The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-11-22
THE NOVEMBER DE1UoE.

fully abused its trust. 1t had outraged
the virtuous sentiment of the country,
and had filed the public mind with ap-
prehensions for the safety of public
liberty. It had left the people to choose
between change of administration, or
tame submission to its wrong-doing at
the peril Of the public welfare. Once
before Gin 1870 they had pronounced
judgment against it according to all the
forms of Law, but its execution was de-
feated By the boldness and arrogance
of the Republican administration
With its foothold re-established, and
encouraged by its success, and a blind
belief in the perpetual ascendaney of its
star, so far from taking warning and
correcting the errors the people had re-
buked, iSsent from bad to worse until
overtaken by the deluge of November
9TH. To come down from generalities.
to circumstantial details, what does the
victory mean?
It means that the Republican party
had deliberately refused to lower the
taxes, and in the face of a strong public
demand had insisted on maintaining a
system of taxation which takes one hun
dred and fifty millions year needlessly
from the earnings Of labor to constitute
fund for prohigate appropriation, and
to engender corruption and create
monopolies. And that the abuses shall
be corrected by the reduction of the
expenses of every branch of the public
service to basis of justice, honesty and
economy. In other words, it means
that the tax on imports must be lower.
ed, and that the internal revenue abom-
inatiou must be abolished. The Sagaci-
GUS John Sherman, who made his mil
/ lions b. serving the monopolists, was
quick to scent the danger and he gave
out this nete of warning to his clansmen
Of ti,is Canere-s shall adiaurn, whether
! it be hos ar cold without : reduction oil
+ the taxes now imposed upon he people, it
will be CereIict in its highest duty. There
/ is no sentiment ia this country stronger
! now than that Congress has neglected its
duty thus far in not repeating taxes that
/ are obnoxious to the people aud unnecesSa-
/ ~ for he public uses; and if we should
still neglect that duty we should properly
be held responsible BY our constituents"
| The warning was not needed. The
prophecy has been fulfilled. The "sen-
timent" to which John Sherman referred,
has been Numbered through the ballot
box.
The victory of November means that
the people are alarmed and indignant at
corrupt use of money by the Admins
tration to influence elections. If cleo
tions become a merchantable commodity,
the government of the people instituted
by the forefathers for the people is vir-
tually destroyed. 1t has become the
habitual method of the Republican adj
ministration to assail the purity CT the
ballot by the use of money. 1t imposes
heavy exactions upon office holders and
requires them under threat Of dismissal
from the public service, to contribute to
a corruption fund which was distributed
over the country where it would "do
the most good" The New York Times,
the foremost Republican journal in the
Union in ability and manliness, had
the frankness to say that ''by this pecu-
liar method of robbery, a good many
thousands are drawn from the treasury
of the United States through assess
ments on the salaries of federal employ
ees." The verdict of the people is that
an Administration which thus makes
itself a plundering, Matchmaking ma
chine should not be trusted with the
destinies of the country; and they have
demanded civil service reform in order
that the abuse may be corrected.
The victory means that the people
are tired of Bosses and their unscrupu-
lous and tyrannieal rule; and they
have determined to put stop to it.
The victory means that tbs people
are disguised first with the gross delin-
quencies of those who held the key to
the public treasury and surrendered it
to the Star Route thieves in order that
they might enter and plumber it; and
they are indignant at the failure of
the Government to convict Dorsey and
his gang of conspirators. And it means
that stealing, whether by the connivance
IF Congress or the Executive depart
nent of the Government, must stop.
The victory means that monopolists
must cease to be created by partial, dis
legislation that it is not
he province of the Government to
'uild up private enterprises at public
expenses and that labor and industry
must be left to be directed into whatever
hannel individual judgment and inter
st may dictate.
The party whose great mission it will
e to execute the judgment Of the peo-
lie, will in the beginning have control
but one branch of the legislative de-
artment of the Government; but if it
e sagacious and moderate, but withal
RIM and scrupulously just. it will ere
ing be entire master Of the situation.
Now for 1884.
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