Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06
The Scapegoat's Load.

~ SStlliS 10 Dt, lOI Inc Twelve lIiDeS OF
Democracy, the month Tisri and the day of
Atonement. There has been the preliminary
season of publication, the goat has been led
out, the scarlet garland inscribed For
Azazel" fastened to. his horns. the sins of
all the party laid upon his head by High
Priest Hewitt, and a maSs-meetmg has in a
deyout series of resolutions said 'Shoo :" to
him. The only remaining question is that
which always rises at the solemn moment
when the High Priest lifts his hands from
off the loaded goat-Will the goat go
MANY things in the history of this party
suggest involuntarily the story of the Chosen
People. AnaloSies never run precisely on all
tour>. The history of the Democratic party
does 10y no means furnish precise parallel
tor that Of the Chosen People. but at how
many points does it suggest ii, There were
the plaques, the "spoilS" collected before the
Exodus the longing for the hc>h-pots after
ward. the calf-worship, the forty Years wan
d ring IN the desert. of which the Democracy
are now IN their twenty first and the failure
Of that whole generation that made the
Exodus to see the land of promise. Then.
jao. the temporary successes of the
Democracy during a few years past by the
AID of the Greenback alliance; how NiNidl
they recall the occasion when the Chosen
People escaped slaughter over there in the
plains of Moab through the simple reinforce
mcnt of false prophet and an ass Bur
not to dwell on these suggestive points in
the two histories, let Us pas~-Nith a simple
alu>Ion to the strong probability that if at
the end of their forty years the Democracy
do come into the land of promise. il will be
by some connivance with the Rahab of that
periodic the consideration of the cercmon-
les AT Cooper Institute. and their probable
effect upon the Chosen People and the goat
In the DAYS of the earlier Wandering il
Was the custom To choose bv lot from the
goats the one which should bear all the sins
of the people and be driven out into the |
wilderness. Judging from speeches made on
the same evening in different places. We |
should say there were two goats in this case. |
hut that each tribe had selected its own |
Mr.. John Kelly being the Anti-Tammanv. /
and Mayor Cooper the Tammany goat At /
Cooper Institute the sins of the party are /
laid between the horns of Mr.. Kelly: at 1
Tammany Hall they are laid between those /
OF the Mayor There has been no casting /
Of lots since the united tribes disposed of the /
SPo..s of the taxpayers by that process in /
October. An inharmoniuuS feeling having .
resulted from that jogging Of the dice, il .
seems 10 nave become i mutual understand
''H ''''s r., y,'e" 'rloG >eiect ana load rs own
goat Ms 'HouSn an apparent innovation
i ''r '"e If'sc" tlihe wisely ordered ar
rangement The load Is too great for any
one goat. 1t is by no means certain that .
two can carry it. Qui,e likely Mr. Henry .
Bergh. whose philanthropic ear is ever open
even TO lhe ScaptgoatS ptcouS hleat. may
S'eP IN I"hI OF me procession a, IL starts,
al ih'efpoSihS the majesty OF the la" Toe
inc prevention OF cfueI'N 10 ANIMALS, demand
d Sma,'eF !oad or more goats.
An" Spe"ALAS ol cruelty to animals. II
ma! Ho' DC dli!4>N 10 consider TINS ceremony
lot 4 moment IN me hight OF the act referred
10. frooaoiI no SturdIer ScaPeSoat ever
STOOD uha'r hiSh Priest hands with scarlet
SalIa'd on ms horns than MIR. John Nelly
}Ai look no" ne Is loaded. Tn that broad
back are laid the SINS OF the whole party
Recall Tor a moment the false pretencc OF
having been deirauded IN 1876; the weak
ness OF deserving the victim OF the fraud;
the tony OF nominating a political nobody;
the false claim that ne was statesman
the hypocrisy OF their praise for ms military
achievements the lnSlnccuty OF the tariff
80 N'-N - '''' '-'N ~" -! NV wiz
which they abandoned 1t; the disgrace OF
the Oreenhack alliance the treachery on the
financial question; the hlthy black Suardl>m
OF the ''o25 outbreak the scandal Of the
More! letter the forgery that produced and
the perjury that bolStered lt;-thlnk. IN short.
OF the inconsistencies and contradictions, the
mud and NTH and folly the eon>piracie> lies
and crimes OF the last campaign; and on
top oil Inc "hoie the shameful record OF the