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PATRICK HENRY.
Present Situation Like That
\At hich Aroused His Pat i
otisin 100 Years Ago.
Patrick Henry of Virginia, at a time
when King George of England was en
gaged in massing tho resources of liis
kingdom to subjugate his American
colonies and reduce the American people
to slavery, immortalized his name by
exclaiming, “Give me liberty or give
me death!”
Patrick Henry'was not by birth or
education one of Virginia's aristocracy.
He had 110 landed estate. He was emi
nently a poor man. He was one of the
“plain people. ’’ He was not in a uni
versity sense an educated man. Unsuc
-cessful in various business ventures, he
was a reader of books and a student of
affairs and finally became an advocate,
-a lawyer, aud in that profession found
his rightful place in the list of patriots
of his time, and, with the stride of a
giant, became the peer of Washington,
Hancock, Adams, Quincy and Lee, and
by his fearless courage and nnequaled
eloquence called the American nation
to arms in the defense of liberty and
independence.
On one occasion, when tho perils of
his counrry were being discussed, wheu
ffie shadows of coming events spread
out dark and appalling from Massachu
setts to Georgia, when the choice was
between fight or flight, liberty or slav
ery, British subjugation or American
independence, Patrick Henry grasped,
with prescient genius, cause and effect,
the perils and the sacrifices involved,
aud, accepting them all with a courage
£& dauntless as ever inspired a patriot
and with hope and faith aflame, uttered
*ho imperishable words, “Give mo lib
erty or give me death 1”
■What did he mean and what do men
now mean who so often quote the words
of the illustrious patriot?
Around him, far and near, from the j
north to the south, there was African
chattel slavery. Is it to bo supposed
that the great Virginian meant —give
me death rather than chattel slavery?
No one imagines such to have been Pat
rick Henry’s idea, but rather than sub
mit to a foreign potentate, aided and
abetted by American Tories and traitors,
rattier than be the vassal of an English
king and an English nobility and aris
t^Viy, his choice was death.
history is repeating itself. True,
England is not sending over her armies
under her Brr. ;;( yuos and Cornwalliscs.
Her fleet of warships is uot hovering
upon our coasts. She is uot taking
armed possession of our cities; but,
nevertheless, sho is plotting to over
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throw the liberties or American citizens.
In the days of the Revolution, days
that “tried men’s souls,” England
bought 30,000 Hessians, “dumb driven
cattle,” armed and equipped to subju
gate the American colonies. She does
not now use her gold to buy Hessians,
but sho docs use it to transform Ameri
icans into Hessians, and where there was
one Benedict Arnold to betray his conn
try in the dark days of the Revolution
there are now a thousand in alliance
with England’s money lenders, ready,
for gold, to betray their country and es
tablish in the United States English
domination in financial affairs.
Who are these Benedict Arnulds,
these Tories, these Hessian cattle? The
answer is on every American patriot’s
tongue. It is borne on every breeze. It
glows inevery patriot’s eye. It is voiced
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from
the lakes to the gulf. It is that they are
those who manage trusts and syndicates,
banks and factories, railroads and mort
gages, those who employ workingmen
and working women and ceaselessly
strive to reduce wages that they may
grow rich and still richer by their pi
racies; the millionaires, the men who
constitute the money power, who specu
late in bonds and gamble in stocks, who
contract the currency and create panics
at their will.
Those whom I have referred to as be
ing in alliance to secure English domi
nation in American financos have been
in alliance also with English capitalists
to take possession of vast areas of
American land and to control numerous
American industries, especially Ameri
can railroads, many of which are oper
ated in the interest of English, Holland
and German capitalists so that now
multiplied thousands of American toil
ers are the vassals of European capital
ists and aristocrats and arc being plun
dered in their interests.
What moro do these English lords
and American Tories want? What fur
ther humiliation and degradation of
workingmen do they contemplate? The
answer is easy. They expect to rob them
of tlioir ballots, or, what is the same
thing, by bulldozing, intimidating and
; blacklisting methods compel them to
i make their ballots not only record a lie,
but that, under the lash of their mas
j tors, their ballots shall record the fact
; that American workingmen are like
i Benedict Arnold and his associate Tory
J apostates, traitors to truth, to manhood,
I to liberty and independence, and trai
' tors to their families, their follow men
1 and their country.
