The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-05-18

meqitated a PAST SALARY GRAB. Il,
this general reduction bill, printed
copies Of which he had the kindues.
TO send 10 many of US last fall.
didn't he express his willingness To
do the work for - 900 a years By his
! own figures, therefore. as 10 the act
/ ual cost of clerk couldn't he have
continued to pay clerk out of his
900 and still have retained II 800
4 year more than he last year
thought his services were worth.
But, says Mr.. Grady again. "Dr..
Thompson may ask why | do not pay
ny clerks salary out of my own
pocket | did do this during the two
sessions Of the - Congress when
found it impossible to do all my
work myself, and | am willing to
continue doing so if all the Congress
men We're required To do it But IS
Senators and about 10 Representa-
tlves, ehairmen of do-nothIng com
mittees, are allowed clerks at pub
he expense, and the man who under
takes to repeal the laws making this
allowance, although as wise and pa
trlottc- as DR.. Thompson will find
himself dartIIg straws at the north
wind Read that remarkable par
agraph again, and read it slow, 1t
dccs llot APT ear that the business of
the Senate and of do-nothing com
mlttces is expedited by the having
Of clerks. How then would the hav-
ing of clerks expedite the business
Of "do nothing" House, On the
10th day of last September. Mr..
Grady, while speaking at Warsaw,
said as excuse fer failure in some
performance. contrary to northern
sentiment, that "the South is still a
conquered people," | feared then
what Is evident now, that Mr.. Grady
was conquered man. One blast of |
this north wind un-nerves him polit- |
ically. and he quietly turns and darts
straws with it. The man who we
depend upon to stand in the way of |
the progress of evil, even if he could
IN overcoming evil with |
good, attempts in his despair to over
come evil with evil. He tells us our
estimate of his sturdiness was incor-
rect. He illustrates in his surrender
the condition of ''prostratIon with
and thinks it necessary
to do something, whatever that some
thing may be. Here's the sentiment
Of Mr.. Grady's explanation of his
vote: When you cannot suppress
an evil, help If on. When you can
not suppress an evil, help it on.
When you cannot economize, extrav-
agate. Do something. When YOU
cannot withstand the Persian, open
Thermopyloe and ravage your coun-
try with them; they are no better to
have urdeserved booty than you.
Never let anybody get ahead of you,
keep even with the foremost, even
N SIN. Upon such counsel, Abraham
would have remained in the land of
his fathers, and Paul would have be-
come the mouth-piece of Jupiter and
caesars bosom friend, and to-day
every lover of morality, every advo-
cate OF temperance, every preacher
If Christianity would say, "seeing
We cannot abolish these evils anv
more than we can dart straws against
Ho MI III "ihu, lcI US practice vice |
ind drukenness and all unrighteous-
less" But is not supposed that
hel would make public the cause of
heir fall from grace.
A certain man had two sons, who
we're in the habit Of playing cards
Lgalnst their fathers will, after sew
raj remonstrances the father pun
shed them for their conduct. They '
hen found new place, on log in
he woods. The father in angry ;
earch of them, spied them through
he bushes. Stopping a moment, he .
'ecame greatly interested in the =,
came. He walked up quietly and
aid to the terrified boys, you know
is wrong to play, and I've tried
ard to break you from it. But | {
night as we'll be darting straws
gainst the north wind. So if you s
WILL play, square around and deal !
our old dad hand.r Such is the !
tand Mr.. Grady has taken. A good !
un would have been better. ,
G. THOMPSON.