The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-30

The public will be glad to learn,
no doubt, that the presidents Vel
lowstone trip is not to cost the tax
payers an extra farthing. The as
surance that the expedition is made
under the auspices of the war de-
partment, and that the president is
only an invited travelling companion
of General Sheridan, may be ac-
cepted as true, probably, and all
further criticism as to the expense
withheld. There is a side of this
story, however, which deserves the
severest criticism. What good
reason can be given why the presi-
dent and heads of departments
should go on such junketing excur-
sions at all, either at their own eX-
pense or that of somebody else?
The president is elected to act as
the chief executive of a great ma
ton, the seat of whose government
is at Washington, not ia the Yellow
stone country. His cabinet officers
are appointed to aid him in the dis
charge of his executive duties, not
to spend their time in making po-
litical speeches in Ohio, or trying to
be elected United States senator in
New Hampshire. 1t is not enough
to demand that these junketing and
political expeditions should be made
at the expense of the junketers.
The public should demand and in
sist that public officials, from the
president down, shall remain at
their posts and perform the duties
in person for which they were elect
ed or appointed. If those who ac-
cept Office are not willing to do this
they should get out of the way for
somebody who will. Government
by clerk is new thing in the science
of American administration, and it
should be abandoned before it has
grown into custom. The people
should make themselves heard on
the subject in the most emphatic
manner Philadelphia Times.
DR.. Norvin Green, the telegraph
magnate who has been making a
visit in Europe, was given ban
quet in London on the evening of
the 3rd inst, by the officers of some
English telegraph companies; and
in the course of his response to the
personal toast he remarked that
''here in England was the money
center where every conceivable in
dustry and enterprise in every
country was owned and controlled.
Here mightier still were the i'm
mense Investments in the bonds of
every country which, amounting to
81, 900, 900 in the United States
bonds, must be triple that amount
in those of other lands. America
was paying England $l20,000, 900
interest per annum, the greater
part of which returned through the
balance of trade In her favor and
the profits thereon. Almost every
state and county in the United
States had some part of its domain
mortgaged in the interest of British
bondholders. America had not
done i'll by making these heavy liza
DittllSS- OnG was 1OuA5 1hN s5tON
ing, with vast and undeveloped re-
sources. Railroads had vastly ad-
vanced the worth of her produc-
tions. To build them we had to
borrow, for we never could wait.
A $75 medal is given annually to
the best Greek scholar in the high
school at Newport, r. l. This
year a colored girl, the daughter Of
George Rice, the steward on the
steamer Pilgrim, passed the best
examination, but beng girl, could
not be given the medal. which vent
to-a young gentleman. A wealthy
New Yorker, hearing of this, sent
the girl, anonymously, seventy five
dollars in gold money. 1t is a re
markable fact that the best pupils
in this high school have been col
ored girls several years in success
sion Frank Leslie's.
Fashion Is the race OF the rich to
get away from the poor, who fol
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