The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-12-15

from the people for lower rates OF duty, |
and looking around for the guilty parties
who did demand them, nnd spying among
them the faculties OF some of our great
institutions OF learning in the east, he
their pride as follows; u
would rather have my political economy
founded on the every day experience
of the puddler or the potter than the learn.
ing Of the professor; the farmer and fac
tory hand than the college faculty"
Well, he has recently heard from the TAR
mer and the factory hand the potter and the
puddler, and we Bhall with confidence { x
meet him TO put a new and better founda-
ton under his political economy; or, pers
haps, upon reconsideration he may put
the foundation on top.
One OF the m )st chilling blasts during
the long winter OF our discontent, was
this spirit of intolerance Just alluded to,
which styled those great generals and true
patriots, McCellpu and Hancock, "As-
sistant Rebels''--I think that was the
epilbet; II IL wasu't just that, II was some
thing meauer-because they we're Demo,
Gratis Tho dared to- stay Democrats, and
even aspired to high office, as candidates
of the Democratic party; the spirit which
prompted the veteran representative OF
nrote ec,ion from the we'll protected Key
stone state 20 a comparison which mioly
term atrocious. Tue best representative
of American culture and one OF the pest
shin. the author of the Cathedral, the
Tommemoration Ode and the Biglow
panprs james Russell Lowell,
had been quoted as saying that people
were beginning 10 ask "wbether II we are
taxed TOR the payment OF a bounty TO the
owner Of a silver nine we shoulu nov pe
ruually taxed 20 make a present To the
owner vt wheat Gelds, cotton fields, to-
bacco fields, which are the most produc-
tive cold mines Of the country" TO give
this apntence potency With the other side,
they we're reminded that MIR. Lowell was
accredited miuister, by their admtnistra'
ton. TO che Court Of St. james when Mr..
KalIv called cut: "Beuedict Arnold was
a General i'm the Continental Army !"
In reading over my weather notes tue
name OF Mr. Wanamaker, the dlstiu'
puished aud much advertised brooches
maker of Philadelphia, suRRests me hrst
instance in our history of the gift ot
Cabiuet officer az tho raiser OF, aun ps-
cause Of, a big campaign fund; but on any
other Qround thau this. WBnamaker,
Postmaster G neral of the United States,
is a conundrum to be everlastingly given
up. ,
at enst mighty late ia the fall. II is hons
ert Porter, tha taker OF the Nations
censusl Why, il the nation had bnd any
senses 1t woulc never have taken Porter.
Porter turned his back upon every safe
guard which should be thrown aoout ihls
Ripautic, and at tho Same time delicate
work, which requires skilled clerical labor,
stood, ns he himeelf coyly tells II, ""alst
deep in ConCrcssmen" whue hahluE uls
appnintments; and the result Ia not hard
To- foretelI--a vast expenditure ana an
infinlty OF figures in which no one has
any confidence,
Speakipg Of expenditures reminds me
of the surplus, had well nlgn torH0tteh
the surplus. Some other honest fellows
have been for getting the surpuS, 100.
How we were troubled at the size OF It! Ii
grew during ono brief summer not long
aFo; hut the aeason changed. there came
a frost, which nipped il, root, stalk, ahd
leaf, and, to use jim Ftsks oppressive
metaphor, At has gone ~here the woodS
biue twiueth.,' When our own Cnarleg
Foster, shalt have a aucceEsor, ana
that euccpssor shall start out
TO hunt up the surplus which our. Grover
had laid by for N1tiona! rainy day--the
weather has been wet nearly ever s'nce-
it eau be sadly and rhythmicalIy SAID OF
that searchsr:
Straight into tse trea5ury p5erlng,
AIlhls thought was spent In querying
v hat to do with those bright millions
Which were there four years heforei
10, be sees, with hair upsiaring,
And some words that sound like swearing.
t'o'aAN'N
In the floor,
deficit and nothing more.
P.renthetically speaking, l have been
trying to understand the financial logic
by which the TreaBurer OF the United
States in his recent report TO the Sscretary,
TRANSFORMS An actual deficit of four and
one, half millions into fictitious surplus
OF nine millions. The result of my
studies WAS similar to n friends exper~
,th m a.
~ ain iers," a humorous treatise with
which we lawyers recreate ourselves. A
chapter read yesterday, was just as new
today, and would tomorrow be as fresh
and full of mystery aa ever.
have d1hcuity to conceive or anything
more "wintry," more uupatrlohc, more
IIns American, than method OF ctm'
paiQuinI which includes the declaration
that more than ons.half OF the voters are
SO ignorant or go dcprevsd, that their
triumph in a presidential election would
be followed by the industrial or the poiitt.
cal ruin Of the county; that our frame OF
government is such q castle OF card board
III at only one party can be trusted to man
and defend il; that in this populous
land nobody has wit enough te devise and
integrity enough to carry luto erect laws
regulating commerce and finance, except
a score or 30 of manufacturers, anu baif
score of allied Congressmen under the
TdlnlnR OF InNu "hosO D.SASS ~ " 90 ''i'@N
the House of Representatives was not
deIiberatiye body.
What a miserably dwarfed and narrow
doctrine all this is, IL honestly held, aud
what an unfair and wicked doctrine II IL
il preached by those who have lntelli-
0er1ce enough not TO believe IL. Good and
evil are blended in everything OF mans
doiurs, politics included; aud while each
regards his own party as the best, we
must not forget that our government is
government by party, and Mat the exists
ence of two great parties IS as essential,
perhaps, as the existence OF the three CO.
ordinate branches; that what is called in
physics a state OF unstable equilibrium ie
perbaps most likely 10 secure faithful
perform ance of governmental duty; that
true patriotism is contagious, hence the
weight of responsibility resting on those
who head either majority or a minority.
But this ia rather preaching than toast
makiug, and makes me think of Scrip
ture text which / have often studied.
There was something OF weakness, some
trail of the serpent in the character OF
the elder SON as we'll as in that OF bis
prodiQaI brother. Theyouuger was social
gentlemen, fonder doubtless of spending
money than OF earning 1t; but when the
time cana for the elder TO rel Dice and
make merry because his brother who was
lost had been found, he bjected 10 the
whole proceeding; especially to the IN
due consum ption of veal; although as a
good S, S. superindent once put IL: "
have no doubt that the anxious and low
ing and hopeful old father had kept that
calf and fatteDed IL for years and years
for this very OCCASION"
II there was truth In my statement tnat
ours ia a government by party, and logic
l.. s,,Na a mlnnFltV