Torropendence. To the Editor of the Scientific American : After repudiating the communistic nonsense which is so comes our duty to oppcse with all our powers the idea that our occasional troubles are to be remedied by exceptional legislation and by defiance of the laws of political economy ; Class legislation the parent of all jobbery political in trigue and malversation of public property is the favorite panacea for short work low wages and dull trade of all the writers and talkers who are trying to tinker this matter ; and such of us as value our independence and believe that all legislative enactment should deal with the public as a whole and on general principles will join with me in repudiating any violation of this principle the maintenance of which is vitally important to the interests of any nation whereof the working people form a considerable portion. When govern ment by public opinion is superseded by government by ' rings' the interests of the working men are the first to go to the wall. We have had all sorts of special acts of Con gress passed in the last few years ; the majority of these are ostensibly intended to raise artificially the prices of commo dities and the public are informed that only by these high prices can high wages be paid. In the meantime wages _are falling en every hand the charges for all the necessaries of life are almost without exception whit they were when gold was at 180 and the public lands of the west (the almost boundless extent of which offering new fields for industry and enterprise is the real reason why wages are high in our country) afe being jobbed away by millions of acres to rail road companies and other wielders of powerful influences well known to Congress and to State legislatures to lobbyists and other enemies of the public welfare. The loudest talk ers and the most pretentious of our would-be friends are advocates of these class laws who think they can bolster up a falling trade by an act of Congress or a subsid
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