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dream of two days.
Thomas E. W atson’s Clear
Vision ol Tcday and To
morrow.
1 was very tired, for tho work 1 bad
been doing was toilsome, and now that
the room grew warm and the long tank
was finished I foil asleep.
No one in tho house had been awako
but mo, while I had for many hours
<goue over tho dreary record of the pa
tient and suffering millions—God’s un
provided poor. The hours had stolen by
iike slippered monks, and now it was
far into the night when heaviness fell
upon my eyes and I was asleep.
Many a whirling fiction passed
through my heated head before there
was order in my dream, but after a
while all was clear—cruelly, shockingly
clear.
I dreamed that the world lay before
me like a map and that I could see it
all at once, like a map; that every
grade and class and qonditifcn of human
iifejf'- ’ % - nie at hijre, with no
before my eyes and no distance to
*tort the outline.
I saw was this—a magnificent
■world of land and sea, of river and lake
ami forest and fertile field, mountains
Reamed with mineral, valleys rieh with
ftrain.
This world was called by its Maker
"a home for the human family. ”
This human family had grown large.
Sts footprints were thick upon every
Htrvlch of land, and the vessels they had
built darkened tho waters of all the sous.
But the earth was no longer a home
and joen wore no longer brothers. They
tinted each other. They worshiped God,
bat none of them regarded bis law.
Churches flourished—so did crime.
Schools flourished— ho did ignorance.
Charities flourished—and paupers died
fa the streets. I wondered what it all
meant. There wns land enough for all.
They said God made it for all. But a
had taken possession of it, and the
■many had no homes.
I There wns food enough for all. But
w few strong men seized it all, and one
| 7 bird of the people had not enough to
I rat.
I tried to see what kept the human
, family alive. 1 found it was labor.
There were many kinds of labor. Home
labored to produce food f< r the work!
{■some labored to produce clothing.
Sc mo labored to make houses because
caves and hollow trees hud become un
satisfactory.
Homo labored to teach tho people tho
Saw of God.
to lgvs, by whiith
pr..*rs cSKtR, in the affairs
men.
In my dream I saw dearly a most
csingult.r thing—those whose work was
most important to the world were paid
loss for their labor than anybcxly else.
Those who merely amused the world
igc i, higher wage's than those who fed
mud clothed it. Those who played and
■danced got higher pay than the man
who built tho house they played and
•lanced in.
The; laborers who produced tho food
nd tho clothing were so badly paid
that, although they fed and clothed their
masters, they (the laborers) had not
enough to eat or to wear.
lu my dream it seemed that the cause
|of this cruel thing became clear. Those
who had made the laws hail so cunningly
made them that the strong man was
master of the weak. The strong man
became the taskmaster of the weak,
amd in return for the weak man’s labor
gave him whatsoever pay he chose.
This made the strong man stronger and
the weak man weaker.
I thought I heard u great heartbreak
ing cry go up from those poor laborers
but their taskmasters hoard it uot —so
deaf ure they who will not hear.
I thought that now and then these
laboring men grew furious with their
oppressors and rose up against them.
Hut they were jmt down again—some
shot and some imprisoned.
I thought, that now and then leaderti
ro6e up among those suffering people
and promised to go to the gn at house
of iioiiwi] where the laws were made
,itv i to change these laws i!ito good ones.
But either such loaders were too few
or the strong men would take those
leaders aside into some safe and secret
place and by unknown charms and per
suasions entice those leaders into forget
fulness of the miseries of the people.
So passed the first part of my dream
—~the dream of today. As in a vanish
ing landscape I could see the gn at pal
s of the rich and the wretched huts
~i :ho ].xK)r; the fine raiment of the one
i. , i the rags of the other; the well
isj • ad tables of the one and the cold
dearth and empty dish of the other. The
factories went whirling into space—but
through the'windows 1 could see the
pale, thin features of the slaves who
toiled there. The mine openedoue brief
moment and I could see the pitiful serf
<of the coal king. The garret sped by, and
it> made the tears come to see the shiv
ering needlewoman sewirg there. The
streets swain by, filled with their
squalor, their hunger, their ceaseless
suffering, and Christianity spoke in
ate street* throng*, the month of the
ceman and what she said to the tot
ng tramp was “Move on;” what she
mid to the ragged widow was "Move
on;" what she said to the starving child
was "Move on!"
