Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-12-18

properly nhu en'a"ou oo'aVes' "a'o
created corporations tha' hoiu vaster
estates ana aie more poweriui tnan
any foreign nopil'ty-art'nc,a, persons
which never die, ana wnicn, wnne
they continuously exist having mel
ther conscience nor iee'ng, are iiaoie
always 70 perVert anu abuse 'ner
powers :,
we pave e q oiVl service, 10 wn'on
over loo'ooo persons nola the'r places
az tne aosoiute WIZ anu u'sPosa' VI 'no
rres,deht' ana 80 en.',ciy partisan !"
its character as 10 g've rise e'ery
where 10 grevious complaints anu gre'
Vious eVi's'
None OF tnese eVi'S eSis.eo' or were
,oreseon, 10, ~ INC ,'iie }" our rAsuo'e. q
incy are tne resui. Q, lnc grown u
lne country IN numoers anu moa''p'
ana tne corresponding increase ~ pun.
~ sh.s | anu aeJs ,ho. ana a,i" e "d;os ,tan
Anu 1uvy '.9u"o o.ne. . 'ou,'.,os s..;a.a saa
any "n'cn 'no r"'ners ""'o Pro''u'
THE DUTY OF THE CITIZENS.
Now government, always serious
work, becomes difficult just in proper
tion TO the number and magnitude
and variety OF the interests governed.
In our country, it grows year by year
more important and more embarrass.
ing. This great business Is, in other
nations, usually given over to some se-
lected or favored class, which is re-
warded for attention to it by heredi-
tary rank, and honor and power. But
with us this is different. We have un-
dertaken, in this country, TO conduct
government for ourselves; and, II 1t
be not well conducted, we have no one
10 blame for II but ourselves. And yet
one often hears, at least in the section
III "p,cn 4 ,''e, worthy ,iiei' N'nv'o %
Pe.'ai'J u'''"0s e"u e'"u'"'e ""u '"o'
,l - ae c,o,a
y 49,, =, t0 ~ no,;,;as ' - na ,al;no, s ns
"o a.. - aat,;n .g,;ss !, ,ha A.
r.; ,;a 80 20 dTa;.s an,'id ,r;sal, or eel
isit 70 ,ho ;c,orant or wor,5less or ~
,Loso .ho ;n,aros, ,homsalvos in NH
I;o afrs;rs oni,, tor ,he;r own nroft
in ,ha oari, davs ~ ,ba Rennbl;,
the conduct II Government was inde,c
so ossn that good c;,iyens might with
on, W 1 ~, coi1ow ,hs,r avocas;ons anl
,"ora @ nnh,;c na,,ers mainly ~ tbos,
,vho vIro ,rof,ad pu hv solIow,na t6em Anr
this leaving public aiia'rs 10 proles
slonal politicians brought polltlcs lntC
some discredit. but you may oe sure
young gentlemen, that however u wa
formerly, the cohdition Oh pupnc al
fairs IS TOO grave the evils IN inc oooy
politlo 700 tnrea'ening' anu 'no neoes
sity oi change 700 imminent 10 ionge
sustain such neglect
REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT NOT A FAIL
uRE.
How then are these evils 10 be met
To do so, must VIC abandon the prn
ciples upon which our Fathers found
ed This Government. and hold that
however good they were for that day
they are are not suited for our tim
and condition; or may we yet fin,
within their principles the remedy 70
existing evils? For myself thinl
that in a lust adaptation of those prir
ciples 10 existing conditions will b
found the required remedies, that II
needless and idle TO look elsew here 70
'nep
Evcry now ana then we hear wol
thy people, alarmed at prevailing evil
cry out that Republican governmen
IS a failure, and that what we need
q despotlsm, dictatorship, or abst
lutte authority oil some KIND. Sue
people, u seems 10 me, gravely mistak
the circumstance and the spirit OF th
age. Absolute authority by one ma
over people Is q condition which ca
exist only in less advanced commun
ties than ours. In countries in whic
the railway and the telegraph and th
newspaper exist, information is TO
rapidly disseminated, and combine
tions among the people are too read
~ made, to permit the assumption {
any one Of absolute authority. A
over the world il will bc seen tba
whatever the nominal form Of govern
ment, whether pure autocracy, lik
Russia, or nominal monarchy, lik
England, the tendency Of governmer
is steadily and uniformly toward poi
ularization. Everywhere that Ii
: modern means of intercommunicatio
exist, the people are asserting MOI
. and more their authority. For th
English speaking race, at least, kepu'
icah government is no. iaiiure.
nave no 'cur' lncrelolo, .na' lno s.sa' os,a'
'su',o"' y, a"y Po'so"", aeoPI''o.
nere u poss'o'c' No oAoeu''No, noV
ovc, oo'o or n"wcsu, 49,, oang.rous, u,,' "a
venture uPo" u" - .'a;,od a,a;n,
8 wnc" ,r. r oo"H 's's ~ ~ ,rarra, ]
I o"n nvS "o'"e "
q 'oa, VI eo." ua"s 40,
: pu., wna'.S', '.h !. "a, ,ts, ~ 49, av;s,;r
a .n's' .ne run 's' 'nas, a | LA 80, an'
o,'cu'''s'a"oos, ,I W. 49, ,.aaaranan, on
I ''nue 20 naVc popu'A, oss.aI nj, 1,r, 49,
0 rehoi IRON oN,s'''S M o'ns ~ 20" 49,; 10y - G =,
: rom w''p'n, ""u , ~ 'ae ,Sa, % as !, " ssen :,
|. pcop'e' Anu iepsas .p"s .ps. 10 ~ T.
70 me, 'nc r."ieuy o,,. ~, ."es' ,o, s,' 10 o.
& DO louho; 10. ~ u0spo.'u, j, s,,T,a "v' No,
! general Limitation y, :, o, ,ase,.D ma !, !,
n seeking new sys.o'r;n =, sr'a a~;',;,
r out ~ 'ur'ncr np'',va''o" ~ 1n~, 80,
J. conu'''ons y, 'uo iunus %,I W
!. pies upon wn'cn '"o '"'"'' ""
goV''""'"''
!. RE APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES Skof
) toHt sARY'
If fyou consider the popular COVER
l. ment of this aye, you will percci
II that II has one essential feature whi
N d,stinotiishes IL from the popular 10