Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-03-04
pnrsrDENT, DICTATOR, ON EN-.
PEROR?

EA4O3
Ex-President Grant is now, and has been
for two years past, junketting around the
world. He has been liail-fellow we'll met
with kings, h~obnobbing with princes and
clasping hands on terms Of the most per-
feet cordially and familiarity with royalty
by the grace Of God, and aristocracy by
the accident Of birth. He has been wined
and dined, Toasted and feted by those per-
sons Of the Old World whose claim to dis
tinction lies alone in the fact that they
we're born 70 . position which they could
never have reached by their own energy,
worth or ability
We have been told over and over again
that the honors accorded to him, the well
he has and now is receiving, the
gorgeous pageants and costly demonstra-
tons with which his coming has been her.
aided, were only a tribute to his great
genius as . soldier and his SURPRISING ex-
c~el1ence Is q statesman. That on his part
1t has bsen only q pleasure trip, prompted
by . necessity for rest, as we'll as . laud-
able pursuit of knowledge, which can only
be acquired by travel and personal OBJ
servation.
But 10 there no other object than this ?
II there no other motive, no deeper design
than . mere love Of pleasure and acquisi-
ton Of inowledgef
Let us see. 1t is well known that Gen.
ersl Grant is and has been the prime favor
tie Of the moneyed powers Of the land.
He has been the object Of their constant
adulation and unstinted praise. He has
been the grateful recipient Of their bounty
and the willing taker Of their gifts. He
has been the depository Of. their conf
dences and the ally Of their schemes. He
hiss been one to whom they looked with
the most confident hope. when they
thought their Golfers might be menaced by
any lawlessness Of the masses. He has
been the one only, through whom and by
by whom, any plan that suggested itself to
to their minds, Of a strong, centralized
government could successfully be carried
out. He has been the one to whom
they have looked as their bulwark against
any popular uprising.
This class, we honestly believe, would
welcome . change in our whole govern
mental fabric. They would willingly see
this country under the control Of q dicta-
tor, king or emperor, provided they them
selves would not lose by the change. This,
they know, they would not. Their
the strong lever by which they would
surely be lifted to title and place.
They and their children would become the
titled aristocracy, who could sniff plebian
blood afar and would avoid as contagion
the contact Of lowly birth. 1t would be
theirs to command, urs to obey; they and
their children to act the lord, we and ours
TO play the serf; theirs to domineer, ours
10 cringe, or deprecate their august dis
pleasure.
Il this state Of things to be feared? We
do not say it will come; but that it is to be
feared we as honestly believe as we believe
the day Of General Grants arrival at home
will surely come. We will in the near
future give our reasons for this belief, as
also what connection we think the present
pleasure tour of General Grant has with
the moneyed power Of our land, but at
present We have extended this article be-
yond the limits at first purposed.
Our object at present is to call the
attention Of the people to the ominous
state Of things which now exists.
Let the people think.