The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1881-07-23
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The Garfield Fund.

ed 'mendicant fund" and is meet
ing with disapproval from all parts
of the country. Should the president
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able to make living for her. She
would have a good farm and would
receive $4,000 in cash upon life in
snrance polcy carried by the presi-
dent. Besides this congress would
undoubtedly vote to give her one
half of the salary, 100000, which the
president will receive in case he lives.
General Grant is the only president
of the United States who ever re-
ccived presents in the shape of land
ed property while in office or who
ever lived upon money raised for
him by subscription after he retired
from the executive chair. History
proves that every other chief magis-
trate of this great country, when his
official career had ended in that
capacity, deemed it an honor to once
more enter into the fields of labor
and be known as common citizen
The attempt to make this last fund of
a national character will not help it
any. The following are some news.
paper extracts upon the subject:
Says the st. Louis Post-Dispatch !:
"Cyrus w. Field, who has charged
himself with the duty of raising a
fund of $250,000 for the benefit of
Mrs. Garfield and her children, has
telegraphed to the editor of the Gin
cinnati Gazette that contributions
will be received from all quarters OF
the country and in sums VARYING
from penny to 100000. That
seems to be the limit. BY taking
penny subscriptions the fund Will be
made national in character and the
rich men, who started the thing will
not be allowed to appropriate all the
glory But the question arises: If
President Garfield recovers win he
permit his wife to accept this charity?
we have understood that Mr. Gar
field differed in some respects from
Grant. We shall see whether the
gift enterprise business is to be re-
established in the White house"
The Denver Tribune says: "The
most disagreeable feature of the Field
gift is the fact that it will come from
class Of men who have never been
anything but speculators in Ameri-
can credits, and who have run them
down or up just as they pleased and
according to their own plans for per-
sonal gain. The patriotism of lot
of stock jobbers is never of high
order. There is not one of them who
would not break the commercial
strength of the nation if, by SO doing
he could put a round sum of money
IN his pocket. General Grants ac-
ceptance of the mendicant sum which
was raised for him was in disgrace
fully bad taste, and it is to be hoped
that President Garfield's wife will
not follow in his footsteps. The cus-
tom Of making president of the
United States recipient of charity is
one which is humiliating in the ex-
'reme to the republic, and it ought
TO be discountenanced. Field, Gould
ana the rest OF the crowd engaged in
the present movement all expect to
get an equivalent in some way. and
they are not men to whom the presi-
dent can afford to extend anv fayors
The money they are raising ought to
be refused"
The New York Evening Post saws
THE change in its form from nri.
Vate to national Subscription can
have little or no effect upon this. IT
necessarily remains, as it originated,
funG set on foot by number of
"eil-known capitalists. That these
gentlemen are simply animated by
generous sympathy does not alter
this fact it is just this association
that renders it the duty of the presi.
dents friends TO point out the infer
ences that will be drawn from il
hereafter. Among the subscribers
are men interested in the promotion
by legislation at Washington of pri-
vate enterprises of all sorts. This
ieslsIation must come before the
president for approval or disapproval
and 1t is of the utmost importance
not merely that he should .be subject
TO no private bias in favor of the
promoters of such enterprises, but
that he should not be open 10 any
suspicion of such bias. The general
sympathy with him in his present
critical condition should not blind
us to the fact that his acts will bere-
after be criticised with all the fierce
ness and Ingenuity that party. spirit
can supply, and that the acceptance
OF money by his wife at the hands of
men who are knocking every year ut
the doors. of congress for favors will
lie handle for his enemies which
The, wifihot neglect to use. Human