The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-11-13
THE GOyERNNENT.

We are constantly treated to serious dis
courses upon the subject of government, its
duties, and the scope of its powers. With
great many, and specially with the leaders
of the radical party, the government is
something entirely separate and distinct
from the people, forgetting that in this
country the government is by the people, of
the people, and for the people, and that the
exercise of any power, or the Enforcement of
any policy that antagonizes the
people, that does not consult the
welfare of all the people, is in direct and
criminal conflict with the advancement
glory and prosperity of the country. Under
radical rule legislation has, to an extent
never heard or dreamed OF before, disre
garded the welfare of the great body of the
people, while favored few have been per-
mitted to increase their fortunes. The gov
eminent has played despot and tyrant. 1t
has inaugurated u policy of prohigacy
and plumber which has produced wide
spread ruin. 1t has created a moneyed aris-
tocracy and exalted 1t TO almost supreme
power, while the great mass of the people
have been subjected to privations and re-
duced to a condition of vassalage. The gov
eminent, controlled by radicals. has made
contracts with bondholders and then an
nulled them that other contracts might be
made better calculated to enrich the capital
lists and rob the people. The currency has
been contracted that the purchasing power
OF dollar might be increased,
pI he nrohlop, hof
worked out the people were deprived
of the means of earning dollar, and were
forced into idleness and crime. The gov
eminent, in this way, has been a curse in
stead OF a blessing, tyrant instead OF
friend and protector. Instead Of fostering
enterprises by which the millions could Oh
tain an honorable livelihood, it has, with
more than savage cruelty, bludgeoned bust
ness to death, closed the avenues to employ
ment, hushed the hum of machinery, and
arrested the prosperity Of the coun-
try. The servants of the peo-
pie under radical rule became their cruel
masters, and when the people protested and
demanded policy in consonance with their
welfare, they have been subjected to an
other turn of the governmental screw, by
which they were forced to still lower depths
of poverty. In contemplating the changes
that have occurred during the past few years
In diminishing the power of the radical
party and of transferring it to the democrat
ic party, II will be seen that
the people have determined to
have government more in accord
with their rights and welfare. They have
concluded to exert their sovereign power
and submit to the tyranny OF radicalism no
longer. They will in future have legislation
that considers their interests; that embraces
all classes and that contemplates the great.
est good to the greatest number. There will
esty instead of knavery. The government
will foster enterprises calculated to
enrich instead of impoverish the
people, and the halcyon' days Of the "long
ago. will dawn again. 1t will be more than
a semi-millenniun when the thousands of
forced idlers, the victims of radical rule,
again find employment; when the army of
tramps disappear from the highways of the
land when work and wages change desolate
novels into comfortable and cheerful homes,
and mepdicants become producers. Already
the national pulse beats more healthful.
Rzdlcalism, that has been a continuous
curse, is disappearing. The democratic
party is coming grandly into power. and the
country is 10 be blessed again with govern
ment for the people, of the people and by
the people.