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THE ADIEU.
Goodbye, green earth, and plants and
flowers,
ADd blue* Dd moon and 8tars in ettier
And clouds and rainbows, after evening
showers
And morning dew drops in the meads,
adien.
Ye hills and vales and so’emn voiced
mountain*!,
And bamming bees and birds of many
a hue.
Your soothing bum, your songs so sweet
end nameless,
Sing over me when I am gone—adieu.
White, swan-sweet bugler, sommer-lov
kig swhIIow,
Tell me the secret of your stated times
And shew my trembling spirit how to
follow
The voice that leads to happier,happier
climes.
Day and night and time and changing
seasons,
Forever changing and forever true
So grand! so pleasing! for so many reasons
O, Nature! all, a long, a long adieu.
Aloving,toilinf suffering,pilgrim strange
With in ward rnuHic ye my bear! beguiled*
And hmv ble, like my Masterin tnemaDgHr’
Sweet w«s your converse with your sim¬
ple child.
Let all your softest, soothing notes come
streaming
Around my spirit when I come to die.
And in tbe grave so quiet, let me lie
dreaming
Through fhe long night of death, your
lulia* y.
Un’il the music mingle with the Ihnnder,
Of resurrection mnsic. coming Digb,
And I shall rise with joy and love and
wonder
To everlasting life—no more to die.
POST SCRIPT.
And human form and fjill of heavenly
features,
In God s own image made for endless
Fading, immortal, tangled, glorious crea
tu- e**
Goodbye, goodbye, till we shall meet
above.
—Cherokee
BILL NYE ON THE TARIFF.
1
He Hakes a Suggestion or Two About
the Best way of Juggling the Sur¬
plus—The I»o Good Party—Meth¬
ods to Prevent Hen From Get¬
ting Rich—The American
Farmer’s Struggle with
His Surroundings.
[Bill Nye in the Post-Dispatch.]
While so many other rnen who
know as little as I do about it are
freely discussing the tariff it seems
a most cowardly in me to hang back.
I have resolved, therefore, to give ut¬
terance to a few terse and ringing
sentences, not calculated to inflame
the country, of course, for I have al¬
ways tried to be temperate, especially
in my language, and sought to avoid
using my wonderful gifts as a word
painter afid rhetorical thunderbolt
jerker in a way that would excite the
lowercase nature of man to war or
tend to depress the stuck market,
Go to any Wall street man of proroi
nence to day and he will tell you, un
less he should happen to be preju
diced because I may have pinched
him in some deal or other, that I
have never turned my lyre for the
purpose of inciting the nation to civil
war or sought to unsettle values or to
wreck great financial enterprises. But
I say that at a time when the less a
man knows about the tariff the more
| freely he enters into a discussion of
ft I think it would be wrong for me
to longer restrain myself. Go where
! you will in this country to-day and
you will find men talking about tariff
and the tax on raw material who hav¬
en’t had a mouthful of raw material
i or any other k nd in the houie for
weeks, except as their wives earned
it and bi ought it home to them. This
country is full of men who have thought
so hard for the common weal that the
seats of their pantaloons shine like
the dome of the Massachusetts State
house.
And now there arises in the distance
a large and growing surplus, which
indicates that as soon as the two par¬
ties get nearly balanced and sit up
nights to watch each other at VVash
ington there is a good deal more
coming . the Tieasury
money into
than is needed to run the mighty ma
chinery of Government. Friends of
the present methods say it is easier
to handle a surplus than to handle a
deficiency, for you can return a sur¬
plus to the people. That is true.
You can take it from the pockets of
those whe unjustly paid it and then
return it to those who have no claim
upon it, meantime paying good sal¬
aries to those who collect it and to
those who disburse it, allowing a
good-sized percentage for what may
be deflected toward Canada.
Mr. Blaine desires to reduce the
surplus by reducing the tax on tobac¬
co, thus making tobacco juice as
free as water and winning the esteem
of several voters who would trade
what patriotism they have for an
election day cigar with a spinal col¬
umn to it any time. As a man who
has used a low grade of high test ci¬
gars for some years, and as a man
who has been in the habit of sup¬
porting Mr. Blaine year after year
until I had almost become a slave to
the habit, I desire to state that the
style of statesmanship which strives
to win my >oung and trusting heart
with the promise of seven good cigars
for a quarter is not the kind that nrst
established this republic on a paying
basis.
Everybody knows the utter impos
sibility of knocking out financial
stringency by means of melodious
resolutions, or of paralyzing poverty
with a dark red preamble. You can
not gather fresh train figs on board
the thistle or pacify old man Gastric
with the empty promise of cheaper
cnewing tobacco.
