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No. 18
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■a.vU UrJI'Miimm’S FUNERAL.
»tli V' -Ut'tf Vi naVrmrn V ! ,W
"1 -. CeNiiwnlM at the Obsequie* MIN '
.wV., ..(taNn-MiM; PrwWerrt. fp
bV(rWoiiUw L'luteritmnvj!, (». tT4 Oaiette. Jan.
- 4th l«o«^, ■ ">■"
Ttnh, ' .IT 1, )j .,,.r
V. Qwf ^ .T^Ni.Dec. ?0th <800.
Sit Yfednesdny last the. mortal
of'Wiisiiingtos thr Qrent, .the
* ''“TatMof hisi&mWtfyrtiidithe j'nend
!ttN*>nn; Ws conbigiied to,, the tomb
■o with solemn honors and finieral
“'iV’ff ft tuefe of pbrsoiis assemulert
-for milesaround at Mount Verniqii,
io'ortho pUnNo abode apd last residence
of the illustrious chief. tTherfc were
m sH^rtpfSFNr-Mw flRa?;*1’8., a^ues;
t)i>s be^il-iful and snblimelscenes, the
(MI! Juohle mansion-^ hut, alas i tlie august
.i^hahitimt wi^ now .no f more. His
■',.:f jpnrUI mr^wns^there, itidwl;. hut
c-nhl hoy attepting; ,l)o^r[awful "the
sjiectsvcle of such worth and gfeat
., ;iiy88j thu8jt®, mortal ,pjes,' fallen.
jf in .
. In.wie(!«?»*,;Olid;: Jufty portico,
■ where oftthe hero walks In all his
glory, now lay the shrouded corpse.
' ! ; Thecountenance, now composed and
,serene, seenjad Ip-express the digni*
i,, tyottlie spirit wliicl) lately dwelt
: „,ifi that ijfe less form. Then threw
, ; ; j\vlio,.j»1d the last sad honors to the
i benefactor of Ins country took an
impressive, a farewell vieW. " f'.*'
,,»On the ,prp>4fie>4^<the head , of
,,,.j tlm.pof^n wa^ hTsprit^d
Judicium,"" about the middle’ of the
’ , f coffin, "Gloria Deo,” and on theloT
-.W phtte;,, .. ,i .
gj;;NEIiAl,Q?;<>BGE WASHING
- taw I
TON.
- Departed this Life-on the 14th. De
cember, Act. 08.
isH’ > Between 5> and 4 o’clock the sound
• i of artjlery. from a vessel in the riv
er firing minute guns awoke afresh
our solcmu sorrow—tlie corpse was
moved—a band of music with
mournful melody melting the souj
into all the teiuterfiess of woe.
„ The procession (poved in the fal
Jpwing order:
i lil Cavalry n&4 Infantry grtlind, with
- - firm rsverjspd. ’ ' , ,
, , Music.
/ '' -"Clergy. - V ', ''ci\) ftiVj";
The General’s horse, with his sad
’ die, holsters and pistols.
Col. Simmons. Cel. Gilpin
When the procession had arrived
v: ift! th« bottom y£ the elevated l«pni
on the bank of fliie Potomac,'Where
j, the family vault is placed, thecavnl
; -ry-halted, tics infantry marched to;
ward the mound and-iormed their
lines; the clergy, the masonic breth
1 -A«ii and the citizens descended to the
H *’ tadlfe, and the funfral services of the
church wereperfoitncd. > The firing
; *- >nv«s repeated from the vessel in the
rive, and fehetounds echoed around,
’ * Three general discharges by the
infantry, the cavalry and eleven
flpiefais of ftrtillcryy which iinedf the
* wbiuiks iif dieif,otbfttabHback %f; the
vault, paid the last tribute to the
rfVirtimaiirier-in-Chief of jtlie ai Hiies
of the United States and to the’de
parted hero.
The sun was now setting. Alas!
Jth/spii df/glor/ i wasj w^forq#«r.
But no, the name of Washington,
the American GenerulTntdfPresident
illuminate the future ages.
’c;r‘ ;!/, ■■■>■■■
fehakrtp^irs'i Arf^ tf, fiiHi.
