The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-08-24
PRESIDENTIAL WAuOERlNas

PRESIDENTIAL WANDtRlNaS
ltsripht and proper for lho uresi-
dent to go ont among the people apnle-
tmes, JUDGED II Is necessary lor him
TO do 30 Il may even be q good lhing
for him TO take hisrnllre cabinet along
II does the people good to see their
rulers sometimes but these same rulers
should remember that familiarity breeds
contempt And when the subject feels
contempt for the sovereign ho is pretty
apt 10 show IL Ia ways, and ut times
when but little satisfaction can be-
ronpod by either party The president
the secretary OF state, the attorney gen.
eral and the postmaster general, are Nll
up in New Engaud gossiping with the
people and the reports faithfully sent
10y associated press kilograms Of their
sayings and wanderings reminds one Of
a poripatetic gossip club of old llsh-
wives, rather than the sayings and doc
ings Of the highest officers Of u great
nation like ours Who would have ex.
pecled Washington and his cabinet TO
quote, or rather misquote, the sacred
scriptures lightly and irrevcrcntly in Il
public speech, ora private conversation
to point q moral or adorn a tale in mere
Jest or a tit of childish humor. While
this is the character of the rulers
chosen by the people, need we greatly
wonder that our finances are all wrong,
our commerce gone, aud our mills ~
mute as 'rara's harp oar workingmcn
starving in the midst Of plenty our
people uneasy, dissatisfied and helpless.
Are these indeed times for official
lovity like this2 Are there not grave
subjects enough presented in the gray.
ity Of our national surroundings to fiji
the presidential mind with thoughts Of
other import Congress will soon as.
semble, and it will be compelled to
handle grOyer themes than any pre-,
ceding house ever dealt with. Will the
presidential mirth continue while the
representatives OF the people are deals
ing with either the foreign or domestic
policy of the nation Win garbled
scriptural quotation, or an unseomly
Jest growing out of it, throw any light
upon the vexed question Of the repeal
oithe resumption act. Postmaster Gen-
craI Key might have made Il grave mis-.
take in failing to vote for Mr. Hayes,
since majority of his fellow citizens
did that, but still Mr. Hayes is pres,
dent all the same, In the absence Of
graver matters for presidential consid-
Grafton, shame Tor the fraud by which
he has been lifted to power ought to re.
strain this seemingly irreprcssibIo levity
Let the president and his cabinet
como down south, and see if the work
of reconstruction has been completed,
see if nothing moro can hc done to re,
unite the people, and restore thowonted
prosperity of his wasted section;
see If the gaping wounds of the
late dreadful civil war have all been
healed, and if tho government can do
nothing more toward healing them and
teaching the people how to forget the
passions OF the past, and how to con.
duct themselves in the future in order
to regain the lost prestige of the nation.
is all well enough for the young
and the unemployed to wander over
the country, or when Mr., Hayes has
served out his term he may, like GEN
eral Grant, saunter about through
Europe, but now he has no time for
such trilles, The present is no time to
play Mt government. only few weeks
since the government was helpless in
the hands of q mob of revolutonists.
The streets of our principal cities were
drenched with the blood of the poor
and the wretched Has this circum.
stance excited the presidential leyity ?
Do Mr. Hayes and Mr.. Eyarts think
the quiet now prevailing, indicative of
an entire removal OF the causes undcr>
lying the outbreak ? ii so, fatal secu,
rity. But rather let them, like earnest
men and CONSCIENTIOUS officers, seek
for the proper solution of our troubles,
and reserve their sonility FORTS coming
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