New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-13

ance TINT swallows up all other gifta We
"may be grateful that we have President
d who. amid the storm and the clamor OF the
financial revulsiOhs Of the past ninety days
"bas kept his head; who has been con-
"scientious enough to seek resolutely TO OBEY
" the law. and who has taught us lesson Oh
"steadiness and resolute faith which vas
needed to place US on prosperous pi'he
/" for the FUTURE Orator Puff should nave
knOwn--somebody should have told him-that
it was altogether too late for last year
speech. The "headr and the conscience
the "steadness and resolute faith" OF the
gentleman who came all the way from Wash
ington TO New-York to say on Sunday that ne
could not do what he had already done ana
was about to repeat, because 1t was " vioia-
"tiOn of law are now pretty well understooo'
1t is not O good year for Blossoms from such
q source.
Having been elected member OF the ma
Z" tional legislature" Orator Puff conceiyes
there would be "a manifest indelicacy IN us
Saying anything of the abstract right OF inc
Government to issue its reserve" Ana Win
great impressiveness be adds: conceive IL
"to be the duty of legislator to vote not
I" from partisanship, but from personal sense
of duty. And, therefore. | frankly say that
81 express no opinion here, and at such an
"hour rs this, upon the right to issue the re-
"serve" Orator Puff is q man OF manifest
delcacy. He is the first instance on record oil
a politician or member of Congress declining 10
express an opinion upon sucha questlon'as THIS
because It would be "manifesty indelicate.'
1t is simply whether the power resides IN tne
Treasury Department to hold a " reserve OF
s44,oOOOOO of currency in its hand to open or
shut. contract or expand at its will, and SO
have every business interest of the country at
its mercy. Orator Puff thinks 1t would be
"manifestly indelicateo to express an OPINION
about it. Manifest Gas
Ana then this of tho President, in closing:
." But we glory in this above all things that,
Though President, he is as amcnable TO the
claw as the cOmmonest citizen; that the law
" il above the President and above the peo-
"ple; and that even the President, in such
fearful times as these, seeks for his guide
" and counselor in the law common to us all"
This is very, very beautiful. Most OF Ora
tor Puffs periods are. This one is PIC
trresoue and has "glOryn in it. Orators
who 20 about glorying in things are usu-
ally successful. They draw crowd,
and if that is their vocation sell great deal
of soap. The translation of this glow Of en-
thusiasm is briefly that we ought to rejoice
above oil things" that the President obeys
the law "like the commOnest Citizen And
80 we suppose we ought to rejoice that he
does not rob hen-roosts or disturb religious
meetings, but it never occurred TO us that it
was worth while to glory above all things"
that he was not lawless in any particular
Orator Puff has the craftsmanship and the
rhetoric of time that has gone b.. We
have passed out Of . .sSS period OF that
kind Of shams at least. To glory above
all things" in the fact that the President of
the United States does not openly and palpa-
bly, override the law is cheap kind of glory
that we have, let us hope, got through with
forever. We have not yet got rid of an ire
deemable currency, but we hare passed the
period of pinchbeck craftsmanship. Somebody
ought to enlighten Orator Puff. He lags SUI
perfuous. His procession has gone by long ago.