And it strangely got into my dream
somehow that tiie cause of all the sor
row was that the order of tho world
was based on a mistake —a dreadful
mistake; that the unnatural was the
rule; that a feverish haste had taken
possession of mankind and that the race
was madly run for things he really did
not want; that one man pushed be
cause another pushed, cheated because
others cheated, hoarded because others
hoarded, was cruel because be thought
the same measures would be meted out
to him were situations reversed. )
But the troubled nightmare passed,
and I fell into the dream of tomorrow
—a gorgeous dream—a spirit lifting
dream.
I seemed to be looking upon the same
world, hut it was bathed in light and
filled with harmony.
The great rush and hurry had passed
away. The fevi r and the pain \Veregone.
Its vast machinery moved like the stars
“never hasting, but never lasting.”
j There was room for all and foal for all.
The earth was dedicated am;w as a
home for God’s children—its/products
I (ln ir food. Religion burst ou4from the
'cold churches and abode in tl*lives of
men —that high religion which loves
mercy, does good and seeks the right
Law was no longer frittered away
among wrangling advocates and stupid
judges. She took her broad principles
into the walks of life and did justice
between man and man.
The rulers of the people no longer
scorned them nor defrauded them with
sunning laws and sharp practices. The
people themselvess now ruled, and the
laborer was no longer a serf.
There were no outcasts, for they all
had homes. There were no beggars, for
there was work for all and fair wages
for all.
Thero was little crime, for its cause
bad been removed.
There was brotherhood among men,
for the source of their rivalry and hatred
had been taken away.
Wars had ceased. Tho killing of
men had become horrible, whether
singly or by thousands. A murderer
was detested whether ho was named
(luiteau or Napoleon.
The hum of peaceful industry wns in
the air. The music of youthful laughter
was in the streets. The song of the con
tented reaper was in every field.
Why was tomorrow so much brighter
and better than today? This question
seemed to come tome i ven in my dream.
And from somewhere this reply
seemed to come:
' "Because the mistake of yesterday
was found and corrected; because in
justice was driven out of the laws; be
cause favoritism in legislation ceased;
because the fyborerslst (pired tkir
ment; because the Running laws of the
taskmaster are all dead; because there
were a few bntive men all over the world
who swore solemnly before God that the
old false order of things must perish."
So it seems those hold men triumphed.
How much they suffered was not told
me. How often they were despitefully
used is not known. How often they
failed before they finally succeeded,
how cruelly they were tortured how
much battle and bloodshed there was are
not known.
Like all reformers they doubtless suf
fered most grievously. No doubt their
very souls sank within them sometimes
when tbo times wont most against them.
But it seems they hewed their way for
ward from year to year through serried
ranks of enemies till at last they could
claim the victory.
Theirs was the victory which can
wear the white roses of peace—its
trophies being the bright homo circles
of happy families.
Out of the dim past seemed to come
many voices.
One said: “I gave my life to pleas
ure. Wines were good and women were
good and mirth was good. But youth
passed, age came, and my heart was
empty and sad. ’ ’
Another voice said: “I gave my life
to war. Cities 1 have sacked, enemies I
have crushed, laurels have I worn. But
! the sword rusted in my hand. The spi
ders weave twixt me and the sun. And
in my ears as 1 grow old is the cry of
the widow and her children." *
Another, voice said: “I gnvt omy life
to my brother man. I pitied his misfor
tune. I championed liis grievance. I
loved the friendless. I hated injustice
everywhere and fought tyranny wher
ever 1 found it. The work has been
hard, the way thorny. But now as the
evening comes I fold my arms and fear
not the coming shades. 1 have fought a
good light. The Master’s touch is on my
head and I hear him say, ‘lnasmuch as
ye did it unto the least of these ye did
it unto me. ’ ”
Thus passed my dream. And I awoke
heavy of heart, for I knew that today
was ns 1 had dreamed and that the to
morrow might never come. —Thomas II
Watson.