The issue is squarely made. It is up
: for debate. Britisli emissaries aro here.
The alliance between American Tories
; and English enemies of America is to
1 bo perpetuated and workingmen arc to
be enslaved.
In view of such things what will La
bor day orators say?
I do not know, but this I do know—
if they are (rue to themselves and to
their country, true to liberty and inde
pendence, true to their fellow working
men and free institutions, free speech
and undebuuched judiciary and to the
great body of the people, they will rise
and expand with their theme and ex
claifii, as did Patrick Henry 100 years
ago, “Give me liberty or give me
death!” Eugene V. Debs.
Terre Haute, lud., Sept. 2.
YOUTHS’ DEPARTMENT.
A Little Italian Who Became a Famous
Painter —That Yellow Jacket —A
Home Without a Cooky Jar.
Leonardo da Vinci was very beauti
ful all his life, and even when quite
small never found his lessons any trou
ble to him. He liked drawing and mod
eling best, however. Verrocchio was the
name of his master, and he saiil when
he first saw Leonardo’s drawings, “He
will be a great artist some day. ”
One day Leonardo’s father brought
a roughly made wooden shield to him
and asked him to paint something on it.
Leonardo had heard the story of Per
seus and the wonderful Medusa’s head
which he gave to Athena to wear on
her shield, so that when her enemies
saw it they were turned to stone. Hi’
therefore determined to paint something
oil the shield that would horrify ene
mies at least, if it did not exactly turn
them into stone. He gathered together
serpents, locusts, bats and all the queer
est little animals he could think of and
shut himself up in a room alone with
them. As he watched them squ’vming
about, id< as came to him of a Jo rrible
monster, which he painted on tin- -field,
wriggling cut of a dark cavern. When
he had finished, he placed the x icture
on an ease 1 and called bis futh in to
see it. His father, not expecting any
thing of tiie kind, rushed out ei the
room quite, frightened. Leonardo called
him back, saving:
“That is.just the effect I wanted my
picture to have. This is tiie shit id you
asked me to paint.” Ser Piero was
greatly astonished at his sen’s genius
and sold the painting for a largo sum
of money. It is in-w lost, though there
is a fine picture of a monster i:i Flor
ence which some people think must be
Leonardo’s. .
Leonardo was a! ways fcad of a;,:rials,
especially horses, which he often drew
and painted. He once Loot quite a men
agerie of animals, whi-.-n vo a: • t i l
he cared for with irthiit lev 'mess and
consideration. He was fond of vi y out
of tho way pets, sia h us glow. orms,
hedgehogs, etc. Often ;.s ho passed
places where little bin -; v.\ro i Id be
would pay the price asked for them,
open the cage doors and let ti, m fly
away. His favorite flower.! were the cy
clamen and columbine, b< :h exes ding-
Jy graceful. These ho has drawn with
his fine, delicate touch more than dice.
When Leonardo da Vinci was GO years
old he went to Milan, where he lived
for 20 years. He charmed the Duke of
Milan with the beautiful way he played
upon and sang to the lute. When here,
he painted his splendid picture, “The
Last Supper, ” on the walls of a convent
refectory. This painting took ten years
to do and is rightly considered one of
the most famous pictures in tho world.
The Wooden Lesr.
A captain had lost a leg in a tattle.
The general held him to be incapable to
serve any longer aud sent him his dis
charge. After four weeks the captain
recovered, aud ho immediately had a
wooden leg made. Then be went to the
general and said:
“I cau still serve. I walk with the
wooden leg as well as with the natural
one. Besides I go to battle to fight and
not to run away. ”
The general at length took back the
discharge. Soon afterward another bat
tle occurred, and the captain was one of
the first to attack tho enemy. A cannon
ball took away his wooden leg, and he
foil down. The officers near by called
to the si ldiers:
“Go aud fetch a surgeon!”
“That is not necessary, ” said the cap
tain; “fetch a carpenter.”
The City of Columns.
