Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-20
MONEY IN POLITICS.

There should be no war between labor and
capital. Despots can only psrpetuate their
power by keeping the no asses in ignorance
sud poverty and combining wealth to the
luling classes. This policy tends 10 make
the rich richer and the poor poorer. But
In free America it is a fallscy to suppose
that the accumulation of wealth increases
penury and want Wealth is always lu1uri-
Gus and e1travagant, and to crafty its
wants il is forced to give employment to la.
Dor. 1t is the weslthy classes OF France,
Englsnd and America that give profitable
employment to the artisans OF Paris, and as
Dur country grows older and richer we will
become nation of srtisanp, and the poor
will find abundant employment in catering
10 the wants of the rich. In America wealth
is only TO be feared as a means of purchss-
Ing tficial station aud in the crea-
lion OF gigantic monopolies which en-
itch themselves at the expense of
the laboring masses. The law and
public opinion of past ages have been
very severe against monopolies. Aristotle
condemned, and Zsno, the Roman emperor,
forbade them, and the Euglish law is very
pronounced against these iniquities. The
Gagged beast must be fed or it will feed upon
it's keeper-the monopolies of this couu.
fry must be fed upon law or they will feed
npon the people. Society ia always equal
10 itself, and lacks neither the right ror the
POWER OF self-preservation. If the people
cannot regulate ard protect themselves
from the evils that beset them, then we have
GAINED nothing by org auzad society and are
lapsipg back to the dark sges. 1t is the
right and duty OF the people to prevent new
monopolies that impoverish isem for the
b,n,ft of few capitalists, aud 10 destroy
those already existing Bot how to prevent
rich men from purchasing high official sta
ton, is difficult problem to solve. The Re-
Iublicaps of little Rhode Island, ON Thurs
day Last, nominated a rich candidate for gov
ernor There were three rich candidates for
the position of lieutenant governor, and
dispatch from Newport TO the New York
Herald announces that prominent Republic
taus are authority for the statement that one
candidate offered $4,000 for the position to-
day" Such a scsndalous proposition bodies
no good 10 cur institutions, and unless the
people rebuke such shameless attempts at
bribery official station will soon be auctioned
of to the highes. bidder. Men will be pro-
NOTED TO Office not on account Of merit or
qualifications, but because Of their ability to
buy conventions, Legislatures and the electors.
j is notorious fact that there ere several
lnen in he United States Senate who pur-
chased votes in the Legislatures that elected
them as openly as they would purchase 60
many cattle in market. William Sharon, of
Nevada, bought the seat in the Senate which
for six years he never occupied. His col
leseue, John P. Jones, secured a seat by the
same shameful methods. 1t is charged
that the recent election Of Senator
esbiu, OF Minnesota, is due solely
and entirely to his "bar'i." He was
not elected on account OF his ability or any
services to party or country, but simply on
account of his money, which shows that the
people are bowling down more and more to
wealth. Tabor, OF Colorado, purchased his
way into the Senate, just as rat eats its way
into the center Of huge cheese. He acct
6entslIy became posss OF seversl mil
lions Of dollars, and wss either openly or
secretly despised by even those who ate his
dinners. Instead OF performing the grave
duties of United States senator, he deserted
the wife who chung 10 him in poverty, mar
Tied.a gay young woman, and spent much of
bis time in exhibiting his five night-shirts,
which cost him $3.50 each. Remove this
cresture's money and his purchased seat in
the Senate, and he is nothing but a
loathsone macs of humanity. Unless the
people frown down these practices,
they will increase with the increase
of wealth until all the Offices will be filed