Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-13

| for supremacy. Parties sare the armies. The
decalogue and the golden rule have no place in
a political campaign. The object is success. To
defeat the antagonist and expel the party in
power is the purpose. The Republicans and
Democrats are as irreconcilably opposed to
each other as were Grant and Lee in the Will
derness. They use ballots instead of guns, but
the struggle is unrelenting and desperate
one, and the result sought for the same. In war
it is lawful to deceive the adversary, to hire
Ressians, to purchase mercenaries. to mutilate
to kill to destroy. The commander who lost a
battle through the activity of his moral nature
would be the derision and jest Of history. This
modern cant about the corruption of politics is
fatiguing in the extreme
DEvoUT AGE.
OF the religion which is above churches
and creeds the Senator says:
The age is essentially devout and religious.
The mind has been largely emancipated from
superstition and from creeds and has entered
upon an excursion that cannot be foretold but
that is certain to be momentous. The author
ity of the church has undoubtedly been greatly
weakened and impaired, but this does not i'm
ply that religion is retrograding. As the age
advances it clothes God with higher attributes
and digniies Him with more lofty functions,
because it is capable of nobler conceptions.
The gloomy and inexorable God of the Puri-
tans has disappeared. He has been succeeded
by Supreme Being of infinite mercy, tender
ness and goodness; n ruler, law-maker,
legislator, subject to limitations and restraints
profound truth in the declaration of Voltaire
that if there were no God it would be neces-
sary for man to invent one. This is flip
God is indispensabie. Man perceives this.
and the higher his development the more
distinct is his perception. The popularity of
Ingersoll and his school is not an indication of
infdelty. but is rather the strongest evidence
of the religious spirit of the time Its receptivity,
its eagerness for instruction, it's hunger and
thirst for knowledge about what can never be
known. No age has ever been SO profoundly
moved by the consideration of the problems of
the hereafter as this, and have no doubt that
in response to the search for eternal truth an
other Christ will come and another revelation
be made.
ALL THEY ARE WORTH.
1t is often remarked that Congressman are
very poorly paid. Senator Ingalls, is of the
opinion that S., 900 year is about as much
as the average Congressman is worth. He
says:
1t is impossible for the Government to COM
pete with private employers In compensation
for special services. Legislation is not an oc-
cult science, and does not require unusual fac
ulties nor extraordinary a1tainments. The
ordinary business of Congress can be success
fully conducted by the average merchant or
lawyer. 1t affords opportunity for the exercise
of the highest powers, but good, solid common
sense and industry are the essentials. The
Government should only pay what is
necessary to secure such services as are
requisite for the performance OF its work.
Salaries should be sufficient for decent sup
port. Politics has been the favorite pursuit of
men of ambition anu energy in all ages and
will probably continue to be for all time to
come, but no one is compelled to dedicate him.
self to the public service 1t is voluntary, and
if the conditions are unsatisfactory there is no
obstacle to retirement While it would be
agreeable TO receive more, e,my impression is that
if salaries were doubled expenses would be
doubled, and the result would be about the
same. Probably majority of both Houses re-
ceive as much now as they could earn in any
other capacity for the same amount of work.
Being asked if he thought Mr.. Cleveland
would be nominated by the Democrats in
1892 the Senator answered:
OF, yes, Mr.. Cleveland will be the nominee
in 1892, even if New York should be divided or
against him. This is inevitable. 1t is written.
He will be first and the rest nowhere. Demo-
Gratis never had such an ideal exponent and
representative. HIS dull, heavy, ponderous,
wooden platitudes laborIously written out and
committed to memory, his stolid and shallow
conceit, his affectation of WISDOM, purity and
patriotism, and what he calls his solemn sense
Of duty" impress the average Democrat with
feeling of reverence like that which "Chinese
laundryman feels for his joss"