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Irwin County News.
Official Organ of Irwin County.
A. G. DuLOACH, EdifoF aiid Proprietor.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
• BITS OF NEWS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE STATE,
Bfe’ng a Summary of Interesting Hap¬
penings From Day to Day.
The bank of Tbomasville has de¬
clared a semi-annual dividend of 3$
per cent.
The Savannah Telephone their company wires
has been required to put
under ground.
* * *
^^The National bank of Columbus has
^^Hklared Hunual a earnings. dividend of ten per cent on
* * *
e Argus is getting up a conven-
J “horse swappers” to meet in
n on July 7tb.
* * *
he county commissioners of Jones
.
county have appropriated $2,000 to
make repairs on the court house.
* * *
The Athens hospital began its work
January 1st, on wiiiek date President
Hull notified the public that it was
ready to receive patients.
It is claimed that the receipts for
the Athens dispensary will be about
o.ne thousand less thin last year, or
$8,000. These figures may not be
near correct as the dispensary has
about one month to run yet. The re¬
ceipts go to the school fund of the
city and county.
Mrs. W. H. Felton denies tie report
that she will manage the content case
of her husband for the seat o^ ‘seventh Repre¬
sentative Maddox from the
Georgia district. She has cpllected
the evidence in the case and expects
to make a speech in her husbaid’s be¬
half before the elections comn ittee.
• * *
The elections to decide wheth er or
Dot liquor licenses shall be grtntsd in
Hall county resulted in a deckled vic¬
tory for the prohibition side. The
majority for the opponents of the
liquor traffic was 379. The county
has been dry for four years p»st, but
“blind tigers” have flourished. Tbe
election passed off very quietly.
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'About ten miles nortbufest of Can¬
ton, on the eastern slope of the Oaky
mountain, a largo vein of slate and
quartz strata was rec ntly discovered,
which is fully' five miles long aDd is
more than 100 yards wide by actual
measurement. The vein is cut aero s
at short intervals by small mountain
streams, which expose the surface of
the vein, so it can be seen without ad¬
ditional prospecting.
All the liquor saloons in Griffin were
closed at midnight Tuesday night to
remain closed #ill au election at some
future day shall restore the privilege
of selling intoxicatingliqnorsin Spald¬
ing county. On the last day the citi¬
zens of Griffin and vicinity were liber¬
al patrons of the saloons and the num¬
ber of jugs of various sizes filled at the
different establishments was enor¬
mous.
The republican campaign for ’96 has
been inaugurated in the state and
those who affiliate with the party have
already begun work. The meeting of
the state central committee, at which
the call for the convention was
^■gn, H,e, was the ftom beginning of the cam-
and now on until the elec-
there will be a thorough canvass
bfVne state and party leaders will take
the stump.
, » * *
Now that the exposition is over, as
much of the Georgia state exhibit at
Ihe fair as is suited to such a disposi¬
tion will be installed in the capitol and
Lade a permanent exhibit. This has
leer decided on by the commissioners,
lut in just what part of the building it
[ill be housed is not yet settled.
[hough not positively decided, it is
ought that the display will be put in
e third story. A man is already em-
oyed there to keep a general super-
sio.J fiver the dome, and he can,
ithout additional cost to the state.be
it in charge of.this exhibit.
« * «'
Mr. G. W. Sliults, the organizer and
fesident of the Elwood park colony
L Ware county, writes from Colum-
1st O. that he will arrive with the
lonists excursion of several hundred Ohio
I. about the middle of January,
ll Shults says that the colony, which
liners, consist of nearly 10,000 good
lilies fruit growers, merchants, mo-
aud various other occupations,
Leiug organized by means of attrao-
circulars descriptive of Ware
Inty'aud and containing full of particulars
be aim objects the colony,
lood park i 8 the site for the colony
, which is situated seven miles
I of Wavoross on the Alabama
[land division of the Plaut system.
After tlic Xeiglers.
he governor has increised his offer
[ward [Solomon for Zeigler the capture $500 of Cofric eaoh.
to
IRWIN COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAV. JANUARY 10,1890.
The Zeiglers, as is well known, are
hiding about their home lu Screven
county, and are simply defying arrest.
1’he governor, believing it was the
duty of the. county officials to capture
them without any further inducement,
jt first made the reward very light,
ffering $50 each. Later he increased
that to $250 each, and still the Zoiglers
were not caught.
