Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-04
The American Outlook.

Among all the causes for the wipinE
out of the Republican party great
prominence may be assigned to THAI
SO poorly understood-the fullness OF
time.
Time runs in cycles, and when one
of them closes out, old things pass
away and all things become now. In
regard to those changes, four things
are always true. A revolution never
political party, or a government. or a
whole ecclesiastical organization, and
the adherents of these may think that
all is lost, and yet the interests of truth
and right will arise from the ruins
invested with new strength, because
they have been unloaded.
When a revolution is inaugurated,
three courses are open to all concerned:
They must either study carefully the
direction of the coming change, keep
ahead of it and it will follow and sup
port them. If it overtakes, it will
overwhelm them; and if they resist, it
will destroy them.
In respect to sects and political par
ties, the matter puts itself al this shape:
stupid adherence to ,sd issues and
an inadequacy to Twin ones.
The Republican party has fiourished
the bloody shirt until the wind has
torn it to tatters.
The American people are fully salts
fed that the South is honest in it's ac-
ceptance of the situation; and just in
proportion as time reveals the details
of the fearful price it has paid for its
errors, the more ready the American
people are to forgive and the more I'M
willing to sustain political party
which seeks for selfish ends to perpet-
uate the memory of the wrong-doing
of others.
The American people are satisfied
that the work of Southern reconstruc-
ton is safe in the hands of the South
ern people, and are less and less dis
posed to endorse the idea of outside in
reference in the matter.
The American people demand the
payment of the national debt in coin
or its equivalent at the earliest posi-
BILE day, and are willing to bear bur-
dens that the debt may be paid, and
unwilling to accept a release from bur-
dens when that release prolongs the
burden of the debt.
The American people understand
that the payment of the debt will set
aside the national system of banking
as based on that debt. They under
stand that the payment of the debt
will authorize a change in our revenue
system, but they are prepared to face
free trade, which will compel change
in our industrial system, which, by
breaking up monopolies hitherto pro-
teeted by law, will arrest the work of
concentrating vast bodies of operatives
at manufacturing centers, and thereby
change our social system.
This revolution has overtaken and
overwhelmed the Republican party.
What this revolution will do for the
immediate successor of the Republican
party need not be discussed just yet.
Among the proXimate causes of the
wreckins of the Republican party may
be mentioned it's course in regard to
General Grant. The American people
have a sublime and well-founded con-
fidence in that man. He saved, under
God, the life of the nation. Twice he
elected the Republican party to four
years lease of power.
In 1868 the Republican stock in trade
was General Grants military renown.
In 1872 it was his reputation as states
man. In both cases there were some
collateral considerations thrown in for
the sake of appearances; and when, es-
pecially under his last term the steal
ing was astounding-for in 1873 the
nation was worse plundered by the
Republican party than it had been in
1862 by the Confederates-ane effort was
made to throw the responsibility. for
this stealing OH President Grant, and
when, in dignified moderation, he ex-
planned that he could not be expected
to have personal acquaintance with
every man whom he appointed to of
flee, but must depend on the endorse
ment of others, and that he could not
be expected to examine in detail into
the'merits of every measure submitted
to him, but must defer to the iudg- |
ment of Congress, he was laughed to
scorn; but with a sublime patience, he
waited his time, and when the whole !
civilized world had recognized him as
the first soldier and statesman of his
age, he returned and respectfully asked
the Republican party to give him the