The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-13
BALM FOR THE LOUISIANA
WOUND.
From the Evening Post, Jan. 1911

After waiting q week for "onlcial nformation~
from Louisiana, the President and his Cabinet
yesterday promulgated their nrst ofi1cia measure
In response TO the storm OF Indignation which has
been beating in upon them from the people. IL
consisted of-not the recall OF Lieutenant General
Sheridan, nor even the disavowa OF Kellogg. IL
was something more characteristic. AS remedy
for the public grievances concerning Louisiana
it seems that the President. and Cabinet have
been engaged for week in examining the
list OF journals IN which government ADVERTISE
mentsn have heretofore been published, and ex-
purgating II OF all which have denounced the fed.
erai military usurpation in New Orleans. In the
city OF New York the Evening POST mas been pue
into the "disloys category ana u y sUlen
which Is done hereafter in TINS community during
the administration OF President Grant shall be
done IN the Graphic and the commercial Adrer-
tiser. The Republic would doubtless De addeds
but, alasl 1t Is dead.
MIR. secretary Bristow. we sincerely regret to-
say-oi all The members In the Cabinet-is put for
ward as the first to execute sentence and he be-
gan to do so yesterday. President Grant Is GER
Ialnly greater potentate than we thought no
was. Wna,ever may De me degree r,s o,
to him, it never entered into our concep-
ton that ne could transform the character
OF the present Secretary OF tue Treasury from tnas
OF a sef-respecting gentleman OF honorable pur-
poses, aspiring TO De statesman, into that OF
political wire-puller, imagining that he can con-
plcarion OF a portion oil tue pubic money which
the people, through Congress- have voted into his
u
We had previous experience OF this same prac-
tice during the last session OF Congress- when the
Department OF the Interior. OF which Mr.. Column
bus Delano Is the secretary, gave US notice that
all government advertising" IN our columns
| from that department would be stopped on &C
| count OF our denuncixtion OF Jayne and Sanborn'
| and Richardson anu sawyer. and the abuses oil the
'mOety system"
| President Grant and his Cabinet collectively
and individually will please 10 take notice that.
! in q phrase employed 10 similar instance many
years ago, 1--WE have our goods TO sell, but not our
opinions" Our advertising columns are open TO
the public without distinction Oh creed or party
Secretaries Deano and Bristow included. II, In
the Judgment OF either o. the Secretaries, or OF
their MASTER il Is eXpedient for partisan purposes
to spend the public moneys appropriated for ad.
vertsing upon favorite political Journals, with
vertlsements or the classes o. business
men to whom they are addressed. or
the relative circulation OF different newspapers
among those classes-that Ia a matter Tor winch
they are responsible under IN cir honor as Renele~
men to their own conscences, aud under ther
OathS OF ONCE to their constituents. We seek no
patronage at the price which the President and
his Cabinet put upon theirs. The Evening Post
founded seventy-four years ago. and steadily
growing ever since IN circulation, wealth, lnnu-
ence, public confidence and respect-wlll flourish
years alter Secretary Delano Is forgotten Alto
gerner, and a generous posterity seeks 70 merge
the selfish errors OF President Grants civil admin
istration In the brilliant ustre OF General Grants
military fame.