SUBSCRIPTION BATES : Per year, in advanco tl 50 Otherwise 2 00 No snbocription will bo discontinued until all arrearage* are paid. Postmasters neglecting to notifv ax when subscriber* do not take ont their papers * ill be lield liable for the subscription. Snl>scriberß removing from one jwttoffice to another should give us the name of the former as well as the present office. All communications intended for publication n this paper must be accompanied by the real name of the writer, not for publication, but as a guaiantee of good faith. Marriage and death notices must be accompa nied by a responsible name. Address BUTI.ER CITIZE.S, BUTLER. PA. TttAV-KL.EBS' QUIDE. BUTLER, KAKSB CITT AND PARKSR RAII.ROAH (Fntlcr Time-.) Traira leave Bailor for St. Joe, Millerstown, K' rn» City, Pctrolia, Parker, etc., at 7.i"» a. m., an J 2(0 and 7!?0 p. m. [See below for con nections with A. V R. R.) Trains arrive at Uatler from the above named points at 7.'.5 a. in., and I .S3, and 6.5.5 p. m. The 1.55 train connects with train on the West Penn ro-id through to Pittsburgh. 9HENAWOO AND ALLEGHENY RAIL.KOAP. Trains leave Uilliard's Mill, Butler county, for Harrisville, Greenville, etc., at 7.40 a. m. and 12.20 and 2.20 p. m. Stages lea 1 e Petrolia at 5 30 a. m. for 7.4 C train, and at 10.00 a. m. tor 12.20 traiu. Return stages leave Hilliard on arrival of trains at 1*>.27 a, in. and 1.50 g- m. Static leaves Mattiusburg at 9.30 for 12.30 train. PENN'iTXVANIA BAII.ROAD. Trains leave Butler (Butler or Pittsburgh Time.) Market at 5.06 a. tn., •:<** through to Alle gheny, arriving at 9.01 a. ra. This train cun- Leets at Frecport with Freeport Accommoda tion, which arrives at Allegheny at 8.20 a. m., railroad time. Exprctt at 7.21 a. m., connecting at Butler Junction, without change of cars, at 8.20 with Exp;ess west, arriving In Allegheny at 9.5S a. m., and Express east arriving at Blalrsville at 11 00 a. m. railroad time. Mail at 2.36 p. m., connecting at Butler June tioDwitbont change of cars, with Express wesl, arriving in Allegheny at 5 2ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY , OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT. Asets $7,078,224.49. Losses paid In 61 years, $51,000,000. J. T. McJUNKIN & SON, Agents, Jan3Bly Jefferson street, Butler, Pa. 1 BUTLER COUNTY ' Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor, Main and Cunningham Sts. 1 G. C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT. WM. CAMPBELL, TREASURER. H. C. IIEINEM AN, SECRETARY. DIRECTORS: J. L.Purvis, | E. A. Helmboldt, < William Campbell, !J. W. Burkhart, A. Trontman, Jacob Schoene, G. C. Roefising, j John Caldwell, ( Dr. VV. lrvin, I W. W. Dodds, J J. W. Christy i H. C. Heineinan. JAS. T- M'JUNKIN, Gen, AS't- C FA- I NOTICE TO FARMERS. » PHOSPHATE UNO FERTILIZERS | FOR SALE BY ' JAMES ENGLISH, marl 7 2ra PORTERSVILT.E. PA. I 11 K* RFOTHTIe, : FIDE MERCH&NT TIILOR,; COR. PENN AXD SIXTH BTREETS. j Pittsburgh. Pa 15. lioessiny;, [Successor to A. C. Roesaing it Bro.] 1 DEALER IN , Groceries, GRAIN, FLOUR, FEED, OIL, j —AND— Anthracite Goal. THE HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID VA •9-CASH-W FOB GRAIN OF ALL KINDS. Mp4tf VOL. XVII. BOOTS and SHOES tnviorv ISLOCK, [ Main Street, » - Butler, Pa. I I have just receiver! my entire Spring and Summer stock of BOOTS and SHOES direct front the manufacturer, and am able to sell them at OLD PRICES, and a great many lines at LOWER PRICES THAN ER. Ladies', Misses' and Children's Button, Polish and Side Lace Boots in endless variety, and at bottom prices. Reynolds Brothers' celebrated fine Shoes always in stock, and is the most complete I have ever offered. The prices are lower than ever, and styles elegant. Parties wanting BOOTS & SHOES made to order can do no better than by me, as I keep none but the best of workmen in my employ. LEATHER and FINDINGS will be found in my store in superior quality and at lowest market rates. gCgr*All goods warranted as represented. AL. RUFF, OPENING DAILY^ JVT — TIIE LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTMENT OF Boots and Shoes To be found in any House In Western Pennsylvania, em bracing ail the Newest Spring Styles in the Market. I am selling all this stock at OLD PRICES.SJ Recollect, NO ADVANCE. Several lines of Boots and Shoes at even lower prices than ever. All my customers have the benefit in buying by getting Boots and Shoes that come direct from the manufacturer to my house. No middle profits to divide up that parties are compelled to pay that buy from jobbing houses. This Stock of Boots and Shoes is Very Large in the Following Lines Ladies' Kid and Pebble Button Boots, - - - - $1.50 and upwards. " " " " Side Lace Boots, ... 1.25 " " " Grain, Pebble and Kid Button and Polish, - 1.25 " " " " Polish, 95" " " " Standard, very prime, - 1.25 " " " Serges, in Congress and Polish, .... 