Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04
FOOD ZOE THOUGHT.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Hold fast to the form of sound words, which
thon hast heard of NEIL TIMOTHY lis.
This being the anniversary of the day
upon which the American colonies declared
their independence of Grent Britain, it is fit
ting that recurrence should be had to those
events and the principles enunciated by the
brave men who dared to stand up for their
personal and religious liberty against the
mo st powerful despotism on the face of the
globe, and who, in furtherance of their pa
triotic determination, pledged their lives,
their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
The fundamental idea of the Declaration of
Independence and of the constitution framed
under it was the equality of all men, and
their right to perfect civil and religious lib
erty-the right to independent political &C
ton, and the right to worship God as they
geo fit. To maintain this idea, the fathers
of the republic shed their blood and endured
untold hardships and privations, and COM
mitted the government to their children as
a sacred heritage, to be protected and main
tanned for all time to come. The right of
man to govern himself had never before
been SO manfully maintained, and to aban-
don it now would be betrayal of most
sacred trust without a parallel in history.
Within the last decade new element
GEMS to have sprung up in this country. It
is an out growth of the war of the rebellion
"a period during which large private ior-
tunes were made and great political influence
and power attained. It is an aristocratic
element which regards men for what they
possess rather than for what they are. Great
and powerful monopolies have sprung up
and have been fostered by system of per-
nici GUS legislation, which takes from the
poor what little he has, and give to the rich
an aristocraoy of wealth welding immense
power over the country people, over the leg
islative and executive officers of the State
and federal governments, and threatening to
subvert the republic and establish upon its
ruins a monarchy patterned after that to OBJ
tain independence from whichour fathers bled
and died. Unhappily there are large number
of the governing politicians of the country
who are allied with the wealth, and who, in
the hope of self aggrsndizement, are will
ing to take the lead in overthrowing the
framework erected at so great cost. They
dare not openly avow their purpose, for that
would be fatal to their plans. They have
for long time, however, been busy under
mining the republican form of govern
nent with the ultimate purpose of executing
a coup d'etat, and landing the government
upon the shores of monarchism.
The first step of the Fevolutionists was the
substitution of military for civil courts. This
was endured for time, but finally the PEG.
pie demanded that the military should keep
its place, and the system was abandoned.
Then the supreme court was packed with
partisans and Congress, dominated by ma
jority of the monarohists, set about robbing
the States of the rights reserved to them by
the constitution. This was done gradually,
and as fast as the lovers of free government
contested the validity of the acts thus passed,
the supreme court obeyed the behests of the
party and turned the professionals out of court.
Then the political rights Of the citizens we're
assailed. Impediments were placed in the
way of free exercise of the right of suf-
frage; legally qualified electors were driven
from the polls by threats of arrest by federal
supervisors of election and deputy marshals,
and thus the will of the majority was in many
instances overridden. The government has
done in the last decade what was never at
tempted during the previous hundred years
of our existence as nation, and if attempted
would haze provoked an armed insnrrection.
The browning infamy of the party of revo-
luton was perpetrated in 1877, when can
didate for President of the United States
who had not been elected was indicted into
the Office by fraudulent and demonstrations
means. For nearly four years this official
has exercised the functions of the highest
Office in the land, and has repeatedly inter-
posed his power between the representatives
of the people and the contamination of re-
forms which they deemed necessary. He
has in every instance done the bidding of the
party that placed him in power by despotic
and dishonest means, and set at naught both
the constitution and The laws.
The monarchical party, emboldened by
their success hitherto, but recently essayed
to place in nomination for the Presidency
man who fully represented their idea of force
as opposed to law. 1t barely failed in the
accomplishment of its purpose, but displayed