Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-01-19

Keep pour OOuy dnu soul together.
exercise the wary. constant. inlense
watchfulness which this father of 4
country warned them was necessary to
preserve the complex system which
hopeful patriotism had de e1ised for
th m? Power is ever stealing from the
many TO the few, and 1t steals thai
way IN America, as In all other coun-
tries only With greater ripid,y than
we have seen elsewhere in our time.
The few there are not mobiles by royal
or other legal patent, charged With
certain weighty possibilities in con.
heciion with their high privileges, bui
they are tie rich, the mere rich, whose
power is in the weight of TIER cash. -
They owning great volumes Of capital.
associated in a thousand ways. drying
by its use all industries, welding so
called separate states together by iron
bands, holding national and state debts.
aud controlling all fresh manipulation
OF them, refundlDgs AMI such like opera
lions, require voters to do their VIII Ia
this business of the ballot box, and
would hin have done with it altogether.
When 10 the voter is presented alter
native of bread or liberty. he does most
generally and greatly prefer bread. and
defer liberty to a more convenient
season. Four years since, this class.
standing apart with more or less dis.
tinctness, smothered Vor PopuH in the
box there, or ct least induced and paid
for the smoihering thereof. But the
peop'e have voted again, and this time
there is no need to smother the voice
Of them, for the previous snotherine
is condoned, applanded. rewarded.
Plain now that power Is stealing, yea.
has stolen, from the many to the face
OF the dial toward the fatal hour when
the stroke of doc shall fail. "
There is in America one man.
looming high above all other men.
Great commander, great killer, he. one
who wore out an enemy by atlrition OF
numbers buried op him as Atula might
have flung his human cattle upon i'm
movable pixies, without science. con-
duct. or twinge Of living conscience.
reddening tae greer earth with the
blood OF useless hec3tOmbs from Wash.
lngton TO Richmond. Look 10 that
stolid face. Mark the cod eye, the
hard Jaw, the calm, cruel lip; no light
of genius. no promise Of sweet humor
anywhere IN that coarse visage. lie i,
petted of the few rich men, they who
are weary Of government by ballot.
They feast and pamper him; they
give him hous' 8, lands, purses. He
shall be sent forth 10 travel round the
earth. He shall see kings he shall
study strong government f; he shall
prepare him for the task that is before
him. Shall not the few defend their
privileges? Have they not made al.
lance with government? Are not
their molopolies fixed in the laws oI
the great repub.ic?-ln hat monstrons
war tariff, for instance; whereby the
rich grow ever richer and the poor
ever poorer? There shall be no di-
vorce between business and govern
ment, the marriage is closer, the union
more ultimate, than ever was that of
church and state. When this man with
the cold eve and The firm jaw, ascend,
the steps oi he capitol a third time it
gill be to lay the foundation OF empire
upon the corner stone Of money, and
the fast fading similtude of a republic
will vanish into blank lime and be no
more-phantasm wrecked, exploded.
blown into the air by com bustibles stor-
ed within ltself!"