National Republican., 1880-06-23
LOOK AT II AS IT Is.

What is modern democracy? Let his
tory tell. The time was when it meant the
greatest good to the greatest number of
the American people. 1t means that no
longer, as the history of thirty years and
more reveals its real character, purposes
and ends. 1t means something else. 1t
has lost sight of the general good. 1t has
surrendered all wish for a government of
the people, for tho people and by the
people. 1t has laid every principle of
patriotism, every patriotism for the general
good and every desire for equal rights and
equal justice TO all classes of American
citizenship upon the altar of selfshness.
Its thirst for power, its love of personal
aggrandizement, and its longing for the
loaves and fishes of place, have absorbed
every patriotic impulse and every sense of
justice and right, until it stands in
the attitude of the highwayman
who presents the alternative-deliver
OF die! With record black with
the crime of treason and rebellion
-smirched with corruption and fraud, be-
daubed with the blood of murder and the
crime of assassination, it holds up its Grim
son hands and begs of the American people
to intrust it once more with the sacred in
terests and destinies of this government
If the American people have parted with
their patriotism, their sense of right and
justice, their reverence for the constitution
and its guarantees, their respect for the
principles of equality and justice to all the
people, irrespective Of color and condition,
they may surrender the control of this ma
ton into the hands of those who have once
sought its life at the point of the bayonet,
but not without With power in the hands
of party whic knows only how TO abuse
it and how to override the principles of
right in its exercise, the nations sorrows will
have but just begun. Its darkest days will
be found in its future history, and if it sus-
tains itself under the change, it will be be.
cause it is inyincible, aud defes the ap-
proach Of every evil and every peril.
A NOTABLE point in the recent COM
mencement exercises of the University of
Pennsylvania was the presence Of q young
woman on the stage in academic cap and
gown to receive the degree of PHI. D.-the
first degree ever conferred by the university
upon any Of her sex. DR.. BENNETT is q
graduate of the Woman'5 Medical college,
where she holds the position of demon.
strator ofanatomy. She has also received
an appointment in the new state asylum at
Norrstown, She has completed course
Of study with the auxilliary faculty of
medicine, aud has therefore been awarded
the degree mentioned above, which in the
University Of Pennsylvania is n medical
degree, The great audience assembled,
numbering thousands of horl own sex, re
ceiyed her with hearty applause.
| An official examination Of iifty-two wells
used by the citizens Of Madison, Wis, has
recently been made, Ten were returned
by the chemists as suspicious three as bad
thirty-three as very bad, five as good and
only one as very good, The report was
quite a shock to the good citizens, who had
been praising the excellent water from
their deep old wells, Most Of these wells
were over seventy feet in depth, and the
! water cool, bright and gave no warning by