It will be remembered they killed
the sheriff of Screven county, aveng-
ng the death of their father. Some
time ago the new sheriff summoned a
posse and went to their home, but a
enroll of the house revealed that they
were not. at thit time in it. It is gen¬
erally believed that they knew of the
•oming of the officers and were accom-
nodating enough to absent themselves,
ust at the time. All iffirts on the
>art of the governor to have them ar¬
rested have failed. He now offers the
reward of 8500 for each, and it is be¬
loved it will have Ihe desired effect.
Brunswick’s Naval Reserves Happy.
The Brunswick naval reserves are
jubilant over the receipt, bv Lieuten¬
ant Aiken, commanding officer, of a
letter from Congressman Turner, in¬
closing encouraging information re¬
garding the equipment of Georgia’s
only naval militia. Congressman Tur¬
ner has been personally working to se¬
cure deserved recognition and through
letters from the heads of departments
at Washington the favorable result is
announced.
Assistant Secretary McAdoo writes
'n substance that the department is
disposed to do everything to encourage
the movement in Georgia; that it has
several old monitors and will send one
to Brunswick if the state government
will pay the towage. The secretary
promises to send hooks of instruction
to the reserves by February 1st and
says if Lieutenant Aiken will make
requisition through Governor Atkin¬
son, the $300 due the Georgia naval
reserves will be expended in an outfit
for that. As to the rifles the letter
states that the new and improved make
will be sent next August.
UNCLE SAM’S TREASURE ISLAND,
Its Identity is Established Satisfac-
torily.
The identity of the Camden county
island claimed by the government has
been made clear, although no such
piece of land can be found on the rec¬
ords at the capitol.
Some days ago a dispatch was sent
Ww>ninftt<ra aamnaclag tbai .
records in the naval department show-
ed theUnited States government to be
the owner of Grover island, in Camden
county, Georgia. The dispatch went
on to say that the property had been
ceded to the government by Josiah
Tattnall and wife hid in 1798, but that the its j j
government never asserted
right to the title.
A search of the records in the office
of the secretary of state threw no light :
on the matter. Neither did a study of
the map of Camden county, for that |
showed no island of that name. The
map showed a Dover island and a
Graves island, but no Grover.
Tho mystery deepened. It might,
of course, be either, the error being
in the transmission of the telegram.
A further inquiry of Washington
showed, however, that the naval re¬
cords read Grover and nothing else
could be made out of it.
Josiah Tattnall was one of the early
settlers of the Camden and Glynn
county section, and received several
thousand acres of land under the
headright grants. A study of these
different tracts showed some which
could be an island—at least from the
description given.
A telegram from Brunswick throws
some light upon the matter. From
the description it gives the indications
are that the map at the capitol must
be wrong and that the Graves island it
gives must be Grover. This is on
Crooked river and the reason no de¬
scription given in the Tattnall award
fits it is probably because it is cut off
from the main land by only a small
river and was originally regarded as a
part of the mainland.
The property in question lies be-
tween St. Mary’s and Fernandina and
has belonged to the United States for
more than ‘ a century. Tho tract,
tbo' gh small, amounting to possibly
500 acres, is very valuable, not only
for the fertility of its soil, now partly
cultivated, but chiefly for its aeeessi-
bility by various water ways, making
valuable to the government,
Mr - Camden Long, who resides on
Grover island, is custodian of tbe
property and has been such for many
J? <>ars - Over fifteen years ago the
{island was claimed by Colonel W. W.
Wilb ams ' now deceased, who took
possession of it. A hotly contested
followed in the courts and tho
government,won, dispossessing Colonel
Williams am? settling all doubt as to
th ® ownership of the property said
be worth $20,000.
PENSION MONEY
Will Soon Be Ready for Needy Kx-
Soldiers of the State.
Judgp Richard Johnson, the pension
clerk of the executive department, bus
aborn completed the work he has beer
doing on the claims for pensions nn-
der tins late pension act, amended at
the latej session of the legislature-
“In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.”
J£J‘by rS
from $30,000 to $120,000, there will
ba still a number of veterans who can¬
not be paid, as there is not enough
money to go round.
