The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-06
TINES CHANGES.
What the Author Of the Bad Boy
Thinks Of the Man with $50
Pairs Of Pants.

SAAu3 Days
"Mr. Arthur expected to leave
New York for West Point early in
the day on Friday, bat he delayed
his departure in order to visit mis-
dentist in the afternoon. The re.
suit was that General Sheridan,
General Merritt and the Military
Academy band were kept waiting
for him at the wharf at West Point
until after midnight"
What change a few years hes
made in Mr.. Arthur. Previous to
his elevation to the Presidency,
Sheridan and the rest of the army
officer, including the Military
Academy band, would have seen him
in the Five Points before they
would have remained on a wharf till
midnight waiting for him to show
up. They would have gene to bed
and let the driver come when he got
ready, and walk up to the Academy
without any band. Then he was
only ward politician, and walking
was good enough for him, and he
could keep step to any kind OF
music. Then, II he had a tooths
ache he would have put some cot
ton in it, soaked in whisky, and gone
to meet his engagements, and let
the tooth ache, and the fellows
would have joked him about it, and
he would have smiled sickly smile,
and perhaps swore little. Now he
is the same man, only promoted to
higher Office, and the greatest sol-
der of the world and the most clio
quent statesman wait his bidding as
though he were a little tin god
on wheels, and his toOthache is
an excuse for delaying trains
blocking the railroad and steam boat
systems of continent, and caus.
ing Phil. Sheridan to stand on o
wharf on the Hudson river till
midnight, with his martial clcas
around him, not even daring tc
swear at the deliberate Washington
dentist who was menkeyipg with
the great mans teeth. What 8
great country this lie, that car
transform O common man from s
dependent to the worlds greatest
citizen, an uncrowned king, a
whose feet other great men sit an(
worship. But year from now al
will be changed, and the man WHIT
now causes a nation to hold it,
breath and walk garg planks be
cause his tooth aches, will see hin
go into retirement, to keep hens
perchance, and IL he does not get Il
q place appointed at the tim,
|appointed, the procession will
move without him, ant
nobody will know that he did no
Ishow up, as long as the other mac
who is to take his place, gets there
sPower ia great thing if one conlt
keep IL at all times, but to be a,
powerful To-Day, holding pations il
ones hand, with millions OF peopl
hanging on the words uttered ant
watching every move, and TO be de
posed tomorrow, and 60 back int,
the ranks, and not have a dozen o
the former worshipers care CONT
mental whether ones hens lay plent,
of eggs or 20 farrow. not car
whether the once powerful man ta
enough to eat in the house. must b
"tuff," as the boys say. Arthur,
Ia feared, does not appreciat
the change that is coming over hin
Now railroads are only too anxiou
to provide him with special car
and trains, and side track all oihe
trains that he may go over tn
country quickly and In safety, an
the best cooks and caterers in th
world vie with each other to prt
vide him with toothsome di.hee
After the 4th of March next he wi
be in luck If he can secure q mimic
ter's half fare Communication ticke
and ride on a freight train, and th
caterer Of q free lunch counter wi
be good enough for him. Now, th
choicest wines of the world are i'm
ported for his cellar, and he battle
In champagne that is too costly fc
millionaires, almost. Next yea
the native lager beer or the nois
and airy pop will Ill the achir
void in his human Wine cellar, an
! he will then sigh for the champaign
that this year runs to waste in th
sewer connected with the bat
room. Now, office-holders that
\ had created, and office-seekers tn;
4 desire to be created Office holder
] fawn at his feet and almost mak
him believe he is the greatest ma
of all the earth. Next year they wi
know him only as a last ye I
birds nest, and they will be try
ling to play the same game on a ne
man, who will have other friends
= fawn around him. Verify the poe
ton of O temporarily powerful ma
Is not a happy one, and 1t is no wol
der that those who survive the
term OF sentence to the PresidenC
consider themselves fools for havir
ever taken 90 thankless an Office,
:, puff them up for q few years like
y blown-up bladder, and then pick
hole in ID and let the wind out rig
!, before folks. And yet lots of m,
. want TO be President, notwIthstan
ing.
A Debtors Sermon.