The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-03-17
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EDITOR FREE PRESS:--ln your is.
ssue of March Sd | find IN article
with the above heading. The FREE
PREss, condemns the disgraceful prac
tice of office seeking and acknOwl-
edges THAT the pay and emoluments
of our offers are too large and l
am exceedingly glad that it has call
ed the attention of its readers to an
evil which, among others, has receiv.
81 my attention for many years. But
as the FREE PRESS does not prescribe
Il remedy for this evil, ! would pro-
claim through it's columns II remedy
which in my opinion would not only
abolish this one evil, but many Others
still greater, under which the people
Of this country suffer and have suf.
fered ever since the doors of specula-
ton opened to usury, and specializing
with mother earth sanctioned. j am
aware how hard it is to make people
believe and think alike. also know
how difficult it is for many to imbibc
new ideas. but they ARE so pure and
clear. Every reformer was scorncd
and laughed at. Methinks the peo-
pie should be Il little cautious by this
time, if they read history and hang
not to the old, but try to keep up
with the spirit of the times; but it
looks in this respect at least among
the masses-very gloomy. Reform
ers, like philosophers and poets, are
born. Education and drilling create
none, it only assists them. Every
true citizen should attempt TO reform
his country; work and labor as much
rs he is able until truth and Justice
shall float us free as water throughout
the land. 1t is of no use to amend
and patch up evils to have them appear
right and respectable; and to white.
wash them for the purpose of max
ing them sufferable is as simple us to
create them and should not be toler.
ated among IN enlightened and intel
ligent people. The best is to expose
one and every evil. But in order to
do this the American people must
have more power than they have at
present. They must make themselves.
at first, IA free and Independent peo-
pie in the full sense of the word.
They must liberate themselves from
the great yoke they carry upon their
neck. At present they cannot say
they are free, and that this country
is governed by the people and for the
people; but it is false and not true;
and / intend to show by parable
how the people govern themselves in
this country. which is as follows:
There was once great man. wise
and wealthy. In all his undertakings
he proSpered and dealt out aims free.
ly as long as he managed and con.
trolled his own business; but he took
it into his head, after he had passed
the best of his years. to take a rest
and let somebody else do his business
for him. He hired u man for Ger.
tain sum per year and gave him full
power to carry on the whole business
rs he deemed best; because said he
to himself, he seems to understand
the work and business bettersthan |
do Then this wise man went to for
eign country and learned that no one
had Il right to set any one over his
business, but that a certain man. call
ed Emperor, had the sole right to do
all the business of the whole nation.
He was not little astonished ut such
an absurd custom. At the-end Of the
year he returned home. rejoicing that
he had the liberty to live wherever
he pleased, to look after his interest.
But on his arrival he found that his
servant had kept bad house; he had
run him even Il little in debt. and had
given property to his, (the servant's)
friends. This wealthy man went on
for many years. the older he got. the
more he deemed himself unfit to do
his work and self-thinking, hence he
hired another man every year---al-
ways trying to get good and faith
full one. But alas! every year he
sank farther and farther into debt,
until, at last. he was unable to pay,
whereupon his servants combined and
resolved, that he now shonld he their
servant, that he should have no right
hencetorth to do his own business,
but be like those in the foreign coun.
try at whom he had laughed"
Now who was to blame that this
once wealthy man became bankrupt
and slave? In the first place he
should have managed his own affairs
and not placed SO much confidence in
his employees; and kept both, his
liberty. and his property. This ex-
plains exactly the condition and the
situation of the people Of this so
called "free government, they will
lcse all they have; for monarchial
government will. sooner or latter. take
all the rights and liberty away, if the
people do not abolish this representa-.
tive system of government in time,
because every representative system
is wrong in itself. inconsistent with
reason, the laws of nature. "All
men are born equal, are endowed by
nature with equal rights" and it is
sinful and shame to give these
rights away to certain persons or in
dividuals, for mess of potage. Every
true man should claim it his duty to
govern himself in such manner as
not to encroach upon the rights of his
fellow. A government which en-.
croaches upon the rights of an indi.
vidual, is a tyrannical government
and should be abolished; for the
rights of an individual is gift of
nature and natural right; hence
greater than the so called illegal