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■trqoiBBB-SuN.
Co a i. oil monopolists live on the fat of
the land.
Tiif. hoodlum who stands by a friend
is ns good as a lump post; but less useful
to a city.
With no pie and no turkey—all crow
—the disappointed oflice-seeker cannot
be expected so enjoy his Thanksgiving
dinner. ________
Tub IxiH Angeles Pork Packing Com
pany announces the "Lilly Ham.” If
his brand is named for Langtry it will be
a great go.
It costs Edwin Booth $2500 per night
to be sick in Now York—counting the
loss of his share—and the doctor ought
to be considerate.
When George Washington went to war
he staid there until there was no war.
Numerous latter day heroes left the front
on sick leaves, but came out strong and
healthy on patriotism when the spoils
were being divided up.
The fiend who is continually starting
false alarms about neglected graves is
worse than a fire bug, and should lie put
where lie must be pardoned by a gov
ernor before lie can vote. The Augusta
Chronicle says: “It is not a fact that Gen
eral A. P. Hill’s grave is violated by
cows, etc. Ho sleeps at Hollywood, safe
from such profanation. But no stone
marks his grave. We hope his old sol
diers are doing something to place a
marble tribute there.”
NO EXPLANATIONS NEEDED.
After their bushwhacking fight upon
Col. Morrison, the Pennsylvania monop
oly protectionists and corruptionists are
tiying, it seems, to escape the odium of
their cowardly warfare by putting forth
all sorts of fantastic explanations to ac
count for Col. Morrison’s defeat. It is
even gravely asserted by correspondents
of republican papers that Citizen John
Jrrrett and his tinplate bar’l did not in
fluence 100 voters in the district, and that
the tariff reformer was beaten because
the democrats over there nearly all hated
him and wont to the polls eager for
revenge. This is too a! sard! Perhaps
these same correspondents will be
good enough to explain, with similar
reasons, the remarkable coincidence by
which Free-Trader Frank Hurd, in the
Toledo district of Ohio, was also am
bushed, surprised and routed, while
Free-Trader Carlisle in Kentucky was
ambushed and very nearly routed, all on
the same day. The attempt of monopoly
organs to explain the discomfiture of
these three democratic candidates by
falsely asserting disaffection on the part
of their constituents, is just a little more
cowardly than the tactics used against
them in the elections. They were simply
the victims of a protectionist conspiracy
with headquarters in Pittsburg.
A BAD CUSTOM.
Tlie custom of mortgaging ungrown
crops is so common and productive of so
much evil in some, parts of the south that,
there is more or less clamor for legisla
tion to regulate or prohibit the practice.
In Arkansas many members of the new
legislature were elected under pledges to
work for a repeal of the law permitting
sucli mortgages. Farmers who have
rented land, or whose land is encum
bered, give these crop-mortgages as secu
rity for supplies which they must have.
It is a common tiling for them to use
this credit to the extreme limit that
the storekeeper will allow. When
t he crop is harvested its entire
proceeds often full a little short
of paying the mortgage, and the
farmer is not only again without money
or credit, but is actually in debt and un
der obligations to the store keeper who
has “accommodated” him. Such a sys
tem of course means higli interest and
high prices for everything the farmer
buys, yet it would seem very doubtful if
a law prohibiting these mortgages would
afford much relief. The Little River
Pilot remarks: “Our farmers are free
people, and the objectionable statute
only permits and does not require them
to execute mortgages upon their un
planted crops.” This gives the case in a
nutshell. The evil is not in the law so
much as in a failure to live within
available means. No legislation will
prevent men from running in debt, or
teach them how to get out of debt, or
live within their income.
MEATH Ur EX-riENIDENT ABTH1E.
Ex-President Chester A. Arthur died
yesterday. He died suddenly, so far as
the article of death itself is concerned;
and yet death did not surprise and seize
him like a robber in the dork. It bad
been dogging his tracks without disguise,
and he had been facing it and fighting it
through the cumbersome vigils of many
a lainplit night. A deadly fatality ap
pears to brood about the chief and ex-
chief magistrates of this republic. It
would seem that our quadrennial elec
tions would insure us a half dozen living
ex-piesidents nil the time. But now we
have not a single ex-president living
since Arthur lias quickly followed Tilden
in his journey out of life. Mr. Hayes is
alive, it is true, but never having been
president, lie can not lie seriously reck
oned among the ex-presidents.
In speaking of a mail who has just
passed away, many peoplo are prone to
concede too much of good to his reputa
tion; while others, who bore him a hid
den enmity in life, take advantage of the
opportunity to slander the mute and un
replying dead. These two human and
natural predilections are the Scilla and
Cliarybdis between which the journalist
must ticklishly steer, if he would main
tain the golden medium and tell the
whole truth for its own sake. In treat
ing upon the character of Mr. Arthur,
we shall attempt noither to paint him
black nor to gild him into a saint, but to
tell as best we can, with the light before
us, what manner of man he was.
Mr. Arthur cannot be justly termed a
creature of accident, although the un
melting frost that fell in his hair after
the star of his life had careered past its
meridian, found him in a position which,
in middle age, he had never dared to
dream of, much less to seek. Prior to
the republican convention of 1880 which
nominated Garfield and Arthur, Mr. Ar
thur had been a local politician of the
better class in New York city. He was
regarded as being Bhrewd, polished, and
in the political sense of the word, trust
worthy. He was a disciple and a favor
ite of Roscoe Conkling, and had held the
position of collector of the port of New
York. He was turned out of the
collectorship of the port of New
York by the then de facto president,
Rutherford B. Hayes, on a charge of dis
honesty in the management of his office.