The first act of the legislature ap¬
propriated $30,000 to pay Confederate
soldiers who, from infiimity and pov-
erty, blindness and poverty,or old age
and poverty were rendered unable to
get a liviug. Each man who was enti¬
tled to receive the pension was to
draw $60 a year. The applications
began to pour in, and it soon became
evident that there would not be suffi¬
cient money to go round. There was
money enough to pay 500 men, but
there It were 1,800 applicants.
was decided to pay none of them,
but to wait until the meeting of the
legislature, so as to submit the matter
to that body. Tne legislature at the
session just closed amended the act
and increased the sum of money to
$120,000,which, it was thought, would
be ample, as to that time only 1,800
claims had been sent in. The news
that the money had been appropriated
was published, and at once more ap-
p ications began to come in. Soon the
2,000 mark was reached, and then, to
the surprise of all the state house offi¬
cials, more applications began to come
in. The first 2,000 were approved, and
since then 200 more have come in.
There is no way to pay these unless
some of these claimants whose claims
have been approved have died since
the money was appropriated.
It is expected that the antire amount
will be paid out between the 15th and
the 25th of the present month. In
order that as many claims as possible
may be paid, Judge Johnson has sent
a published list of claims that have
been approved to the clerks of the
courts in every county in the state.
He has also written to every ordinary
in the state to check the list and let
him know as soon as possible if any of
the man on the list were dead. As
soon as these ordiuaries are heard
from it can be learned how many are
dead and their names will be thrown
out and some of those who have made
applications since the 2,000 were se¬
cured will be put iu their places.
At the session of the legislature just
closed an amendment to the widows’
pension act was passed fit which will
prove of great ben to the widows
of Confederate soldier
Under the act of ecetpber 23d,
1890, all widows of ConfecT-rate sol-
piers who could show (bat they were
_
wives flurifig thowar and that their
husbands died duringthe war or after-
wards from tbe effi cts of wounds or
injuries received in the service, or
disease contracted there, were entitled
der to dra^_ thfl»f uension the widows of $60 of a year. ex-Confed- Un¬
erates who died up to 1890 from the
effects of injuries or disease received
or contracted during the war were en-
titled to draw pensions,but the widows
of those who died after 1890 from the
same causes were entitled to no pen-
sion. An amendment to this act was
passed pensioning tbe widows of those
who have died sauce 1890 from the
same causes as set out in the original
act. Tn both oases the woman must
Miow tint ."lie Im- 1 never unrrie-1 -i-ri-
for if she marries she is dropped from
the pension roil.
Both these acts will prove of great
benefit to tbe poor people of the state
who will find untold comforts in the
small sum that is given to them by the
state.
TEN MEN ENTOMBED.
Probably Crushed to Death by a Mine
Cave In.
Ten men were caught in a cave-in in
the Anna Lee mine at Victor, Ool.,
Saturday morning, and it is not ’escaped possi¬
ble that any of them have
death.
President James Burns, of Colorado
Springs, had been down in the mine
on a tour of inspection and had just
been hoisted to ihe surface, when As¬
sistant Superintendent Sheldon, ac¬
companied by a miner, entered the
cage and were being lowered.
Thay had descended about 280 feet
when the engineer in charge of the
hoisting machine received a signal to
draw up the cage rapidly. The signal I
came too late. A great mw of rock
had begun to settle, crushing the cage
and its occupants. Eight men were
working in the bottom of the shaft j
driving a level toward the ore chim¬
ney, and they were probably orushed
to death. Rescue gangs were imme¬
diately put to work from three di ffer-
ent directions.
TRUSTWORTHY REPORTS
Coucorning Outrages in Kharput.
12,708 Were Killed.
Advices from Constantinople state !
that owing to representations made to
it by Sir Philip Currie, the British
ambassador, the porte has insiructed
the Vali of Kharput to allow Mr. Bar-
num to distribute the fund colleoted
in England for the. relief of the snf-
fering Armenians.
Trustworthy reports regarding the
recent outrages in the vilayet of Khar-
put alone show that 138 towns and
villag's were desolated, 5,064 houses
burned and 12,708 persons killed. Not
a single Turk was killed, so far as is j
known. |
54TII CONGRESS.
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ROUTINE OP HOUSE AND SRNATK
BRIEFLY CHRONICLED.
1
I Summary of Bills and Resolutions
Presented and Acted Upon.
THE HOUSE.
