The Monitor., 1884-10-31
ON BEN BUTLER'S SIDE.

ON BEN BUTLER'S SIDE.
| There are no great issues in this cam
| paign, so we are told.
True enough there are none between
the Blaine and Cleveland parties, which
are playing the tunes of decrepitude on
the fiddles of ramshackle.
But Ben Butler has given new face
to the campaign by throwing into it the
greatest issues of the times, upon the de-
cision of which the whole future of the
country is at stake.
Buffers issues relate to the peace,
prosperity, well-being and freedom of the
working millions who are to pass judg
ment upon them. He deals with the
original rights of human nature and the
accommodating wrongs of human society
He taken up the questions of labor,
capital and land, of production, distribu-
ton and monopoly. He calls halt to the
money power which has seized the coun-
try by the throat, and invokes the strength
of the masses in whose hands is their
own redemption.
Issues. Why, when has the present gen.
Grafton ever before had such issues to de-
termine.
They were not raised by Ben Butler
any more than they were made up by
him. They were raised by the resurgent
spirit of the country, always equal to
every emergency. The people have grad
ually come to realize the incongruties
that are growing up among them; to
know that this seizure of the public
wealth by gangs of gamblers and mono
polists is working to their detriment; to
realize that some way of relief must be
found from this hideous struggle of labor;
to understand that this widening of the
social gulf is full of danger to them; and
to protest against the inpoverishment of
the producer for the enrichment of the
capitalist They have been awaking tothe
fact that things cannot go on forever in
the present fashion; their cries have been
growing louder, year after year. as they
approached the perilous edge beyond
which lies--who can tell what?
No issues!
The starving miners of the Hooking
Valley are an issue.
The million men vainly hunting for work
are an issue.
The million women and children fight
the tigers of the factories are an issue.
The howls from the Pennsylvania coal
holes are an issue.
The hundred thousand idle factory hands
of New England are an ISSUE
The reekng tenements of New York,
Chicago and other cities are an issue.
The rack-renters are an issue.
The devouring millionaires are an issue.
Wall street is an issue.
The malefactors of monopoly are an is
sue.
The banking hyenas are an issue.
The land d-grabbers and grain gamblers
are an ISSUE
The devitries of our competitive system
are an issue.
Gould. Vanderbilt, Armour, Stanford,
Astor. Huntington, and all that gang are
an issue.-Fr0m John Steinton's Paper.
To know, and not have the ability to per-
form, is doubly unfortunate.
A child's questionings seriously answer
ed supply the chief basis for that child
education.
There is an element of the ridiculous in a
man who is graceful at all times and in all
places.
instruction ends in the school-room, but
education ends only in life. A child is
riyen to the universe to educate.
There should be as little merit i'll loving
woman for her beauty as in loving man
for his prosperity, both being equally sub
jeet to change.
The only way for rich man to be healthy
is by exercise and abstinence, to live as il
he was poor; which are esteemed the worst
parts of poverty.
Nothing so cements and binds together
in union all the parts of a society as faith
or credit; which can never be kept up, un-
less men are under some force or necessity
of honestly paying what they owe to one
another