The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-05-09
TYRANTs IN OFFICE.
Men in Subordinate Positions Worse
Than Their Chiefs.
Visitors to Washington Who Want to
BE Treated Well Should Seek
High officials Rather Than
Understrappers.
Especial Washington letter.

TOR killing man Charlotte Cor
day became not only notorious,
but famous. The world has not
considered her deed as murder, be-
cause the victim of her dagger was
a tyrant, most brutal fomenter of
discord and promoter of assassina-
ton. She had suffered the loss of
one whom she held most dear, had
witnessed oppression during the
years of her young life, saw her peo-
pie driven to desperation, and finally
took upon herself the work of rid
ding the world of Marat. Condemned
by the court and executed, she has
been commended at the bar of public
opinion. Her name is in history
linked with the names of Wallace
and Tell, with others who have shed
the blood of man for the welfare of
their country.
In every land and every cline there
have been tyrants, because of the dis
position of the majority of men to
rule their fellow men. In these mod
ern days there are constantly in
creasing classes of tyrants, for they
now pervade the business world, the
world of letters and the domestic
fresides; and they are just as tyran-
meal as ever were tyrants sitting
upon thrones and welding scepters.
In the business world the kings of
finance are growing constantly more
domineering and tyrannical. Fully
generation ago Senator Sprague, of
Rhode Island, said upon the floor of
the senate: "There is but one thing
more heartless and tyrannical than
million dollars; and that is, two or
more millions in the hands of one
man." The sentiment thus expressed
condenses the causes of all of the
strikes and other manifestations of
warfare between capital and labor.
In 1880 James A. Garfield, of Ohio,
was member of the house of repre-
sentatives, and was nominated for
the presidency. After that nominal
ton he went to New York and i'm
plored Roscoe Conkling to assist him
in securing his election. Conkling
complied. 1t was he and he alone
who brought Gen. Grant into the
campaign on the side of Garfield.
Immediately after Garfeld's inaugu-
ration, the human instinct became
dominant and he began to dominate
affairs for the purpose of clinching
his hold on power for second term,
and he prosecuted Conkling into pri-
vate life.
Grover Cleveland kotowed to Tam
many hall in 1884 and begged the
support CT that powerful organiza-
ton. But, Immediately after his in
auguration, he proceeded to break
the heart of John Kelly, Tammany's
leader, and to otherwise manifest the
symptoms of that tyrannical DISPOSE
ton which ultimately led him to
speak CONTEMPORARY of the con-
gress by saying that he had that
body ''on his hands," as though the
peoples Representatives were in
ferior beings.
Benjamin Harrison prayed for nom
| ination and election in 1883, but no
sooner was he inaugurated than he
put forth his dicta to the statesmen
of all of the sovereign states. These
eminent gentlemen are mentioned in
this connection merely for the pur-
pose of illustrating the thesis stated
They were all good men, coming
from the plain people of the repub
lie, but the taste of power brought
forth manifestations of the natura
instinct of tyranny, although none