Tiie charge was untrue, and for this rea
son was never investigated. He was re
moved to make room for another. Dis
honesty never disqualified a man for of
fice under that administration, whose
head was its living embodiment, and
who surrounded himself with a congre
gation of crawling, squirming, slimy, icy
republican worms, which feasted and fat
tened upon the body of that political
death, of which the de facto president
was the chief reprepresentative. Up to
the meeting of the convention of 1880
there had never been a rupture
between Arthur and Conkling. Both
entered the convention as advocates of
the renomination of Grant for a third
term, and they were both numbered
among the famous 1100 who stood by the
old soldier until his flag went down.
After Garfield was nominated the con
vention took a recess before nominating a
vice-president. During the recess Conk
ling and Arthur, like many others who
wore following the fortunes of Grant,
sulked in their tents, and took little or no
interest in the further proceedings of the
convention. Immediately after the ad
journment for recess the leaders came
together and decided to offer Arthur the
nomination for vice-president as a con
cession to the Grunt or stalwart wing of
the party. When Arthur was notified
of the movement he was in Conkling’s
room at the Palmer House. Conkling,
who had been in the habit of dictating
Arthur’s political movements for many
years, said to him imperiously: “Have
nothing to do with this proposal.”
The New York senator never doubted
for a moment that his holiest would be
obeyed. It was then that Mr. Arthur’s
real ninnhood asserted itself and proved
that during all these years he had been
a follower, hut not a tool. He turned
upon Senator Conkling and said with a
haughtiness that fairly withered the
“Utica Peacock:” “An opportunity like
this never comes to a man who lias
reached mv age but once, and I shall im
prove it.” From that moment there
was a coolness and breach between Arthur
and Conkling. And yesterday when death
knocked at the ex-president’s door it
found the breach still open. Roscoe
Conkling never forgives.
President Arthur entered the white
house under the most trying surround
ings that ever environed the going in of
any president except Andrew Johnson.
His own party was disrupted by an in-
ternescine struggle, and each faction
stood glowering upon him, not with ac
cusations for what lie had done hut with
threats for what lie might do. And to
add to his embarrassment, it was openly
charged by many that Mr. Arthur was
indirectly a particeps crimfnis with
Giiiteau * in the murder of
President Garfield. Perhaps there
was a good angel that walked beside the
new and trembling ruler of fifty millions
of people, for he came througli the fiery
furnace of his trials without even the
smell of the flame on his garments.
If Mr. Arthur had one characteristic
that towered above the rest, it was that
undefinable hut e\ er perceptible endow
ment that people call tact. His tact was
almost infinite. With it he discomfited
his enemies and delighted his Mends.
Othet men have conquered by height of
intellect or nigged depth of will; but
Arthur’s tact was the charm with
which ho voodooed the world.
And whether he used it to pacify the
swarthy boss of a caucus, or to please the
bedizzened belle of a drawing room, each
felt its potency nnd then surrendered.
Mr. Arthur's administration, while
comparatively uneventful, was a really
successful one; and if nothing else could
he said in its favor, its eminent placidity
is attested by the fact that its termina
tion found the republican party once
more a practical unit. If his administra
tion is allowed as a criterion, no republi
can president overbad Etindliuv feelings
toward the south than Presi
dent Arthur had. He was u
republican “after the strnitest sect,” and
as such his policies were framed. But,
Chesterfield as he was, there was depth
and breadth enough about him to com
prehend the whole union as his country.
He is tiie only president of the United
States who ever sent a message' to Don
g’ess in which the south was not men
tioned. He regarded the south as being
indissolubly re welded to the union. And
in his other messages—besides the one
alluded to—when tiie south was men
tioned, it was not as a province or a sepa
rate section.
President Arthur was not a great man
in any sense, nor was he little under any
construction. While he belonged to the
great mass of medioeres in intellect, it
must be conceded that no man since tiie
days of the younger Adams has taken
with him into the white house more of
what the world calls polish, than Mr.
Arthur undoubtedly possessed. If he
was not over sapient in council, nor su
perbly eloquent on the rostrum, in tiie
parlor he was a very prince. Gray-hair
ed and past middle life as he was, women
raved over his form and manner and
speech.
Of Mr. Arthur’s private life perhaps
less is known than of any jrisidei.t
who ever occupied the white house.
Grave charges of immorality and dissipa
tion were spread abrtad concerning him
by Washington correspondents during
his term of office. But the typical Wash
ington correspondent will suppress the
trutli for the sake of a figure, and tell a
lie to round a period. And it is no more
than just to give the benefit of the doubt
to a man who, as all admit, loved his
wife so fondly while living and cherished
her memory so reverently after death
had divided them. Mr. Arthur was a
politician, and as such his detractors
never scrupled or slept. In writing his
biography it would be hard even for the
honest historian to winnow the chaff of
slander from the wheat of truth. But
Mr. Arthur did possess many noble quali
ties, and was a good man in more Senses
than one.
The death of a great ruler of the people
is an accented reminder that—
“Time like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;”
and that the very zephyrs that pilot in
tiie seasons are whispering—
“Those that wept and those that weep
Soon shall with these sleepers sleep.”
Let us hope that the politician and tiie
ex-president has registered his citizen
ship in a better country than this; that
in the dusty and dominionless grave ho
has found a sweeter sleep than he ever
knew in the white house ; and that on
his fever-fretted brow tie has felt the
cool breath of tiie eternal morning.
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