The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-02-11

selves, without the profession OF med
icine," they said by their bearing if not in
words, THE world would have been u
failure. We are the salt Of the earth. We
assist man in getting into the world, and
the wit might have added, "in getting odt
OF il, Also but the doctors said-"stand
by him when he goes hence. We are
heroes. Health, comfort and even life itself
we often sacrifice for our fellow-men."
Well, let us give the doctor rs well rs the
devil his due, and say that, take them for
all in all, the doctors are an honor to the
human race. In the experiences of the
dreadful pesticncc that lately walked in
terror through the South, spreading dismay
and terrible death along its pathway, the
devotion Of the doctors to duty was moral
diamond that will
"on the stretched foreGnger of all time
Sparkle forever
Sir, take off my hat TO the doctors.
But they must permit me to not believe
that the world and all that therein is was
made especially for tir-m. That Is one of
the things don't know about medicine.
After the doctors came the state board Of
agriculture, Justify blowing the rams horn
Of its own praises, proclaiming the superi-
ority of husbandry, and thought, while |
looked at its members, blonzed by the I'M
requted work of the farm and cnfecbIed
by both mental and ply 5ical labor unre
warded; These men deserve well OF the
state.
Their harrow Oft the stubborn glrbc hath broke,
How jocund did they drive their teams afeld,
How bowed the woods beneath their stubborn
strOkG,'
Sir, you will not be surprised by my in
terest IN the state board OF agriculture when
you learn that | take pleasure in all conyo.
cations Of agriculturists who desire to be
called from the pillow TO the capital from
farming to craftsmanship. This kind OF
agricultursts are such unique admirers Of
selves-such complete masters of tho
fine art of complaining such exquisite
grumblers-such able abusers OF all who &c
not acknowledge their absolute right tC
control! | always applaud them when b,
their bearing they say; I'VE demanr
| because we are the ChoScl
of the Lord" But when one of them in
sists, for instance, that short horn breeding
relieved by a little corn raising, ought t
be the chief end Of all men, and anothe
that all the world ought to give its min
to wheat. and 81 another that the humG
race ought to run to hay and all declare
chorus that lawyers, doctors and printe,
are vauties and veXation TO the rural spiri
| become confused. am willing to adm
all that is claimed for the farmer, but
cannot understand that farming consists
part even in taking care that every 9TH
interest is ably disparagcd. That
abuse the rest of the world is farmer
duty is something don't know about agr
culture.
And also came the Illinois bar associ
ton, pealing its own praises in a blare
verbal trumpcry. The venerable patriarC
IS the legal Israel Of Illinois, Judge o.
DrOWhlNS, NnU has nI"u,--
The lawless science Of our law,
; That Goddess myriad of precedent.
9 That wilderness of single instances
, proved to the satisfaction Of his wort
brethren of the association that almost
the good qualities Of human nature we
monopolized by the lawyer "time where
: the memory of man runneth not to Il
contrary" And by logic, peculiar IN kin
but conclusive to his audience, he esta
+ lishcd the proposition that every battle f
freedom had been lnaugurated and won
lawyers, and every step in government
progress suggested by them.
TappIauded the well-turned sentences
the judges able address; but here, in
confidence, protest that the praise exa
Grated the facts. The truth is the lawy
has been the great holder-back. He h
said to every progressionist; Don't; o
fathers did not do as you suggest He h
said to every corrector of settled abuse
Don't; time has sanctiticd these T
lawyers have, however, always been crowd
, ahead by events-hayc advanced when til
were forced-and have contaminated int
| end by judicial decisions all the progress
that have been made by the human race
, government But that the lawyers busnc
is 'the chiefeSt among ten thousand and 4
one altogether lovely is something doi
know about the law.
And now the Press Association is he
) ready TO prove the newspaper edit
the great figure of the times Each o. yC
, has praising trumpet by his side-n
visible to the physical eye, adm
but there nevertheless-and he
ready to blow it long and LOT
, proclaiming that we are the lea
ers of men. | used to wear a trumpet
that kind, but took it off and threw
away sometime ago. Certain truths 9
into my mind and therein worked disill
sion drove out of it the egotism that hG
; induced me to believe that the newspap
editor was Archimedcs, with lever and fl
crum, moving society. And, now that v
are, as Col. Harlow asserts, the melde
Of public sentimcnt--thc creators Of pul
lie opinions one OF the things dor
know about printing.
But | pray you to not understand me
implying any disparagement of the Pres
4, | appreciate too highly its great impo
ance as a factor in the development of t
capabilities Of the human race. 1t is
blessing to the world. 1t is often the vol
Of wrongs crying for redress and Of ngl
demanding recognition, It's the tongue
every interest of mankind With it '
can
summon from the shadowy past
/ The forms that once have been
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