Dear Kate, take n fellow of plain
, , . , njvLuuopined constancy, for he, pet
1 " totci, must (lo tlib right* because ho
hath not the gift to woo in other
places; tor these fellows of • Infinite
W iVjgufo
into ladics’iavor, th^y do always rea
8on*flmdi*elM< again. What,
S5t ;,(l.sp^aHerisibut.n prater,; .* rhyme
a ballad, A gooiUiMfaWlIv?*^
iK.! 1 % straight bfieVwilt stoop; a hhio!<
heard will turn white; a curled pat*
'5 s:WUI growfmid;'af all :oy*! Will wai
onnhnllDw: Put ngootl ii*a»VKate! i.
,M|: •’''ihB Sdn Ali*d ntoo«i <* rather the aur
«wil PgMM?
_■ bright, and iH)VcrchnOK**> hdtkeep
MYM. IA
A Startling but Trod Description of
>< How we are Governed. „ ,i
Xtonn Matt.) •.;.>• 1” ilfti
'i: There are two lessona taught by
the iate contention, that the, people
will be alow to learn until coming
eventsforce them to a knowledge,' j
• Tbe firet is, that our government,
has pasted.from the political, fabric
built us by the fathers to a financial
eWnoedri in which .private lintpr^stg,
dominate public, affairs,- , nn7i;. ^
The second is, that no public man,
let hiS huinestyaud influence be what
they may, can menace the lqopeyad
power of our luud, and remain in
public life. ■ i ; : ; ,. • y. (
i iW« are so. accnstomed to f being
fed on phrases that we lose in their
use the, object for which they were
framed. .Our fathers sought £he
shores of America to escape oppres
sion atJiojjjp,. The^um total of'the
despotism was found in the fact
that while they who produced' all
enjoyed nothing, they .whq produced
nothing enjoyed ,alh In framing
.certain legal enactments, in framing
a constitution that was supposed to
be gopd agiiinst such inequality and
injustice, the fathers, thought to
cUmiuate the priviledged classes by
.wiping opt the laws of, primogeni
ture andjeniail. They took no ac
count for they could not know of
t^he corporations, that lias all the
power* and priviledges’of tbe born,
aristocracy and renders all the guar
antees of the constitution^ of no
avail. , ,
Under the power of the corpora
tion we have a hundred and fifty
thousand miles of operating rail
way that, has .passed to the control
and into the virtual ■ ownership of
less than sixty families. to this
combination has gone an attribute
of sovereignty found in the power
to tax the people. As Senators
Sherman, Conkling and Windoin
said, in their famous report to the
Senate, this railroad power can tax
all the products of the country in a
way that Congress dare.not attempt.
This irijn network ,of rails enters
every man's business and pleasure,
and in the taxation without repre
sentation that brought on the Rev
olution and gave birth to our gov
ernment. The people lose through
fraud all that they gained through
violence; and sad to say, generally
with their own consent.
We have telegraph so necessary
to our business, which science gave
as the poor mau’s post, for it con
sists of a Wire a pole, a battery, and
a boy, that is openly owned and op
erated ns a lvxnry by one man.
currency, we uie-uonu or
trade, is farmed out to somethin}!;
over two thousand corporations,
that, acting as one, contractor, ex
ppad it to suit their owngreed. :
*We are cursed with a system call
ed a tax, but which is in fact, an
extortion, that, under the plea' of
favoring certain moneyed interest,
not only forces the consumer to sup
port the burthens of a government
kept upon a war footing nearly a
(prater of a century after the war
chaffed,dfift enables less than a mill
ion out of sixty millions to accumu
late means until our rich men are
marvels.to mankind. The great Re
public, through this process, has en
tered the avenues of private enter
prise, and with its crushing weight
reduces labor to starvation wages.
All tin's* combined form trusts,
as they gro;called which, limiting
production, shut out competition,
and nccumplnU-for the favored feW
Mini} fttf infler;
All tlienV iiiilted, miiS? our: gov
ern meilt; for government W that
power from which thereisp. no aps
peM, uponwhich wc depend for ,a
recognition of our rights. This
power elects our Congress, selects
our Presidents, and intimidates ■ our
courts. ’/ if! . i -
To meet it we have a government
of parties. It is a cast from* im
movable, insensitive concern, far
ther removed from popular control
tinih i\fty gdv'chiment on earth.
