The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-03-28
NIEEKER.
"CommissiOn" Hayes-Hard
Times.
To he EsiftOr Morristolcn Gazette:

Commission" Hayes-Hard
Times.
To he Editor M0zristoacn Gazette:
..od Esop tells Us of an ass that tried respect to
By strutting up and down the earth clad ina lions
skin"
l have been meeker than expected to
be since the 4th of March. Mr.. Hayes
was made de JactO President but not de
j1re, nor de onaniuu sententia. Yet con-
trary to precedent, laws right or justice,
he is President. In acquiesence and
submission almost feel like Uriah Heap
in humbleness. thought once of going
off in corner to sulk and pout for the
next four years; but after reading his in
augural address, and pledges made by
his intimate friends, together with the
conservatism shown in the selection
of his Cabinet, feel it the duty of every
good citizen to support him as long as
he carries out the policy proposed. Then
he will be judged by what he does far
more than by the fraudulent, improper
manner of his installation in the chair
of the chief executive. But fear my
hopes win fall. His dilly-dallying policy
toward the South-"now you see it, now
you DON'T" constrains one to believe
Mr.. Hayes isan lass in lions skin" The
truth of the condition of affairs in South
Carolina and Louisiana are as well
known in Washington to-day, as will
ever be. The constitution and statute
laws provide for such cases. Proposed
compromises only come from the party
in the wrong. Therefore, what is the
object of commission to go to Louisi-
ana? President Hayes ought to endeavor
to blot the word commission" out of
our vocabulary. Commission expert
ments were tried by his predecessor,
which will damn his administration in
history, down to the end of time. No
Presiden: ever stepped down and out"
as Grant did. No kicks, nor abuse from
his enemies; nor praises from his friends
-''unsung, unhonored, un-," he
quietly passed in his "checks." Every
one of all parties try to avoid speaking
of him The fall of this man, once so
great, and so much dreaded, is humiliat-
ing to all patriotic Americans. Hayes is
evidently drifting in the same groove.
Some pig-headed Radical editor says
one of the principal causes of hard times
was produced by the economical and
penurious action of the Democratic
House of Representatives. The only
items named in his charge was the ex-
posure of Belknap, and failure to i'm
peach liim-and-well, reduction of sal
aries of foreign Ministers Well, if the
great Radical party has fallen so, that
one of its props has to resort to such alb
ject twaddle, the party is about whit
ted off to a pint" 1t is true politics has
much to do with hard times, but there
is another grievious cause. Go to the
depot some evening before the arrival
Of the mail train, and there you'll see a |
greater cause and sadder sight. A good |
MALTA battalion of able-bodied young
and colorcd, laboring des-
perately doing nothing. What does
of this crowd know or care
about politics? The constitutionaIity of /
the dog law is the acme of their pOliti-
cal knowledge. And now as poor Tray
has been declared a nonentity, and his
as property or privilege
stricken from our statutes, their politi-
cal discussions will end. There you'll
see at least one hundred thousand dol
ars idle capital-drawing no interest,
all the time, and producing
nothing. Begin a crusade against them,
md never hold up until the evil is re-
nedied. Teach them to
'-work hard all day. sleep hard al night,
Save every cent, and not get tight"
An enterprising friend suggests that
bur brigade of loafers be requested to
pend about fifteen minutes day, clean
ng up back yards at home. The reason
ne wants them to work so short time
), he's afraid some one will miss them
rom the street corners or depot plat
orm. Good suggestion. Now, young
men go to work; there is plenty of re-
labor wanted here at home.
We have as fine a county as can be
ound- All we want is energy, snap,
nd git. The song of capital has become
vheezy and threadbare. Labor is CAPT
al-the safest and most Independent of
IL. Go to work, young men; don't idle
bout public places to be laughed at by
ools and pitied by friends.
MEEKER
MorristoWn, March 20, ~.