News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-12
THE GRANT YOUNGSTERS.
WHAT THE WESTERN BAD BOY HAS
TO SAY ABOUT THEM.
As Good Other Boys in Their Way. But
They Trusted Too Much on Borrowed
Capital.

They Trusted Too Much on Borrowed
Capital.
''Oh, the Grant boys are like lots of !
other boys all over the country" said |
the Milwaukee bad boy, ''and Grant is |
like many fathers of less business sagac- |
ity. Grant is a good man to sit around
and draw pension. and wait for another |
war. He is entitled to live like king, |
and have all his expenses paid by the
government he perpetuated by his mill
tary genius, but he is not equal to run
ming peanut stand. There should be
law prohibiting him from trying to go
into business, and no one should be al
lowed to kanoodle him into the use OF
his name to catch suckers. Grant made
the mistake that nearly all fathers make,
In thinking his sons are smarter than
other boys. Because Grant was sue
cessful soldier, it was no evidence that
his bows were above the average. They
were ordinary boys, had an ordinary ed
ucation, and would have stood as good
a chance as most boys in running gro
Gerry, reporting on a daily paper, or
braking on freight train, and in any of
these positions they might have failed,
and they might have been successful,
and come to the front. But because
their father was a good soldier, the boys
thought they could run business that
would paralyze the ablest fiuancier In
this country, and the poor old father
was induced to believe his boys were
made of better material than other boys,
and he lent his name to their wildcat,
foolish enterprises, and they at once
owned the earth. Some one else owned
the earth under them, but they owned
"a i 1,Tr hno 4 on Il
competed with mlllionaires who had
more money than they could possibly
spend, and for a year or two you have
read more about the style the Grants
were putting on than you have OF the
Astors and Vanderbilts. While the lat
ter were spending money that had al
ready been earned, and laid up, the
Grant boys were discounting the future
and spending money borrowed on the
strength of the name of their pa. Now
that it is over. anybody can see what
fools thew were, and what weak old
father Grant was, and they will drop
down to their level, and If they ever
amount to any thing again, twill be from
what they earn, unless they are weak
enough to help spend the money that a
grateful people contributed to their
father, and l should think they would
be about equal to that emergency. 1t
is a clear case of big head on the part
of the whole family, and nobody is sorry
for any of them except pa and ma. 1t
is not entirely the common boys like me
that make trouble for parents. You
would think fiat the sons of great men,
statesmen, soldieTs and scholars, would
be perfect models for us boys to go by,
but l read that such boys are more apt
to be swindlers, drunkards. spendthrifts
and dudes than ordinary boys. And
great men, from the president down,
have many heartaches, and pass many
sleepless nights, thinking of sons who
are doing their best to bring the gray
hairs of their parents in sorrow to the
grave. tell you parents that only have
a few jokes played on them, are in luck.
If Grants boys had initiated their pa
into Masonry, and given the goat de-
gree, as me and my chum did my pa
Grant would have picked himself W
and felt good deal better than he doe
to be initiated into the 'One Thousand
And One,' where the first degree i
petit larceny the second degree oh
tanning money on false pretences, an
the third degree highway robbery"