The last session of the house for the
year 1895, held Tuesday, was a purely
formal meeting, lasting but a very few
minutes, and an adjournment was tak¬
en derstanding. until Friday, according to Chaplain the un¬
The prayer of
Couden was most impressive. He
asked that party contentions might be
buried, that mot*> the nation might advance
with tlic ‘‘One one coun¬
try, one God,forever,” and concluded:
“With malice toward none, with char¬
ity for all, let our nation stand an ex¬
ample to all the world with justice
written on her brow.” Mr. Noonan,
the only republican member from
Texas, made a correction of the jour¬
nal to show that he had voted for the
two revenue billtflast week. At 12:15
the house adjourned.
The session of tire house Friday
lasted only five minutes. The chap¬
lain offered prayer, the journal was
read arid approved, a message was re¬
ceived from the senate and then the
house adjourned until Monday.
THE SENATE.
When the senate met Tuesday Mr.
Perkins, of California, asked unani¬
mous consent for the consideration of
a resolution directing the committee
on finance to report an amendment to
the house tariff bill laying an addition¬
al duty on raw sugar equal to the other
increases of the bill. Mr. Berry, dem¬
ocrat, Arkansas, objected. It was
agreed to adjourn over till Friday,
Mr. Morrill, republican, Vermont,
explaining that the finance committee
desired to consider the bond and tariff
bills on Thursday.
Mr. Chandler’s resolution offered
Monday directing the committee on
naval affairs to investigate the prices
paid by the government for armor
plate and as to whether any official of
the government was interested in pat-
ent processes, was called up. At the
suggestion of Mr. Gorman, democaat,
Maryland, Wthe the words directing an in-
prieft qulrv facts as to whether the
paid'by the United States were
“as low as paid by foreign govern-
ments,” were stricken out. The ioso-
lution was adopted.
Mr. Sherman then introduced a
resolution which was listened to with
keen interest in view of the senator’s
utterances against the retirement of
the greenbacks, He gave notice that
on Friday he would submit «ome re-
marks upon it. The resolution was
as ' follows-
“Resolved, That by injurious legis-
lation by the 53d congress the reven-
nes of the government were reduced
below its necessary expenditures aDd
the fund created by law for the re-
demption of the United States notes
has been invaded to supply such defi-
eiency of reserve *
“That such application of the te .
sumption fund is of doubtful legality
and greatly injurious to the public
credit and should be prevented by re-
storing said fund to the sum of not
less than $100,000,000 in gold coin or
bullion to be paid out only in tbe re-
demptiou-trf United States notes when
redeemed to be reissued only in ex¬
change for gold coin or bullion. ” . 1
Mr. Mitchell, republican, Oregon,
then took the floor and made a long
speech in favor of his resolution in- j
structing the finance committee to re-
store the McKinley duties on wool in \
any revenue bill reported to the
eenate.
. Mr. Morrill, republican, Vermont,
chairman of the finance committee,
made a brief but important announce¬
ment in the senate Friday. He moved
that when the senate adjourned it be
until Tuesday, and in this connection
he said: “I hope that by Tuesday,
when the senate reassembles, the
fiuance committee will be ready to re¬
port on both the tariff and bond bills
passed by the house.” The motion
for an adjournment until Tuesday was
agreed to.
Mr. Hale, republican, Maine, in
presenting a bill for a cable to Hono¬
lulu and elsewhere, explained that it
was an elaboration of the plan urged
before the last congress and contem¬
plated a cable for the transmission of
the business of the United States gov¬
ernment. He said he would call up
the subject Tuesday. A joint resolu¬
tion for a constitutional amendment
admitting 1 women to 1 suffrage, was pre-
sented by request by Mr. Hoar. Mr.
Squire, republican, Washington, of-
fered a resolution for the negotiation
forthwith of a convention between the
United States and Great Britain for
making the boundary between Alaska
and British North America and appro-
printing $75,000 for expenses. The
resolution was referred.
Mr. George, democrat, Mississippi,
asked immediate consideration fora
bill repealing the law requiring an
oath ofloyalty as a prerequisite to se¬
curing a pension for services in the
Mexican war. Mr. Hoar said the
repeal was unobjeeiionable, where- 5
upon Mr. Chandler remarked: “I
will certainly support any measure of
reconciliation which has the joint in¬
dorsement of the senator from Mi sis-
sippi and the senator from Massachu¬
setts.” The bill was passed without
division.
