Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-03-18
Grant Gnantp 4erald,
The ssDemocrats" Want an AristOcratic
ssCabinet System.o

The ''Democrats'' Want an Aristocratic
ssCabinet System.'
To the Editor of the Herald.
Last week the Shullsburg Local Ga
paper whose editorial contributors
are 'Hon. NJ. M. Cothren and Hon. p.
b. Simpson. contained heavy edi-
torial which seems to me decidedly out
OF its longitude. 1t opens thus: "rhe
great mass of the people of the United
States are firm in the belief that we
have the best form of government in
| the world" 1t then goes on to inform
the great mass of our people that, how
ever patriotic their belief, they are
| quite in error; that the British form of
government of ''lords and gentlemen
is much superior to our own form of
government of plebeians and things,
because the former has the cabinet
system of representation in Parliament
| and ours has not. This comes, prob
| ably, not because either of the Hon
orable" contributors really dotes on the
British cabinet SYSTEM but from the
bad effect of long course of reading the
Mugwump papers of New York and
Boston, whose editors consider British
'lord' or gentleman as most ador-
able god whom to initiate is great
honor. These Mugwump worshipers
of the British gods have long been sing
ing the praises of the British cabinet
system" because it is an aristocratic
system. The Locals editorial only
| echoes them when it says: "Well might
we be proud if our United States Legis-
lative and Executive departments were
as complete, well arranged, and sys-
tented as the English cabinet system.
The Locals Honorables say: 1.-THE
President and his Cabinet have no place
or voice in the discussions in Congress
upon whose acts and measures, their
own future welfare depends. Now,
the Presidents business is to execute
the laws, not at all to make them. As
for the heads of the executive depart
ments (Which our British admirers
have succeeded in misnaming "a Cab
inet'O, their offices were created only
to assist the executive, and still less
than the President have they any bust
ness in making the laws, except to fur
nish Congress on call any information
they can furnish which is necessary to
the intelligent action of the lawmakers.
"Their future welfare depends upon
their faithfully following the laws made
for their guidance. The veto privilege,
in connection with the executive, gives
the President too much rather than too
little power, and the Local editors ad-
init that he has too much power, yet
they persistently urge giving him more
power, by giving him and his Cabinet
seats In Congress. The President APP
points his Cabinet, and, with the veto
power, if the people didn't elect Con-
gress who weuld make laws to suit him,
gag the rest. This might be big
he could appoint apart of Congress and
thing for Cleveland and his party, pro-
vided his party can keep the presidency,
but that Democrats advocate it shows
how hollow a thing is name, for this
is not democracy, but aristocracy.
The honorable Democrats of the
Local say: 1.-The attempt at drawing
the two departments closer together. as
shewn by Mr.. Cleveland's message, has
caused this commotion in Mr.. Edmund's
mind. but he cannot condemn the Presi-
dents action by comparing it to the En-
glish system. The comparison only too
plainly shows us our weakness, and
where we should go to find that ex-
ample, if adopted, as to its cabinet
system, would make us the finest form
of government on earth.n When
Americans need an example in COVE rn-
ment by the people, they have no occa-
sion to go to that clan of robbers and pi-
rates, the British aristocracy, who have
from the very first tried to destroy this
country; who, by act of their parlia-
ment of robbers, destroyed American
colonial manufactures; who maltreated
our country in various ways graphically
set forth in the Declaration of Indepen-
dence; who poured upon our strug-
Cling forefathers the hireling Hessians
and the savage Shawnees, to butcher
and burn, to plumber and torture at the
stake; who Qong years after they had
acknowledged our independence sent
press gangs of THEN bullying pirates up
on American merchant ships to drag our
seamen into their floating hells;" who
after fastening African slavery upon
this country when a colony, then for
| fifty years tainted us with the curse,
and then, when the Southern leaders
attempted to found an empire on slavery
sustained that attempt with millions of
money, influence and indirect aid,
simply to destroy our government; who
| would rejoice now as ever to see our
government destroyed, because its pop
ular sovereignty Imperfect asst is) is
a constant reproach and menace to
to their robber arlstocracy.
Americans do not want anv ..neyv
departure that will bring us nearer
all this; that will ''give us Pitt who
said, America must not manufacture
even a hob-nail" We don't want any
of their ''lords and gentlemen" we have
enough of their wouldbe imitators now
in Cleveland, Bayard, Lamar, Whitney,
Endcott and the Mugwump editors.
| AMERICAN.