Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-12-14
ocks on the Rialto refuse to trust.

all tariff and international revenue laws,
| impose an impartial income tax on the
rich and furnish work and provide $780,
| OOO.000 to pay all those whomay stupid
| ly desire to work.
"Fourth-Tbe government must have
all railroads under its control, and carry
freight without profit and provide parlor
cars for all passengers without extra
charge or tips to walters. The treasury
department must issue sufficient paper
money to pay all salaries, pensions and
| appropriations made by Congress for the
| support of the government.
"ttfth-The government must make its
last will and testament with the state of
Kansas as It's Tesiduary legatee, in the
presence of three witnesses.
'These crank overtures and many
more equally sane, perhaps, eclipse those
of Absalom when he sought the life of
David, his father and said: 'Oh! that |
were made judge in the land, that every
man which hath any suit or cause might
come unto me and would do him JUS
tice.'
so the people, it is written, went
out into the field against Islael, and the
battle was in the wood of Ephraim. And
Absalom met the servants of David
And AbsalOm rode upon a mule, and the
mule went under the boughs of a great
oak, and he was taken up between the
heavens and the eaI tn, and the mule that
was under him rode away
''This party needs to be reminded,
while fighting against Israel, that the
mule under Absalom rode away. And
we must not forget that this party has
not presented its measures anywhere as
bashful jests, but has paraded them as
the crOwning wisdom of modern states
manship. for which those like Gov.
Waite are ready to ride up to their bride
bits in blood"
Senator Morrill, referred to the "sple-
netic charges that great wealth has been
wrOngfully tributed-especially to SEN
ators, and has created abounding pluto
cracy" briefly expressed the declaration
that there is no entailed wealth under
our constitution, and that here the child
ren of the wealthy, trained neither to
economy nor to labor, often exchange
places in succeeding generations with
the children of the poor, schooled to in
dustry and frugality, and said that few
men of great wealth here obtain political
perferment, and those who have come to
the front have generally succeeded on
personal merits.
at is also to be feared that we are
overstocked with amateur cobblers,
eager in every emergency to bring out
from the profound recesses of their vest
pockets readymade constitutional amend
ments, adapted, when slightly fabricated,
to their own peculiar circumstances.
Some smart Americans will not be over,
looked as they have precocously dis
covered that they are not village Hamp-
dens, born to blush unseen,' and should
no longer be stopped from holding and
adorning tip-top official positions. This
obvious injustice is hard to bear by the
unappreciated when lofty positions are
so often in sight IA consul in China or
Peru perhaps died last week., and as
Lincoln once quantity observed, There
are more pegs than holes
"Our country often appears to have
been afflicted with too much prosperity,
or having an excess of what heretofore
have been regarded as the best evidences
of prosperity. The growth of the United
States in population has been phenome-
nal, but for some years the increase on
the gallop of European emigrants has
been so largely of an undesirable and in
congruOus character as to wholly coll
found its claims as blessing, and the
motley influx now adds little to our
grandeur or pride, whether figuring in
rOtund statistics or in the shame of
blOated municipalities. If we have not
shut out Cinnamon, Japan appears will
ing to make them all stay at home, and
we can now give some attention to other
hOodlums whose ways are also dark and
peculiar Two years ago some thought
we had too much of McKinleyism. More
now think we have got too much of Will
sOnism. The tariff pendulum swings to
and fro between protection and free
trade, firing out even the President in
dreaming dreams, alas, of iron and coal.
81 do not imagine that any political
party long exists without some defects,
and one of the highest duties of their
should be some effort to cure
such defects and make the party to which
they have, on the whole, the greatest af-
finity, an ideal political association.
Thus, we do not see ourselves as others
see us, and the vision of the notes in
my brothers eye is much sharpened by
the light of the party torch held in the
hand. The chief potency of third parties
is destructive of the rule of the majority,
and however eccentric the message of
third party may be, they are apt to be
tolerated by some greater party, though
in the minority, in order to conquer the
majority. Thus the smallest of three
parties may sometimes impose DEGREES
upon the country which no other party
holds itself responsible for. Nobody is
but myself for the opinion