Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-13
THE MRS. GARFIELD FUND.

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THE MRS. GARFIELD FUND.
n Sensible Proposition to Make it Nation
al Subscriptions
New York World, July 81
Nothing could have been more prompt
and more creditable than the action taken
by the chamber of commerce on Friday,
at the special meeting called to take &C
ton upon the murderous assault upon the
President of the United States. 1t is al
ways pity when generous and sympa-
thetic impulse, like that which has thrill
ed the people of this country for the past
week, is allowed to evaporate and pass
away in feelings or in words, and to close
the name of action" In this case it would
be peculiarly pity. 1t has become Sc
rious question of late what provision the
country should make for its surviving
Chief Magistrates in justice to their SER
vices and to it's own dignity, and meth
DDS have been suggested which
NAV have been the best of which
the cases admitted, but which
were perhaps hardly suitable to the dig
nifty of great nation providing for the
most eminent of it's public servants. This
question, thanks to the prompt generosity
of the members of the chamber of COM
merce, may solve itself in the case of
President Garfield. At the same time it
is scarcely just, and no doubt the mem
bers of the chamber of commerce would
admit it to be scarcely just, that the sense
which the whole nation entertains of the
insult and injury done to the whole nation
in the assault upon its chief magistrate
should be practically expressed only by
what may be described as syndicate of
rich men in the metropolis of the country
The calamity is national; let the acknowl
edgment of it be national also. There is
scarcely an American citizen, whatever
his occupation, however rich he may be
or however poor, who has not during the
past week wished that some way were
opened to him by which he might fifty
express his Indignation at Guiteau's
crime and his sympathy with the
immediate victim of that crime and with
his stricken family A way has now
been suggested by the chamber of COM
merce, the members of which, we feel
sure, would be the last men to wish that
any American citizen should feel himself
excluded from joining their excellent and
praiseworthy work, either from want of
opportunity or, what is practically as
much of an obstruction, by reason of his
inability to approach the large amounts
of the individual subscriptions already
set down. 1t is, perhaps, most seemly
that such proposition should proceed
from the political opponents OF President
Garfield. The World, therefore, proposes
national subscription, in the sum of s.
and upwards, for the purposes and under
the conditions set forth in the subscrip-
ton list drawn up by Mr.. Field and circu-
lated among the members Of the chamber
of commerce on Thursday-that is to say:
Edwards fund to be deposited with the
United States Trust company, in trus-, to be
kept invested in United States government
bonds. the income thereof to be paid to Mrs.
Garfield, the wife of the President, during her
life, and at her death the principal to be divl-
ded among the surviving children of James
A. Garfield"
The World will receive and acknowl-
edge, as the senders may indicate, such
sums as may be sent to its Office for this
purpose, and will pay the amounts over
to the treasurer of the chamber of COM
MERGE fund No doubt our city contem-
poraries will undertake the same office.
But, as we have said, the subscription
ought not to be limited to New Workers
mort to the readers of New York newspa-
pers In every city and village in the
country a similar subscription would be
as eagerly made as in New York, and in
every city and village of the country
which has daily newspaper, that news
paper will be willing to act as the local
depository of the money subscribed. Of
course there can be no doubt that the SUBJ
scription already begun by the chamber
of commerce will be completed to the
limit named by that body. But
the subscription is not merely means of
raising the money. 1t is salso and quite
as much means of giving to every
American who wishes it the privilege of
contributing towards fund which shall
be a practical evidence of the loyalty of
the country to its government and of the
sympathy of the country with its chief
executive officer, in whose person the ma
ton itself has been assailed, and with his
family If the amount thus subscribed
shall even double that originally contem-
plated by the chamber of commerce, there
will be no subscriber to grudge his share
of it, whether it shall prove to be a pro-
vision for the widow and the orphans Of
the President of the United States, or, as
now most happily seems much more
probable, thank offering for his recov-
ery from murderous assault.
THE COURTS.