Palmyra, onco named City of Palms,
stauds in ruined beauty in the Syrian
desert and might perhaps be called tiie
city of columns. The polished pillars in
its famous templo of the sun would,
laid end to end, form a lino six miles
long, while there are as many statues i:-.
the building as would make a whole
regimentof graven images. In the main
street there are 110 fewer than 1,500 col
umns, raised seemingly nt the cost of
private citizens, who appear to have
had an eye to the gratifying of their
vanity as much ns to tho beautifying of
their now desolate town.
That Yellow Jacket.
Tho yellow- jacket about which you
have all heard so much in connection
with the visit of tho great Chinese
statesman, Li Hung Chang, is more of
a vest than a jacket. It is described in
tho New York Times as being made of
yellow satin, without sleeves, aud fit
ting the wearer closely. It roaches a lit
tle below tho waist, and ou tho front is
embroidered the royal dragon of China.
Only five men in ail tho emuiro of Chi-
na are entitled to wear it, and you may
guess our recent guest, the wise and
kindly Li Hung Chang, enjoys his high
privilege.
Travels cf a Life Buoy.
On the Sth of August, 1895, a vessel
was shipwrecked in the Pacific ocean,
and on the 2d of January, 1896, there
was picked up in perfect condition ou
the eastern coast of Norfolk island a
life buoy, bearing in plain letters the
name of the lost steamer. For nearly
five months the buoy had been drifting
in the waves until it was cast ashore ou
the beach, some 900 miles from the
scene of the disaster.
A Home Without a Cooky Jar.
A Lome without a cooky jar
“I- not the home for me.”
A home without a cooky jar
I hope to never see.
A home without- a cooky jar
It l t at all my taste.
A home without a cocky jar
I turn from in much haste.
A home without a cooky jar,
Since days of Adam’s full,
Is a home without a cooky jar,
And just no home at all.
A home with a big cooky jar,
“Oh, that’s the home for me!”
A home with a big cooky jar
I always hope to see.
—Good Housekeeping.
Tlxe Supreme Court..
Another matter to which the money
power is now paving great attention is
the influence controlling the supreme
court of the United States. They take
it for granted that this tribunal will id
ways be on their side and the incom*
tux decision fully justify them in thor
opinion. It is a striking fact that thr
statement made by Justice H; !an ii.
his income tax decision has ber:i fnliy
sustained by events. He said that tii
court’s verdict would occasion gi . at bit
term ss of feeling among the p< pie am.
precipitate a contest with aggregated
wealth on one hand and the m. vcs o:.
the ether. The wealth cf the country,
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through its mouthpieces, now ooiaiy as
serts that any attempt to establish bi
metallism would be unconstitutional
and that a law to such an effect would
be pronounced null anti void precisely
as was the income tax. Nor do they
stop here. It is declared that nearly
every reform proposed by Mr. Bryan and
the Chicago platform would be null and
void as well and so declared by the su
preme court of the United States.—
Twentieth Century.
The lianks* Contraction.
The truth is that tl.e Now York banks,
by manipulating thi ir . lances to suit
the infamous schemes < t the gold syn
dicate, have brought ...‘ .at the most
portentous contraction of the currency
that has been known since the republic
bad a financial system of its own.—At
lanta Constitution.
Peach v?aima.’. ade.
Peel and cut into si ices rip;-, round
peaches, weigh tbe.:n and to each pound
allow one-half pound of granulated sug
ar aud one half pint of cold water.
Put the sugar and water over the fire
and allow them to come to a boil. Then
skim, add the peaches, cook 15 minutes,
stirring constantly with a wooden spoon.
Take from the fire, add for each pound
four almonds, shelled, blanch- ’ . ..d cut
into halves. Turn into : ders and
when cool cover. This marmalade will
not keep as long as jam, but is very
nice while fresh, says The Hoosehcl i
News.
.1 GrainJ Object Lesson.
Once the government cf any country
allows big syndicates and corporations
to develop the resources of the nation it
is a very serious and difficult matter to
curtail their privileges, ana the fact of
private monopoly running every,uing
in this country is a grand object lesson.
-Pitchfork.