SPheparty once in poweroan perpet
uate that power under the best cir
Dumstniices; but when harked by
the monopolized wealth of the con
fm&il-MhiMrifot 1* displaced. His
tory tells ns that it cnllod for buyo
nbfa aiid-bloodshed to -displace~fhw
Ijeiuocvatic party in Bl, niid 'wB
fear history wilt repeat itsClf when
a long sufTcring midi outraged peo
ple emtio lb rcrngmuie the source of
their wr(>ngs..tvnit'm wy-IS:0? M»«r
Sufferings. _ “ Tiff—rt rrn-t 1 1
1 sufferings. .... ,
U 114.ihM ,
■ COMPETITION, OF. RACES.„
According to their spokesman at
Chickerirlg' Hall, the colored people
are suffering practically from i the
discrimination against their racp
which li0w is made in New York.
He says that, tinder all; circum
stances, they do their best to pnt On
tl ic appearance "oT' :prbsperity',' hut
that, in fact, they are steadily falling'
behind in the competition with the
while race. “Fashion is doing
away with the Colored coachman,
the colordd bather has disappeared
from New York, the Englishman
wears the Waiter’s apron in the ho
tel dining-rooms, the Irishman has
seized the whitewash brush, and the
j almond-eyed Mongolian peeps over
j the washtub where mice the darkey's
fface was seen.” ' . \, <
This is undoubtedly true. In the
days when Dickens and Thackeray
visited the United States they were
struck by the novelty of encounter
ing everywhere negro servants, j In
all hotel and restaurants the Waiteis
were colored men, and the few
coachmen employed by private fam
ilies Were of that taco.
Now the negro waiter is the ex
!ception, and’ negro coachmep are no
longer common. The colored white-;
ivacher survives almost wholly ill
the imagination of negro minstrelsy,
and the colored barber is coming
rapidly an historic functionary in
I New York. Their plaices have been
taken by Irishmen, Swiss, Germans,
and Italians, while the Chinamen
have secured what is a substantial
monoply of the laundry business,
few as they are in numbers actually
and comparatively to the negroes.
But the change cannot have been
brought about by capricious fashion,
as the colored preacher at dicker
ing Ilall supposes. It must mean
that the negro has been beaten in
competition with the. white man;
that he does not do so good work;
Under slavery : he was protected
from competition with- others iiot
his race, but under freedom he inust
take his chances with the rest; anil
th,e rest have become' very many in
the country since the days when he
held a substantial monopoly of the
employments spoken of. The col
ored people must devote themselves
with redoubled, efforts to their own
improvement if they would keep up
in the contest.
In the old' slave days some of the
most admirable servants possible
were colored, and possibly for a time
those who maintained their prestige
in the North were relics, direct or
indirect of that bygone time. Now
that those old traditions have worn
out, the negro of to-day must start
afresh and equip himself with the
learning and qualities which are re
quired of others if he wants to suc
ceed. Skill and.trust worthiness nre
the two indispensable qualifications
jfcfi? occupation of all sorts, and those
must be attained and cultivated in
,the first degree if he would stand
the competition that is constantly
being made keener and brought to a
higher standard of required excel
lence. . - . . :. • *■ ’ "t
! To-any that Hill, or tlie tariff
or the vetoes, Or money, or the Irish,
or the fishery treaty, or the Chinese
treaty, or the Sacfcville affair defeat
ed (trover Cleveland is to evade and
avoid the truth. He is not a simon
pure, Jellefsmiiun' ^Democrat and
did not give the country a Demo
cratic administration.' This is what
defeated him. To say iie Was defeat
ed because he was nominated for the
second term is mi reason able. He was
defeated beeunse he did not turn the
Republicans out of office and put
Democrats in to oflius, He wns de
feated because he wits a Cleveland
man and not a party mau. Ho was
defeated because. lWlimit all Jiia ef
Forta towards building up a Clevo.
Laud party Instead of' a Democratic
party. He was defeated (.because he
was at,hear t neiib w*. He moerat no ft
a Uopublictni but a, cress between
two-r*l njiugwuntp a f f/q«. W^ Q,
Kifflihi' tii ttcuthtuU ,Y#r/.' Drim*
'v' ‘ ...if
ymunphun, po./tV
n
ihi If Danger , Signals.
i flfr. Hr. zhflfrtff) t*H4rln*oial Advocate.)
* * * Hbw severe; thfef StHiiii
on the Republic when Ethiopians
without the faintest notion of ' the
ball'pt,, take away political power
from the majority «f tli^ white citi-'
zens! The Anglo-Saxon, After cen
turies of civilisation, finds himfcelf
under, .the tjhrfill of barbarians of re
cent remove from Etheopian 'Africa.
