Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-21

public recognition and have no fol. Q
lowing or authority now, being chief s
clerk on'y to.the chief magistrate. They
ar6 therefore compelled by a kind OF d
natural vanity, II not an actual pride OF {
90 affect what they have not, Q
and hence out Of thelr unassured footing
Is evolved state Of more or less corrupt. ,
lug false pretense Too often lmpOtcncy !
seeks 10 conceal itself behind assump.
tloni and, as no man can be as honest hs
the president seems TO be-, and consciou.
iiously thinks he ie, Lesser than he become
mere hypocrltes. Meanwhile the great
body OF undorllngs, seeing which way the
wind blows and owning no particular al.
leglance, ape the manners OF their SUI
perlors, who are stlll not masters, and, IN
a different way, perhaps, we have at this
moment A. personal government as we
had under Grant,
sey this with perfect good will and /
good humor. Convinced, however, OF lts
truth, | would not 90 out of my way TO /
say II, II the state Of things on this side .
OF the Atlantic, betokeniug the same state \
Of things at home, II they be not checked, |
were not so ahhorrent and 20 ever pres. |
emit They remind me constantly of dan /
gers, which those OF my countTymen who |
do not come abroad and have no stand !
ards of foreign measurement and contrast,
do not and can not see. The whole
struggle OF wealth IL 10 get possession OF
power. Here the wealthy have II. With
us they are seeking yet 20 get It, The
civil service agitation is one OF
the means adopted TO undermine
the popular character Of the gov
eminent, To weaken the popular inter
est In elections, and TO establish per.
manent aristocracy In office. II is an at
tempt OF the top OF the tree 70 pun up the
roots. Backed up by all the social appli-
ancos OF the rich and bookish East,
which sympathizes not with the Yves. and
| South in national aspiration, but with
the aristocracy Of the Old World In
| ycarning after the pTerogatiyes OF wealth
aud power, II is Il misfortune that the
hrst Democratic president elected In
twenty-five years should lend his great
Office to that whlch, In the very begin.
ming, seeks to desecrate the memory Of a
man ike Andrew Jackson, and In the
end, rests Itself upon the assumption that
the Democratic party is net 1T to govern
the country
The American republic has passed in
safety through three terrible ordeals
that OF slavery, that OF war OF secession,
aud that OF disputed presidential cleo.
ton One greater than all these, and one
which no uat6h has yet withstOod, re-
mains 10 threHten IT, Goldsmith summed
IL up IN those two lines;
ILL Garea the land TO haotcnlpg illg prey,
Where wealth nccumulNtea ana mtu decay
Our menace la money, which If becum-
ing the test OF all things, The poor are
helping the rich 10 grow richer and The
rich are forging weapons to manaclc the
poor Here we have an association OF
working men clamDring for governmental
control Of railroads and tclegfaphs, which
will merely change the Custodians OF cor
/ plratious and put more power into The
hands Of Btill fewer mvn Here are
thousands Of workugmgn, who complain
OF the exOctions OF their employers, YET
uniting with those very employers 90 ro
I tain protective tariff, which dishonesty
4 eurlcheR the rich and ru5s the poor, un.
der the pretonCc OF protecting an Indus
try II really taxes aud Expresses, IL was
i, even thus In days Of old Wealth &C
! cumulated and men decayed, and dowi
r went freedom and popular government
i and up went the machinery and the IN
I sigma of despotism
Thoughtless Americans think such ap
q prehenslons are irrelevant In our country
y and dismiss them az idle talk. But Their
, was never a trucr saying than that eter
nal yigilence IL the price OF liberty. Eu
: rome is now struggling TO emnucipate her
. seif France has Wen nigh done so. Shal
3 tbn history az inc future present MANKIND
: Inc strnnFe anomaly of the practical nyof
! throw OF Democratic government IN III
, limited states concurrent with the over
throw Of monarchy In every other part q
. the world2
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is bis post soon to be that halB in harmon
e with those of his countrymen and coug
n trygomep vyh1 swarm Ike maggota abor
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D. inn 40 much dlecfedH and ridicule upo
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