Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-12-22

IL - pIONcrD tuAt hcpupllCS arc
ungrateful." In one respect the
American people have been guilty OF
TINS lngratItude. il Is IN making no
provision for the future life of the man
whom they have once elected to be
president. A clear duty rests upon the
people as a nation 10 see TO II that this
wrong 10 righted. Their claim is based
not on the score of gratitude for ser
yicese rendered slone. but the people
need the benefit OF their services in the
future. Here is proposition: Amend
the constitution and create the office
of United States senator at large. which
shall be filed by ex-presidents for life.
A man who has once been president of
this great nation has had euch expert
encs with public questions as can
come TO nobody else. HIS services s:e
needed. What an opportunity for
pure siatesmanship Is afforded by
the creation of the Office here sug-
gested. Untrammeled and free from
all partisan obligation, representative
OF the whole nation, ne will enter the
senate OF the United States with the
single purpose Of giving to his country
MS best services. He will weigh and
pass upon all questions affecting the
welfare of the nation with judicial
impartislity. He will not be controlled,
as representatives OF n single state are
now, by local demands, and COM
PEELED to vote for measures affecting
the nation itself, which his own judg-
ment condemn. The silver question
suggests itself a. once as case in
point. With no such claims upon him,
with no partisan friends to reward nor
political enemies to placate, he goes in
and out of the senate free man. In
this way the country will not only
honor our ex-presidents. but benefit
itself by placing them in . position
where they can work for the glory and
prosperity of the nation. As il is, the
people disgrace themselves in the estI-
mates of the world by banishing our
ex-presdents TO q hennery-if not to a
Eunnery. We compel them, II poor,
TO take up the struggle for bread again;
if rich, to life OF comparative idle
ness. This should be stopped, for the
the reason We need their services and
can beet employ them in the august
body known as the senate.
THERE has never been any claim
made IN these columns that the repub-
lican candidate for district elector was
better than his party; nor that his per-
sonsl popularity was so much greater
than the popularity of the principles OF
his party that he would be elected in
I spite of any opposition. In fact, du-
ring the campaign, no mention what
ever of his name was made in these COL
umns. He is elected by q plurality of
20ll votes. Whether this indicates his
personal popularity or the strength of
republican principles cuts little figure
so long ga he "a elected. There is such
% pe d Esss c between the personal
popularity o. success and ths personal
10 ularity OF de.cat that the public is
quite peteat to form It's own opin-
en-.
DR. FRANK GUSsAUfUs, the eloquent
+ Chicago divine. is 10 be at the head Of
I the new Armour institute. Or. Gun
saulus a one or the most liberal
minded ministers that ever occupied a
pulpit, aud vi fair 70 suppose that
be WI apply IN : hr sdncss and liner
+ Atty o. the management ot the great
lnst'tuuon.
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+ Harvard annex could bring TO the uni
F vervty the sum OF $3.50. 000 in addition
90 "a plant and what it already has. ne
vii use M influences - have u made
T par: Of fhs university. Coeducsuon
Z at Harvard a evidently MISTER of
dollars rather than Of prueipie.
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+ Jnv ersty Of Michigan has been resp
pointed one ef tae regents Of the
Smithsonian Institution. President An
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of the greatest educational Authorities
the country nss prod ucei.
JossFH MASFv, state organizer FOR
the qua7 dealers persisted IN seqnr-
ng elaborate isgs. So The state com
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