The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-08-07
-NatHra! History Made Deer.
ISAAC HITKNUARD BROMLEY ON THE CHR
RJPING CHRISTOPHER.

RJPING GRASSHOPrER.
Comes this way now on lifted wing, with
fiery lighdniugs III his eye and the cereal
cfors OF six counties, of Minnesota in his
cranching teeth, the Wild unbridled grass
hoppgrof the West. Il .ierky bird is the
grasshopper. He folds himself up like the
jackknite, releases himself like an arrow
from Bonded bow, propels himself over
large spaces and SubsjstS on the country hc
covers. He assmilates the people to him
self. When lie alights upon the field tie
farmer looks for his crop, and behold like
the grasshopper which has passed, he has
d1'teHn@. For sociabiiity and gregarious-
ness thcIc are few wild fowl like the grass
hopper. He moves in battalions at com.
pany front, and whenever there's one there
are a million. Standing on the ground
his Knees overlook him like step ladder,
and his tout ensemble is that of an overload
ed wheelbarrow. He has the unbounded
stomach of Il weekly story paper for cere-
ais, and whom lie has cleared up The stand
ing crops of a county or State, he skips
to the next, picking his teeth as he goes,
and there gathering himself in mass con
ventiOn, he follows the fashion of the time
and ''points with pride to the record of
the past. The youth of our country call
him inlilercnuy the graSshupper and the
hopQcrgrass, and say ''Shoo - at him as
he goes by. The hardy Utah pioneer gent
ly untangIes the legs Of him from his hair
and whiskers and covers him with No.
13 boot the guests 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 atar, and drop with a thud into the
washbowl; and the Digger Indian gathers
him in trenches and barDccucs him for the
monday meal.
And this way he comcth. The hour
when he shall appear in one immense NOV
ing column at the upper end of Fifth ave
nue., and take up his march down Broad
way with platoon of mounted police in
front, and an escort from the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, no
one can tell. Let US not speak unkiudly
OF the gIaSshopyer. lie has his faults but
who has not? If we may believe the con-
fessiOn of bir. John 4. Logan and the
thirty-cisht other leading statesmen who
recently issued an address, even the Re
publican party is not without them. Let
us remember shat the grasshoppers are for
mldable that III several counties i'll the
est they are i'll power: that they have
administered affairs in those counties as
the Administration party has in South
Carolina, with great energy and that they
arc now sitting on their hind legs in the
southeastern 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 gIasshopper. How much more com
iOltaOle Che grasshoppcr than great fire
or Watcr spout, or than a District or a
Custom House Ring. Says Mr.. Logan con-
corning the party in pow CT, which in many
respects IS not unlike the grasshopper ::
The faithful servant VII! not submit to be
treated as faithless one. If so treated,
hc himself will become taitLless. or he will
give place to one who is laithlcss" The
advice is wise. The "no.e country has not
been devastated by the grasshopper or the
Administration. y few counties in Min
nesota by one, and South Carolina and one
or two other States by the other Let us
not speak UusuGly of the Administration
lest 1t dovaststtc the whole country and let
us be tender toward She grasshopper lest
lie plume himself for n wider flight and
swarm down upon the Atlantic coast with
tIe appetite UI \ scalawag and the maw of
carpct-baggor.
Against the Erasshopper all carual wea-
poas are pJweilcsS. Gov. Davis Of Mime
sofa knew this. So when he heard that
IN SIX counties OF that fertile State the
GraSshoppcr had convened he telegraphed
the War Department for s., 900 worth of
Idtlons IN lieu OF the 81, 900 worth Of arms
duo the State. Whether the arms had
been called for on account of the grasshop-
pers we are not tod, but Gov. Davis was
wise IN making up his mind that with the
present style of musllct issued by the de-
pNtment 1t would be idle to encounter the
GraSsi.opper in his wrath. With great dis
cretI'n lie gave up the fight before il bcran.
and called for rations-a supply train to
follow IN the rear of the invader and ameIiO-
rate the condition Of his victims Davis
ana what has come to be the prevailing
haDlt OF the pulltlcianS-called on the Cen
eral Government for help at once. Not
getting assistance from that quarter, he re-
sorted to the County IreasurerS: but those
officials lad moIe fear of the law than of
the grassh"pper, and at last accounts Davis
was in quandary what to do. Being so
iar OH we are hardly competent to advise
out 1t seems to us that, this being n season
OF political conventions, it would do no
harm to pass series of resolutions to pIa-
cate the SrHsshoPPer They could do no
possible harm, and might soften the heart
OF the grasshopper. 1t would not be a bad
plan either, to try the effect upon the grass
hopper OF rcadin. the address of the Re
publican Congressional Committee i'm front
OF him. IT that would not drive him back
nothing would.-N. J. Tribune
TIE Norristown Heragd, published in
the county in which General Hancock WAS