75 to sl. " Calf Peg Shoes, all warranted. MY STOCK EMBRACES, IN CONNECTION WITH TIIE ABOVE, A FULL LINE OF ALL THE FINER GRADES IN WOMEN'S, MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S. The Gents' Department is very complete in every line in Calf Button, Dom Pedros, Congress and English "Walking Shoes, and especially in Calf Boots, at $2 and upwards, Brogans and Plow Shoes, at $1 and upwards, Fine Buff Alexis and Congress, at $1.25 and upwards, Low Strap Shoes, in every style, at $1.25 and upwards. Boys' and Youths' Shoes in same styles as Men's, but lower in price. Infants' and Children's Shoes, in Colors and Black. Fancy Slippers and Walking Boots, All Colors. This stock is the most complete I have ever offered, the prices are than ever, and the styles are elegant. Ladies' Kid and Pebble Button New-' ports, good, $1 to $1.25. LARGE STOCK, OF LEATHEH AMD, FINDINGS Always in stock. None but the best brands of Leather kept, and prices guar anteed at lowest market rates. |3gjPGive me a call and I 'will save you money in your Boots and Shoes. A careful inspection of this stock will convince you th:it the above is correct. No other house can give you lower prices or better goods. B. C. HUSSI/TOg?. CARPETS! OIL CLOTHS! MATS! liUGS! STAIR RODS x NEW STOCK! KEW STOCK I > g g HECK & PATTERSON'S p i NEW CARPET BOOM ! <1 ' f-t UNTOW . OJPEN"! H g Qeie Q&QF South e£ OlQthicrg ticc 23 Block, Bept2o-tf Butler. I»a. X iSf>q~SXVK iSHXO r 13710 isxajavo Union Woolen Mills. I I wr,uld detc.. 75c.,51.25. BLACK SATIN. D'Lyon's, 81.50 to 53.50. SEND FOR SAMPLES. Domestic and Housekeeping Goods At greatly reduced prices. AT 81. 46-1 noli Black Cash mere. Cheap, at $1.25. SEND FOR SAMPLES. W.WWAltrliL© & C@. 19 A Federal PStreet, Jlr's Allctthcny City. l*a. A WEEK. *l2 a day at home easily made. Augusta, Maine. dec3-ly "AMERICAN POLITICS Sterling Address oi' Gen. U r »n. H. j Koontz, of Somerset, Pa., before the t/outiy men of Pan it in and Marshall College, Lan caster, Pa., on June 15, 18S0. Importance of Attending Primaries and Putting uj> Qood Men. I do not propose to speak of Ameri can politics in its more enlarged sense, that is, the administering the affairs of the government, for were I to speak of matters relating to State or National affairs, or to our foreign or domestic policy, it would l>e entering tne domain of partisan politics, of which the pro prieties of this occasion would not per mit me to speak. Every public ques tion, whether it be the question of power of the General Government or the several States, or of tariff, finance, internal improvements, or any other matter of public interest, is so involved with party politics as forbids any refer ence to them on this occasion. But I do propose to speak of some things which relate to both parties, and to which, in view of the fact that we are now engaging in another of those great struggles for the political control ofthe country, it is eminently proper to refer at this time. THE PEOPLE THE SOURCE OF ALL POWER. A government in which the people rule by means of their delegated agents, chosen by ballot, necessarily must be governed by political parties. As the people are the source of all power and as every question of public importance must be submitted to them for their de termination, it necessarily follows that they will divide upon these questions, as they may consider themselves enti tled to their support, or deserving their opposition. England, the greatest of all countries save our own, and from whence we have derived the great body of our laws, has been governed by po litical parties for centuries, and the names of the two great parties—Whig and Tory—were carried to this coun try, and the first contest for supremacy was fought under their banners. After the Revolutionary war came the con test between Federalists and anti-Fed eralists; then between Federalists and Republicans; then between Democrats and Whigs, down to the organization of parties as now known under the names of Democrats and Republicans; and the whole history of the country is but a history of the triumph and defeat of political parties. Every great measure that has been stamped upon the history of the coun try has been the result of party tri umph. The adoption of the Constitu tion ofthe United States, the granting and repeal of the charter of the United States Bank, the adoption of a system of internal jmprovements, the tariff laws, the fugitive slave law, the Mis souri compromise and it 3 subsequent repeal, the war for the preservation of the Union, and the overthrow of human slavery are all the direct results of par ty victory, and as it will inevitably be the case in the future, that the policy of the general government will be moulded and its destiny shaped by par ty, it is of the utmost importance that good men of all parties, while waving none of their rights to express their honest convictions, should lend their best efforts to improve the methods which are now resorted to by all polit ical parties. Party strife is therefore a necessary condition of our form of government, and the good of the country requires that each party be vigilant in watching every action of its antagonist, in bring ing its wrong actions to the light of day and exposing them, because, were it otherwise, the interest of the country would suffer and our form of govern ment eventually fall into decay and ruin. The good of the country