The herald., 1894-04-08
MANS COLUMN.
coNpucrEp BIZ coo ANp MAaoa.

CONDUCTED BY COG AND MAGoG.
"The troable is there are too many
people in the world. Some will have to
be killed off to make room for the rest. D
Tnese oracular sentences were uttered
with judicial impressivsness by .
broad-backsd, bay-windowed individ-
ual presumed BY passerby to be q
visitor of "the City OF the Angels"
There was apparently no audience COM
mensurate with the weight OF the ut
terances or the majesty of their delivery.
PITY. Pity, too, that so delightful q So
luton OF the present complications
could not Immediately be waited 20 the
ears of every living soul. We wondered
as we passed by without speaking
whether that ohandsome, brad backed,
apacious-stomached person would be
among the first to enlist to be moved
down by our gatling guns to make room
for the rest-or the last. There was
just q haunting fear in the midst Of
cogitations that just such well-fed indi-
viduals would be more ready to do the
moving. when the moving time came
if it did-than to be among the slain
But, after all, the idea that a war is
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ranks of humanity is a familiar one,
though it was to be hoped an exploded
one in thees dsys of immense agricultural
resources, swift production and easy dis
tribulion. Ons has only to skim an oc-
casional newspaper to learn that in civil
lied lands plenty OF clothes are awaiting
wearers plenty of food spelling for eat
ers; plenty OF deserted farms in the east
and unoccupled land in the west want
ing tillage; lots OF money locked up in
ths east for some purpose; lots of bullion
in vaults CT tho government, heaven only
knows why; plenty OF ore OF good quail
ity, accessible to the pick OF the miner.
God has most assuredly stored this little
planet with everything needlul TO the
generous growth OF man, and man him
self has pretty we'll conquered the diff
crties necessary to its abstraction.
Now when man can learn to distribute
as we'll as he can produce; when he can
rise to that plane of godlike being where
he will righteouslg administer the COM
bined fruits OF earth and toll, giving each
worker his due share and be unwilling
himself to receive more than he earns,
then will wars cease and human life be-
come sacred. Then will love dictate our
laws instead of greed. and God be en-
throned in place of Mammon.
The deadlock in our present congress-,
by the apparently agreed mbine of
the natural enemies of the people, the
monopolists, has set us to thinking
about the duty of the American to break
these heavy irons by which he lie en-.
shaved to bossism, the legitimate off
spring of party rule. Narrowness and
local benefits only can come u o in places
where the lines are drawn by party men
instead OF public interest. Measures,
not men, principles, not parties, must
govern a nation OF freemen. The party
man is a one-idea man, and rarely rises
above the home interests OF ward poll
ticians and party machinery. Our ma
tion is too big to be always run by few
Issues, and the cost of continual party
strife to support an oligarchy ie more
expensive than to maintain one-ruler
monarchy, where party lines are less
marked and the people have more
chance to secure their indiviauAl riEhts-
We deceive ourselves by thinking we
are free people. Corruption in the
last few years in the elections, even in
this City OF the Angela, shows that II 10
not free people that carry elections,
but corrupt men using free money. To
prevent this curse to republican
institutions, whose interests are ever
varying and whose populations ara equal
ly changing. we surely can invent some
modern wheel by which votes can be
thrown off and counts made indepen-
dent of personal, party influence. Last
years. Gravesend disgraceful and Gis-
honest balloting is warning to ali true
Americans and q menace to our liberties.
Bribery was early condemned in our
country and the stigma of traitor placed
on the character of any man or set OF
men guilty OF so heinous crime. Now
this modern party machine carries its
nickel in the slot into every ward where
men instead of measures are paraded
before the masses, as the common lead
ers OF national salvation and political
purity. Ii there ever existed time or
need for party mechanics in our govern
ment, that legitimate age is gone. That
party spirit is necessary to iniuse
healthy blood every four years in young
American patriots is like incubation OF
voters with smallpox TO preserve this
country from the Asiatic plague. Wash
ington's warning in his last address to
the American people is significant:
81 have already intmeted to you the
danger of parties in the state with parti-
cular reference to founding of them on
geographical determinations. Let us
now take a more comprehensive view
and warn you in the mo't eolemn mau-
mar against the bansful effects Of the
spirit OF party generally"
We ware not hampared by party issues
until after JsffsrEon's secton, and had
ell presideuts mined the appointing
power to the restrictions OF Jefferson,
the clamor for Office would not b5 such
q stench in the common citizens nose.
"The spoils of Office" has so despoled
the virtue of the American statesman
that our congressional halls are fass be-
coming the temples OF the money mong-
ers. Civil war settled 10 the minds OF
some at least the question of states
rights, but left the still unsettled and
unquestioned rights OF party. This
army OF parasites-the Office seekers
several hundred thousand strong, are
preying on the body polite and threat
ening, if not extermnated, to over
throw the republic. Rotation in office,
with to the victor belong the spoils, has
become the most desperate of tyrants
A one-ruer-king, queen or emperor
may be killed or die, but party kings do
not die. nor can they be killed; they
are immortal. To get rid OF them yon