Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-02
The Quarrel Over the Assets GuIed
from a Too Passive People.


Anna all I''e l'tSS ihauo ny 'he oIi
party press over lile coiliPlIcaIlolIS Oe-
tween lhe preS,ueilI ana lhe New OK
Se'lator' says tI'c NaVlo'''l NIcW' the
people anu Illc lcd'I! representative
press 90 Sleaully on discussing ana
colldemllhS the evils WIllch nave taken
l'oSScSSloll ol Ilie l't'lu' "a worry VIII
between Ten or twenty l"IlIlclitlls over
Il nlallcr OF SpoIlS lor one alld power
Tor tllc other, cannot drown Ihc hl''Itl'
pileu voices rllS'u 10 pronounce jug
heht on lhc results tlloSe poIltlcllllS
nave brought about Nor can any
assumption ol independent action on
thc one part OF ol ulctalloh on lle
otlIer, bllhu thc country TO lle Ilct
llIRI thc present parry SPIlt Is SpIl,
over SpoIIS' ana 'll'I 'nr party engaged
III urging these varying clllhS IS Il
party Wlllcl llIeir present ac'loll proves
unworthy the support OF honest men
II party whlcll mas no ciallh upon tno
confidence OF any one VINO regards lhe
welfare oi lhe WhoIe country Us "
higher goou IMAM llle wcIlare ot Il par
ty wlllch las llothlh% IelJ 10 40 DuV
quarrel over the assets s'lIIea from II
too passive people
II Garllelu cohl''cr8 II lnea'lS success
othe Republican president oi Il Velllai
party. II ConKIlng comes out victor
it means success to machine poIIlicS
ana II "boss OF oVerlnaSterIhg alnO'-
tiot In either case II means nothing
for the country at large but the grow
ing, monstrOuS evll OF party uIrlaIl"l
and individual assumption There
lies ut the bottom Ol lhis quarrel noun
ing higher than the principle involved
in the fight of two dogs over bone
stolen from II llrdcr. BOlll SlucS are
assuming rights which they do not
possess, and which only the guilty
supineness of Il people permits either to
claim. 1t is guilty suplnehcss'
When people, with the intelligence
the widespread information, the lnde-
pendent training possessed by Amerl-
cans, permit their rights to lapse for
want of assertion; when they allow
themselves to he herded to the polls
and of free will cast Their votes TO con,
tinue a power which is sapping, and
has already undermined, every princi-
pie of true republlcanlsm, That people
are guilty of all the consequences
which may result from their wicked
passivity. Every man is guilty who
prizes money more than patriotism
who is willing to yield llttle prlhcl-
pie for any amount OF Office; who IS
thus helping to bring about political
condition in America, through the
management of American politics
worse than that from which the war
of the revolution freed us.
1t is not because they do not know /;
there can be no plea Of Ignorance,
when to every man it is aplain fact
that a rich man gets and poor man
loses; that where he once received two
dollars he now receives seventy-iiye
cents; that where once his family
could be fed and clothed with some
thing to spare for a home, they
are now either fed and clothed
at public expense, and himself
a nomad in the land, without hope
or standing place, or worse, ifpossible,
he is the underpaid slave of master,
or Il company of masters, who control
his wages, his hours and his vote, who
own him, body and soul, as literally us
ever any slave was owned; who has
but the one choice to become tramp or
chattle left him. We say every man
knows that where such things are