The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-10

be touched If he can help it, Hence the tom
foolery which ] am now taking the trouble TO
show up In It's true light. | shall wait patient
ly for Mr.. Hewitt and his COMMITTEES to con
cude their unique Enquiry and make tnelr
report That It's character will be the logical
sequence of the manner and the legitimate
offspring of the spirit in which the tnvestlga-
ton has begun, have not the shadow OF o
doubt. But that Hewitt will succeed In his
PROGRAMME or DEFoGGING THE PUBLIC
and casting discredit upon the name Of the
movement whose causes and possibilities ne
has been appointed TO inquire Into and report
upon, most certainly question. MT. Hewitt
has been SO long accustomed to calculate oil
his political observations from the meridian
OF New York city that it Is not unnatural that
If hhe sehheuId Try To reckon his new bearings
from the same point. But he may as wet
understand once for all that
THE POLITICAL IMPORTANCE OF NEW YORK
CITY
was felt for the last time at the st. Louis con-
vention Of 1876 and that the statesman of
the future will have to lay down his merid-
iona base of calculation several degrees fur
ther West. RI Mr. Hewitt would spend Il
week with me among the farmers Of the Gem
tral New York highlands he would learn q
great deal more about
THE TRUE TEMPER OF THE AMERICAN WORK.
ING GLASSES
and the real nature OF the relief they demand
and intend to have, one way II not another,
than he can learn In six months among the
2ropped-pated rul1lans and the fiery-faced
Dutch beer-swlllers OF the city slums. He
would find the real, substantial American
wOrkingman is the farmer, who abounds all
the way from here to the Tooth meridian
This farmer Is not Communist, like Mr.
Hewitt's sample Dutch citizen Schwab, nor q
Trades Unionist like his representative stone
cutter, Tom Rock. He cares nothing about
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS,
and Is not Interested in tho eight hour law,
because he is not In pursuit Of chimeras Dor
in search Of the quack nostrums OF politics
farmer he would learn that part of his creed
Is that United States bonds should be made
taxable like other property: that
THE NATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM
should be stripped of Its peculiar privileges
and prerOgatives and all banks placed on the
same footing; that some expedient must be
found by which the power, OF such corpora
tions as those now controlled by Vanderbilt,
Scott. Gould, Huntington and their compeers
may be brought under the sovereign will ol
the people, and that II no other expedient car
be devised the farmer believes In their seizure
by the government and their. operation as
public highways These are few of the mo-
mentous things which the real American
workingman is revolving over in his simple
I I lit lit somewhat stubborn and resolute
| mind, and 1t won't be long before
Mr.. Hewitt and the class to which he be-
longs will hear from this workngman In
earnest. In tho meantime, | suppose Mr.
Hewitt will go on with his farce of Che short
haired bumlners Of the BOwery and the red
faced Dutch beer -ierkers Of Avenue B. II Is
all right They are just as much working
men" as Hewitt Is statesman; so 1t would be
the devils pity to separate them. But he
must not feel aggrieved II o casual critic OF
current events points out some of the salient
features Of the miserable farce In which he Is
playing the leading role. Let him therefore
be just as "qulzzjcal," and just as 'signitl-.
can't and just as ,'"mock serious, and
Just as "jocose" as he thinks
lit. 1t probably amuses him, and
may help that dyspepsia which circumstances
made SO fatal to the management OF the Dem
ocratic party in 1876. II Mr.. Hewitt were a
statesman, Justus Schwab would be q work
ing man, and the current inquiry" would
therefore be profound and exhaustive. But
as Mr.. Hewitt happens to be a weak headed
and weaker-kneed dlivelIer whom luck and
his father-in-laws money have boosted into
unfortunate emnenco. and as Mr.. Schwal
happens to be pig g-headed Dutch hummer OF
the worst and lowest type, the intellectual
friction of the two is not likely to produce
many sparks of
| TRUE POLITICAL ECONOMY.
Meanwhile the world.will continue to move.
A q II,