The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
OF
CHARLES QUARLES, ESQ,
ON THE CURRENCY, DELIVERED AT
WARDS CORNERS, BRISTOL, sATUR-
DAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1877.

For the last few years, society in the
United States has seemed to be in a
state OF turmoil. Political parties, es-
pecially, have appeared to be full of
discordant elements which have threat
ened to disrupt the old organizations.
and to lnaugurate a new political
scheme, where each individual is to 'go
it alone" This Observation-Disclosures
in politics has been assembled to "hard
times and is, perhaps, partly owing
to that cause. But it is more proper
ly attributable to the death of the old
issues, the birth of new ones, and the
consequent desire OF all to range them
selves with party organizations en-
bodying their ideas, and, us well, to a
not uncommon miSappIehensio of the
issues themselves.
In society at large, q new disease
has broken Out,-mOre Joathsome than
| leprosy,-more contagious than the
itch, and apparently lncurable. This
disease is professional mendicancy,
and the patient is called, "a tramp" He
is, and must needs be, a Manderer on
the face of the earth, with his hand
against every man, and every mans
hand against him. He comes, not
from hard times, but is begotten by la
ziness, reared by rascalitY, and born of
original Sin. A certain symptom of his
disease is an Irresistible desire to live
upon other people; and another symp-
tom is, that to accomplish this, he does
not scruple to employ theft, robbery,
or even murder.
Society has long looked upon this
ragged, lousy, flea bitten, God-forsaken
animal, as something to set the dogs
upon,-to bolt the doors against to
lock up in it's prisons, and to work on
| it's streets.
But latterly, this thing, more useless
| than the Wandering Jew" who serv-
ed to point a moral and adorn tale,'
has appeared in politics. His disease,
his itch,-has become platform,
and his symptoms are it's planks. The
trampS, "in convention assembled"
call their creed Communism; and the
sole object of this political gang, is to
take the property of honest producers.
and throw tito the dogs,-to despoil
those who earn, and enrich the lazy,
dissolute and dishonest.
But some Of these political Migrants
inspired by their father, the Devil,
Ito assume pleasing shape" call this
the Workingmen's party, and thus per-
petrate a base SANDER on the honest
Workingmen of America. NONE, more
than those men who depend for their
living and property on their hands, can
desire stability and security for per-
sons and property. 1t would be a
waste of words to try to persuade you,
that the workingmen will not accent
the platform of this crowd, and that
they do not endorse VIII. lesale theft,pil-
lage and plumber
! But coming one step higher, we find
men dressed in broadcloth, advocating
the same principles under another
name. Their idea is, not to take away
your property by vulgar theft, or in
decorous violence ); but under semblance
OF law, to take away its value: to flood
the country with irredeemabIe trash,
destroy credit, take away the value OF
all securities, repudiate the National
debt, unsettle values, and get us into
jolly condition of general chaos.
These are the Fiatists. They are
men who have been dummed out Of
every respectable party, and on this
common ground Ben Butler shakes
hands with Kearney. Under this
banner cluster the Communists andl
Workingmen's party, and make mix
ture worse than that contained in thel
witches caldrOn.
EYE of newt, and toe of frog,
WOOL OF bat, and tongue of dog
hoodlums, sluggers, communists. va
grants, criminals, office seekers, and
Butler the arch hoodlum. They are
like Falstaff's recruit, who looked as