Mr. Butler, populist, North Caro¬
lina, asked immediate consideration of
a bill “to prohibit the issue of inter¬
est-bearing bond.,” Mr. Hill, New
Y ,rk, suggested that the bill be not
pressed lor the preseut. Mr. Sher¬
man, he said, was about to address the
senate. After that possibly the dis¬
cussion of this proposition would be
desirable.
Mr. Butler said the proposition
needed no discussion. The country
understood it. It had been exhaus¬
tively discussed, until thepnblic judg¬
ment was as certain as that two and
two made feur. Still, according to
Mr. Hill’s request, the measure was
temporarily withdrawn. At 1 o’clock
Mr, Sherman begaD his speech on the
financial question, reading from manu¬
script and receiving close attention.
At the conclusion of Mr, Sherman’s
remarks Mr. Butler renewed his re¬
quest for the immediate consideration
of his bill to prohibit the future sale of
bonds except with the consent of con¬
gress. The newspapapers, he said,
had told the story of the impending
bond issue. Action should be had at
once. Mr. Butler asked unanimous
consent to put his bill upon its pass¬
age and Mr. Hill, who happened to be
in the chair, rather startled the senate
by himself interposing an objection.
Mr. Mills, democrat, Texas, took
the floor to reply to Mr. Sherman. He
repelled the charge that the Fifty-
third congress was in any way respon¬
sible for the present financial crisis.
The burden belonged to the Fifty-first
congress and Mr. Sherman was partly
responsible for the legislation of that
congress. The democrats bad turned
over to the Harrison administration in
1889, $230,000,000. How was it, he
asked, if the claim that the McKinley
bill had produced sufficient revenue
was true, that in 1893, when the dem¬
ocrats again assumed control, all that
surplus was gone, consumed and dis¬
Mr. Elkins next spoke. He said the
house bond bill was intended to meet an
emergency. There was no reason, he
said, why the president and secretary
of the treasury should be allowed to
®® 1 ,, l , b ° nds , ™ ... tb ° nt , advertising, , saying
f hat they should not be given a pr.vi-
1 e « e wh lch W<m d not be gran t8d tom-
^viduals , , . m ordinary affairs. He ce¬
?’ zed the ^st bond issue claiming
ib,xt the commission was too great.
Ho “ w ”° /“ why loans should
“ ot b ®. i° attd a * bome - Mr ’ £ kl f
hou « ht th ® P eo P le wer \ afl hkel y to
W^m the government as from a
syndicate, and considered the syndi-
“*e superfluous. The presidentshould
,be P e,, P le “ to h ‘ s confidence,
f° r a vote on bis resolution,
tbat the bond8 be advertised, saying
lt u because th " e was d T
? el tbat * he b< ?, nd8 wou d soon be
issued. Mr. Hill demanded the yeas
and nays.
ElkinB ’ “ oti on for consideration
merely, not tor passage, of his resolu-
tion for pxiolic advertisements for
bonds, passed by a vote of 48 yeas to 6
? ays ' Mr : Hdl * boa g ht w ‘>n ld be
becomin . g m the democrats of the sen-
ate to R1V0 tbe democratic secretary of
the treaBur y a of confidence. He
a ‘ ,e mpted to quote from a contract of
1877 between tbe secretary of tbe
[ rea ur y ami New York and London
bankers for tho sale of bonds, but Mr.
Sherman interrupted to say that there
was that contra( d aa express stipu-
, latlon that the bonds shonld he offered
th ® P eo P Ie f 01 th,rt y da ys. He de-
clared ,hat 'he people did take the
bor,d S hut. Mr. Hill retorting declared
that the y were boug h t for the bankers,
KRUGER KICKS.
Says Jameson Was Not Killed—Scores
the Newspapers.
Sunday the Hon. Cecil Rhodes, prime
minister of Cape Colony and the head
in Africa of the British South African
Company, sent a dispatch reading:
“The rumor that a force ib collect¬
ing at Buluwayo is absolutely false.”
President Kruger, replying to Mr.
Chamberlain’s dispatch, cabled: “I
have not ordered the freebooters, who
are prisoners, to be shot. Their case
will be decided strictly in accordance
with the traditions of the republic and
in sharp contrast to the unheard-of
acts of these freebooters. So many
lies and' false reports are publisded,
even in influential newspapers in Eng¬
land, that I deem it advisable to add
that the freebooters prisoners have
been treated with the greatest consid¬
eration by our burghers, despite the
fact that the latter have been more
than once compelled to take up arms
in defense of the dearly bought inde¬
pendence of our republic.
