The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-05-31
JOAQUIN MILLER's VIEWS.

rol HloIe Illdll twenty years Nen'
Grant and his sons have assumed to
be the head of this great nation, both
at home and abroad, and it was not
entirely assumption. The Wander
bilts and the Goulds and many
others, whose millions were the out
growth of the war, and who would
never have been heard from perhaps
to any extent but for the favorable
conclusion of it, almost deified this
man, made him really believe him
self almost immortal. The American
press and the American people,
drawn in the wake and whirlpool of
all this wealth, followed blindly and
added its contributions the horses,
the brown-stone houses and the
boundless splendor, till nothing re-
NAMED on earth for this man to
desire. He was more than Alexan-
der, more than Charlemagne by a
great deal Vastly more than Napo-
leon the Great. Yet these three were
industrious, and each left the world
some good precepts and lessons.
And throned on this high pedes-
tai, the favorite of fortune, the pet
of the world for more than twenty
years, what has he said or done or
thought in return? Put your finger
on single sentence worth repeating;
sweep you mind back over all these
twenty years for a single act worthy
of emulation or the honor of remem-
brance. You can find nothing.
CARELESS OF GREAT WEALTH.
My fellow scribe, my earnest
young clergyman, what if you had
been established in that high place
to speak or write from, with all the
world listening, waiting to hear what
you might write or say, so that it
might learn, obey and be happier
and better? Would you have been
so indolent, so self-conscious and
serenely dull? With all the wealth,
all the honor, all the ease that the
world could furnish for twenty
years, would you not have done
better in the end than contribute
your energies TO Wall Street and set
up trap to betray the faith of those
who trusted you? | think so. You
would have given the world some
sweet though, some gentle example
at least; some tender sentiment of
faith, hope and charity to make it
bear its great burdens more patient
ly, to make it better, higher in the
end.
So, right in the face of this scnti-
mental wall and cry of sympathy,
say, no! My sympathy is not with
this man. He had his opportunity
for more than twenty years. Never
on earth had man such an advan-
tage, or for half such a period OF
time. He chose to waste it entirely.
and finally sold his great name for
money, which has slipped through
his indolent and incapable hands
Have | no sympathy, you ask
Yes. But my sympathy is entirely
with those who have been BETRAYED
and defrauded by the use of tho
great name and honors which tho
noble American people so generously
gave him. AS to whether or not ht
knew of what was going on, that is
not important to the verdict which
time must ultimately cast against
him. If hc did not know he should
have known.
GENERAL GRANTS SONS.
As for his sons, what have they
been doing all these years of uncX
ampled opportunity? Has a single
one Of them given the world on,
thing in return for its generous sup
port? Has one of them grown Sc
: much as a single grain Of wheat,
Has any one Of them made as mucl
as single lucifer match? Has any
one Of them taught or tried to tcacl
any lesson at all, either by word q
example?
, ! implorc you to look at thes,
things impartially and you will no
let this costly lesson Of indolcnc,
= and gross incapacity be lost to tn,
! country. Do not think me unkin,
> in the day of calamity. They arr
o all my friends, ! think, so far as the,
n are capable Of being friends to any
. one who earns his bread by toll
" But if YOU have seen. us | have
during the past year or two thei
- prctcntions and dash and insolencc
~ their alliance with the Vanderbilt
and all such as contribute to tn
- carrying forward of snobbcry. yo
n would say with me most hearth
:" that their fall was fortunate indeed
fortunate for the country, fortunat
most especially for the Grants. LC
not this ten million lesson be lost
te An English scientific gentlcma
Il has discovered that gold coins AZ
y, covered with bacteria, which IN
!, liable to produce all kinds of horr
n bic diseases. We have often wor
dercd what was the mysterious caus
which, for many years, has prevent
cd our carrying around gold coin
=" Now we know. No condition {
N impcruniousity will ever induce u
D. to 60 around with a pocket full {
gold hereafter.