Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-01

act that Tour men were recently engaged
OF the grester part OF two days in open
ng and replying 10 the letters regarding
admissions or soliciting Mr.. Beecher 10
undertake work 10 aid Of new churches,
,hsrities, and so fortn. Personal answers
tom Mr.. Beecher are, in the circum-
stance, impossible. His lectures
begin on Monday next in Exeter
hsH. He lectures next at
Bistol. Further arrangements are
unknown 10 him yet, and are IA his
managers" hands The lecture-bureeu
system in America IL commended by Mr..
Beecher as providing a more thorough
manner than anything we have In
England for making the people &C.
quainted with the great public men Of |
the country Has man done anything,
written anything or said anything that |
attracts the attention Of the people of |
the United States and makes them want |
to hear himf The lecture bureau at once |
takes him up, paying him according to !
the rank he holds in the field OF demand. |
This managerial system, under which
Mr.. Beecher has himself been broug hit
again to this country, he regards as
part OF a democratic national life and as
valuable means OF diffusing knowledge
among the common people aud bringing
the men Of ideas Fright before them"
Reyertlng to the subject OF our cleo
tions, MT. Beecher acknowledges our
election laws to be much more rigorous
than in America, where there
were only two or three states that
by election laws "come near cleansing
the vote" But In conversation touching
on personation and other election scan
dals that have led TO our laws being made
more stringent, Mr., Beecher recalled the
simple registration process which in
America would have prevented any falling
off in the vote by "removals," as at the
present election. "The cities are divided
into election districts, aud anybody that
Is going to vote on one or the other of
the three voting days must claim TO be
registered. The registration precedes
the polling by only two or three
weeks. Each party for itself APP
| points a committee to go to the houses
| IN the registration books 10 see II
the claimant lives there, and In that way
TO search the register and prevent men
under false names and with false resi-.
/ dences getting vote.n As TO purchase
Of votes, Mr. Beecher frankly ayowed
4 that there was no sort Of restriction, and
that men were bought and sold like sheep
before the ballot boxes; and that in some
| districts there were hangers on IN society
who looked TO close election as q time
in which to make money. The more re-
spectacle people scorned this kind OF
thing, but the details of electioneering IN
America would certainly admit Of good
deal Of improvements "The use OF
money is one great danger | think Ia oul
elective system IL don't stop with
. On { AAyfN am
the senate of the Uuited States. The
difficulty is to yet law to put 1t down
remember that in Kansas the bribery
of members on behalf Of candidate TO
Office was so notorious that one of then
rose in the house and showed the none,
that had been paid to him for his vote
After that, OF cousre, all the other mel
who had been paid TO vote did not dar
do it. They threw the man out, sprupi
another man, and carried him RICH
through. While we believe our senate &
be on the whole body not corrupt in th
, ordinary sense of the term, there is tn
danger overhanging it that it will be com
posed of men that are under the influenc
of great corporations, our great railroad
and millionaire influence. Not that the,
would directly take brides, though som
Of them possibly might use money in tina
way; but they stand as protectors @
those great moneyed interests, and Their
,, is proper jealousy on the part OF gu
.. common people against this millionair
power"
!. Though the Irish influence is great II
the large cities of the United States, MI
!. Beecher does not find that 1t affect
= national interests. There are no men /
America, he says, the insignificant ban
of malignants excepted, that differ o
the essentially American ideas as dis
I; tinguished from the old world mon
= archial ideas. In America to-day ther
are but three questions-civil-servi re
y form, the silver question and free trad
: versus protection. Both of the partle
ere afraid to touch any of them. There
> fore the practical politics of to-day is sin
y ply question between the Gins" and III
), nouts."
\ "The dynamite fund that came over
', England" said Mr.. Beecher in the cours
:, of his conversation, "was raised Ia an II
: significant circle of imported wretche'
I ] will say that the American-born Irisl
a men were AS much opposed to that as an
. Englishmen over there. We looked on
:, with horror, and the moment freedom {
" speech, which we allow to the utmo'
a limit. regarding 1t as safety yalv
: ceased TO be exhortation and became +
:. intiammatory as 10 break out in such a
y lion, every man in the nation wa el
y RACED and indignant. Where evident
. could be got, il was stamped out In Il
y same way, when those strikes wei
: worked ia the interest Of extreme. d.
= structiYe, socialistic views, our magistraC
= took prompt measures. In Chicago an
q NJ Waukee the movement was SUPPRESS
ss quickly as you would supprei
Ore. Men have been Imprisoned, son
: are under indictment for their lives, an
. many Of them, think, will swing. o.
y national feeling is not IN sympathy In Il
:, slightest degree with any violent form
u interference. We don't know anythin
! about members Of parliament with 4
salaries for their ssrYices. All our men
y beers have salaries, and it cGme to US I
~ quite a novel thought, that money sci
= over here would support members Of pa
lament that otherwise were too poor
= be abGe to sit That reconciled our pc
: pie 70 the raising of money for the parli
u menterg fund, but the dynamite fund WI
y a clandestiue movement. There Is or
9 part otthe sympathy exhibited in Americ
= with the Irish party that has no dee
= roots. The Irish have votes, aud sou
! of our pC itlciaDs are like other polt
!. clans al. over the world-tbeY go Il
y votes, not for principles"