People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1893 — “Look Upon These Two Pictures.” [ARTICLE]

“Look Upon These Two Pictures.”

N OHcpnloypitst, So said tfe@ melancholy Hamlet to his sinful m 9 th er, Then he drew a dreadful contrast between her former Hamlet’s father, pad the mur-

derer she afterward married. After this fashion let us contrast two great rulers. There's Gladstone. The people of the British kingdom elected him to give home rule to Ireland. He set to work manfully to do the bidding of his people. After great thought and labor he prepared his great bill, one of the greatest ever formed, and only as late as Saturday had fought it through the second reading of the house of commons. He has not wasted a moment in peddling out offices or listening to begging officeseekers. It was not necessary. Civil service reform rules there in its purity, and only sixty-five persons changed places in the whole kingdom as the result of the hardest fought campaign on the biggest principle that ever confronted any people. Now, having gazed on this picture, pray cast your eye on this: The whole United States was torn up last year to elect Cleveland to bring about tariff reform. Did he do it? He hasn’t said tariff reform since he was elected. He has devoted nine-tenths of his time listening to cheeky office-seekers of the pot-house variety. Spoils, spoils; spoils has been the cry by day and night, and all the “great statesmen” have racked their massive brains in schemes to oust clerks, postmasters, collectors, consuls,

gaugers and spittoon cleaners. What little time was not devoted to the headsman business and the mad rush for spoils, had been consumed in devising some plan to help the Wall street pirates to still farther eucher the people by robbing them of their currency. There has been no pretense of reform of any kind, or of keeping a single promise made to the people. The difference is: Gladstone tells his followers what he will do and does it to the letter. Cleveland sucks himself full of east w T ind and blows it off in platitudinous promises to reform everything in creation. And then—he reforms nothing, not even himself. Yet we claim to be the best governed people on the face of the earth.