The McKinley Syndicate.
Who nominated the St. Louis ticket
and held the Republican party by the
throat while the platform was rammed
down its gullet?
Mark Hanna, a Cleveland banker, a
labor crusher, employer of the brute
Rumsey, hired to crush the heads of
per day sailors.
J. B. Foraker, fresh from ravishmeut
| of a scoundrelly Ohio legislature that
gave Mark Hanna and other railway
magnates the half century franchise.
Vest Everett of Cleveland, 'banker,
hasn’t been out of his political bole to
face the people for years.
Myron Herrick of Cleveland, banker.
(Jhauncey Depew, corporation* attor
ney of the Foraker stripe only bigger
stripes. ‘
And every Wall street sharper who
dared to temporarily let go bis bold of
the gold reserve cow’a udder.
These corporation representatives,
legal and otherwise, were all at St.
Louis howling unitedly for iMo-Kinley,
whose private-ddbti they bad pmid jin
order to have hifii under obligation/ to
them, and shrieking for a financial pol
icy under which they had all got rich.
United they are today, and to tbern are
flocking all the Democrats -who have
filled their pockets by methods such as
theirs. —Sound Money.
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.
An average size Woenut produces a
pint of milk. . t
All fees of the [ * lx. office must he
paid in advance. Iml J
The expense of K>ing a paten*- in
Switzerland is f
Certain parts of the hippopotamus’
hide attain a thickness of 2 inches
In proportion to its size a fly walks
85 times as fast as a human being.
Fifty-two per cent of tho United
States’ population are engaged in farm
ing.
An infant weighing 7 pounds at birth
will weigh 1% on the tenth day and 1J
on the thirtieth.
Li Hung Chang has never been out
of China before, and the only language
he knows is Chinese.
During the Franco-Prussian war the
cost to the French nation of each Prus
sian killed was $ 100,000.
A Burlington (Vt5J man gives his
baby an airing by towing the child’s
carriage behind his bicycle.
The standard dollar was authorized
by act of congress, Peb. 28, 1878, and
coinage was begun in the same year.
Three crematories are in operation in
England—one in Manchester, another
in Woking and the third in Liverpool.
It takes the moon exactly -12, 524 min
utes (29 days, 12 hours anti -4-1 minutes)
to mako its revolution round tire earth.
Jefforsou is said to have been the first
American statesman to suggest the dol
lar as the financial unit of our currency.
8. McCaughey of the Coonon g station,
Jerilderie, New South Wales, lias
8,000,000 acres of land and 1,000,000
sheep. A
Now ZeahuAjp Ifcl otdy nicai lohei
now than at 'liW o’tiF'r period, Lmt ' it is
also one of the mosl sober countries in
the world.
In 1780 congress provided for the is
suing of four corns—a $lO gsoldpiece, a
dollar of silver, alO cent piece and a
copper cent.
Sir Henry Bessemer has paid upward
of #50,000 in patent stamp duties alone
on his various inventions, according to
an English exchange.
The fern is indicative of fascination.
In Saxony the present by a lover to his
sweetheart of a handful of ferns is
equivalent to a proposal.
A recently opened guano cave in
Georgia was found to be inhabited by
great swarms of white flies, with yel
low legs and palo pink eyes.
Alice Bradley Haven, once editor of
Godey’s Lady’s Book, chose the name
of Alice G. Lee. It is said she once had
an acquaintance of that name.
Besancou, Victor Hugo’s native town,
will forestall Paris in erecting a statue
to tho poet. The municipality has head
ed a subscription with 5,000 francs.
The X rays have shown that the tibia
and femur in Justice Stephen JT. Field’s
knee have almost grown together, and
that the hinge has partially solidified.
The secretaries of state, if of the de
gree of baron, follow the Hn glish and
Irish bishops. If these secretaries are of
the degree of baron they take precedence
of all barons.
