Morris tribune., 1880-08-05
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wrong to every voter, and to our system of
lf-g0Vernment, which should never be for
gotten or forgiven. Many of the men now
in office were pat there because of corrupt
partisan service In thus degrading the fairly
and legally expressed will Of the majority,
and the hypocrisy of the profession of that
party in favor of civil service reform, W hich
was shown by placing such men in Office,
and turning the whole brood of federal
oficeholders loose to influence the elections.
The
MONEY or THE PEOPLE,
taken out of the public treasury by these
men for services often poorly performed, or
not performed at all, is being used in vast
sums with the knowledge and presumed
sanction Of the administration to control
the election, and even the members of the
cabinet are strolling about the country max
ing partisan speeches, instead of being in
their departments at Washington discharg-
ing the public duties for which
they are paid by the people. For with all
their cleyerness and ability discriminating
public win no doubt read, between the lines
Of their speeches, that their paramount
hope and aim is to keep Themselves, or their
satellites, four years longer in Office. The
perpetuating In power of chronic federal
ofdce-holders four years longer will not
benefit the millions of men and women who
have no Office, but earn their daily
bread by honest industry, is what the
same discriminating public will no doubt
fully understand, as they will, also, that it il
because of their own industry and economy,
and Gods b0untiful harvests, that the coun-
tryis comparatively prosperous, not because
of them, but in spite of them. This contest
is, in fact, between the people endeayoring
to regain the political power which right
fully belongs to them, ana to restore the
pure, simple, economical and constitutional
government Of our fathers on the one side,
and LOG, 600 federal Office holders and their
hackers, hampered with place and power
and determined to retain them at all haz-
yards, on the other. Hence the constant as
sumption of
NEW AND DANGEROUS POWERS
by the general government under the rule Of
the Republican party, the effort to build up
what they call strong government, the in
reference with home rule and
with the administration of Justice
in the courts of the several States, the in
reference with the elections through the
medium of paid partisan federal Office
holders interested in Keeping their party in
power. and caring more for that than fair
ness in elections. In fact. the constant en-
croachments which have been made by that
party upon the clearly defined rights of the
people and the States will, if not checked.
snbvert the liberties of the people and the
government OF limited powers created by
the fathers, and end in great
CONSOLIDATED, CONCENTRATED GOVERNMENT.
strong indeed for evil and the overthrow of
republican institutions. The wise men who
framed our constitution knew the evils of
strong government and the long contiru-
ance of political power in the same hands.
They knew there was tendency in this
direction in all governments and consequent
danger to Republican institutions from this
cause, and took pains to guard against it.
The machinery of q strong, central
zed government can be used
to perpetuate the same set of men in power
from term to term, until it ceases to be q re-
public, or such only in terms. The tendency
OF the party now in power in that direction,
a. shown in various ways, besides the willing
ness recently manifested by large number
of that party to elect President an unlimir-
ed number of terms, Is quite apparent,
and must satisfy thinking people
that the time has come when it will be safest
and best for that party to be retired.
But in resting the encroachments of the
general government upon the reserved rights
of the people and Ststes, wish to be dis
tinctly understood as favoring the proper
exercise by the general government of the
powers rightfully belonging to it under the
constitution. Encroachments upon the con-
stitutionsl rights of the general government,
or interference with the proper exercise
OF it's powers, must be carefully avoided.
AnE UNION OF THE STATES
under the constitution must be maintained,
and it is well known that this has always
been tho position of both the candidates on
the Democratic Presidential ticket. It is
acquiesced in everywhere now, and finally
and forever settled as one of the results Of
the war. 1t is certainly beyond all question
that the legitimate results of the war for the
Union will not be overthrown or
impaired should the Democratic ticket
be elected. In that event. proper protec-
tion will be given in every legitimate
way to every citizen, native or adopted, in
every section Of the repablic, in the enjoy
ment OF all the rights guaranteed by the con-
stitutien and its amendments.
SOUND CURRENCY OF HONEST MONEY,
Of value and purchasing power correspond
ing substantially with the standard recog-
nized by the commercial world, and consist
ing of gold and silver, and paper convertible
into coin, will be maintained. The labor
and manufacturing, commercial and business
interests of the country will be favored and
encouraged in every legitimate way. The
toiling of our own people will be protected
from the destructive competition of the
Chinese, and to that end their immigration
TO our shores will be properly restricted.
The public credit will be scrupulously
maintained and strengthened by rigid
economy in public expenditures, and the lib
critics OF the people, and the property of the
people, will be protected by government of
law and order, administered strictly in the
interests Of ell the people, and not of corpo-
rations and privileged classes.
do not doubt the discriminating Justice
Of the people and their capacity for intelli-
gent self government, aud therefore do not
doubt the success of the Democratic ticket,
Its success would bury beyond resurrection
the sectional jealousies and hstreds which
have 90 long been the chief stock in trade of
pestiferous demagogues. and in no other way
can this be 30 effectually
accomplished. It would restore harmony
and good fesling between all the sections,
and make rs IN fact, as we'll as in name, one
people. The only rivalry then would be in
the race for the Developments of material
prosperity, the devotion of labor, the enlarge
ment Of human rights, the promotion
Of education, morality. religion, liberty, or
der, and all that would tend to make us the
foremost nation Of the earth in the grand
march Of human progress.
am, with great respect. very truly yours,
(Signed) VIM. II. ENeLrsH.
The Secret of Happiness.
Happiness, as an old black man like
me detinds it," said Brother Gardner,
lam not sto' cloze, tat wallet, big