New-York tribune., 1878-10-01

ing, administering and executing laws
that experience in these matters, as IN the
most ordinary mechanical pursuits, was rather
an advantage than otherwise. All mistake
The new party have discovered 1t, and IN
Missouri are acting upon it. They have
learned that to write and read comes, If not
by nature, at least by ineantationj by the
fat process. And as any other money than
the fat money is rather drawback than
help to the general prosperity, so any other
craftsmanship than that which comes OF
incarnation is an interference ana
positive damage. Missouri Nationals will have
no other. They have discovered that promise
is so much superior to performance. SO much
more substantial aud solid. that 1t should DC
made permanent substitute for it; that the
most dignifed and deserving form OF labor is
idleness; that the east wind Is digestlDle ana
fattening and that the functions OF making,
administering and executing laws may be
more safely trusted to the Ignorant and IN
experienced than to men who are intelligent
and practised in affairs.
"Fiat I" is the word, incarnation the pro-
cess. There is a familiar story of fellow
who having witnessed juggling performance
in which watch was pounded to pieces IN
mortar and restored as good as new 10y the
prOnOuncing OF a sort Of incantatlon over
the fragments, made up his mind to try the
trick himself. Having carefully committed
to memory the words of tho incantation he
proposed to n crowd in the village tavern to
exhibit the trick If any one would fur
nish the watch. credulOus person was
found to furnish a fine gold watch. which
was put in mortar and duly pounded into
very small pieces. Then the amateur wizard
put his hat over the mortar and repeated hls
incantation. Much to hls surprise, it did not
work. He changed a word and tired
it agaIn, but with the same result. After
several Intellectual attempts lac turned at
length to the too-confding owner Of
the watch, aud said, rs he handed
him the fragments, "Its too bad about
"this. | thought | had sure thing on
lit. ! must have forgotten something"
SO 1t seems you cannot always depend
implicitly on incantatOn. The process
seems easy and simple, and In this
case Fiat is a charming word: it does
not seem possible to make mistake
in it; but before the American people
put all their jewelry into mortar
for this experiment it would be well
TO have it tried on a smaller scale. Let some
such magician, say as Mr.. Shupe, of The 4d-
uocdte, try it on his own note, or let some
high priest OF the party say "FIat |" Let
there be intelligence and common sense
"h here over the head of Denis Kearney. For
it would not be pleasant to find the Govern
mcnt by-and-by sayng Fiat intellectually
over paper dollars that no one would
take, or to see Congress OF num-
skulls with the whole National party making
passes over them, trying III vain to remember
Just how to say Fiat so as to endow them
with Intelligence enough TO do something
more than draw pay. It's pretty word and
a neat trick, but until some one Of the magi-
clans tries it on his own note successfully, or
gets common sense into his speeches by fat,
the country will do well to fight shy of the
performance.