requires, too, that political parties be as nearly equally divided as possible, so that neither may be able to maintain its as cendancy longer than it subserves the best interests of the country. It is im portant, however, that party should not be placed before country, for that subordinates patriotism and the highest good of the country to the merest par tisan and sectional feeling. American politics may be summed up as consisting mainly of two things : first, getting office ; second, administer ing office—and what I shall have to say will relate principally to the ques tion of getting office. A party in or der to stamp its policy upon the na tion's laws must first secure political power, and as nearly all the offices are elective—the executives of the States and the Nation ; all legislative offices, State and National; all county and mu nicipal offices—it is apparent that the all important thing is to get hold of the offices, and this leads to two inquiries: first, how are officers chosen ? second, are they properly chosen ? HOW MEN UET OFFICE. A political party, before it can com mence the struggle with its adversary, must prepare itself for the contest, by making nominations of candidates and defining its principles in such a way as to lead voters to understand what its purposes arc, so that before an election can take place, there must first be the primary meetings of the people to se lect delegates, and then conventions of delegates to present candidates and de fine the policv of the party. The voter, then, who would make his vote felt, and make it an instru ment whereby the policy of his party would be filled out, must attend the primaries, because there the delegates are selected who go into convention and make up the ticket, and unless he aids at the primaries he has no other course left than to vote the ticket thus presented, and in making which he had no choice, or vote the opposition ticket or not vote at all. Here, then, is the vital point in our system, for when nominations are made the party lines are drawn, and it is then frequently too late to remedy the wrongs that have been committed. The system of nominating candidates for the support of the people is a cum brous one, is very expensive, and at tended with many evils. It is especi ally so in the larger centres of popula tion, whore most of the dishonesty at tending them prevails. Some idea may be formed of the labor attending the uomination and presentation of eandi ' dates, from the following statement as to the mode of nominating candidates in the city of New York. Says a wri ter upon this subject: "At a general ; election in the city of New York, the selection of candidates involves seven ty-two primary elections by delegates in convention. There is a primary election by each of the three parties in each of the twenty-four Assemby dis tricts, to select delegates to twenty-four j Assembly, to five Aldcrniauic, seven j Senatorial, and to one general County Convention, making seventy-two pri mary elections, in which the whole number of votes of each party (or about 50,000) may theoretically participate; subsequently there is the choice by 72 Assembly, 15 aldermauic and 3 county conventions in each year, and 21 Sena torial conventions every second year, of the candidates of the three parties for Assemblymen, Aldermen, county officers and Senators. In addition there is the choice by each Assembly district of delegates to Congressional and State conventions, and in the Democratic party the latter involves primaries in 623 election districts for the choiee of delegates to conventions in each of the 24 Assembly districts, by which the State convention delegates are finally chosen." THE PRIMARY MEETING ITS IMPORT ANCE. The same writer says that these primaries are controlled by about one fourth ofthe voters, that is, about one fourth are on the rolls of the associa tions; and that, "for all party pur poses the excluded four-fifths or seven eighths are as completely eliminated and disfranchised in the selection of candidates as the same number of Southern negroes are said to be in the election of officers." While it is possible that this evil may prevail to a greater extent in New York than other cities, yet it is in the main true as to all the great centres of population, that a compara tively small class control the politics of the cities and by their course in many instances have made them a by word and have put a huge blot upon our institutions and brought us into disgrace before the civilized world. If, then, the point at which each citizen's vote is to be most potent is at the primary assemblages of the peo ple, and if in point of fact but a com paratively small number of people participate in these meetings in our larger cities, and these meetings are really controlled by a minority, and in many instances by the worst class of people, then we have an evil right at the door of our government, which needs to be eradicated before it be too late to save the country from irretriev able ruin. How is it to be done? I answer, by every good citizen attending the primary meetings and insisting upon the selection