New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-10


He ought to have into the Northern Pscncs with
schurZ and the rest"
The man who gave away land grant to get a piece of
newspaper and dropped out Of that he doesn't
ike that Fort Smith bond matter in the year Fastdi
Gus peder cuss,
Inc Political Economist Ia n mysterious tadpole-
sohethlng between dreamer and discharged book
Keeper There is no such profession political econO
INST out there are more people in that business than
Know Of When the whole world of industry is bravey
uolhg Its duty and in politics leading their
parties gaanty and each person takes up that which is
appointed Tor him 81 do discharges his task and
Deu and sleeps the Political Economist perpleXed with
thousand seli-inFicted horrors Like Old Nautilus he
sees populations increasing fast and therefore does
not marry till he il forty years old Like Adam Smith he
Is throwing his eyes toward the American colonies and
seeing their Increase under the twin benefits Of distance
ahu liberty, and he draws general inference from
Inose reports and Immediately becomes authority to
uelude unstudou- young The Political Economist
never has any constituency because he has patience
WIN man In the concrete. He thinks he knows IL all.
empirical ~ the whole matter Is, and II plain person
u'Tputes with him he calls the latter fool COnse-
Pnety there s Congress for him get into but
hhu oil newspaper review AMI there ne sits exclam
ing against his times calling tho sunshine moonsine.
calling the public mposor. declaring that the
Republic Is ruined by absurd doctrine nnd that
cn'y we shall have coal I'm the ground water In the
streams, no woods the hills He can find nobody
a. hand To do him honor he writes letter to
oner writer In another part ~ the world and the two
confer with each other by mail and conclude 70 have
society which they call ny big aoundug name and
invite other dculcd people 10 Join aud II they can by
any means so public man In q member they show
now pcfoci Ia ihrlr dnlary ~ Position by Immediately
t" ing around him. bowling 10 the ground ana calling
MN th' only pofrrt wonder ~ ha day Emhatird labor
iaaoH Ia splendid strurica. sacrificing millions pay
against the sky aud Tho ap. oi cIlIes break the level NJ
the praHes, public men throw themselves generously
into the Increase and promotion o their country but the
Political Economist Is sitting down Ia the ash heap
throwing old cnders no people of ,euse aud expecting
some DAY % arrive when lac Will he tn standard of
nors and mental health.
Observe . few people hereahont for whom Mr Blaine
Is not good enough. He Is good enough for Mrs Gar
field, who knew him ~ time when every IN the
country trying ncte her against him in order to
compel his retirement from the Cabinet. had letter
from Mr. C. o. Rockwell only last week. saying that the
whole household OF Garfield tendery espousng the
OF Blaine and putting up their prayers for him
every night. What picture this Is compared to the
wandering lecturer schurz who has exhausted his
playing the great telling the people in
Brooklyn some say even those of his orphan children
too that Blaine is holy enough for him. Gaterld"
says Rockwell loved and trusted Blaine more than
any other man"
The White House has been pure homestead. The first
President who went there took the ablest woman who
probably was mistress OF that building into II.
Abigail Adams.-the mother of another President Then
Jenersou's matronly daughter, and Madson'a
beamng WIFE and MonrOe's demure family, and the
second Adams with hs Maryland-bred wife hose father
had been a foreign consul when they married. An
drew Jackson, freshly wdowcr, sat there with the
family his nephew and adopted Van Buren,. Wife
bia will
gentleness that they almost public In their
teens Tyler wept his dying wife and received his
pure bride in that old building which Is coeyal with
Washington himself Mrs Polk, without children but
with those gracious instincts which yet preserved in
her happy age ministerrd here There Zachary Taylor
took the domestic honor of a soldier with or the
habits OF the camp Mr. Fillmore demeaned himself there
almost "a happily General Arthur later kept In honor
able sentiment with the homes Of the country 10y the uni
knowledge that he had loved1hs wife and never
replaced her. Buchanan disappointed in early love,
brought his niece give at maiden and womany
resr.t IN his table Lincoln saw his child die there and
shed the tears which consecrate the spot o family deli
cacy and household honor Through the aborous years
of Grant his wife withdrew from him that protec
which u better than friendship and lie married his
daughter while In the office. Mrs. Hayes made by her
beauv and Christian nature aquiet fame there which
those only sheer who degrade themselves When that
house oses sancty representative Of the Amcri
can home let the lightning select It for ravage and de-
cay!
A near as 7 can get 40 IL from general review ~ al
that Is said against Blaine, think he must have offended
the literary clique by the great sale Of his book can
mud nothing all they talk about to account for SO
much waste or paper and COMPOSITION. But be not faint
hearted gentlemeG Your cannot consist In de-
srovine the sale Of his book but y0u may take heap Of
oy n you like in the fact that he has the next volume
vet to write and 10 Il pretty hard work That IA the only
victory you will get ont Of this campagn-thc fact that
no must sweat that second volume. II Is cruel 10
add the next sentence but spirit Of mischief compe
H. The man likes to work. A the cholera seems TO be-
thinning out la Europe ana ship can take the entire
dude marty over the only relief before them IL 10 over
and have a Congress ~ Political Economists somewhere
and meantime let blaine he nauguratcd and when you
come back nobody will remember how absurd you were
81 have bcen lauruidly. yet not without amusement
reading Lord snccrs performance In defence OF VII
t1ovcIanl'a baoholorhood. It mighty awkward but
ord guorra drrary columns nrta at timoa be awkward
Ia order 10 wake no tho slecpcrl Ia said that to" co
slant harmony requires dscod h"W atd ih'n 7" hi'aH
tho strain. This the cair when tho ufsi Hrt''
cnfno ont showing that because Tho woman WA widow
had boon no great orpuoo Ia put hes In the nhato y
inn take away her child aud give her 1000 nHh hohlo
eoupruzntinu IiuL the moral school exclaimed ThH
will not do. Perhaps widow Il after AL woman
widows have gwen birth 10 very remarh"oo sons
article ~ long 40 You can Httrtoh OUT
both your arms n 10 this solution Hal ~ ho 49,
we Will take thu opinan OF HIN nclghbor upon hih'
INT IA tile only true te- ~ virtue but observed
that Lord eneer refused take the opinion ~ the state
OF Maine on Mr. Blame where he never was accused OF
any such performance Il being defended on the otner
side yet taken honor that state oap"ole
Of giving and is going To take the next The next Pres
dent will be living OF the motto OF tue state OF
Maine Dirigo" A General Grant says, when Blaine
is President he will indeed Direct.
The present political campaign will have one great
bencncent result: IL will compose the minus OF tho
American people and restore that faith IN their Govern
ment which republican society ought always 10 nave
r the nst innrteen vears tho newspaper press OF our