Douglas Island news., 1900-11-14

Island cannibaI lepers could not lower
 by the thousandth of hairs breadth
 the moral, social or political tone,of
 such caravausary. It has struck bot,
 tom, and can never go lower.
 Contemplate old Morgan, of Alabama the standing lobbyist, for years, in
 the degraded senate, of the Nicaragua
 canal thieves and bunco-steerers, the Cuban nigger Yanditti, and the Hawa, ian Leper-Annexation conspirators-
 believing balloonsful of paid-for wind, and posing as starspangled patriot,
 phiIanthropista and statesman-all three
 shows under one leaky tent. One of the worst of all the innumerabIe griev- ous mistakes of the United States gov ernment was not hanging all such an tique fossil frauds and wind tanners of tho slavo,traders' confederacy, at the 1 close of the fratricidal war their blova- tions brought on.
 Consider dirty-mouthed Bill Mason, of Suckerdom, as another sample of senatorial statesmanship. He is hardly fit for the tambourine end-man of fourth rate nigger minstrel show; but stinking and shining, and shining and stinking, like a putrid mackerel in the moonlight, be fitly represents the Chi cago river in such senate, and is a typical Skunk Creek" equalization of our whole political system.
 Shovel more moral ipecac into the stomach of your eyes by glancing at a national house of misrepresentatives, of demireps, damned with dime muse um freaks at bargain-counter rates three for nickel, and high at that. Tariff f-crank Dingleys, clamorously shamming belief in their own stupid . lie, 'The heavier the taxes, the happier the taxees;" little Tadpole Quiggs, frantically striving to blow themselves up, with their own fzzle gas, into prize asses of statecraft; cheap buffoon AL | lens, Delivers, and Champ Clarks, with | their stale sarsaparilla-almanac jokes; SockIess ferries and Sombreroed Bail ! eys, as uncOuth and ignorant and ever ready to paw up the dirt, as the long i horned steers that roam their cactus deserts; and a hundred other varieties of the queer and outlandish things one | sometimes sees when he has no gun with him-including Amos Cummings, of New York, who voluntarily left then really respectable editorship to lose himself in this vile herd of misft nonentities and quizzicalities
 They illustrate, with few exceptions, the missing link theory of the survival of the unfttest. They are generally ! elected on "the American plan" of chosing for congress the fellow that can best be spared from the district or the state. If he cannot be sent to the Iu- natic asylum, the poor house or the penitentiary, heis branded statesman" and shipped on to Washington. They are first, last and all the time, for Self . and Pelf. They all spell Paytriotism with ''y." There is not one great Dame or great man among them. Not | one of them ever originated ameasure, uttered sentiment or conceived thought worthy of remembrance till cocktail time next morning. Not one of them ever had an idea bigger than his contemptible district or state, sec ton or party. Not one of them ever felt the thrill of an ambition or aspira- tion beyond or above blowing off ill., smelling hatulence, peddling cross roads post offices, and scattering dead beat garden seeds, enough to secure his reelection to the place he disgraces- or would disgrace in any civilized coun- try. Individually and collectively they have become hissing and bye-word, a Ioathing and disgust. To look upon them in their ignorance and folly, their vanity and venality and obstreperous general cussedness, is to shake the firmest patriots faith in the perpetuity of the republic.
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