Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-04

are subject to frequent financial conditions
which cause stringency of money and COM
mercial disaster To secure quick fortunes
debts are reeklessly incurred, and debt be-
comes the author of q currency craze.
President Grant set the wholesome fashion
of resisting and reasoning with this frenzy.
Against the advice of his Cabinet and many i
of his party admirers he vetoed the imitation
bill. He had never studied financial prob
lens, and yet the same intuitive grasp of
critical situations which saved the country
from bankruptcy by defeating fiat money,
restored public and individual credit by the
resumption of specie payments.
Dealing With Financial Problems.
The funding of our war debt at lower
rate of interest made possible the magical
payment of the principal. The admission of
last sof the rebel States into the Union, and
universal amnesty for political offenses,
quickened the latent loyalty of the South,
and turned its unfettered and fiery energies
to that development of its unequalled nat
ural wealth which has added incalculably to
the prosperity and power of the Common
wealth.
These wise measures will ever form a bril-
liant page in American history, but the adj
ministration of General Grant will have
place in the annals of the world for inaugur-
ating and successfully carrying out the
policy of the submission of international
disputes to arbitration. The Geneva confer
ence, and the judicial settlement of the Ala
bama claims will grow in importance and
grandeur with time. AS the nations OF the
earth disband their armaments and are gov
erned by the laws of reason and humanity
they will recur to this beneficient settlement
between the United States and Great Britain
and General Grants memorable words upon
receiving the freedom of the City of London:
"Although soldier by education and pro.
fesSion, have never felt any sort of fond
ness for war, and l have never advocated
it, except as q means of peace"-and they
will hail him as one of the benefactors of
mankind.
He has been called silent man, and vet 1
have often heard him hold little company
charm of his conversation. His simple mar
rative was graphic, his discussions lucid,
and subtle flashes of humor sparkled
through his talk. He said that when he
spoke to an audience his knees knocked to-
gether, and this was evident in his manner
and address, but the speech was often well
come message to the country. As he was
speaking one evening with considerable en-
barrassment, he pointed to speaker who
had just entered the hall, and said: "If
could stand in his shoes and he in mine, how
much happier for me and better for you."
Who of this generation could fill that great
place? As the years increase, events crowd
upon each other with such volume, that the
lesser ones are crushed out of memory.
Most regulations are forgotten by the sue
ceeding generation and few survive GEN.
tury.
The Great Names of the Present Century.
In our thousandth year as a nation, the
only statesmen or soldiers of our first
hundred years whose names will decorate
the celebration will be Washington and
Hamilton for the beginning, Webster for the
middle periods and Lincoln and Grant for
the close.
General Grant was the product and repre-
sentative of the best element of our social
life. Home and its associations have been
the training and inspiration of our greatest
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class which had neither poverty nor riches,
and which was compelled to work for the
support of the family, and the education of
the children. Its members are God-fearing
men and loving, self-sacrif1cing women. It
gave us Lincoln from the farm, Garfield
crowded house 6f the brave and
struggling widow, sherman from the
humble cottage and Grant from
of the Ohio wilderness. These men never
lost their sympathy with every human lot
and aspiration, or the homely simplicity of
their early conditions and training. Grant
was clerk in the Custom House and Presi-
dent of the United States, Lieutenant in
Mexico and Communicating Chief of the
armies of, the Union, numbering over mil
ners firm at Galena, and the guests of EN-
perors and Kings. But the memory of the
church of his mother was evervisible in his
reverent regard for her teachings.
Some of Grants Memorable Words.
Through the verses of great poets runs
familiar strain, through the works of great
composers an oft repeated tune, and through
the speeches of great orators recurring and
Characteristic thought. These are the germs
which exhibit the moving forces of their
minds. During the war 81 propose to move
Immediately upon your works. 'Uncondi-
tional surrender" 81 shall take no backward
step;'' 81 propose to fighti it out on this line
if it takesall summer" are the beacon lights
of the plans and strategy of Grant the SOL
dier. At Appomattox, "The war is over,
the threshold of the Presidency, "Let us
have peace;n on HIS bed Of agony on! and death
speech was gone writing to- q Confederate
General by his bedside, Much l,Sl as ! suffer,
be accomplished tho union of my country
are the indices of the labors, the aspirations
and the prayer of Grant, the statesman and
the patriot.
DAISY Corn CURE relieves at once and