel"-and
it is done, they may have everything else
as well as money for the simple invOca-
ton. The fat gives Us money without
cost, capital without the delay and trouble
OF accumulation, crops without planting,
the products Of skilled labor without Ia
Dor. government without any uses for his
tory or experience in Its conduct, or any
need of intelligence and brains in the ad-
ministration OF It's affairs
The members of the new party in Mis-
souri, have just given Us an illustration Of
the latest development of the fat business.
In that State they have resolved that no
man shall be put in nomination on their
ticket who has ever held office. They
will have DO one assigned to the work OF
making, administering, or executing laws
who has had am experience In the per-
Torrance Of such duties. This, though
apparently revolutionary, Is perfectly log
ical and consistent For If the people
who constitute the Government can stamp
3 piece Of paper with Its fat 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 a statesman, and
make him pass current as such. Current,
that Is to say, like the fat money, in this
country, not abroad What have We
got to do with abroad" And to those
statesmen and their craftsmanship would
attach the same advantage as to the fat
money-we should have them all to our
selves, with no danger Of their expectation.
There has been a delusion, more or less
prevalent during the dark and chaotic
ages, before Mr.. Butler stepped out with
ais "Fia, lux"-that apprenticeship was
3 good thing even in such easy and simple
business as making, administering, and
executing laws; that experience in these
matters, Is IN the most ordinary mechan-
lea pursuits, Wa rather al advantage
than otherwise All . mistake The new
party have discovered il, and IN Missouri
are acting upon it. They have learned
that to write and read comes, if not by
nature, at least by incarnation; by the
fat process. And as any other money
than the tat money is rather drawback
than help TO the general prosperity, SO
any other craftsmanship than that which
comes OF incarnation Is an interference
and positive damage Missouri Nation
ais will have no other. They have dis
covered that promise is 50 much superior
20 performance, so much more substantial
and solid, that it should be made a per-
manent substitute for it; that the most
digni6ed and deserving form Of labor Is
idleness; that the east wind Is digestible
and fattening; and that the functions Of
making, administering and executing laws
may be more safely trusted to the ignorant
and inexperienced than to men who are
intelligent and practised in affairs
Fiat" is the word, incarnation the
process. There Is a familiar story of
i,iioS who, having witnessed juggling
performance IN which watch was pound
ed to pieces IN a mortar and restored as
good as new by the PronOuneing Of a sort
Of Incarnation over the fragments, made |