The Opelousas courier., 1882-09-16
Fifty Years.
sedalia Democrat.

A bali century of experience, nearly,
has passed over us in our national be-
ing since 1885, and we speak of the
progress and better condition of the
cenntry in every particular over what
itwas fifty years ago. In very many
respects we have reasons for this. But
in the respect of honest devotion to the
country on the part of those high in
Office, how is it 7
Nearly fifty years ago, Daniel Web
ster uttered the following:
TT is necessary to bring back public
officers to the conviction that they be-
long to the country aud not to any ad
ministration or to any one man. The
army is the army of the country nei-
ther of them is the mere instrument of
the administration for the time being,
or of him WHO is at the head Of it. The
post. Office land office, the customhouse.
are, in like manner, institutions of the
country established for the good Of the
people, and it may well alarm the lovers
of free institutions when all the offices
Of ase several departments are spoken
of in high places as being the spoils of
victory q be enjoyed by those who are
successful in contests in which they
profess this grasping of the spoils to
have been the object of their Efforts
IL this language was true in 1885,
how is it now, when the nation has al
most become the common prey of all
species of marauders ? The nan who is
dishonest now in public life must TO
pretty much the same kind al Webster
had in ming Times have not changed
in this. particular very much. The Ian
guage qnoted above is just the same
that some statesmen whose hands had
never been pollHted with public spoil
might have uttered twenty years ago,
ten years ago, or might utter today.
It is indeed necessary to-day that pub
lie officers be brought back to a con
viction that they belong to the coun-
try and that the country does not be
long TO them, or to any administration
or to any one man. It has come to
snch a pass that the superstition in
duiged in by these gently is just the
other way. To them the country ia the
browsing ground upon which they
hope To grow fat. People, oftes won
der if a change is ever tS come. To
these anxious inquiries it 10 we'll to
suggest that as all things human
change, there may come a change after
awhile. The people of this devoted
land will force e change of some kind,
it 10 devoutly hoped, in 1884.
The Marsh Bayou Tap Narrow
Gauge Railroad is not down as yet
upon The Times Democrat railway
map, but ii Is In operation all the
same. It was built by Mr.. H. c. Gill,
Of Lake Charles, Calcasieu parish, La,
without assistance, and starting from a
point about is miles aLeve that place,
runs b distance Of about three and ri
half miles. offering splendid facilities
for transporting lumber to the river
The road is equipped with Que locomo-
tive aud all the necessary rolling stock,
and. IN fact, all necessary appurte-
naaces to make it in effect a FIRST; class
narrow gauge railroad. On tile line of
the road all the buildings required for
tlie accommodation of operatives have
been erected iii i substantial manner,
aud in addition Mr.. Gill has bnflt d
handsome residence for himself and
family, put up d large building for !
store and stocked il. Times. Democrat
Indigestion and habftaal c-oskiveness arise
from of the nerves and muscles of
she stomach. Dne attention III the pFaper
haDs1 .pf ms 1n npnEeetioa With tisB fifna1y
use of BroWnss Iron Bittefs, Will strengthen
The aasetea parts md quickly remove every
eX fpaan Nf Aha disorder