The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-09

and officers elected, and counted eighty OF tnese
at one time upon the floor OF the House
When to ali these we add the momentous fact
that the press is indirectly, through It's business
subsidized 20 sustain this corrupt condiuon, We
realize the hopeless outlook of restoration OF the
Government TO the political base on which the
fathers placed IL.
We are beginning TO learn the SAD truth tnaI
selfgovernrnent is failure. from the simple fact
that a man can be controlled 10 his own good Dy
another better than he can control himself. The
Creator who made man as be IL, admits OF no Re
! public There are no elections in Heaven, and,
so far our moral world Is concerned, none are
admitted on earth.
and knowing dare maintain" are In sad mi
lority.
When Mr.. Lincoln was elected President
of the United States all these terrible facill-
ties of corruption were comparatively few.
He was himself simple, frugal, honest, and
domestic man. The reign Of the plutocracy,
which afterward grew into this overwhelm-
| ing power, had not vet begun; and now, as
we trace its progress and its increase, We
should tremble not only at its influence in
the Congress of the United States, but in all
IT, great eenters of population, five did not
i'll that counter-antidote has begun 10
organize, which proves that the American
people are equal to every emergency. Last
| Tuesdays example in Philadelphia by which
| the most potent ring despotism was rebuked
/ by an indignant popular uprising, is only
the beginning of the end, and am not with
out hope that even Mr.. Garfield will make
his Cabinet with some respect for this adj
monition. Long before slavery was crushed
BY its own Jolly, thousands despaired of the
Republic, but even that great evil was final
| ly removed; now another heretofore IRE
sistible combination in the Congress of the
United States, with all its kindred aflilia-
tons in the great cities, will be hurled To the
earth II is worth noting that the new
rebellion against the use of capital in cleo
tons and in municipal government origin
ates among the rich. AS long as poor work
ingmen alone felt the.shlrp steel of the
money power, there was nothing left for
them but to obey; but when honest,
wealthy men were brought face 10
face with the officials who grew rich
/ in plundering them, there was ali instant
and effective revolt Then for the first time
oppressed labor also found its remedy. The
| great fortunes in our great cities, at last con-
WINGED that the taxes wrung from them by
party robbers and jObbers only found their
way into the pockets of thieves, al once flew
To arms and in spirit of just indignation
| proceeded to arrange at once to defend them
selves and to punish their prosecutors. But
much remains to be done. Many corrupt
men are still in office; and that We are on
the eve OF a new deal is proved by the visi-
bic terror of those who for more than twenty
years have recklessly ruined Others and en-
riched themselves. Heretofore they ssfelyre-
| lied upon the belief thatall honest reform was
only temporary; that good men would simply
strike one blow ard then 20 To sleep; that
the people were 10 much in love with the
| Republican party that every day would
create cover for fresh crimes il only the
city plunderer could shout loudly against
the Rebellion and enumerate the sins OF the
old Southern Democrats. Now We are in
| the front of different dispensation. Re
] form is not a mere spasm, but a permanent
aud drastic cure Ii is not paroNysn, but
/ "a principle. Mr.. Garfield was elected
under national terror, and hosts of
bad men Tejoiced that his small ma
| jority crystallized their forces and
sanctified their frauds. But suddenly a
body of fresh men, armed with fresh weap-
OnS, inspired by fresh purposes, took the
field. Winning their first real victory they
proceed 30 arrange their plans for a long
campaign. They mean business; they want
no offices for themselves, but they insist
upon reprisals. Ii is now become their turn
to punish convicted prosecutors. One man
| like John Hunter, or Joseph l.. Caven, or
Samuel &. King, of Philadelphia, is worth a
thousand pensioned disclaimers and tyran-
nical ring leaders He is TO our present
wrongs what Cromwell was to Charles L.,
what Gambetta was To Napoleon ILL.,,
what Garibaldi was to King Bomba.
Public trust in these men comes from
their own long public service. ThecOmIion
politician retires baffied and abashed before
them. The thief in office flies at their ap-
prosch, leaving his plumber behind him.
The people breathe free and deep as these
strong hands roll away the stone from the
sepulchre which buried their rights A new
President finds encouragement and employ
ment for his best purposes. The press re-
fuses to echo and applaud villainy. Honest
intellect fears no more to speak out. Our
Judges on the Bench shrink from registering
the DEGREES OF arrogant and vulgar leaders.
In one word, there is some prospect that
honesty will sooE become fashionable all
over the Continent.