The examiner., 1882-01-28

All Stockholders of THE EXAMINER asso- citation, together with those contemplating membership, are requested to meet at No. 155 Main St., room 3, Monday evening Feb. 9th, 7.3O P. M. Per. order the President. R. PINE, Sec'y. EDITOR EXAMINER
 have had the pleasure of reading each issue of the EXAMINER, including the first.
 l was much pleased with the opening article, and am in full sympathy with the objects therein set forth.
 The people are in need of many more vehicles of information, based on the principles enunciated in the opening col umn of the EXAMINER.
 The people need to be educated. Those who in any degree understand the princi- pies of our government are few, and the true reason for this ignorance is the neg lect of the people to become informed. They rarely think for themselves, but al- low thought on the subject to be confined mostly to those who are styled leaders of the people,
 The popular idea is, with us, that our government is @ government of the peo- pie; that the people govern themselves. Such is the popular idea, but you know, Mir. Editor, that the idea is the result of fallacy, for any belief to be popular in true sense, must be the result of intelli- gent observation and study by the masses and have truth for the foundation. This o% FaJ larity. The ignorant want educating, and the medium through which they must be reached is a ne wspaper for the people.
 Each one of these politically ignorant people, if asked if they appreciated the position they occupy in the political struc- ture of our government, would answer, yes {; and would believe they were answer ing truly. They have been educated through newspapers. Party organs have instructed them by illustrating party prin- ciples, not constitutional principles; indi- vidual principles, not general principles wherein the people must look for good government. These papers have skinned the surface of the current of events and have enlisted the passions of the heart to assist them in falsely educating the peo- pie, while the brain and reason of the masses has been opiated by sophistical ar guments.
 It is the people who must purify the government, when they arrive at the point of throwing off the stupor under which they are laboring, and will analyze their supposed knowledge, and will admit their utter ignorance, as they must when they investigate for themselves with a desire to learn, commencing at the foun- dation-our constitution-and with their early studies begin to have clearer and truer ideas, and to see and know the diff ference between a slave and a freeman, then they will know, when they cast ballot, what the term ballot comprehends They do not know it's meaning now.
 Again I say, MT. Editor, am pleased that the EXAMINER Co. has brought into existence a paper whose declared inten- tion is to enlighten and educate and up hold the people. The people are strong, and when they add intelligence to their strength they will prove irresistible Then, if they find reason to resist, their resistance can be we'll directed.
 Hartford RUSSELL.
 ED. EXAMINER :-In the Globe of last Sunday, appeared flaming article on "baby farming" and by gross misrepre- sentation succeeded in building quite mountain out of material not sufficient for @ mole hill.
 Whatever may have been the inspiration of this slanderous attack on a very worthy and respectable woman, we know not. but the fact is, that her unpardonable crime is that of striving to procure an honest livelihood by boarding and caring for few children, which she does in the best manner.
 If the interest in the Globe is to be kept alive, only through items of scandal gos- sip like this, then we advise it to turn it's attention in the direction of some political friends and nabobs of "Society'' we'll known to the editor, for then it certainly will ensure far better return. By insert this you will do an act of justice, and greatly oblige, CHE.