The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-16
IDAHO WORLD.
A sTOOL-PIGEON FOR PRESIDENT.

The following article, taken from the
Metropolitan Record, in regard to the
Grand Cyclops Of the "Gift Enterprise
Association" we consider so approprl-
ate that we insert it for the benefit OF
our readers:
What sort of man is this President
Grant, anyhow, that he should be con-
stantly doing things to bring blush
to the cheek even of his Radical friends?
The Metropolitan Record does not ask
the question as if 1t were in ignorance
of his groveling and sordid character
We have known him from the start, just
as he is, and, as in duty bound, we
warned the country against him &C
cordingly. But as the country has been
on sort of big drunk these many
years past, the warning was not needed.
The "pig" was taken in "the poke"
and now that it proves nothing but pig,
the foolish people who have been taken
in are beginning to be really ashamed
of it. We can tell these simpletons,
however, that they are little ahead
of time in this business. 1t is too soon
as yet to be ASHAMED Of Grant" True
he has done many discreditable things,
and many mean things, since his inaug-
uration day; but we venture to predict
tLat before he serves out his allotted
term of four years, he will make every
self-respecting Amerlcan-wc do not
care what his politics may be-blush
with Indignation every tire hrs name
is mentioned, at home or abroad.
Almost everything the man does has
an odor of inetfable littleness about il,
whether regard be had to the beStow-
ing of lucrative Offices and sinecures
upon his family relations, or to the &C
ceptance on his own behoof of money
and presents from the INSCRIPTIONS
and unprincipled knaves who are con-
stantly surrounding him, anxious touse
him and his Office for the promotion of
selfish schemes of their own Scarcely
a day passes but we have some new
illustration Of how this works. Thus,
on Tuesday last, some land spectators
invited "Mr. President' 10 visit their
estate down at Bricksburg, New lcr-
sey. The invitation was accepted.
Grant went, and all the rag-tag and
bob-tail Of the Branch went also. After
the usual "Hail to the Chief,' from the
band, and the customary fol-de-rol from
the lacqueys and toadies and toads in
waiting, the proprietors Of the atorc-
said estate, in the presence Of the as
sembled multitude, formally presented
to the President " fifty acres Of ground,
which, the newspaper reports tell Us,
were thankfully accepted" OF course,
he accepted. He always accepts. All
is fish that comes to his net. lie never
turns anything away. "AlI tavors thank
fully received" from a palatial mansion
in Washington to a span OF horses III
the Central Park, or titty-acre lots in
New Jersey. We are informed that the
real motive Of the Jersey land spccu-
lators in presenting Hiram with the
fifty acres" alluded to- was to improve
the market value of the swamp lots
near by. Those swamp lots could not
be sold at any price, but if the Prcsi-
dent Of the United States could only be
persuaded to settle there, and build u
summer cottage near by, all the shoddy
aristocracy would come into market
and buy place near him. In this way
the wilderness of Bricksburg, in the
course of little while, would blossom
like the rose, and the speculation would
pay a handsome interest on the original
investment. This is the real meaning
Of the presentation Of the fifty acres to
Grant. And this is the light in which
the President Of the United States is
presented to an admiring public-the
merest stool-pigeon of lot Of cunning
New Jersey swamp-speculatorS
Beautiful and sublime spectacle. The
successor Of Washington, and Jef1cr-
son, and Jackson, playing the part Of a
real estate Peter Funk! In the words
of the bogus Prince of Coma, reader,
if you have spark of American pride
in your bosom, Glow do you like the
picture"
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