of proper delegates, and endeavoring to have these delegates fairly represent the will of the ma jority. I)o I need to say in the pres ence of this highly respectable and in telligent audience, that many, very many of the best citizens of both par ties are derelict in duty to their coun try in this particular ? Engrossed in their own business, unmindful of the danger that lies at the very founda tion of the government, they content themselves with the idea that political matters are unworthy of their atten tion, perhaps sneer at politics and po liticians, and delude themselves with the thought that it is only a scramble for office between contending politi cians, and therefore do not attend the elections. A FEARFUL MISTAKE. What a fearful mistake such people make ! How completely blinded they are as to their real duty in the prem ises ; they forget that the obligations and duties of the government and its citizens are reciprocal; that in turn for the protection that governmnt gives to the citizen in life, person and property, there is due from him every thing that the highest intelligence and patriotism can give for these inestima ble blessings. This is true with re gard to every form of government, but with how much more force does it ap ply in a government where sovereign power is lodged in the hands of the people, and where everything that concerns the welfare, prosperity, honor and glorv of the country depends upon the people ? Some one has said that universal suffrage must lie leavened with universal education in order to make our institutions perfect; but I submit that is not all, for if we do have general education, along with universal suffrage, and at the same time good, worthy and patriotic citi zens refuse to attend the primary meetings of the people and make their votes effective in the selection of prop er candidates for office, whose merit consists in integrity of character and fitness for the places for which they have been selected, what does it come to ? for in such a case it will not be the rule of the wise, the discreet and 1 patriotic citizens, but the reign of the selfish, base, aud sordid, who have no higher motive than self-aggrandize ment and the furtherance of their own selfish schemes. We will have gone a long way towards correcting the abuses that now exist in our system of politics when good men of all par ties will come out to the primaries and assert themselves. The town meet ing is the unit of our political system. It is the nursery wherein the great principles of civil and political liberty are cherished, but, unfortunately, it is now rapidly falling under the control of the selfish, wicked and depraved, and is becoming a hot bed of political venality and crime. THE CONVENTION ITS USES A ABUSES. Passing from the primary meeting, < the next thing in our political system is the convention, which is an assem blage of delegates, whose duty it is to < define the principles of the party and i select its candidates. The duty which i devolves upon them is in the nature of < a high public trust, and if every man 1 who undertakes the discharge of such i duty could only comprehend what is : - meant by these simple words, public trust, and act aeeoi dingly, to what an exalted plane would our whole sys teui of politics be elevated? In the i whole range of the science of the law there is no branch that exhibits the ethics of the law with more complete ness than that which relates to trusts. It requires a knowledge o( , the duty to l»e |>erformed, skill in the performance of the duty, and the strict est observance of every obligation im posed by the trust, with no advantage or gain to be derived by the trustee, to the detriment of the cestui que trust : aud in no department of the law is the judge more rigid in bis investigations than in those which relate to trusts. If, then, the law attaches such im portance to private trusts, and erects such a high standard of duty,, should not the same rules apply wheu things are to ba dealt with which affect great masses of people ? If there is an}' dif ference at all, it should be in regard to public trusts, because of the greater .interests involved, and the greater number of people affected. Yet, how is it in regard to these conventions? Instead of a body of men meeting aud deliberating and endeavoring to ascertain the greatest need of the party, they take but little time for a comparison of views, and generally, in a very summary way, carry out the plans of a few persons who have skillfully arranged the whole programme in advance. Fre quently a caucus is held by the friends of the strongest candidate for an office. This caucus, governed by a majority of its members, gives the law to the convention, and thus it is that a few men, by successfully manipulating the caucus, actually control the conven tion. Theu follows a series of usurpa tions. Delegates are prohibited from dis charging the duty devolved upon them; the gag is applied in suppres sing debate upon resolutions; the rights of the people are taken away by the convention assuming the power to appoint delegates to a National Con vention ; and