.Tire masters^# the ;world"‘i become
th<i pMitir.nl slaves of its hereditary
serfs. Think of the government, of
England disturbed by the freed black
bf' Hay ti! That js the precise situ,
ati'oii in the United States. : * ■* .
A million of men, .{lie best and
bravest, butchered each other that<a
dull and besotted alien race might
bold the balance of power among
an English speaking people.
Consider also that, the Chinese,
who are’tire greatest tribe on the
earth —a nation producing wonders
in architecture, art, finance, politi
cal economy—are scouted from our
shores, while the negro, whose
native land is just across the Medi
teraucan from Athene and Rome,
and along the same river -with the
wise Egyptians, yet never rising out
of sloven savagery in all the centur
ies, remaining a brute and bondmen
throughout the ages is the ebon
Czar of America, the sooty and
grotesque idol of advanced states
men. It makes men shudder for
the sanity of our civilization. * * *
we are ready to close onr gates
even to the Enrojtean with his ge
nius and history, hut decree it a
sacrilege to hint that.a creature out
of a rude ht}t in a Southern swamp,
withmind, man tiers and motives
hardly above a gorilla, is dot fit to
j tioir in the fore files of time.”
It is a psychical eccentricity. The
human mind, like the banyan tree,
after seeing the snn and shooting
toward the zenith, stoops again and
kisfes the dirt.. *
There are the reflections that must
j force themselves upon men who
loathe^practicnl politics,” but witli
the sea-chart of history before them
mark the currents that have wrecked
empires.;, Patriots ought to use the
past as a lens to look into the future.
The overthrow of a party has
only one significance, as the
the directing of the eye to the quick
ening motion nud whirl in the wa
ters that alarm. The muel-storm is
on the tack. j
The .Greorgia Legislature has tak
en up the internal revenue question
and a lively debate has resulted. A
resolution requesting the Congress
men from Georgia to do all in their
power to secure the repeal of the law
was reported adversely from the com
mittee to which it was referred- This
brought on a debate which promi
ses to continue for several days. Mr.
Allred, of Pickens, the author of the
resolution in his speech said that
nine tenths of the people of hi? sec
tion were in favor of the repeal of
the ‘'infamous law.” He thought
the law unconstitutional because the
Constitution of the United ‘ States
said that no man should be depriv
ed of his life, liberty or property
■without due process of law. “I want
to see the time coma when the nine
ty thousand men who are prowling
Aver'H’C country arresting honest
and respectable people and shooting
them down will ho made ‘ to go to
work like-other people. J toll you,
gentleman, if is ahad state of affairs
when men are not allowed to dispose
of their own property as they see
fit.”’ __c
A Remayknblc Jury,
; RorJtlnflhpm Hooket,
i The last case tried in' the Superi
or Coprt here last wfek was one for
a divorce. J udgeShepheld told the
plaintiffs attorney that, as the reg
ular had been discharged, he would
not run the county to the expense
of h&V.ing another jury summoned,
hut.consented to try the case if the
attorney, would get a jury which
I would serve without charge. The
jury was obtained, and it consisted
of ten lawyers, chib magsitrate and
i a bnr-KCeper.. The- man got his
divorce. .um ;t-‘; ■
~7—,j ■ '
PRAYING FOR MRS. CLEVELAND.
Editor Oldham’s Little Boy Prays for
the President’s Wife.
N^tr Yorh Mu* M'ttthlngto* .Letter,)
It seems that, not only in Wash
ington hot throughout the country
the children hate a warm spot in
their ymrog hearts for Mrs. Cleve.
land. The lost evidence.of this ten
der regard comes from Charleston.
S.iO.y where a little sunny-haired
youngster .of Edward A. Oldham
the Southern journalist and writer
offers nightly at his another’s knee a
“tiny prayer” for the wife of the
President. The incident is described
by Mrs. Oldham in a letter not Jong
since received at the White House,
and which reads as follows:
Mrs. Grover Cleveland—Dear
Madam: * * * 0ur first and only
baby, Edward, a bright handsome
little Presbyterian, is very much in
love with a large picture of you’that
hangs on onr chamber wall, just over
the mantel. * * * Not long ago
he was saying his little prayers, about
which duty he.seeins quite serious
and devout, and when he had finish
ed with Dodd besspapaand mamma,”
he looked up at-one with a bright
smile, and said, “Dodd bess Miss
Tevv. too!" This was -wholly his
own thought, aud since then it has
formed an important clause in his
I devotions. * * *
Margaret Andrews Olhh.am.
