The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-02-02
The Peoples Column.
For THE WHIG.
Fuss and Fume and Fiddlesticks.
CoLoRA, January 10Th ISIS

CoLORA, January 18th 1889.
The bland sauvity with which some men
will deny their own assertions when called
TO account for them would be simply aston
ishtng, had not indisputable authority de-
clared that all such shall have their portion
in the lake which burneth with fire and
birthstone. Two terribly disagreeable com
pounds truly. If the editor of the Midland
Journal did not say in his editorial on 1.-THE
money power in politics. that the "pivotal
states were bought by syndicate of mil
lionaire Republicans" in so many words,
he did say, and he dare not deny it "thct
money aCGs freely used IN t5e pirotal states. -
He also said that this money was furnished
TO the advisory committee by millionaire
Republicans. When bare-footed boy
meandering wistfully over this mundane
sphere, we once served a term as j.nitor in
a private school. One of the studies pur-
sued was called Logic. The old peda gogue
who presided, dwelt largely upon Logical
inft renee" and 50 firmly did that term be-
come wedged in crevice of the obtuse and
uncultivated brain of your correspondent
that he can not read the most obscure SEN
tence until this day, without drawing a
logical inference" therefrom.
| don't believe Ex-postrnaster General
Creswell ever said contidentially to the
Pebeian of the Nidldnd formal that if the
people did not insist on appointing poor men
like himsal Mr. Ewing tn oh ,+n of
trust and profit, this glorious democracy
would swiftly be transformed into a Plu-
tocracy. Now the "Pleb," of the Midland
solemnly propouuds this awful question.
docs this Sixth District scribe know what
Plutocracy means?" The scribe of the Sixth
Inundated pulverized, almost guaranteed
by the astounding knowledge displayed in
the definition which follows, is obliged to
hang his head, pick his ears with his toe
nails, and declare if he had remained unen-
lightened, he would doubtless have gone on
to his dying day thanking it was a patent
clothes line.
1t is very cruel in the Editor of high
class Literary journal to taunt poor inno-
cent scribe with poverty and ignorance. We
are ! ersonally unacquanted with this Edi-
tor, but we presume from his Editorials that
he is the retired Professor of German
University who voluntarily left the father
land, and sought refuge in the old Sixth,
where he can air his sociaistic views freely
The population being mostly posed OF
Pheb's though we are all trying hard to
become Pats. Those OF us who succeed IN
becoming "PdtS' before the Plutocracy
catches us, will retire with our ill gotten
gains" either to a seat in the Cabinet,
Canada or-Brimstone Like. While this
maguanimous "PIeb," Pro feSsor, was leis-
urely gathering at the University under the
of knowledge, including the full meaning OF
Plutocracy this poor miserable ca tawampus
scribe was following the plow or gathering
stone, or snrakirg off to the village store tC
pitch qunits, or play keeps. He went halt
a quarter to an insignificant Public School
and there he read in MtGuffeys third 'be
truthful, be honest, be industrious and you
will finally be elected President, no matter
how rich you may become. And now this
learned and philosophical Editor with one
sweep of his mighty pen has knocked all
this old time doctrine into smithereens and
left your scribe a shipwrecked mariner on
Il sea of conjecture.