Grant's Lavish Welcome in San Francisco
Gen. U. S. Grant, who has been receiving royal honors in the semi-civilized and pagan countries through which he has traveled, reached San Francisco Sept. 20, only to find more than such honors, so far as is possible in a country like this, heaped upon him here. The papers are filled with accounts of the most lavish expenditure of vast sums of money, the most extravagant display, and the gathering together of immense, gaping, and crazy crowds to greet him on his return. Such hero-worship is a strange spectacle in a republican government like this. There is but a step between such excessive adulation, and movements like those which led to that dark period for Roman liberty when the people were set aside as mere ciphers, and the military power placed upon the throne of the empire the creatures of its choice.