The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-07-29

for the palmer necessities OF life, ard
all of the pulsations of his heart are in
sympathy with them.
We do not pretend that men of other
professions are less honest in their IL
tentions. But their cducationand con-
slant life duties become second nature,
more controlling than the better i'm
pulses of the heart. A lawyer becomes
so used to defending whatever he is
employed to do, the nicer distinctions
between right and wrong become swal-
lowed up in the consideration OF larger
fees. A long life spent for those who
pay the best cannot be expected to be
diverted from life habits when the
emoluments and corruptions of high
positions surround them on all sides.
Besides, men who claim that from $500
to $50, 900 are not extravagant fees Tor
small services cannot be expected to
sympathize with the farmers who raise
corn and haul it long distances to
market for twenty cents per bushel.
How can these men appreciate the toll
of the farm hand who works in sum-
mer's heat and winters storms for fifty
cents per day. The only way is for
such laborers to vote for such men as
have had experience in like tolls.
Again, a man whose whole education
and lifelong practice has been to instill
into him the doctrine and practice that
the few are born to command and the
mass to obey, without knowing why
or wherefore, has but little sympathy
for the hardships of the common
laborer or private soldier. His educa-
ton and practice is to ignore all the
rights of such to think or to complain
Military rule is necessarily arbitrary
oppressive and aristocratic. An officer
demands only silence and obedience
from his soldiers. Usually he looks up
ON them as merely machines TO do hi!
bidding. and to sacrifice their lives i
necessary for adding another star to hi
shoulder straps. Military men. eithe
as civil or military Governors, have usu
ally ruled the world with an iron rod
A professional military man never ha
and never will sympathize with, or al,
by his administration, the toiling mill
ions whom he governs. His idea OF
man for any department OF Governmen
is one like himself, thoroughly drille'
in military discipline, and who has sac
. rificed the largest number of men on hi
road to military fame. Human lives
: in the hands of professional warrior
, are cheap chattels. And the interest
.. of the millions of farmers and farr
. hands in this Nation would be sma
matters in the strides and struggles c
military hero for greater power an
, more abject applause of degrade
/, populace. 90.
. But there is now q rare chance in tn
g steps of time for the people to select fe
! a ruler a man who. knows all the hare
E ships of common life, for he has fe
. the same. He has waded in povert
r through the same road you are no
. travelling. By his own rig hit arm, d
e rected by an honest heart, he has CON
; to his present proud position. evincin
8 by every act of his life that he has NJ
|. forgotten what he learned in the hun
r bier walks. Let every laborer, evel
J, mechanic and the toiling millions,
a all departments of industry, keep
d mind that it is scarcely probable that
5 this generation, or in this centur
l. the people will have another equal o
IS portunity of voting and working for
7, man for the highest office in the gift
ii mankind, for one who is so truly
a. a. them and for them.-Fdrmer ClGrEs0
sr in IotUa State Register.