To this fetter Mrs. Cleveland re
sponded as follows; *'•
Mr Dear Mrs. Oldham: Your
kind letter has given me much pleas
ure, and I want to thank yon and
tell you how keenly I appreciate the
compliment of your baby boy.
The knowledge of his earnest little
prayer has touched me deeply, and
the remembrance that my name goes
daily on baby lips to our Heavenly
Father in praj’er will help me in
many an hour of perplexity and dis
couragement. !>'
That this dear child grow up
to be in his manhood, J^ne "is in his
childhood, your joy and comfort, is
the best wish I could express for one
who has had so kindly a thoughtfor
me. Sincerely,
Frances F. Cleveland.
Food for Thought
iVilntlngton Star.
A reader of the Star submits the
following: “If Adam, the husband of
Eve, was living now he would lack
about twelve years of being seven
t housand years old. If he had starts
'■d life with 8100,000,. and loaned it
at. 6 per cent, interest from the day
of his birth to the present time,
his accumulated wealth would not
equal that of a good many men of
the present day, who have made
their shekels from “Trusts," water
ing stocks, making corners in wheat
buying Up Southern railroads and
other methods of which this mem
ber of “one of the first families”
was entirely ignorant. Are not
some of us making njoliey a little
too fast? Jay Could would call it
slow progress to make only forty
two million dollars in seven thous
and years.”
Not a Bit of It.
Ori'rnsbnro Fati'int*
The last issue of the “North
State” says:
“A Republican clock is said to
belong to Mr. C. H. (treason, of
Guilford county. It ceased to strike
about four years ago, and remained
daub untiHhe (1th day ‘of last No
vember, when the family was star
tled to hear the old clock begin to
strike again. Mr. G. assures that
no work had been done on the clock
to make it strike, iind he .thinks it
must be a Republican clock, and ex
presses the hope that the clock and
country will run smoothly during
Harrison’s administration.”
Why, the old clock just simply
felt that the proper thing to do was
to tstrike, and to strike hard, when
the'news came that the republicans
had carried the day. We felt very
much that way ourselves for about
24 honrs after the ''Waterloo" hit
C--'Cn>t “> ■ l.|, : I #tiii j |p.
| WASHINGTON LETTER.
' Morton Visits Harrison to see About the Cabl
I net- Blaina’s awn Party Against His Being
in Harrison’s Cabinet—The Senate and
other New Bills
! Kmprrma C»msp»nd*nem. I .
Washikotom, Dec. 17th 1888.
Senator Beck was at the Capitol
last Saturday for the first time since
he was taken sick last summer. Al
though he is very weak he does not
look ill, Owiqg perhaps to his pecu
liar resistive constitution and Scot
tish energy. He leaves for Aiken,
South Carolina, this week, greatly
to the regret of the Democratic side
of the Senate and to the delight of
the Republicans. Senator Beck is
an army within himself on the tar
iff question.
Senator Riddleberger has been at
his old trick of turning the Senate
Chamber into a circus ring. Cause,
too much whiskey.
. Democrats here are greatly Enjoy
ing the hitter fight now raging be
tween the Miller and Platt factions
in New York and the Sherman and
Foraker crowds in Ohio. Conserva
tive Republicans here expressed the
belief that neither New York nor
Ohio will he represented in Harri
son's Cabinet on account of these
wrangles.- Morton, who it is sup
posed went to Indianapolis in the in
terest of Plaft for Secretary of the
Treasury has.it is said, telegraphed j
to a New York member of.Congress
that Harrison had positively refused
to have Platt in the Cabinet.
Capt. Cowdons plan of making
Laqtie Borgue the outlet for the fiood
waters of the Mississippi river has
been adversely reported upon by the
Senate committee on the improve
ment of that river.
i_
! It was reported that the United
[States had demanded the appoint
ment of a successor to Lord Sack
yille, and notilied the British Gov
ernment that Mr. Phelps (our min
'ister) would be recalled unless a
British minister wasspeedly appoint
ed. Upon inquiry at the State De
partment it was learned that the ru
mor was without foundation, and
that the Department was perfectly
indifferent about the matter, wheth
er a minister was or was not sent
here.
