Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-10-21

from the Potomac and blotted out The
blazing arch above, and presently piled
up along the horizon delusiye thunder clouds,
that spent their strength and substance else
where, and left it hotter than before. To-
ward evening the sun came out invigorated,
having cleared tho heavenly brow Of pcrspira-
ton, but leaving It's fever undated
The city was deserted Tho few who re-
manned apparently Hurled themselves from
Tie garish Light Of day in some dim, clustered
recess Of shop, hotel or restaurant, and the
rcrsriring stranger, dazad by the outer glare,
who broke in upon their quiet, soquestered re-
lJse confronted coilarless and coatles5 s5o.-
tors u the past, with fms ii their hanCs, who,
after drcamiy going through some perfrnct-
Org business, Immediately retired to sheep after
the stranger had gone Congressman and
eral constituencies, with the yclicus inforna-
ton that the country was going to ruin, or
that the outlook never was more hopeful and
cheering, as the tastes Of their constituency
indicated A few cabinet officers still fingered,
having by this tirc become convinced that
they could donothing their own way, or indeed
many way but the old way, and getting gloom
ily resigned to their situation. A body Of
learned, cultivated men, representing tho
highest legal tribunal ii the lard, still
fingered in a vague idea OF earning tho scant
salary bestowed upon theln by thecconornical
founders Of the government, and listened
patiently TO the arguments Of counsel, whose
fees for advocacy Of claims before them
would have paid The life income Of half the
bench. There was Mr. Attorney General
and his assistants still protecting the govern
ment's millions from rapacious hands, and
drawing the yearly puhlic pittance that their
wealthicr private cnta@onists would have
scarce given as retainer to their Junior
counsel The little standing army Of do
pa,tmeutal en- plgyes-the helpless victims Of
The most scus less and idiofia form Of Gisci-
p..ne the world has s5owu--adiscipline so
m2de ~ &c caprice, cxpeeliancy cowarlico
and tyranny that rs reform meant revolu-
zion not "a ba tolerated by legislators and
lawgivers or q despo.isla in which half a
dozen acrilcntolly-chosea men interpreted
their preiuliecs oil preference as being that
reform Administration after administra-
ton and party after party had persisted in
their desperate attempts to fit The youthful
colonial garments, made by our fathers after
q by-gonc fashion, over the expandei limits
and generous outline of a matared nation.
There were patches here and there; there
were grievous rents aud holes here and thcro:
there wero ludicrous and painful exposures Of
growing limbs everywhere; and the PARTY in
power and the party out Of power could DO
nothing but mend and patch, and 1evamp
and cleanse and seoar, and occasionally, in
the Witness Of despair, suggest evc1 the cut
ting OF the rlba'i;ous Ealbs that persisted ii
growing beyond tie swaldling 5lot,as &c it3
infancy
TWAS a cHpi5al Of contradictions and ia-
son is.encics. 1t one cid c. The avenue sat
the responsible high keeper Of the military
honor, yalor and warlike prestige OF a great
nation, without the power 10 pay his own
troops their legal dues odt1 some selfish
quarrel between party and party was settled.
Hard by sat another secretary, whose estab-
lishod functions seemed to be the misrcprc-
seutation Of the nation abroad by the least
characteristic of its Glasses, the politicians
and only then when they had been defeated
as politicians, and when their co stitucnts had
declared thcm no longer worthy to be even
representatives. The national absurdity
was only cqualed by another, wherein an ex-
politician was for four years expected to up
hold the honor Of a flag Of great nation
over an ocean he had never tempted, with a
discipline the rudiinents Of which he could
scarcely acquire before lie was removed, or
his term Of Office expired, receiving his orders
from a superior officer Us ignorant of his
special duties as himself, ard subjected TO the
revision of a congress cognizant Of him only
as a politician At the further end OF Tie
Avenue was another department so vast in its
extent and SO varied in its functions that few
OF the really great practical -@orkers Of the
land would have accepted lis responsibility
fer ten times its salary, Et which the most
pcytcco constitution in tho world handed over
TO m"n who were obliged t. make it q step
ping stoEe to future prefement There was
another department., more suggestive IT its
financial functions fron tho occasional ex-
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