National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-05-14

the worthy Professor needed not the con-
sequences. In short, like most white men,
he wheedled the poor Indians by promising
them that he would speak TO the "Great
Father about their grievances. Now, who,
ever heard of an Indian without grieV-
ance As well expect to find one without
scalping knife, or with an unwillingness
to eat free lunch at the expense of pho
neer 'emigrant, or pawn his blanket
squaw and papooses for "fire- water.
The willy Professor-diplomatist, 1t
would seem, as well as scholar-kneW
this, and forthwith, as we have
intimated, brought the noble red men to
their knees, with the promise that he
would invoke the aid of the President
the Great Father eforesaid-in their be-
half THIS, as bit of, STRATEGY, was well
enough, and the Professor succeeded in
rescuing to science 'thei wonderful col
election of fossil deposits and organic re-
"mains which will long be the pride of
"the Peabody Museum of Yale college
Upon his return 10 civilization however,
where he could take his life out of his
hand and place it where it ordinarily be-
longs, where 1t would do the most good,
in fact, Professor Marsh forgot not his
promises about the grievances. But in
stead of going with them directly to the
Great Father, or to the chief officer of the
Executive Department having charge of
Indian affairs, he peddled those aforesaid
grievances about the streets Of Washington.
The sub.detectives of the Detective press
are as naturally anxious to get hold of
grievances as the Indians are to possess
them. They seized upon him with avidity,
and the Professor, with his character in
his hand, made peace with these, to him,
new kind of savages, by giving them all
sorts of information about his wonderful
experience. about his collection of fossils,
and about his collection of aboriginal
grievances. By this shrewd diplomacy
he escaped the destruction of his charac-
ter by the pirates of the press, as he had
previously escaped with his life from the
savages Of the plains. Finally, taking his
character out of his hand and restoring it
to its proper place, he proceeded to the
Executive Mansion, and obtaining an in
tertiew with the President, made a formal
, report of his informal observations. This
is what he should have 81 done
at the beginning, and possibly would have
done if he had escaped capture and deten .
ton on the "Algerine Coast" known as
Newspaper Row. OF course, Secretary
Delano was held to blame by the Algerines
for the grievances, and the columns of the
Detective press teemed with abuse of him,
as though he was in the habit of distrib-
uting nations of corned beef rump- steaks
and hard tack with his own hands to each
individual aggrieved Indian on the plains.
In an unguarded moment Mr.. Delano
plunged into print as the Professor did
into the country Of the savages. He had
no diplomacy to spare for this particular
occasion, however, and alluded to the Pro
fessor as ga Mr.. Marsh" Thereupon the
New York Tribune assumes that the Pro
fessor has grievance, and abuses the Sec
rotary for calling him Mr." Unpardon-
able sin to call a man Mr.-to characterize
a citizen who happens to be Professor Of
Yale, as the Tribune frequently character
lied the President of the United States.
The Professor Of journalism stands up in
defense of the entire guild of professors, be
they of fossils, of the tricks of Wall street.
of obstetrics, or Of anything else than reli:
gion and justice. But the P. of ]. blum
ders. In the same issue of his journal
wherein Secretary Delano is berated for
this chronological lapse, we'fnd Commits.
no1opn ,11nlnl ~ Coll
In his report for the fiscal year 1870, Mr..
Delano observed that he had no reason to be-
lieve that there would be any material falling
of in the production of spirits in the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1S71, Of which four months
had already passed. In November, 1870, Mr..
Delano resigned the Office of Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, and Mr.. j. W. Douglass be-
came acting Commissioner, and on january 8,
1871, was appointed Commissioner. His re-
port, bearing date November 81, 1871, is re-
markedly silent on the great falling of in the
production OF whisky during the fiscal year
ISL.
Here we have the Commissioner charac-
terized as Mr., to be sure; but then COM
missioner is not a professor, and the editor
of the Tribune has never been or assumed
to be a commissioner. This, however, is
immaterial. A professor of mathematics
would have cautioned the Tribune bungler
to read the following table twice before
printing it, if hiss intention was to injure
"Mr." Delano. 1t shows the annual pro.
duction of liquors distilled from other ma
terial than fruits from 1870 to 1874, and is
taken from the columns of the Tribune:
1t was, in 1870, Al ,337, O99 gallons.
1t was, in 1871, 81 $40 ,446 gallons.
1t was, in 1872, IS, 275 ,745 gallons.
1t was, in 1873, GS, 236 ,567 gallons.
1t was, in 1874, 6S,sO5, 374 gallons.
Now Secretary Delano. Commissioner
Delano and Mr.. Delano are one and the
same person. When this. is known the
al of all this explanation requires no
TURNER elu1idadon. 1t simply shows that
the Tribune, under the management Of
Professor Reid, is so inconsistent as to
extoll the same man in one column as an
efficient officer and to deride him in the
next as one not to be trusted with public
office. 81. ...