Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1894-04-07
ARE WE sEAnlNo THE END9

La the nation entering uppn 10 W.
radenees Has plutocracy so weakened
the moral fibre OF the people that
more are honest, none pure, none pa
t.iotic, none unselfishf Is this eternal
greed for gold hurryiug US ON the
rocks, whore perished imperial Romef
asks the Provo Dispatch. II certainly
seems 90. Once the best brain Of fhe
nation was devoted to the public ser
vice, now IL is engaged in the work OF
piling up millions upon millions,
while second and even third rate men
are playing at mock craftsmanship.
and calling IL governing the nation.
The time was once when a little en-
piricism could do but little injury.
In the days Of Martin Van Buren,,
John Tyler and even Willard Fillmore
second rate man could manage
pretty we'll. We we're in those days
but small nation, and o weak or
trifiing national policy would do, or
could do but . meagre injury. II Is
different now. We have fully sixty
five millions Of people, a vast com.
merce, wonderfully important manu-
featuring business. We have railroads
spanning the continent and penetrat-
ing to every nook and corner, TO every
city, town and village in the land.
We have ships crossing the world Of
water daily in every direction and TO
every point, where there Is hope OF
profit in commerce. The head OF
such q government Is no place for
mere common-plaeeman. He must
be big one; not that only, but he
must be good and an honest man.
II is no place for shyster. a trickster
charlatan or a rogue. The president
must be above prejudice and as nearly
impartial as mortal man m ny be.
All this is true Of the head of the
government, and shou Id also be q con
gressmen and senators. The cid sena-
tors Of the past. such as Clay, Webster
and Calhoun were above the mere
tnckery OF craftsmanship. They were
not the fswning senators OF the cor
porations and the trusts. They were
patriotic statesmen and sages. The
country had full confidence in them.
In those days armies Of hungry men
were not vagabondizing over the coun-
try. The people were not starving
with the land full OF overlooking grain
aries. With money piled mountains
high In our banks and national treas.
uries there we're no panics. Plenty
meant good times, not famine, panici
and hushed and silent mills for specu
lative purposes. There is something
wrong and that wrong must be sough,
for and corrected.
Our senators are nearly all million
aires, our congressman nearly all hair.
splitting lawyers, with only here and
there head showing above the mass
Of mediocrity scrambling for few Of
the ioaves and fishes while the natior
Is fast going TO the dogs. While th'
Carnegies rob the government an
jeopardize the nation as well as Oh
men Of our navy by palming of on sh
government defective armor plates, tn
trust and wicked combinations ar,
jeopardising the peace OF the land b,
erecting conditions which must newt
ably result in riots, bloodshed and re
bellion. Those industrial armies no,
marching on Washington may b
laughed At to-day. but the time j
surely coming when they will get Their
and an overturned government ana
anarchy and confusion prevail, instead
Of security, peace and conten.ment.
We need a vast deal OF statesman
ship. and need il badly. We nee'
business men and not dreamers in tin
senate and 10 the congress, and j
every department Of the governmep
or else we will soon be called upon |
speak OF what the rich. prosperous an
peaceful late republic OF the Unite'
States was.
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