The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-10-20

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felous, aud when last heard s0f he was
trying to lecture la America or to &C
celerate the progress OF .; dime muse
.um. Surely he ought, TO have beep
we'll punished II he attempted to iIupose1
upon the property security Ola rea'p.>
One would think that sou0elof these
lawyers who abet impostoss of that kind
would also be brought upase access0rses.
In many a case a elsiment Of that sort
never would show his face in q Court Of
justice but for the leRal uoRues who, take
him In hand advance him money, cl0the
then bring him forward; to contest q
property. r l--5 si Ha5!i atfJo 4
The United States is q curious c0un-
try In this, that nearly everybody in, II
Is feroctously bent on having property
or getting property, and vet much OIL
the public sentiment encourages under
meath an idea that whoever has proper
ty is In some way an oppressor. So II
we all attain What we want we. have
only graduated to be culpr!ts. This is
the fatal effect Of our origin as a natioD,
by incorporating in our original char
ters absurdly sentimental opinions Of
mankind In general. We wanted 10
get rid of Great Britain 80 that we
could operate a. part of The English
race, q large helntsphere like this TO
better advantage. We appointed q,
COMMITTEES to make declaration Of in
dependence, and this committee went
out and postuIated that all men were
created equal, whereas they had ,noth-
ing to do but to tell the King and Par
lament of England that we wanted to
leave them peacefully II we,must and
forclbly II not peacefully. There has
descended all along the liue of time a
sort OF socialisttc notion that the people
own everything here, and that who.
ever carries anything does it at his
peril, aud yet the whole population is
as mercenary as It can be, working
harder than any people on tho globe,
tolerating no teisureiy race, and the
very Government we created and
equal, and that the people were sover-
eign aud ought to elect everybody,
comes under suspicion from these fire.
quent viltaintes which are perpe.rated
between the political, class: on the one
| side aud the business class on tho other.
Surely the perfection of q laborer-the
highest degree in masonry we may call
it's q great contractor. Nearly every
one of our contractors have been them
selves laborers. George Law carried
the hod, and he ended by building the
big aqueduct bridge 10 New York,
which is the monument OF the frst
aqueduct. If a man has been iabofer
aud has grappled with the successive
problems presented to labor, such as
building enormous works, forts, pani.
sentiaries aud aqueducts, he may be
considered as Il thorough representative
of our business class. lie represents
the business civiliz ,tion of our country.
And yet there in the city of New York
are the greatest contractors of modern
times, who accept work under rigid
specifications, iuciosiug their shaft
which is TO carry water TO the people Of
a city Of two millions ofinhabitants, in
such a way that above the shaft are
great cavities upon which detached
rocks can fail, the water percolatlng
through, will in time break the whole
structure in, and that structure Is loca-
ted from one hundred to two hundred
feet below the surface of the earth, so
that to repair 1t Ia a tedious and expen-
sive undertaking, aud its disuse effects
a vast population. Not merely clean
illness and the prevention of disease, but
comfort and the snpply Of drinking
aud cooking water and the power to
put out fires, are dependent upon the
aqueduct. We must have had attfthe
scientific knowledge to design a proper
aqueduct, because the papers are all
prepared and every point is covered
and y hen the contractor signs he gives
bond aud the work is subject to inspec-
ton and the Office CT the aqueduct Is
full OF drawings OF every ltne aud Sec
tioD, and the execution Of this task
would be the perfection Of civilization.
What is to be thought Of the disclosure
that the politicians we had elected and
appointed to lock after us and oul
affairs had gone 10 these contractors
and borrowed money from them, and
perhaps taken money In other ways, &C
that when the contractor comes to dc
his work he feels that nobody can turn
: him off, for he can make an exposure
that will be eagerly grasped at by the
press and make beautiful sensation tt
last about three monthse When the New
York Aqueduct was devised (and yor
must remember that 1t Is SECOND
aqueduct, the browning work of an
other half century to succeed q forme
, aqueduct and parallel iD an engineer II
the United States Navy, the nephew O
: the old aqueduct engineer, was put ii