The weekly Arizona miner., 1881-07-08
FOURTH OF JULY 0RaTsCH.
DELIVERED BY C. B. RUsH, EsQ.
LContinued from First Pagel


 that he, who Is the bitterest and most win dictiye slanderer and who will consent t. hurl his vile epithets and unjust accusations against parties who occupy rank and posi- tion, may, in consequence thereof, live al the public expense, accommodating wealth and fortune and oftimes achieving consld- cradle degree of popularity.
 As 8 consequence Of this unhealthy state of affairs. the air has been kept surchar- ed with the most malignant islanders and de- nunciations, thereby sowing broadcast the seeds of demorialization and ruin.
 So customary has the charge of public plunder become that, by the very frequency of its repetition IL has lost its stigma, and, 1 had almost said, become pTaiseworthy.
 Indeed we are fast driving upon one of those rocks that have ever caused the de- .truction of republican forms of government and against which Washington warned Us. when he said, -'Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, 5eligi0a and n.srality are indispensable sup ports Whatever may be con ceded to the influence of refined education, upon minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience botl forbid Us to expect that na- tional morality can long prevail in exclusion of religious principle" But before making that quotation, should have remembered that the religious principle and stern moral ity cf Washington IS considered, by the learned Of his advanced period, as a beau tiiff:,l myth Ut 70 be spoken of only in the nursey room.
 However that may be this, know.
 We are losing faith in everything. We are floating upon tempestous sea without rudder or compass, careless alike whither We run or where We drift. Each individual strives passionately for success and superi- ority, unconcerned as to the means en- ployed, and with no hope of its durability after 1t has been achieved. Generalization in all its forms and phases has spread until 1t covers the whole land. Universal un- certainty seems to have stopped the national pulse. Apathy's palsying hand is laid heavily upon us. Afraid to act, yet know ing that, without action, ruin stares us in the face. Such demoIalizatiOn has ever pre- pared the way for revolution; has ever been the hamburger of sudden and radical changes
 But l must hurry on. I could, If you had tke patience and had the time, talk to you for hours upon our general political con dition
 1 could talk to you of the tariff question, of the national banking system, of Chinese immigration, ot the appropriation of public funds to private corporations, of congres- sional investigating committees. of frauds perpetrated upon our revenue, etc, etc, ad iibitum. But I have sad enough to bring before your minds the vast amount Of cor ruDtion there Is m our midst and you can readily draw the conclusion that our only safety lies iG obtaining trlC and hoassimeu as our officers and legislators With such men We have nothing to fear and everything to hope; without them everything to fear and nothing to hope.
 Without them, like Sysiphus of old, We but roll stone up lill that will inevitably descend upon and crush us, with them, like the rosy God If love, we go forth to fresh victories and new successes. But Wlnle we are thus thickIy beset with dangers, yet the bright day star of ovr nationality $ still in the ascendent, and the haio-uf beauty that rncircles 1t dazzles tho eyes of the world. causing the hearts 0t the lovers of liberty Ill