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Show POLITICS. j IViitics is :i thorny question. ,-: question that I generally pricks those who touch it. However we arc not going- to take sides, to praise or blame (he polities of this or that party. Lut will content our- , selves with laying; down a few broad principles, ; which if they are absent, polities become Alachia- velism. and politicians. Charlatans. It seeius to us j ; that there was never more need than at the present j lime 1t keep In mind those principles since every ' Tom, Dick and Harry buzz around the sphere of politics like a bee wishing to meddle therewith. 31 any no doubt will be surprised when we say that ; the fundamental principles of all pure sound politics pol-itics is religion. What the soul is to the body, religion re-ligion is to politics, and politics, without morality, are the curse, the ruin of society at the present ; day. The body politic, bereft of the preserving salt of religion, is a veritable rotten carcase, infecting and contaminating the power, ihc vigor of a nation. What, is thr aim or rather what should be the aim of all pure, sound polities? is it not the anieliora-t anieliora-t lion of the people, the dispensing out of justice be- iween man and man. the passing of laws that will ; ; encourage merit and labor, and develop the moral sense ot the nation, upholding peace and safeguard- -I i i"g the religious liberty of everyone, and above all is it. not the proper education of the young, the v lr;.fhing them the duties and responsibilities of ; life! These should be the aim of pure sound poli- j lies and these duties cannot be satisfactorily per- ! formed unless there is some religious belief in the .. ! minds of those who are the head of the body politic. ! , : o it ics to be sound and fruit producing must be ri based upon Christian religion, upon the precepts i of the gospel. Teke away all the principles of re ligion, all Christianity, and you will have another ; i reign of terror, you will have the direct forms of corruption, and Aethism, materialism, communism and every other ism except the right ism will be : rampant. Again pure politics makes for the gobd ,; til italic, not for lh gvod of a party. It f f-'ks for ill betterment of till classes irrespective of creed, not for the advancement of a particular ; party or sect. One of the greatest evils that can t befall a nation i; undoubtedly party politics. Those f party politicians will run their nominee for a par- I tieular office, and will slop at no corruption, no bribery lo get him there, so that, when he gets therr I he may pander to their sordid interests. This nom- t i"oe run by a party will seek election and while seeking it will deceive the common voters by spaci- I ous promises. Yes. he will tell them if he gets to I power he will make this earth a very heaven for I them, aye even that he can and will parcel out the moon into small holding for them. Ah! Mr. Pro-i Pro-i - bity. thou scagreen incorruptable, we know your lit tle game. Once you get into office, that clique, that . ring of yours will have all ihats going. What mat- . . : ters it to you. what kind of morals those creatures of yours have. You dole out the money bags that a arc given you for the proper administration of jus tice to those to whom the very name of justice is nothing more than an empty sound. That ring of yours, iny dear Probity, is a truly vicious circle uhosc circumference is your rotten officials and j whose center is your still rottener self. You never read. 31 r. Probity, those lines taken from Helavig- I V ni's comedy, "La Popularite .'' !Xo, well, reaJ tlicm I now and behold yourself and your clique: i To what a pass has corruption come. All my 1 actions are pure, and my life is known. Two men i 1 ' isited me this morning, one to sell himself, the other to buy me. You desire, you say, to establish republican laws. And on what! On morals j1 Where are your Koman moral i This man who decries 'an If abuse grows fat on an abu-c still greater. Vote turned to base ues are to be bought at current prices. Infamy, with the aid of gold transforms I itself into glory. lie who builds thereon builds on I . ., ' i nure. I Honest voters, be guiled by no mjcIi man. Set up as your representative "ohm' Hash? Uagouk '! ' rather than fcucb a political hypocrisr-, for the Bashi ! 7 ! Bazouk may plunder you and rob you, but he will i have the manhood to say, 4-l am committing rob-; rob-; bery," but the political Pharisee will carry on his nefarious trade, of lying, jobbery, bribery, favoritism favorit-ism and the rest and dare call it justice. But wait I av.hile. the best has to come yet. Let that political j pharisee be found out and brought to book for his ! sordid crimes and his excuse will be. '"'Oh! every-i every-i body else in my position is doing the same as I do. ! They have made their pile by corrupting the very j fountains of justice, why not I, custom sanctions i it." 3Iy dear Probity, as far as -we know, and I am j sure you will give us credit for knowing this much i :!t, all events, "custom will never make a wrong I right, will never make injustice justice, will never i change the eternal law of God. The name Republi-j Republi-j can or Democrat matters little. An honest Bepub-j Bepub-j liean or Democrat's aim is the good of the nation. J but what is of vital interest i, every voter should J u?e his discernment and put in positions of trust ! the man, be he Republican or Democrat, Catholic ! or Protestant, who will most advantage the public j good, the man who in all his acts will be clean and above board, the man who will be a slave to no j party, but who will do right for right's sake, in one word the honest man '"'A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod. An honest man's the noblest work of God.' Yes. an honest politician, ye voters, when you get him, hug him to your hearts with chains of steel, set him up. he will be an ornament to you, for his motto will be, "Let justice be done though the heavens fall." "Worth makes the man, and want ofj,it the fellow. The rest is all but leather and prunella' |