Tho bank statistics of Ireland for 1895
art* the inert* nVt- recorded
and show that Ireland has but to be let
alone to attain a thoroughly sound eco
nomic condition.
The village of Vienholz, near Brienz,
in the Bernese Oberland, bas beeu part
ly destroyed by subsidenoe and land
slips, caused by natural springs. The
inhabitants have been compelled to de
sert the place entirely
The Eskimos have a queer custom in
regard to doctors. At each visit the doc
tor is paid. If tlie patient recovers, the
physician keeps the money ; if the pa
tient dies, the money is returned to the
family of the deceased.
The statistics of life insurance show
that in the last £5 years the average
woman’s life has increased, from nearly
42 to neatly 4G, or more than 8 per
cent, while man’s life average lias in
creased from nearly 42 to 44, which is
5 per cent.
The camel’s foot is a soft cushion, pe
culiarly well adapted to the stones :uid
gravel over which it is constantly walk
ing. During a single journey through
the Sahara horses haw worn out three
sets of shoes, while the came 1 ! s feet are
uot even sore.
LABGfi iN POLITICS.
Tho American Railway Union To In the
Fight For Bryan and Watson.
The American Railway union is in
politics. It proposes to take a hand in
this campaign. Committed by a unani
mous vote of its delegates to the Peo
ple’s Party, it pledges its support to
Bryan and Watson and all other candi
dates of that party. In these stirring
days a labor organization that takes no
part in politics can hardly be said to
have a mission. With all that organ
ized labor has done and attempted to do
for American labor, the haggard fact
remains that workingmen were never
so oppressed, so degraded, so utterly
wretched as they are today. Who dare
deny it? Millions are working for nig
gardly wages and cower like peons at
the approach of their bosses, and mil
lions of others have no work at all and
are trembling on the ragged edge of
starvation. If this is the best that or
ganized labor can do for the victims of
corporate greed and capitalistic rapac
ity, we have no hesitancy in saying that
its mission is a total failure and that it
were better to disband. But such is not
our conclusion. Labor has been cheated
and robbed by a gang of brigands be
cause it has “kept out of politics. ” The
testimony is overwhelming.
The members of the American Rail
way union know by bitter experience
what it is to keep out of politics. What
ever other organizations m.-.y or may
not do, they propose to go into this po
litical fight in a solid body. They are
after the gang of corporation managers
and political hirelings who used the
powers of government to overwhelm
them two years ago. That was all done
by “corporation politics.” A little “or
ganization politics” for a change will
be in order. The members of the Amer
ican Railway union have been enjoined
by corporation courts from doing almost
anything beneath the sun, but they
can’t be enjoined from going to the
polls, shoulder to shoulder, and voting
for Bryan and Watson, whom the rail
road corporations and all the capitalistic
influence will turn earth and hell to
defeat.
It is only by “going into politics” that
organized labor can prevent the election
of presidents of the Cleveland stripe
and place such men as Bryan in the
White House. And with the election of
such a man as Bryan, a Caldwell will
find his way to the supreme bench, and
in due time labor will cease to crawl in
the dirt and stand erect.— Railway
Times.
In an inventory of the effects of Sir
John Fastolfe, drawn up in 1459, is
mentioned “one hat of beaver, lined
with damask gilt, and also two ‘straw
en’ hats.” The plume of feathers,
however, ivas the chief mark of
Henry VIII had one plume, consisting
of eight Indian feathers, which he con
sidered almost invaluable.
The Hebrews originally made their
shoes of roughly prepared skins and
afterward of papyrus and cloth. Later
on they were made in many styles and
more elegant. The chief styles men
tioned by the ancient books are the mil
itary (ornamented with brass and iron)
and the religious (covering the whole
foot, and thus distinguished from the
sandal worn by the common people).
The ancient Celtic population of Eu
rope and that in the British islands
very probably wore either no head cov
erings at all or such only as were of a
very simple kind. “If their heads were
covered at all,” says Mr. Planche, in
his work on British costumes, “it was
by the ‘cappan’ or cap, from the Brit
ish ‘cab, ’ a hut, which it resembled in
its conical shape, the houses of the
Britons being made with wattles stuck
in the ground and fastened together at
top.”
