The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-25
GRANT.
Louie Dishes the General Up in
Fine Style.
SAT- LAKE CRY, Jan. %, 'S4

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. %, 'S4.
To the Editor of THE HERALD.
1 wonder when the American people
will get tired of toadying to that paragon
las one is led to suppose) of implied
greatness-General q. S.Grant ,ex- Presi-
dent of the United States of America.
Oh, if General Grant is pauper on
$4,000 a year, why l only wish that
and all of my friends were paupers like
wise, General Grant served the coun-
try as general of the army-for pay
just as all other officers did. He re-
ceived his pay in full and has been paid
ten times over, have 20 doubt, for
said services, the American people have
been making themselves a conspicuous
set of asses ever since. When man
has received the pay Grant has as Gen
eral and the salary of President for eight
years, goes on q jaunt around the world
(where he ought to have learned some
thing by experieuce6 is toadied to on
both sides of the water, takes up his
residence in New York, boasts that the
family did not know what their posses
sions were in the shape of valuable pre-
sents (of which there were some eighty
orninety packages), deliberately trusts
his money in other hands because he
did not know it was loaded(. loses all
except few hundred thousand-it
simply shows that he has bee in his
hat andiis not yet sufficiently educated
up to the fact. And now, just because
he had the instructive courtesy to tender
General Lee" his sword, at the time
Lee had no ouse for it., when, perhaps,
he recognized his, equal or superior in
some respects, because he thought that
the men would need their horses to tend
their farms, after their defeat as SOL
diers. and leaving families for years,
| perhaps, to find them destitute when he
returned-he must be lauded to heaven.
The ;priyates that did the fighting (now
1 mean on both Sides) can 20 home
and go to work; Grant, Is too good
to work; he must be toted on pillow
of down all his life, r according
to some peoples ideas. Grant is no
better in my estimation than any other
soldier who served his country faith
fully and honestly; their lines did not
| happen to fail in such pleasant places
as his, that is ALL They could not all
be generals land must all have been
killed, for now you never hear of a
private, but the country is alive with
| generals, colonies, majors aud captains) {;
but they did the fighting and endured
the hardships, and after all they saved
this great and glorious Union that takes
so much fraud and corruption to keep
afioat Grant gave his services TO his
country and got his pay. and big pay at
that. There were thousands of men
who gave not only their services for
small pay, but gave their lives in defense
of their country; those men to-day
sleep in unknown and unmarked graves.
/ They were as dear to their wives and
/ little ones, as Grant is to his family
yet their wives are bending over the
wash tub, day after day, to support
those fatherless little ones, with not
even the comfort of knowing where
their beloved companions sleep. Good
ness mel If Grant were dead, the
American people would be ready on an
/ hours notice to start subscription of a
million dollars for a monument, and
no doubt they would insist on having it
a little - Just q little - higher than
George Washington Grant would
do well to dispose of all of those little
! trinkets and baubies, presented to him
by those fanatics = to Uncle Sam. -
to be kept as an exhibition of the shall
l0wness of great heads-and take the
proceeds to erect schools and colleges
for the education of the rebellious or
phans; and when he goes to that bourne
from whence no body ever comes back
any more, his victory would be com
plete, and bis last virtue em9lated 10
the skies. Oh, give us q rest. Tam
/ tired LoFIE