Year: 1876

heres to its bullion infatution, notWlth-
standing silver is worth less than green
backs. Poor old McGregor. Like Sam
son, he is lending himself to be used by
his enemies, and yet he fondly fiatters
himself that he is adhering to Democratic
doctrines because forty years ago the
Democratic cry was "hard money" He
cannot realize through his Bourbon spec
tacles, that the fight then as now, was
made by the Democrats against bank
money. In the meantime his articles af-
ford good subjects forRepubliCan editori-
ais, which fact the Republican press
avails itself Of There is no more touch
ing sight in the world than an old man
who persists in dwelling on the dead
past, while the living present is passing
him by, leaving him solitary and alone,
communing with the vagaries of his own
imagination, and calling up to himself
remembrances Of the past, when he was
a power recognized and felt.-SteubenmIte
Gazette.


TRUTH neuer grow8 old, God be thanked,
if men do. The great truths Of Christi
anity are as fresh and bright to-day as
1900 years ago. And we see "a man as
wise in his own conceit" now as in Solo
mons time, and perhaps even now there
is as much or more "hOpe of a fool than
of him.


We do acknowledge that wisdom is
the gray hairs to man, and an unspot-
ted life old is age" AS to cold McGreg-
or" he is now two years younger than
Jefferson was in 1901, when he became
President of the United States; and four
or five years younger than Andrew jack
son was in 1929, when he became Presi-
dent, and began his great work of reform
in getting the government back to the
requirements of the Constitution. He
recognized the principle that our Consti-
tuition gives Congress no power to make
money plenty or scarce, only power ito
coin money and regulate the value there
Of" The same Constitution still exists
without change in these respects; and
we are glad to see that the Democracy of
the country, as evidenced in Connecticut,
New York, Pennsylvania and elsewhere
propose again to restore Constitutional
rule. This only is the safe road to JUS
tice and economy.


The daily Developments before the
Investigating Committees at Washington
show frightful condition of things
Corruption, bribery, fraud, and thievery
seem to have been the rule for years.
These are the inevitable outgrowth of the
financial system of extravaganza and un-
certainty inaugurated and continued by
the Republican party leaders. God for
bid the same system should be adopted
and continued by the Democracy when
they get in power. In the language of
the Preamble of the Constitution, we
propose "to form more perfect Union,
ests blish Justice, insure domestic tran
guilty, provide for the common defence,
promote the general welfare, and secure
the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
our posterity." In short, the mission ofthe
Democracy is to restore good and eco
nomic government in accordance with
the Constitution. This may be old and
stale to our friend of the Gazette, but it is
true.


1t no doubt seems little singular to
him who presides with such JUNCTION over
the Gazette, and from that tripod, Jupiter
like, sheds such efulgence, that "old Nc.
Gregor" does not acknowledge the new
political Mahomet of Steubenville. True,
the old fellow may he too much of a
Bourbon" to recognize as yet this new
Mecca and its true prophet, His kindly
sympathy is manifest In clubbing us,
"poor old MCGregor," and in speaking
Of "the touching sight of an old man look
ing through Bourbon spectacles, and
dwelling on the dead past" There are
thousands of business and laboring men
in the land who realize this suffering
Giving present" and think seriously of
violated Constitution in the past t,and the
sad consequences of mal-administration
Our genius friends patent cure was tried
in France by Robespierre, Marat and
company, and has never been tried there
since. The same thing was tried during
the American Revolution, and it was in
the light of that experience that the wise
men of that period framed the Constitu-
ton as they did. The folly is not origin
al with him of the Steubenville Gazette.
The learned Doctor Tuyvelsdreck held
there was but one incurable disease, and
that was stupidity. The foundation of
the malady is lofty conceit, for


Pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on Alps.