The Worthington advance., 1888-08-02

MOBILES COUNTY. NJ
home. Next year there were dSosal
held. Since then UaDy OF |
them have been held, until now 4 strong |
Church and State party 10 form10 tO
force conflict. A few years ago, Gov. |
St. John, the leader Of the Pv0hible eiou-
lists, sent greeting to the I0WA o01veIr
tion and hoped they would succeed,
thus speaking Tor bis party, o. koding
hundreds to believe that he spoke for
his party. The best minds am0pa thsj
liberals of the Thomas JelfersuI aud
BENJAMIN Franklin stamp beltev0 that |
they will succeed. What thony You
and I will pay tlthes 10 support . 70.
ligion which we may OF may not be1iove,
and the speaker who rises in any city
Of the United States to question the
statement that Jesus 10 the rnler0 this
planet" will be subject to a1reet and
imprisonment for blaspheny.
Meanwhile, this class OF religious
partizsns pull every string. They say
We cannot expect to amend The Con
stituti0n In day. But ~ dan atte,sd
to tho outposts. We can enforce our
siews - to the Sabbath W Sabbath
laws; wo can make war urbDp free
tbon4ht and upon MI claloGe which,
publish, viewe contrary to,oa1f owp MP.
on social. questions b4 hayiug them ~
rested and tried a.hder trumped up
charges Of sending obscene matter
through the mails, They say We have
already succeeded by convictlng Zen.
nett, Liant, etc. and we have greatly
annoyed and subdued many others.
Another class who demand class leR.
islation are the regular doctors. They
come to every State legislat ure and say
the ''dear people" want to be protected
from quacks. They ask that q law be
passed to form a State Medical Board
Of their class of doctors aud that no
one be allowed to heal the sick or
"practice medicine" as they call It,
without this board of regular. old.
school, drug doctors have passed upon
his diploma. And. my friends, they
have succeeded in many states. The
last legislature Of Minnesota. which
was called the farmers legislature,
passed one Of these laws and put Min.
nesota in the category Of bigoted states.
have fought many battles for the
farmers and expect to fight many more.
but must say that 1 was disguised
when what WAS called the farmers
legislature passed such u law. New
York, New Jersey, Illinois. Missouri
and other states have such laws.
Under this iniquitous class of class
legislation man in Kansas City was
imprisoned 80 days in Jail for attempt.
ing to cure case of rheumatism by
rubbing the afflicted limb "without u
diploma" If some regular doctor
had rubbed it with q diploma and
healed it, the regular doctors doubtless
would have sworn by it a. good prac-
tice and have recommended it to 9th.
erS. Or, If some one had laid his dia.
ploma on the patient and the man had
never walked up. the doctors would
have declared that the rheumatism
must have gone to his heart and killed
him. But the Y,0cr friend who laid
hands upon the man and cured him,
must 90 to Jail 80 days because he had
no "diploma" to authorize him to lay
hands on \ sick man. A lady In Dm.
huQue was recently heavily fined for
curing case in the same way. She
| had no diploma. she was not practic
ing medicine, she was helping friend
And there is no question about it. if
| the Christ whom scores Of these doctors
worship, should appear tO morrow aud
heal the sick in the streets of New York
"r Chicago or St. Paul, rs he once did
in Jerusalem, he would he arrested, fin
od and imprisoned.
This list Of class legislation might
be extended hut time fOrbids.
.r,yr DvrevnrNcv A~v> yra naNruDc
4. The danger which the presidential
| office presents has been wisely set down
as ono Of our greatest dangers. The
ambition to be President will increase
rs the emoluments and especially, the
power increases with the growth
Of the country. Men are the same un-
der Republics as under other forms Of
government. Louis Napoleon WAS
elected President Of a Republic aud
made himself Emperor of France ut n
single stroke. We are every day diff.
ing away from Republican simplicity.
Thomas Jefferson rode into Washing.
ton on horse back, like . farmer com.
ing to town, hitched his horse to q tree
and walked up and took the oath and
was inaugurated. Presidents Garfield
and Cleveland are tnauQNrated will,
such parade and ostentatiOn a. mon.
archs affect and subjects love. soon
our Presidents will do all they can to
perpetuate their rule, and 4 President
once elected, having enormous pat
ronaRe and power greater than the RI.
Ter of Great Britain, will mako himself
President for life.
Another danger is to tho President
himself. Two of our Presidents, WE
know, woro assassinated. died by pis
tol shot. Two others. It has always
been claimed, were removed by poison.
Four of our rulers have. it 10 claimed,
been assassinated during our brief OK.
istence of . little more than q century,
DANGERS OF AN UNFAIR AND IMPURE
5. One of the commonest, and one
of the most formidable Of our dangers
is that of an unfair and impure ballot
And the greatest danger 10 not
tn an unfair count nor in ballot
box stufling. It Is in the intimidation
which is said to exist to such a: great
extent in may localities ofour country.
as to amount to virtual dtsfraDchtse.
ment Of thousands Of voters. This de.
feats our whole system, and often gives
the rule to the minority.
THE PRIMARIES.
6. One of tho evils OF our system,
not to call it a danger, 10 the caucus
system which prevails among all par
ties and in nearly :sll localities. BY this
system the will of the people, in many,
if not in most cases, is untxpressed and
defeated. Caucuses can DO and are
packed, or called at such times and
places as to give the primary meeting
wholly into the hands of scheminR poll
ticians.
| CHANGES AND REMEDIES.
Lot mo now suggest . few changes
which might improve our system and