The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-01-15
Preparing the Way.


confronted by many formidable obstacles
and if ola radical kind the opposition they
encounter is the more obstinate, unrelentiDg
and incorporating. The moss backs
which have clutched power hold on to il
with death grip and seldom yield till
time puts them under the sod. New parties
are the demands Of necessity and not the
work of malcontenls. Office seekers and
cranks, although these abnormal spirits are
found in every party, every church and
every large association. The generation a
reform starts in which is great enough to
effect society aud shape the course of en-
pire, must paes away before the fields sown
by the pioneers are harvested. The old
stumbling blocks of prejudice, ignorance,
bigotry and self idolatry, that block the
wheels of progress must all be removed by
the flight Of lime before the younger genera
tion with a truer education, and untram-
melsd by false theories, lame practices and
defective reasoning, can finish the work
began By she clearer brains and more
unsel6sh natures among their ancestors
The radical reforms in government which
are now being agi,aied will not be secured
IN few years, as many sanguine people
hope and expect. There will be advance
and retreat, trials and failures, renewed
efforts and disappointments. Faint hearts
win fall by the way and many turn back
from imaginary dangers that lie before
them, frightened by the dismal prophets Of
evil omen, while the brave and true will
ever press forward whether victory or re-
pulse attends them. gathering force from
the young and hopeful, the independent of
thought and brave Of heart, The Republic
can party came up through much tribula-
lation and heart ache, through a constant
experience Of change, treading the wine
press; and had it not been for the mad
haste of the slave oligarchy which forced
matters to a crisis where retreat was impos
sible, and nothing hut 6ghs or surrender
was left to choose between, the reform it
was born out Of would have been many years
more in reaching its grand Rnal.
The unrest which is now moving like
troubled waters the entire web and wool OF
society," is infinitely greater and grander
than the questions that stirred to lis depths
the public mind 10 the fifties. The English
aristocratjc class systems which were en-
grated on the parent stock of our republic
can form OF government has in the beginning
Of tie second century commenced to yield
an abundant crop of the identical fruit that
is SO plentiful in monarchical Europe.
Through all these years II has been slowly
maturing and repening and nov in its rich
fruiiion il is far larger and 6ner than the
parent tree in the old world producers. and
is the envy of aristocracy who disport in
the gardens Of the Hesperides that bloom
and ripen perennial harYssis IN the sum
shine of royalty. To slay the dragon tina,
guards the golden fruit, to tear out the
monarchical branches from our liberty tree
and regraft it With the cions of pure repub-
lican institutions is the grand but stupendous
task this generation is beginning to address
itself to. But the old moss-backs who have
grown up under the shade Of this poison oak
till they have passed the point which slopes
to the setting sun and when they taste of any
thing new sickens and hope is left behind,
will have to sleep With their fathers ere
victory is complete. Organize. educate,
here a little and there little is the work
which the present laborers 10 the Geld are
called on TO do. This is slow, tedious aud
Encouraging TO all, and especially so to
those who cannot penetrate the future with
the minds eye. but il is the sure and only
road to success.