Blaine still continues.to be n
thorn in the side of many -Republi
ans. A rumor that he had been of
fered the Secretaryship of State by
Harrison and that he had accepted
it created consternation among those
Republican Congressmen who do not
like him, and'there are quite a large
I number of them,- one certainly, and
many people say two, in the delega
tion from his own State. These
men know that if Blaine goes into
! the Cabinet they will get no favors
from the administration. No ene
my is too small for Blaine to wreak
his vengeance upon, hence they have
been busy since the election in bring
ing ail the anti-Blaine influence of
the entire country to bear on Har
rison to prevent Blaine's getting in
to the Cabinet. If the rumor were
true their work lins not all been for
nothing. Hundreds, of messages
were sent flying over the wires and
the auti-Blahieites were.soon mad,,
happy by discovering that Harrison
had not tendered a position to Blaine.
But the though that be may do so
hovers over the anti-Blaine men
like a cloud. AH this is fun for the
Democrats, and it’s about the only
kind of fun they have had since the
election.
The Democratic Senators are now
fighting the Republican tariff bill
tooth and mule, hut as the Republi
cans vote solidly on every amend
ment offere, they have no hope of
doing anything better than show
ing the country the injustice nmlj
absurdity,of the nmaspre prepared j
by the Republicans. At the present,
rate of progress theljill will not pass
the Senate before February,
The Democratic House has had a
bill favorably reported to it. placing
that eminent Rejvnblk-an, .Qen, Jijo, j
C. Gremopt.pncethe pandidate of
his party for the Presidency, on the
retired list of the Arnjy, with the
rank of major general,' and the Re
publican'Sen ate has had a bill re
ported to it, placing that sterling
old Democrat, Gen. W, Rosecrana,
(“Old Rosy,”) on the retired list of
the Army with the ranlf of briga
dier general.. This is as it should be
there “honld be no politics in provid
ing a comfortable old age for such
men as these, who have given the
best yearn of their lives to the coun
tryx .
The Direct lax bill, as was anti
cipated, passed, the House, and has
now gone to Mr, Cleveland. Dem
ocrats generally expect it will l>e ve- .
toed.
Representative Holman, chairman
of the House committee ~on public
lands, dpes not think that either of
the bills passed hist, session, one by
Hoilse and one by the Senate, for
feiting various sections of lands
granted to rail road companies, will.
become a law this session; nor that
any other legislation upon the sub
ject will be passed. The two bills
passed are now in the hands of a -
conference committee, but there is
little hope of an agreement.
The annexation of Canada has
been made livp question by the in
troduction in the House by Mr. But
terworth of a concurrent resolution
authorizing the President to open
negotiations for the annexation. It
is a many sided question, but no one
seems to doubt that eventually Can
ada will become a part of the United
States.
A ST0R7 FROM TEE ROCKS.
A Geological History of the World
that Develop Strange Facts;
Mining Journal.)
Geological history brings before
us, says Archibald Geikee, many
facts well calculated to impress our
-minds with the great antiquity of
Luif planet and the marvelous chain
of changes be which the present or
der of things has been bronght
about. We learn from it that the
mountains and the valleys have be
come suddenly- into existence, such
as a c us a' ■ -■ \ bars , bur : ., v,• b -w.
formed gradually, by a long series
of processes similar to those which
are now slowly doing the same w ork.
We discovered that every part of
the land under our feet can yield up
its story if we only ^,know how to
question it. And, strangest of all;
we find that the races of planets and
animals which now tenant the land
and sea, are not the first of orignal
races, bat they were proceeded by
others still more remote. We see
that there has been upon the earth a
history of living things as well as
dead matter. At the beginning of
that wonderful history we detect
traces merelv of lowly forms, like
t^e foraminifear of the Atlantic
ooze. A t the end we are brought
face to face with man - thinking,
worthless, restless man, battling
steadily with the powers of nature
and overcoming them one by one,
by learning how to oboy the laws
which direct them.
The Grip »l the Qouldl.
It needed only the, story that the
Goulds are deeply interested in the
West Point Terminal combination*
to make the feeling of insecurity,
imd a determination to act, both
general and intenBo. *
The attention of the whole people
i* now directed to the fact that there
is a prospect that the whole railway
system of the South, as of the
Southwest, Will be under the control _
of the Goulds, the most notorious
and most chameless railway wreck
ers of this or any other coon try.
’ The American people wi|| find a
way to meet them and overcome
them: Georgia and South Carolina
are at work already, and will have —
the co-operation of the other States.'
Why is North ’Carolina silent? ....
W,l)utij;Virgini& doing'(
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