New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-29

county or State. ne skips to the next, picking
his teeth az he goes and there gathering him
self in mass convention, he follows the fashion
of the time and "points with pride" to the record
of the past. The youth of our country call
him indiflerently the grass-hopper and the
hopper grass, and say "ShoO" at him as he
goes bv. The hardy Utah pioneer gently un-
tanges the legs of him from his HAIR and
whiskers and covers him with No. 10 boot !;
the guest at Townsend's Hotel in Salt Lake
City hears him through all the silent watches
of the night rush into the window as one who
has been sent for from afar, and drop with a
thld into the washbowl; and the Digger
Indian gathers him in trenches and par
becues him for the MONDAY meal.
And this way he cOmeth. The hour wnen
he shall appear in one immense moving column
at the upper end of Fifth-ave.. and take
I'D his march down Broadway with platoon
of mounted police in front and an escort from
the Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty 10
Animals, no one can tell. Let us not speak
unkindly of the grasshOpper. lie mas MS
faults but who has mott If we may believe
the confession of Mr. John A. Logan and the
thirty-eight other leading statesmen VINO
recently issued an address, even the RepuDn-
can party is not without them. Let us
remember that the grasshoppers are formld-
able that i'm several counties In the west
they are in power; that they have ad-
ministered affairs in those counties a. the
Administration party has in South Car
oina; with great energy; and that they
are now sitting on their hind legs in
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to the past with pride. There are worse
things in the world than grasshoppers, and
upon the whole we should be grateful to
the grasshopper How much more comfortable
the grasshopper than great fire or water
spout or than District or CustOm-houSe
Ring. Says Mr.. Logan concerning the party
in power, which in many respects is not un
like the grasshOpper "The faithful servant
"will not submit to be treated as faithless
zone. If so treated, he himself will become
"faithess, or he will give place to one who
ais faithless." The advice Is wise. The whole
country has not been devastated by the grass
hopper or the Administration. \ few coun-
ties in Minnesota by one, and South Caro-,
lima and one or two other States by the
other. Let us not speak unkindly of the Ad-
mlnistratOn lest it devastate the whole conn
try; and let us be tender toward the grass
hopper lest he plume himself for wider
flight and swarm down upon the Atlantic
coast with the appetite of a scalawag and the
nav of a carpet-bagger.
Against the grasshOpper all carnal weapons
are pOwerless. Gov. Davis of Minnesota knew
this SO when he heard That in six counties
of that fertile State the grasshopper had con-
vened, he telegraphed the War Department
for $4,000 worth of rations in lieu OF the
$4,000 worth of arms due the State. Whether
the arms had been called for on account of
the grasshoppers we are not told, but Gov.
Davis was wise in making up his mind that
with the present style of musllet Issued by
the Department it would be idle to encounter
the grasshOpper in his wrath. With great dis
cretion he gave up the fight before 1t began,
and called for ratons-a supply train to fol-
low in the rear of the invader and ameliOrate
the condition of his victims. Davis did what
has come to be the prevailing habit
of the poitician-called the General
Government for help at once. Not getting
assistance from that quarter, he resorted to
the County Treasurers but those officials had
more fear of the law than of the grasshopper,
and at last accounts Davis was in a quandary
what to do Being 80 far off we are hardly
competent to advise, but it seems to us that,
this being season of political conventions,
it would do no harm to pass a series of resO-
lutions to placato the grasshopper. They
could do no possible harm, and might soften
the heart of the grasshopper. 1t would not
be bad plan either, to try the effect upon
the grasshopper of reading the Address of the
Republican Congressional Committee in front
of him. If that would not drive him back
nothing would.