Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-02-05
A Republican view.


Gen. Grant is penniless, and hi.
| friends are raising the regular annua
subscription for him. However, he il
not so darned penniless, having an in.
)me of S25, 900 a year from the funt
raised him few years ago, which is 81
invested that he cannot touch the
principal. But fifteen thousand a veal
is not much for a man who has fami
ly to support. Poor Grant, how the
sympathies of the people go out to him
What a fool he made of himself in al.
lowing himself and his friends to be
beaten out of millions of dollars by the
three-card-monte man, Ferdinand
Ward. Grants only object in going
into the banking business with that
thief was to find soft place for his
sons, who do not seem to have sense
enough to go in when it rains. Ward
baited the hook with a golden spoon,
and trolled it thro the Grant family
and every last one of them bit like
bass, and got the hook in so firmly
that they were hauled cut. Other
lesser fish saw the Grants on the hook
and as the spoon was still whirling in
the waters of Wall street they all
fought to get on the hook, and when
they were all on, and no more would
bite, the fisherman drew them ashore.
General Grant was hurt the worst, as
the hook not only in his mouth but in
his feelings, in his heart. Friends are
now trying to remove the hook from
the brave old mans vitals, and if they
succeed in getting it out, he will swim
for time, but he will never be the
same sucker that he was. The marks
of the hook will always be there. He
will see other alluring baits, and will
turn and swim the other way, but
some day he will nibble again, unless
his piscatorial and financial keepers
muZzle him. He ought never to be al
lowed to control a dollar except enough
to pay necessary expenses, and it would
be best, perhaps, instead of giving
money to him to give il to his hired
girl, who would show some Judgment
in expending it. A man who has done
as much for the country as Grant has
should never be allowed to want for
anything, but it is a question how to
relieve him. If the Democratic ad-
ministration should put Grant on the
retired list of the army with full pay,
it would be noble thing to do, but
there ought to be some person to draw
the money, in whom the people have
confidence, SO that it would not be
spent to support his calves of sons, who
seem to be damage to the old man.
Let the hired girl draw the money and
spend it, and let the boys be put to
work splitting cord wood. and the
grand old man might pass the remain
der OF his days in peace, or let the
father-in-laws of the boys support
them, and keep them away from the
general except, at Christmas. when
they could visit their father, draw their
presents off the Christmas tree regu-
larly, and go back home. The trouble
of the boys is they have got the big
head, and want to live like millionaires,
OH somebody else's money. They feel
that because their father is loved. by
the whole country, they are entitled to
a share of that love. They act as
though they thought if it had not been
for them, General Grant would not
have attained SO high place as mill
tary man as he has. 1t may he SO.
but the people do not look at it that
way. No one wishes General Grant a
of sorrow during his life, but
he is no man to attempt to attend to
his own business and ought to have a
n.-Blanchester Star.