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Show WHICH SHOULD TKACII THE OTIIKK? A long raugo view of tho Argentine revolution has a depressing inllucncu on one who had hoped for bettor things in tho hide and tallow republic, Tho Argentine peoplo are earnest, but not ethical. Whon an administration becomes be-comes irksome down there; the citizens riso and shoot a number of holes into It aud then it is not of much use, save for fertilizing purposes. That is- tho manuor iu which statmcu are succeeded suc-ceeded by others in that republic, and when, by aud by, tho others got to be too Napoleonic us regards their own linances, it merely remains for the people to go. gunning for them and de-clure de-clure a new election, ballots being cast through the medium of double barreled bar-reled shot-guns. This may bo a good thing it is quite probable, indued, that it is a very good thing. Hut it is bloody and vulgar. Tho Argoutino voters ought to como up to this republic awhilu and note how politicians are 'suffered to retain their seals and continue to rob tho country because they have a sufficient degree f boodlo influence to tell the voters to go to Texas or elsewhere. else-where. They should see how patient we aro under tho monstrous wrongs of misrepresentation, of primaries of heelers and conventions of hircliucr jobbers for future places. They should look upon our supreme indifference to tho fact that nominations aro bartered aud sold aud elections do not mean the voice of the people, which is reputed in some quartets to be' tho voice of God, but rather become tho voice of corruption, corrup-tion, which Satan would not call his own because it isjso awful, so abhorrent that should he employ it it would frighten away his best devils. These hot-headed revolutionists should see our passivo acceptance of a tax which means an outlay of all to insure an income in-come to a fow. Yes, they should gaze upon us as wo face the whole stinking mass of the political body, rotten and ulcerated as it is, as we murmur that we love the leper for tho memory of his beauty as a child. Thoso earnest people, fighting for what they doom their rights, should come to us and learn. Or, is it possible that we should go to them? |