then the unit rule, that most shameless piece of tyranny that was ever devised in a free government is enacted, by which the agents of the people, who ought to and shou'd have the right to express the voice of their constituents, are passed, and not only prevented from expressing the wishes of their constituents, but are forced into an expression directly opposite to that will. So that, first, the people are deprived of their right to choose their delegates; then the delegates are deprived of their right to vote as they see fit and in addition are compelled to vote against their own couvictious of right, and instead of delegates act ing as independent men, with the right to express their sentiments, un der a sense of responsibility to their constituents, they are compelled to serve as the tools of other parties, with no right to vote but only to be voted by somebody else. That is representa tive government on a grand scale! That is freedom of thought and action with a vengeance! Calculated to make the American eagle give an ex tra flap to its wings, as it floats ma jestically "over the land of the free and the home of the brave." "TIIE MACHINE.'' Next we arc confronted with another evil connected with our system of poli tics, about which you have all heard, and of which a great deal has receutly been said. It is known as the machine. In regard to this precious contrivance, neither party can make claim to any advantage over its rival, for each is the possessor of it, and each to a very great extent under its dominion and control. What, then, is the machine ? Its friends claim for it that it is simply an organization designed for the bene fit of the party and best calculated to insure its success. If it were simply this it would not be liable to cirticism, but would be a necessary and proper aid to the advancement of party inter ests, and would merit the approbation of all right thinking people. But the machine is more than this, and, I may add. infinitely worse than this; for in stead of being simply an organization for good of party, it is a combination of men who look to party success, not so much as a means of furthering aud carrying out great political principles and policies, as to secure for them selves place aud power. It is well-dis ciplined and thoroughly-organized body of men, who act together for the exclusion of others from office and their own retention of the same, and the di vision of the spoils of office among themselves. Every machine has the re quisite number of cogs, wheels, pulleys and all the necessary parts and parcels, and any more would be out of place and interfere with its working order ; and hence it is that the men, big and little, who make up all the parts and parcels of the machine are opposed to any further accession to it, for any ad dition to it would interfere with them selves. "STAND FROM UNDER." It watchword being success, not only of the party, but of the machine, everybody who stands in its way is slaughtered as remorselessly as a Modoc Indian would slay his captive. It is the American car of Juggernaut, under which all the young manhood of the country is crushed, because to obey its behests and follow its courses is to sink all independence of thought and action. It is a conspiracy on a large scale, having for its purpose the grasp aud control of office for its mem bers, and the exclusion of others there from. To get office is a lawful object, but to get it in an unlawful manner by a wicked and unholy combination, which utterly disregards merit and qualifications in others and ad vances the interests of the confeder ates, regardless of their merits and qualifications, is a conspiracy in every sense of the term and is indictable at common law. TIIE GREATEST DANGER OF ALL. Iu my judgment the system of ma chine politics is more dangerous to the country than any other evil that now threatens it, Communism not ex cepted. Other evils are known and can be met aud averted, but the influence of machine politics is gradually under mining the manhood and independence ADVEBTISIKO ItATJKH. One square, ono insertion. tl: each subse quent insertion, SO cents. Yearly adrertieeinenta exceeding one-fourth of a column. #5 per inch. 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NO. o2 c of public men, and making them the n mere tools of selfish and designing *- leaders so that if there is any danger e of Imperialism, it is to be feared from v that quarter, because of the readiness e with which a large body of men can be - required and compelled to act as their 0 leaders may dictate, aud because they if have no will of their own, but are e compelled to follow with blind sub - mission at the command of their lead ers. b The influence of m.i has been to build up great political ; chieftains, who wield immense power, j which they use for the purpose of per s petuating their and their retaine-'s hold on office ; to build up a class of men whose only claim is to get and hold office, who exercises a pernicious 1 influence iu the politics of the countrv, s because they have no higher standard t of action than that of office, and to ac - complish their ends, the means resorted > to are arbitrary, oppressive and tyraui r cal, and not at all suited to the spirit r and genius of our free institutions. But the result of iuac! ine rule has ! proven even more disastrous in some f of our large centres of population. 