Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-01-21
Is 1T WORTH vyHILEs

The death of Schuyler COlfax
and the present pitiable position Of
Grant should carry to the mind of
every ambitious politician lesson
well worth the needing.
Is it worth the while to be great?
IF every man who is just now up
on the threshold of political ca
reer could read the lives and the
endings of those whom the world
has allowed to stand upon pedes-
tails, the information conveyed
would doubtless set him thinking
The tongue of calumny,th mach
nations of jealousy and the shafts
of envy allow no great man to lay
down in his grave in peace. No
matter how great power he may
WELD or how high he may rise in
the estimation Of his fellows, the
sappers and miners are at work and
then it all crumbles in night,
foundation, pedestal and idol. Col
fax stood high above his fellow
men as honorable and great until
the lying testimony Of Cakes Ames
sent him into the mire. Years af-
forwards it was shown conclusively
that Colfax was an injured man
and guiltless, bat none OF the news
papers, who had maligned him, re-
tracted a word, and the lying, flip
pant tongues that had delighted to
jibe and harass his name only re-
doubled their vile work. Colfax
went down to his grave with trou-
bled spirit full Of loathing and bit
terness at the injustice of fate.
Only a few years ago Grant had
the world at his feet A grateful
country showered upon him the
highest honors within its gift and
the principalities Of Europe WED
with each other In endorsing what |
had been done by his countrymen.
He had stood immovable amid
the shock and tempest Of war and
with his invincible sword restored
intact the greatest power among
the nations Of the world.
Where is he now?
Wrecked in finance and reputa-
ton, overwhelmed with disasters
and almost dependant upon the
charities of Shylocks. Think of a
man who took the sword of Lee
and led the battles of the Wilder
ness, PROSTATE at the feet of the
money kings of Wall street?
Call to mind the fate of poor old
Horace Greeley, one Of the ablest
and pureot men of America, lam
pooned to his grave by the vile
pencil of Mast, and receiving from
the American people such return
fer life's work in the service Of q
principle that the Constitution of
the United States now endorses,
that his big heart broke and his
mind parted under the strain. Yet
it must be borne in mind that for
, arrying out this same principle
John Brown went q felon to the
scaffold, and Lincoln won for him
self imperishable memory.
Webster, Clay and Calhoun daz-
zled the nation and they were
trampled under the feet Of it.
Conkling, Blaine and Garfield
have travelled the SINE road and
reached the same dark, forbidding
goal. They hayc all been covered !
with slime aud filth, the tribute Of
the little minds to the great ones.
Take list of the great men of
the nation, who twenty years ago
almost wholly controlled its des-
tines and there is not one left that
has not been stricken down by ma
lice envy and cowardice.
In this respect America has sim
ply followed the example set by
other nations. Cortez, after his
conquest Of Mexico was snubbed
and insulted upon the streets Of
Madrid by churlish rabble with the
Kings approval.
Columbus was loaded with chains
for discovering a new world, and
Napoleon passed his last years
looking over the restless sea, from
Elba, in vain hope that he might
catch the CLEAN of French sail