A Foul Slander.
We don’t think the democrats of Thom
aston and Upson county have very much
feelnsr towards their Pop ulist neighbors.
If they do, we must confess they artful
lv and successfully conceal it. We
don’t believe they they look upon ? J
Populist as being any less honorable or
any less intelligent than themselves.
When Gov. Atkinson was speaking
in Thomaston he made use of these blas
phemous words: ’’Any mau who will
join the People’s party, his heart is as
black as hell, and his face ought to be
as black as a negro’s.
We know that no Populist will vote
for him after knowing this, aud we’sin
cerely believe our Democratic friends,
appreciating the infamy, and knowing
that the tirade was wholly unprovoked,
will resent the insnlt to their neigh
bors and repudiate the demagogue who
offered it.—Upson Pilot.
Still the Atlanta Constitution
says ’’thousands are coming back
to the old party.” We challange
the Constitution to produce anv
of their names. If you see it in
the Constitution its a lie.”
When men vote as they pray re
sults will be accomplished that
will astonish even the confiding.
The democrats will have their
headquarters at Chicago and the
fight will come from the west.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The south don’t like Sue-all.
Jim McGaritywill make things
warm in the 7th. He is a hustler
and is bound to win in his district.
Almost without an exception the
reform press is supporting Bryan
and Watson.
It must make Bulloch green with
envy to see the democrats claim to
be the fathers of the free school
system of Georgia.
In Illinois the democrats will
have too state tickets in the field.
The national democrats and the
Altgeld democrats.
This campaign is to be a repeti
tion of that eft 1860. Things are
about as bauly split now as then
and the result is in about as much
doubt.
Mr. Bryan did not go to Maine
to rest with Mr. Sewall. Was he
afraid to show partiality between
his two vices?
The wire is being used’ instead
of the cotton tie and we trust it
may become general. It has been
tried in the compress and has prov
en satisfactory. Let us down the
trust.
The populist are still “in the
middle of the road.” They will
keep their part of the St. Louis
compact, but don’t propose to do all
the “coming.” The banner state
will have a populist for its next
governor, and don’t you forget that.
The state agricultural societ.v
met in Rome this week. Mr
Brown was elected president and
Hon. James Barrett, vice-presi
dent. The cotton tie trust offered
a fine opportunity fer this body to
do some service £o farmers of
taking the initial step
to secure its defeat.
Senator Gray, of Delaware, de
clares his intention to support the
national democratic ticket to be
nominated at Indianapolis on
September 2d. Is it possible that
all the prominent, democrats are to
bolt the Bryan ticket, save Hoke
Smith?
The national democratic party
will on September 2d nominate
its candidates for president and
vice-president. This organization
truthfully claims to be the only
democratic party—the silver wing
having been captured at Chicago
and St. Louis by the populist.
Dr. W F. Goldin, of Draketown,
was nominated last week by the
Populist of Haralson county for
the Senate from the 38th district.
Dr. Goldin has represented the dis
trict in the Senate before and
makps an efficient, representative.
Capt. Craven of Tallapoosa is his
Democratic opponent.—Herald,
Dallas, Ga.
Peortle won’t settle in a state where
the criminal laws are not enforced, and
where they can’t have a free ballot and
a fair count. Bryan and Watson and
free silver would Dot help Texas much
with the present gang in control at
Austin. The business element in Texas
will join the nonnlists and republicans
to save the state from further depression
in business. In every locality the pop
u’ists shonl 1 talk to the business men.
—Texas Mercury.
The encampment which closed
last Friday at Alpharetta,
was a Treat success from everv
standpoint. A creatproportion of
those who attended were demo
crats and in this way they were
enabled to hear the gospel of pop
ulism preached It was a good
indication in the campaign to have
so many of our democratic friends
attend the encampment and will,
in the end. increase our vote large
ly.