1 There is scarcely an election but there i is the cry of fraud in our larger cities, ( rnauy of which have been ruled and 1 plundered by combinations of iuau, whose familiarity with machine poli i tics enabled them to carry out their wicked purposas. What a spectacle • was that which New York, the great i commercial metropolis of this couutry, presented to the world a few years ago? With all its wealth, its culture, its refinement, it was unable to govern itself, but under the baleful influence i of machine politics, it was as complete • ly under the influence of Boss Tweed as were the dominions of the worst despot that ever sat upon a throne, lie laid his hand upon the wealth of the great emporium as heavily and plundered it with less trouble and dan i ger than the Highland Chiftain. or the bold robbers of the llhiue, exacted contributions from those plun dered. A UREAT COUNTRY FOR "MACHINERY." I am at a loss to know why the American people tolerate it a3 long as they have, unless it is because of their partiality for machinery, as in this couutry almost every thing is done by machinery. In agriculture, mechanics, ' manufactures, and every branch of in dustry, we have the most perfect ma chinery as well as every thing else. But the time is coming when they will fully understand its objects and purposes, and will crush it as they would any other enemy of the coun try It takes time to eradicate great wrongs, but eventually they have to give way. The Feudal System, with all its clogs, after burdening the people for centuries, was finally swept away ; the continued acts of oppression of the American colonies were ended by the establishment of the liberties of the people of this country ; human slavery, that had such a stronghold in this couutry for two hundred years, was eventually wiped out in the fierce fires of civil war. Tweed, wheu he supposed that he was securely entrenched in power, and when confronted by his en emies with the charge of his crimes, replied—"what are you going to do about it?" The people of the great metropolis answered his interrogatory by rising in their might and hurling him into a felon's cell. And so I trust that the day is not far distant when the virtue, the intelligence and the pa triotism of the country will rise in its might and smash the machine. INDIFFERENCE TO VOTERS. Having noticed the defects in our system which relate to primary meet ings and convenlions, I come now to those connected with elections. The contest being over within party lines the opposing forces now come in con flict, and before the election is held, aside from the legitimate work of the canvass, such as holding meetings, as sessment of voters, bringing voters to the polls, we have other difficulties and troubles to encounten. Principal among these is an indifferedce among a great many voters as to the principles in volved in the canvass, and which en ables designing demagogues to delude them into the support of men and meas ures that are not calculated to advance the best interests of the country. The voter is too often beguiled by the lib eral promises of the candidate into los ing sight of the principles involved, aud hence it is that very frequently happens that men who are unfitted for any other business, who in fact may have failed iu everything else they have undertaked, who are bankrupt pe cuniarily aud every other way, some times do a thriving business as politi cians. It is remarkable indeed that total unfitness for all other thiugs is re garded by mauy people as the strongest evidence of entire fitness for political life. LOW POLITICAL'MORALITT. Another evil connected with our system of politics is, the low tone of political morality which prevails among a class of people who would scorn to do anything wrong in any oth er transaction in life. That is there are certain people, who despise every thing that is low and mean, who would scorn to do a wrong, who would not deprive their fellow man unjustly of a a single farthing, who regard their word as binding as their bond in a commercial transaction, who justly ob serve every obligation that life imposes upon them, but who somehow think that it docs not amount to much if there is a little crookedness in political matters. This is radically wrong, be cause the interest of the nation is of vastly more importance than that of the individual, and if the affairs of man with his fellow require the observance 6f the highest standard of honor, why should not those which involve the destinies of millions require the most steadfast adherence to the right. There is no rule of houor that is of binding obligation between man and man that is not of equal, if not superior, obliga tion when it comes to deal with the af fairs of a government, and our system of politics will be greatly improved, when the idea is prevalent among all [ Concluded on Second Paye.~\