Wilmington daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1872-1874, 1874-07-31
With Regard to the Grasshopper.
From The Ne,O York Tri5,mc.l

From The Ne,0 York Iri5unel
Comes this way now on lifted wing, with fiery
lightnings III his eye and the cereal crops of six
counties of Minnesota in his oraunching teeth,
the wild, unbrldled grashoppcr of the West. A
jerky bird is the grasshopper. lie folds himself
up like the Jack-knito, roeases himself like an
arrow from the bended bow, propels himself over
large spaces, and subsists on the country he coy-
ers. lie assimiates the people to himself. When
he alights upon the field the farmer looks for his
crop, and behold, like tho grasshopper which has
passed, he has dntCnHG. For sociability and
gregariousncss thorc arc but iew wild fowl like
tho grasshoppcr. lilo moves in bataIlions at COM
pany front, and wherever there is one there are q
million. Standing on the ground, his knees over
look him like step ladder und his tout ensemble
Is that of an overloaded wheelbairow. He has
the unbounded stomach OF q weekly story paper
tor cereals and when he has cleared up tho stand
ing crops of q county or State he skips to the
next picking his teeth he goes, and there gath
erng himself in mass convention he follows the
fashion OF tho time and "points with pride" TO
the record Of the past. The youth OF our couu-
try call him indlerently the grasshopper and the
hoppergrass, and say "shoo' at him as he poes
by. The hardy Utah pioneer gently untangles
the legs of him from his hair and whiskers, and
covers him with No. Is boot; the guest at
Townserd'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 thud into the wash
bowl; and the Digger Indian gracefully gathers
him into trenches and then barbecues Linn for
the noon-day meal.
And this way he comeih. Tho hour when he
shall appear in one immense moving column at
| the upper end of Fifth avenue, and take up HIS
march down broadway with platoon OF mount
ed police in front and an escort from the Society
for tho Prevention of Cruelty TO Animals no one
can tell. Let US not speak unklndly OF the
Rrasshopper. lie has his faults but who has
not? Ii VIC may believe the confession OF Mr..
Inn A ha M nj h.r taa,
statesmen who recently issued an address; even
the Republican party ia not without them. Let
us remember that the grasshoppers are formida-
BILE; that in several counties in the West they are
in power; that they have administered affairs In
those counties rs the administration party has In
South Carolina, with great energy; aud that they
are now sitting on their hind legs In the south
eastern section OF the State, pointing 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
com mfurtable Is the grasshopper than great fire
or a water-spout or than u district or Custom
House Ringg Says Mr. Logan concerning the
party in power, which In many respects is not
| unlike the grasshopper: "The faithful servant
will not submit to be treated as a falhless one.
Ii 90 treated, he himself will become fathless, or
he will give place to one who Is faithless." The
advice is wise. The whole country has not been
| devastated by the grasshopper OF the administra
tion. A few counties in Minnesota by one, and
South Carolina and one or two other States by
the other. Let US not speak unkindly OF the adj
ministration lest it devastats the whole country
and let US he tender towards the grasshopper lest
he plume himself for wider Hight and swarm
down upon the Atlantic coast with the appetite
OF a scalawag and the NAV Of carpet-bagger.
1t would not be bad plan to try the effect
upon the grasshopper Of reading the address OF
the Republican Congressional Committee in from
| of him. II that would not drive him back moth
i ing would.