Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-01-24

For Q ~ octave spread Of littleness New
Fork in the matter of the Grant monument Is
he champion. There are twenty men In that
ity any one Of whom could build the mon
lment at its projected cost Of million
lollsrs and never feel it. Less that half
II one Dor cent of Vanderbilfs estate
would have built it. There are fewer than
! dozen men there with swag enough In
heir pockets out Of Grant 4 Wards bank
10 build Il. Yet, after having passed the
round the country for all
Ihese months, the committee have raised
,nly Q little over q hundred thousand
dollars. They are complaining that the
does not seem disposed to help
them, and talk of abandoning the project of
\ monument and erecting bronze statue
with the money they have got. Surely. the
great captain fell among thieves when he
went to New York: and their treatment Of
his remains shows them to be thieves that
there Is not the proverbisl honor among.
Some Of the newspaper Of the country
are catching ON to Whitelaw Reeds picto-
rial exhibition of himself by his own picture
In his own paper. The NewYork Times
says: Upon the pages of the journal he
edits he presents his picture beside, or
rather abope. the i,ortruu Of the man he
dispossesscd 10 get IL. and asks the world
10 note his good fortune and his prosperity -
This form Of vanity Is rare among news
paper editors. but when an editor Is lucky
and gets on in the world II is pardonable
vanity" But we think that it will be the
Judgment Of most newspaper editors that q
man whose vanity erupts thus self-picto-
rally in his own paper is an egregious and
unspeakable ass. If The BOycotter will
put its roaring and raging hostility to the
Tribune on this ground, we shall be in
clined to sympathize with it.
A schcolmarm may be fool. The one
at Nanticoke is fool, and more too. She
has rules, like the Medes and Persians.
One rule Is that the schOOlhOuse door shall
be locked at certain minute, and the little
fellow that gets there after the minute shall
be kept out Two little toddlers, who had
walked nearly mile through cold and snow
the other morning. arrived few second,
after door-closing. They crouched on thu
doorstep, and had nearly frozen when they
were discovered by the neighbors. Tht
schOolmarm, when appealed to, would no
lei them in. Hence we say that there i
now and then q schOolmarm who is fool
Mr.. Jos. Cook, In temperance lectur'
last Sunday, declared that the American
planet. Mr. Jos. Cook lied. The statistic
demonstrate that America stands eleventh
among the principal nations Of Christendon
in the per-capita consumption of spirits an
sixth in that Of malt liquors. We credi
Mr.. JOS Cook with intelligence enough +
know these facts. and therefore We prett,
confidently remark that Mr.. Jos. Cook lied
The South seems to be solid for silver
The South was solid for greenbacKs, If W
remember rightly. The South was soli
for treason and war against the Union
The South was solid for slavery. Tn
South appears to have been naturally soli
for every deviltry against the life, honor
and prosperity of the nation within Il,
memory of the present generation. Sc
the SOuth's sOlidity for silver is not nece.
sarily an argument In favor of silver. :
II any expansive silver blatherskite ca
show reason why the government should g
ON paying two million gold dollars mont
for silver bullion, melting it into dollar
and piling them away In vault, we shout
take pleasure in quoting him. No reasO
has yet been given that is not howlin
idiocy begotten Of swindling.
Greece avows that she will never sheath
her carvingknife till she has had slice Q
Turkey and the Balkan conference Is be
ing provoked to reassemble for the purpOs
Of taking the weapon away from her.
Southern negroes are migrating in larg
numbers to California. They 90 there
work In the vineyards. 1t is good stst
and good climate for them, and they wi
be likely to crowd out the Chinese.