Several gentlemen have invented
methods for the prevention of rich
men, schemes by which property may
be equalized and divided per capita
instead ot per capital. The result of
ihis could be easily figured out in
advance. To-day Jay Gould would
be wealthy and HenryGeorge hungry,
we will say. To-morrow Jay Gould
and Henry George would have $65
apiece. Tuesday .Henry George
would have $35 and a case of colic..
Jay Gould would be at the head of a
Jamaica ginger trust. Wednesday Mr.
Gould would have $130 and an order
on Henry George’s agent for the pro
ceeds of his next lecture on anti-pov
erty.
If infant industries here are to be
fostered, and protected by the way,
why is not the American lecturer pro
tected from competition with foreign
lecturers? Whether you regard an
American lecturer as a manufactured
article or raw material, it is generally
essentially American,and ought it not
to be protected? Lectuies build up
a town. They make business for rail -
roads, hotels, opera-houses, newspa
pers, laundrymen, tailors, etc., etc.,
aud if successful they go abroad and
their lectures bee,me an export,bnng
ing money into the country. Just as
soon as our lectures here prducemore
lectures than are absolutely required
for home consumption we can send
them abroad, but as it is now our
struggling lecturers here are forced to
compete with foreign lecturers like
Wong Chin Fuo, who can live much
cheaper than our native born lecturers,
who have been used to dried-apple
lluCk ' limci a
How is il wi,h ,he American far
mer? He has been driven up further
and further into a corner by the Igisla
t on of the past twenty-five years, and
yet because he is not actually starving
to death he is pointed with pride.
The American farmer contributed
more to the war than most anybody
else both in blood and money, and
really got ess in return. He got the
priceless boon ol liberty, it is true—
the liberty to pay big war prices for
everything he wanted, and sell his
crops for less and less year after year,
competing with foreigners abroad and
foreigners who came here to compete
with him; liberty to pay big prices
for machinery, help, clothing and
everything else he bought, and then
ride into town on a December day,
accompanied by the cold and still
remains of an assassinated bog, only
to be told that the threatened foreign
war had flattened out, and that pork
had gone down to four cents. It is
depressing to ride sixteen miles in the
society of a hog that has died by one’s
own hand, and every time you look
around to see the same frozen smile,
with a chip in it, while his chest is
thrown open in an ingenuous way by
means of a hickory stick in order to
show that his leaf lard is all that it
has been represented, it is not
cheerful to ride all the forenoon with
no one near you but this cold and
pulseless clay, with no eye upon you
but the leaden eye of the dead. Let
the reader who never tried it ridesix
teen miles when shades of evening
begin to lower, ride over a lonely
roan, over bare ground, with a pair
0 f low-browed bobs, a green calico
comforter over your knees, and the
clammy features of a dead and deed
fide hog in your lap. Then if you
want to feel your spirits sink out of
sigbt.ascertain, after you have laid out
all the money in your mind on a basis
of eight cents per pound,that three or
four cents ate the quotations on an ani¬
mal that you have loved in his infan
cy hid (1own so you cou | dn>t
hear hjm squea , when he was fci || e<1>
and afterward helped to scrape with
a case-knife, so that even in death he
would tie a source of pride to you !
Men tell us that manufactures
make prosperous towns, so we must .
foster manufaclures ()n |he same
theory a violent death every morning
before bieakfast was what made the
flush tim „ j„ Callfornia Nevada an( ,
Colorado. In order to have prosper¬
ity we must have more murders and
lynching soirees. Why, when a man
was killed every day or two in Lead
ville, laborers got as high as $10 a
day. Therefore crime makes money
plenty and wages high
I do not claim to know how to
m ke time more prosperous otherwise
than to open my own whooping cof
fers and put in circulation the surplus
which I have been clinging to so long.
I have resolved to do so. Let others
follow the example. Who will be the
next? Let the government itself fall
in. Let us do good with our riches.
Let us form what I may term the Do
Good party. Mr. Gould wires me
(“coHcct” from Rome) that he will
lend his heart and soul, such as they
are, to a movement of that kind, and
at living jrates. Mr. Gould says that
he would advise me to communicate
my plans—*by wire over the Western
Union—to everybody and seek the
co-operation of the Government He
thinks that Congress would be willing
to make an appropriation covering
the expense of telegraph, at least.
Mr. GouUUalso adds that he would
certainly take an interest in such a
movement, and says he would prefer
a controlling mterest.
# Hetwu
It is between seasons now and
.merchants find it a good time to take
stock. Customers with a little casn
wiU find it also a good time to take
£ th^ay ' hafs or'gent’s
aiK j will call on J.
K Harris & Co. ? Columbus, Ga.
The a e gentlemen have too much bus
in ess sagacity to carry over stock
^ ^ j t ^ j t you
wou jj good ones call
on Remember this when you
are L* Columbus and call on them.