Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-05-10

opponents than he has done i'm
choosing the instances quoted.
LOngfellow, Irving and Haw-
thOrne were at least as devoid of
snobbery as Dickens and Thack-
cray, both of whom refused the
empty honor of nobility, as
Gladstone also refused it more
than once. His inferior rival Dis
raell grasped it; but "Dizzy'' al
ways WAS barbaric in his tastes
and addicted TO gorgeous raiment.
1t is not easy to imagine Custer
or Kearney or their splendid
soldiers fighting my more gal
lantly even if they knew that a
whole shop of ribbons and but
tons We're to reward their valor.
Grant was brave man, but he
dlsdained martial millinery and
wore plain clothes whenever he
could escape the obligation of
full dress.
Think of Emerson bemedalled
like a champion bicyclist, or
Whitcomb Riley, William D
Howells, Joel Chandler Harris,
or Mark Twain, eclipsing the
glory of a Coxey's Army parade
by shining at Misunderstanding
IN stars and garters, wampum
and war paint.
Mr.. Smith does lot say just
how his scheme is to be carried
out save that it should be by
1.-The Government" Would he
leave it to the coordinate
branches Of the Government, the
President and Congress? In that
case, what larks Representa-
tive Muggins, of Arizona, would
Brass Nose ring Oh an eminent au-
thor of his district otherwise un-
known to fame. If Representative
Muggins knew his business he
could log roll his bill through
both Houses of Congress, and if
Arizona happened to be doubt
ful State at the moment, no fear
but that the Bard of Tombstone
Gulch would be entitled to a
newer, prOuder honor, and would
make the last surviving Apache
feel insignificant enough in COM
parison when he donned his en-
blems of glory.
Should the President alone be
entitled to nominate candidates?
We have had Presidents who
were not the very best judges of
literature or art on the face of
7 the globe. Some even have in
cautiously confessed their prefer
ences in ''favorite poems, fay
orite writer's of fiction" and what
: not. On the whole it would be
1 wiser to leave the matter to set
tlement by popular vote, or by
national lottery, or perhaps by
"chucking up" a cent in each in
dividual case-heads, the candi-
a date wins; tails, he doesn't.
, No, the country is not really
, pining for an Order of Knight
V hood, nor for an Academy of I'm
mortals, nor for a National
Flower; all three institutions
: having been gravely proposed
@ for public consideration. What
n it wants in the present crisis is
e some sensible legislation in re-
i | gard to wool and iron and pork
and timber, (unhewn and fin
l. ishe0, and coal (anthracite and
e bituminous); together with sew.
= eral other questions such as the
y prevention of Asiatic cholera,
It Apaism and the cattle distemper.
n 1t wants serious and speedy
IS settlement of the industrial dis
). turbances, which shall give the
d workingman twenty one meals {
e week, shelter, clothing and the
l. other neceSSaries and luXuries
IL properly due to honest labor.
;. Heroes are not made by hold
% ing ribbons and buttons befor,
II their eyes. The nation has neve
re lacked men and women ready t,
y give their labor and life, if neces
- sary, for it's honor and welfare
,r and it never shall; but Knight
We hood was discarded along witt
re other swaddling clothes whel
IL young America left it's mother
- apron string a hundred year
~ ago.
u, Mrs. Gadders. II have so muo
IN IN trouble keeping a cook. 1 car
e get one that will stay any longe
,ir than week.