Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-10-08
Secondhand Aristocrats vs.. The PIE
beian Dollar.
tCommunicated.l

Second Hand Aristocrats VS.. The PIE
beian Dollar.
Communicated
The great and growing tendency
among our would-be aristocracy to adj
mire and initiate the so-called upper
classes of Great Britain, has often Of
tation is not confined. rs might be sup
posed, to dress. cut of the whiskers,
affected speech and manners. and gen
eral worthlessness. but extends very
decidedly into politics. The class of
wouldbe aristocrats is a rapidly grow
ing one, especially in the Eastern states,
and is likely to become dangerous
one, for despite their minority and
general mandy PANTY character, they
WELD the two powerful weapons, wealth
and education Their pernIcious doc
trnes are being pushed, sometimes in
siduously, but always persistently, in
New York and Boston periodicals of
wide circulation and host of the
lesser imitators and copyists of those
periodicals.
One of the things which these persons
wish our government to copy from the
British government is what they call
cabinet responsible" that is, they
wish TO have cabinet ministers" have
seat in congress and otherwise do Just
as the British ministers do. This would
be in effect TO have seven of the most
important and privileged members of
congress appointed by the president in
stead of elected by the people-a long
step toward the aristocracy under the
protection of an imperial ruler Mt which
these men are aiming.
The New York Nation is one of the
papers which has persistently pushed
this scheme of Cabinet responsibility,
losing no opportunity to belaud the
British method and decry the American.
The spirit of this may be well illustrated
by quoting some sentences from last
weeks Nation; and mark how per
sistently they ignore the fact that the
president is elected simply to execute
the laws, and is not an autocrat whose
will is or ought to be law. Speaking
OF the inability of the president and the
secretary of the Treasury (who is a
member of the National Bank associa-
ton and willing tool of lha! powerful
and dangerous monopoly to force
law through congress abolishing legal
tender silver money, it says: IAN adj
ministration elected on reform basis,
and thoroughly convinced of the danger
of an evil policy is about to con-
fess publicly that it is powerless against
single interest in the lobby, and can
only hope at best for compromise
which will mitigate the evil If this is
true we are confronted with a danger
greater even than deprecated silver
an ayowed helplessness of the govern
ment to maintain the national interest
against that of private persons and
combinations. This helplessness of
the government to maintain the national
interest, which The Nation bewails.
means that the president and the Ma
tional Bank ring cannot openly defy
and annul the law of this nation-a law
enacted by the representatives of the
people, over the veto of the president
and the efforts of his Shylock advisers,
after long and earnest public discus
sion-enacted upon a peremptory de-
mand of an overwhelming majority of
the people.
Again it says: mot one voter in a
thousand has any clear idea of what the
danger from silver really is (which
danger really is that it has some tenden-
cy to prevent the robber class from
clutching the threats of the producing
class quite SO hard as they otherwise
might, while the commercial and fl
nancial interests fine names for the
robber class whose principal dens are
in Wall street, which do understand
and have very lively perception of it
are IN small minority of votes. The
robber class are naturally always in a
small minority. 1t takes several pro-
ducers to fatten one lordly robber aris-
tocratl. Many people make this an
objection to universal suffrage, but it is
of no use to discuss that institution, be-
cause we have it and must make the
best of it," This advocate of the would
be aristocrats dares not at present
| openly propose to abolish popular suf-
frage. but he does it under the mask of
many people"
Again it says: Let the president
travel through any state in the Union
and see what crowds will gather to
meet him simply because he is the pres
ident. and then consider what an i'm
mense force is lost by refusing to give
the president any voice in the conduct
of the government Just as il this
''lost force might not Gas it most often
weuld) be used for evil instead of gOsd.
Not satisfied with the immense power
given to the president as executive-the
veto power-the tremendous power of
appointing hundred thousand officials,
this advocate of aristecracy and i'm
perialism would have the president APP
point part of congress and gag the
/ rest
The New York Herald is another pa
per which is just now particularly loud
and persistent in demanding that legal
tender silver should be abolished. Its
4 proprietor iuherited enormous wealth
aud receives = large inceme-partly
! from the result of the labors of large
number of faithful and skilled employees
and partly from the subsidies of the
robber class. This great wealth he is
I spending in tagging after and trying to
! initiate the British aristocracy-that
most detestable robber class, which for
a score of generations has plundered
/ the WORKING world Well this tuft-