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Show I THEY SAY HE IS POOR. Salt Laxi City, Nov. 7, '79. Editors Herald : ' 8ome of the papers, I see, are talking talk-ing about doing something handsome for ex -President U. S. Grant, in the way of prominent public position, important future federal office, because, be-cause, after traveling all around the world, he has come home poor. Probably most people would come homo in a similar condition, alter Buch au extended jaunt, even though in much less pretentious slyle. If I were to travel around the world for pleasure, I presume I should mm. home poor. Yet that would be no good reason why I should be put in tbe presidential chair. Everybody knowa it takes money to travel. Even when received everywhere with prinoely hospitality, tospeDd nothing is mean and one cannot oreditably steal the dimes for divers family a Ld personal expenses, pocket money.preeents and SUCh thinira. R,.t ( D . : a nai uu imperil- ve on Grant to tra?el around the world and take bis family with nim any more than it is imperative on ) Urown, Jones or Robinson to do such a thing. II Grant could not a6ord tbe money to mske such a journey , ha certainly could have staid at home" lust as all other people do, except incorrigible in-corrigible tramps, honorable bilks, and inveterate bummers. That was all the compulsion there was about it. There was no adequate reason why Grant should run around the world for bis own pleasure and then come back home for the taxpayers to gito him another lilt. Mauy of them need the friendly lift more than he does, and ought to have it, il it ie to be a thing of charity. He has been very well paid or his services to his country. While president, hereceived double the salary, part of the time, ever paid to any preceding president, and far more than aoy other public officer had ever received legitimately since the beginning ofthe republic. Now, mind you, I have no enmity towards Grant, either as president or private citizen. Why should I ? In lact I rather like him in some re jspects. He has more sense than many people h.ve, if Dot so much sensibility as some. He might make as good a president, even for a third term, as hundreds of other men would, and hundreds of other men might make as good a president ad he. But then , we can't put everybody we like in the White House, or elae the President Presi-dent would soon become by far too numerous a man. w nac l say is: H Grant has gone and spent all his money traveling in foreign parts, that is his own individual business, and there is no valid reason why the taxpayers tax-payers should reimburse him in any way. If aoybody ohooses to voluu-tarily voluu-tarily help him pecuniarily, all right. There is no objeotion to that. This is a tree country, said to be, and a man can pass his money away to whom he pleases. But if poverty is to be a qualification for the White House, there will be legions of eligible candidates. candi-dates. Pauperism, in one form or another, is not unknown in the land. I agree with your proposition in regard re-gard I o tbe ex-President, to let him alone a little more than he has been of late. Give him a rest, and let him do, like other people, the best he oan for himself and family. He probably will never come to aotual want, and if bis country should want him badly, they would cal) him loud enough for him to bear, and pay him handsomely as well, as heretofore. HtJQO. |