The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-11-25
GOOD READING.
How 1t Pays to Follow Saving the Country as
a Business.

The Republican party has now been IN power
some twenty years, and get, despite this long
lease of the Government, 1t is as hungry as vora.
ciOus as inssciate as ever-as 1t was when 1t came
into power after having been starved and out in
the cold for quarter of u century; whether this
be true or not 1t is at least certain that 1t has sio
len 1t twice over since the period at which 1t
claims 10 have saved It; 1t has made millions
on millions In It's railway subsidies IN Its manip.
ulatlons of stocks and in other directions too nu.
merous to mention. Everybody who has been
faithful to the party has become rich Blaine
was poor man when he began his political ca.
reer. He has done nothing since that time ex.
cept 10 serve his country. His election expenses
have always been In excess of his income as
Government official; and yet he is to-day be-
lieved to be worth over million dollars sher
man began the work of saving the country when
he was in very humble circumstances. He has
had no income outside of his salary as Govern.
ment Ctiicial; and, despite this, he is worth more
to day than all his earnings from the Govern.
ment provided he had never spent single cent
Mr., Grant, who commenced saving the country
at a time when he had to borrow the money when
be wished to buy drink Of whisky, has saved a
dozen times more than he has earned and is to
day one of the moneyed princes of this so called
republic. In fine, all these gentlemen who have
been at work saving the country for the last
twenty years have more money than they know
what to do with. Saving the country in these
times iF the shortest road to fortune which pre-
sents Itself among routes TO wealth. Hence there
is going to be desperate fight to obtain place
in the ranks Of those who for the next four years,
will devote themselves to the arduoRs and lucra.
tive task Of saving the country. One of the gen.
tlemen who proposes to have hand In this IL Dor
is pope Robert Ingersoll He is q thrifty sort OF
person, anyhow He reaps no small returns for
telling peopl' what not to believe; and he dem
onstrates that there is no he'll, and that Moees
was an old ass, at the rate of 800 per lecture He
also has been demonstrating that the Democratic
party is very dangerous in titution, at the cur
rent rates-that is to say, at the rate of 500 per
demonstration. Now he proposes In view of his
great services during the campaign which has
just closed, and for which he received only the
current rate $780, etc, to demand from a grateful
country that, as a reward for what he has done
to save her In the late crisis, at time when her
liberties were menaced by such traitors as Han.
cock, Trumbull Farnworth, et id Omne genus he
shall be given foreign mission. He will proba-
bly, get 1t, Anybody knows that 800 per nights
no compensation for making speeches and being
patrOnized by the best friend of Mrs Tilton and
all that sort of thing, II Robert does not miss
his calculations, there is likelihood that, between
bis efforts to prove that Jesus Christ and General
HtnCock are both unmitigated frauds, he will
accumulate the wealth he will know what 10 do
with Chicago Times, Ind.