The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-20

dred thousand BUSHES.
FoRIBoDTsos.
1, seems strange that with all this
wonderful harvest Of fruits and cereals
there should be no more hopeful view OF
the immediate future than appears
widely to prevail, people have waived 40
long for the good times" to return that
they have become slow to believe in them.
disappointment has produced disttusL
And / am only chronieling an unques-
tionable fact when / say that among
thoughtful persons there exists almost 8
strange foreboding Of evil for our country.
I do not now speak Of political leaders, or
Of the rank and file Of political parties
who follow blindIy whilher they are led;
but Of people who think for themselves
and who really desire their couutryis
welfare. / have recently been thrown .
good deal with that class Of persons and
| have discovered among them but one
feeling on this subject 1t is that il the
ship OF state is not oon brought out Of
the trough Of the Sea where ii Is rolling,
it will run serious danger Of wreck. It
may not be anarchy that is our peril. 1t
Ia often we'll said that this country is not
Mexico. II cannot be thoroughly Mex
icanized. But the peril Is that 10 order
that We may ave ourselves from that
form OF evil we may be too ready 10 vel
come q more or less thinly disguised des-
potism. People are already saying that
Il would be well il Congress meet only al
long intervals. Thousands, who scarcely
a year 2 were eager for the exit OF the
silent soldier who sat in the White House,
now would be glad to have him back sgain
and clothed too, with larger. powers than
be ever exercised in the past. lfbe were
there to-day and like Cromwell should
stride into the halls OF Congress and
declare both the House and the Senate
indefinitely adjourned there are many
BY no means the worst Of our citizens
who would hail the act with their plaud-
its. Such 4 state Of the public mind iS
perilous. Il il blindness not to recognize
its existence, and the evil consequences TO
which il is liable TO lead. And all over
the land in view Of this situation thought
iul people are profoundly spprehensive.
TIE CAUSE OF THE EVIL.
The great cause which lies back Of all
this il the lamentable corruption which
seems TO have taken such deep hold on
our public affairs, and the apparent utter
helpiessness Of the best OF our public
men. The integrity Of the President is
widely conceded. But he is bounded
down even by the leaders OF Lis own par.
", and subjected 10 ~indignity. Men like
Stephens Of Georgia belonging TO the
other party lift up their voices in vain.
And In the war Of factions the veil is
Withdrawn from the workingsot our pol.
tics and we are permitted to zee the vii.
lsinies which are practieed. Confidence
in popular elections has been destroyed.
The man who in view Of the present
practical operation OF our system would
now proclaim that the voice Of the peo-
pie Is the voice OF God, would be
laughed at "a 8 fool or Missed down as q
knave. And with confidence in popular
elections respect for authority is vanish
ishing.
Some persons who read this may say
that il was written BY \ nan who had 8
ct Of dyspepsia and who saw things
through a dlscolored medium. But that
L. = mistake. | do not despair Of the
American Republic. Those who agree
with me in this view Of our Affairs have
sound reason for their apprehension, and
they believe that it Is not too late to
bring about 8 better state Of thingF, but
they are sure that the drift is at present.
toward rocks which will wreck the rs
ton unless they are avoided.
II was my privilege TO take part last
week in the exercises connected with the
Commencement Of one Of the oldest and
most Substantial Colleges Of the West.
The speakers from abroad were lawyers,
clergymen, and teachers. They were not
politicians, and yet they were men who
knew politics-soue Of them from large
experience. In almost every speech ut-
terance vas given TO just such sentiments
a. those which | have e~ndeayored TO ex.
press above. One Of them who resides
in Indianapolis turned aside from his
written address to tell how with his
own knowledge tens upon tens Of thou.
sands Of dollars in that city were checked
out Of the banks for corrupt purposes on
the very ' Of election.
THE REMEDY.
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