The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-06-22

ehlne country l say, go forth in faith
io ne contest, work valiently for the
Friend Gould, I say to thee that
there are strange happenings now-a-
DAYS. There..is too much compromise
with sin, too much ungodliness and
iteo.httie manhood. Along the wind
ing shores of our country where mar
row 5Hlets leadto ebroad armed ports''
upon high promontories stand light
houses. Men come and go and find
same hightowers. AL night long
fthe faysaof iightin their splintered
brightness leap from wave crest to
Eerest far out on oceans waste, and
lsafelY by tkeirsaid storm-tossed ma
trllefs reach the shore. But tile press,
tHa newspapers, which should be the
fl1~ehtshouses of the ever stormy sea of
tpPfAcs, few of them ever kindle any
lGgAfIosguide.
Newsthere is the Register it has
Fc9me into our neighborhood for a.
ggseat many years, and it has been a
kind of party organ-hand organ,
with its monkeylening cur people
that the Democratic party was the en-
envy of all good, The Democratic
party opposed the Pond bill, because
they claimed it was Unconstitutional,
a1dihe Register made ugly faces at
THE party and said 1t " as the whisky
party, and 1t stefmed and rayed aud
said many bad thipgs;bAt Rhensthe1
question of the eons1itutionality of
the law went up testhe Republican
Supreme Court and the Court said
the law was void, because saneonsti-
tutional, the Register did not cab
its Supreme CONT whisky party and
make up ugly faoes aB it and ,1ellit
what theIaw is Why notal"Lo-
renzon is foolish enough to think it is
because the editor of the "Register"
was afraid it wouldhurt the party for
which he tries to grindou harmenies
on his little hurdy gurdy organ
Itell thee, friend Gould, greatplain-
|ness, simplicity and directness of
speech is wanted upon these great
Questions. True craftsmanship takes
the world as it is, not as perhaps it
Ought to be /; and does the very best
st car with the material to do it with.
1T turns not to the right or left for
mere temporary policy. Itsays great
principles are eternal, and it follows
them. 1t is not an echo 1t formn-
|iates and moves. 1t was born for the
universe, not mere party. Over con-
iicting sects and hostile parties, over
the petty discords of little n idea
men forever sound its sweet harmo-
MES ; and while these little men stand
aghast, trying to call back the platoons
who march away from them the broad
er grows the sweets of victory, for the
right, liberty, principle, justice, ma
tionalities antedate the Republican
party. They have all lived and flour
ished without it in greater lnxuriance
than they seem to with it. Throw of
thy coat, friend Charles, and work for
principles and never mind thy totter-
ing party. Parties are incidental and
hardly ever within the necessities, mol
the men which called them into be.
ing. l tell thee in my plain way that
men are not leaders of parties, parties
are leaders of men. When parties be-
come mere time-servers and spoils-
seekers their mission for good is end
ed, aud then desertions. commence
They can no more live on past glories
and achievements than battle-scarred
veterans. What if editors who as
sumo to speak for a party do say, my
party is the only pure, true and good
one, if they at once advocate doctrines
which the more broad sense of the
masses reject? Our county affords q
fgood illustration. What is changing
1.-THE political complexion here? Has
mot thou, friend Charles, worked in
4sssseH and out Of season to keep up
thf party? Still it goes down. Men
who voted with the will do SO no
mbre. Thee gets madand calls them
htpdlums, enemies of our country
ara other ungodly names, and still
Etlfey will not come. Thee bloweth
thy rams horn against the walls of
the Democratic party, and tho walls
stand, and from within we hear CALI
er say: "Watchman, tell us of the
night, what lis signs of promise are"
And the sentinel upon the outer wall
ih brave CHEEKY tones responds, "ten
o'clock, and all is we.l.n Every Re-
publican saloon keeper in Eaton has
closed under the Ordinance, and those
who have paid their money for a Re-
publican license have got it back. All
is well. And then the Republican
editor says, now that our W Su-
5reme Court has sustained the posi-
lion of the Democracy, something
must be done, for surely Levi is SO
given to plain speaking and so often
Warmeth the wax in u ears, that an
other blast must be blown from the
rams horn, to let it be known that
1.-The party organ is not lost in the con-
fusion of the hour, and that the full
Iness of time hath not yet arrived
when "the grinders shall cease be-
cause they are few" Although the
EPond is drained, st. Smith stands up
Ion its shores and in its noble mission
of reform the Republican party will
compel the free enlightened people to
be christians by the force of statute
Haw.
! But, friend Gould, Unjust stop. Go
on in thy work. "Lorenzo's" day is
drawing 10 o close. In times past thee
has given his poor letters a place in
! thy columns. Men have read them,
and friend Charles has placed them
upon his threshing floor and threshej
, them as though he thoughtthere might
be some wheat in them. He has thresh.
: ed the chaff out ofthem to his OWL
|. satisfaction, and poor old plain-spoker
; "Lorenzo" still lives, and under the
! sun-fecked shadows in summer and
. by the cosy fireside in winter rests
!. away the fieetiug years, and accept
; ing without murmur the common fate
: of all men, will fade away and be soor
= forgotten ; but the principles for which
he has labored with, he trusts some
: thing of fidelity, will live on.
Thee may again hear from thy OLE
friend Lorenzo.
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