The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-22
No Remedy for Wrongs.


eminent, and build on new fOunda-
ton, with an enthusiasm. Whether
by rebellion a colony is torn from the
mother country, or colony is plant
ed in new regions under a new sys-
TEN, that company of people organ
ize new civil relations under the guild
ance and pressure of enthusiasm.
The American Republic was formed
with an enthusiasm which carried a
disorganized collection of thirteen
colonies through a bitter war of seven
years duration. So long as that en-
thusiasm, which is really the COM
position OF patriotism, upheld the in
situations of the new system the Re-
public was safe. When that enthu-
siasm dies down to a level in which
selfishness rises above patriotism,
the Republic is on the swift road to
destruction.
Education, it has been supposed,
would lead the citizens in a young
democracy to a new perception of
dangers, and to new remedies to
avoid them.
But unfortunately education does
not produce the profound love of
right, or love OF the perpetuation OF
''good," which comes with the enthu-
siasm of a youthful venture in ma
BODYBUILDING. On the other hand,
education, with all it's desirabilities,
and with all it's granduer and it's
broad public development, carries
with it the most supreme danger to
the present form OF government-a
in this way:
Without the moral basis of puri-
tanism, under the most brilliant de-
velOpment of an educational sys-
TEN, we SEE wrong, and consent to it
by a species of stoicism or indiffer-
ence.
You tread upon the rights Or pre-
negatives of asavage-andh he instant
ly avenges himself. If he cannot
reach the individual he assaults So
ciety. But in our brighter day, we
don't do SO. Our blood does not stir
to wrong Or outrage. We are educa-
ted to selfishness. become insensi-
BILE even in youth. We''fear" more
and, in truth, we have less of both
chivalry and honor!
No man is SO Obtuse as not to see
that corruption is undermining our
government. No man lives in the
United States but FEARS the future!
Why, this very week, a STATESMAN"
of profound political information,
and national character, has defended
the use OF money in politics to pur-
chase influence and, with influence,
votes! Every one knows and sees
that we are falling with tremendous
rapidity into the yawning chasm
which has swallowed every attempt
at selfgovernment.
And, doubtless, the results will be
either a monarchy, number of dis
membered republics-or a new social
system prepared by the socialists.
And the doctrines of the latter, as H.
Illustrated in Bellamy's wonderful
book Choking backward") are in
teresting the very highest and Hottest
intellects of the age. .
The keynote of our danger is the
GOODNESS of the people under wrongs
and Outrages. There seems to be
no immediate remedy for wrongs
which every one sees! 1t is the ''see-
ing''-without effort to remedy,
which is the danger!
Every one sees that vast capital is
taking the reins of government-but
we are all quietly sowing and reaping.
We see the markets controlled by an
aggregation of gamblers, but the
producers do not rise in wrath and
build up their own defense in oppos-
ing aggregation! We see the Senate
becoming ''millionaires' nest''-but
we do not send workingmen to the
House to counteract-nor do we
elect men to curb the ambition of the
Senate.
The age of Patrick Henry, Hamil-
ton, Webster, Clay, Seward and
Charles Sumner has been obscured
by the ''plumed knight of Mulligan
letters, the Standard Oil Company
"BlOcks of Five" Dudley, ''StOlen-
Subscription-list'-C larkson-the Kel-
lys and norans-the Quays and
the Brices.
The lofty ideals of party purity
have gone to the shades-while we
now have the skillful combine, as
with the saloon and railroad; the
private treasury-as cabinet minis
tries secured only by generous cam
paign contributions and by the die
tatiOn of plutOcratS. as seen in the