The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-12-05
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Horace Greeley is : very great nan
lie was once a poor editor An editor
rs 4 man who lives on V hat other aeopl.
owe him, until lie staryes to death. MIR
Greeley did not stslve because he ate 5,
much Graham bread. D. you lore Ora
ham bread? Sometimes Mr.. Graeie,
would write pieces f.: the Ncac lori
Iiibaae. He belonged to the -Eetc lo,d
Tribune or the Nac Yo1h Tribune be-
longed to him. and [ have forgotten
which. The tribune had great many
subscribers. A subscriber Is person
who takes u paper aud says be is very
muck pleased with it, aud he tells every
body else that ne ought TO subscribe. =
After he has subscribed about six or
seven years. the editor writes to hin.
and asks him 10 let him have 81 80 two
dollars and fifty cents and then the sub
scrlber writes to the editor and tells him
not to send him his old paper any more.
Tor there IS nothing in it, aud then the
poor editor goes aEe. starges some more.
Vow | Will tell yen about Nj. Greeley.
lie used to wrap up It Yberry plants
aid beets and things in his paper, aad
send them 10 his subscribers His paner
was not an organ SO you see it would
hold great many strawberry. plants iIr
Greeley had heard that any poor boy
might be President of the United States
and have plenty OF money, and buy Alas
ka diamonds aud st. UouingoGs aud
things, 50 he used to set and think how
he might be President Then he would
scratch his head. He did not have any
hair on his head. like you and [, SO he
soon made his head very sore, and reo-
PIE used to cali him the Great Sore head
and Mr. Greeley would say ''you lie, yea
william. you lie !" There was q great
many men who itchcd all over in spots
to be President, OF governor, or consta-
bic, or something else besides Bhat.God
intended them to be. These men we're
all very sorry when they saw Dir. Gree,
ley's head, and they said let us make
him President, and maybe his poor head
will get we'll. So they all got together
without regarc 10 country, creed or col
Or, politics or religion, and they called
themselves Democratic Republicans"
which is Greek word, and means any
thing to get the treasury The treasu-
~ is a large building In Washington.
where all the gold IN the United States
is kept until there iz esrner In Wall
street. You dent know THAT a corner
IS my children, aud | viii not make you
unhappy By telling you.
Well, as [ was saying, all the people
got together in place called Cincinnati,
where they pack great deal OF pork
and they all agreed that Mr. Greeley
was good man because he did not have
any politics, aud would make good
President, "a he would have any of those
things to bother him. 80 they told him
TO dress himself MP nice, and black his
boots, and go land swing around the
circle. You love 10 swing. do you not,
children? Mr. Greeley was like child
III great many things. He loved to
play about the garden amongst the rhu-
barb, and cabbage, and guano. etc, and
catch Democrats in hisfarge white hat.
A Democrat is fowl that eats crow until
it is gorged, and is then easily caught by
Mr.. Greeley. Bet, alas, it made Mr.
Greeley very sick to swing, and made all
those wicked men siex that told him to
so and Swing. and they all Wept
and said, don't you remember how
sick it made old Mr. johnson to swing
around the ring ? /" But Mr. Greeley
said, 'ilcu are always saddest when |
swing, and went on swinging. and his
head got sorer all the time, and he got
raving crazy, and his friends did not
know whether he was Horace Greeley or
Daniel Pratt ! or George Francis Train
My children, the moral Of this sad story
Is, IL any good little boy wants to be
President eff these United States, he
must never Swing around the circle"