KUGKNE FIELD’S ESTATE.
His Personal Properly Estimated at
$25,000.
The estate of the late Eugene Field
was brought into tho probate court at
Chicago Thursday on a petition of the
widow for letters of administration.
The estate is valued at $25,000, all in
personal property. Besides this, there
is the poet’s home, valued at $10,000
to $20,000, which he had conveyed te
his wife some time before his death.
1.00 A Tear.
VOL. VI. NO. 40
A SENSATION
CREATED BY AN ARTICLE IN THE
LONDON CHRONICLE.
Correspondent Says Arbitration Is a
Sacred Right.
The American correspondent of the
London Daily Chronicle, has cabled
to that paper from Washington as fol-
lows:
“I am now at length able to speak
with confidence of opinion in the
highest American quarters. Tho only
condition on which the men whom I
specially desired to see would speak
has been my personal pledge not even
by a hint to betray their names; there¬
fore, I can only give you my word that
I am not exaggerating my authority.
“President Cleveland’s message to
congress has done several things good
and evil. First, it has destroyed every
chance of saving the Armenians. Sec¬
ond, it has given a strong impetus to¬
ward closer ties between Great Britain
and her colonies. Third, it has enor¬
mously emphasized the line of cleavage
always existing, but discreetly ignored,
between the east and west in the
United States. The west today regards
the east as practically a European
annex and New York bankers as
allies of the money sharks of Eu¬
rope. Fourth, it has rendered certain
the creation of a great American navy,
which the next generation will be al¬
most irresistibly tempted to nse for
aggression. Fifth, and most impor¬
tant, it has, unless foolish words or
unforeseen events bar its natural con¬
sequence, paved the way for better
future relations, because Americans
having experience of the consequences,
will cease their ignorant denunci¬
ations, and Englishmen will learn
to show much greater respect
to American national opinion, know¬
ing that force is behind it, and will,
therefore, refrain from provoking it
by utterances and acts of veiled con¬
tempt. • Finally, the message has ren¬
dered possible the avoidance of a far
greater danger, namely, the question
of the Nicaragua canal. A man who
would be very near the head of the
American army in case of war, said to
me, it is a blessing the Yeneznelan
affair has happened, because a specific
solution of this will point the way to '
the same thing over Niearagua, con¬
cerning which otherwise the two na¬
tions would have
Destitute of Permanence.
“However, the Schombnrgk line is
now proved destitute of any quality of
permanence, and it therefore remains •
to consider the situation as affected by
its removal. I can affirm positively
that the American government is
above everything, anxious for arbitra¬
tion. Whatever may have been its
actual result, the intention of Presi¬
dent Cleveland’s message was amica¬
ble. The close entourago of the
president scouts the idea that it was
not a message of peace. But behind it
has sprung up a national sentiment
which it would be utter madness on
the part of the English people to dis¬
regard or underestimate. The Monroe
doctrine is not worth discussing. All
the leading pamphlets, the professors’
opinions and the newspaper discussions
of it are labor lost. The fact is that
if Venezuela does not come within the
four corners of the Monroe doctrine,
then the new doctrine, the Olney doo-
trine, covers it, and American opinion
overwhelmingly favors its general
principle.
Arbitration a Sacred Right.
“Moreover America demands arbi¬
tration as a sacred right and for this
she will fight if needful. While allow¬
ing all due weight to the eastern press
you must remember the line of cleav¬
age mentioned above. Remember also
to what extent the south found support
in New York before the war of the
rebellion. The man who perhaps did
more than any other single individual
to make Lincoln president tells seemed me
Lincoln said to him before war
inevitable: ‘The trouble is, the peo¬
ple of the south have their creed whioh
they hold, and wo have ours, which we
hold. Their principles are saered to
them as our principles are sacred to
us.’
The Depth of Feeling. England
“The same words apply to
and America today. Absit omen. I
am astounded at the depth and char¬
acter of American feeling on this
question. Men experienced, staid,
elderly, conservative, many holding
judicial positions of great responsibil¬
ity, frankly declare their uncompro¬
mising support of this American doc¬
trine, and while it is clear that Presi¬
dent Cleveland was infinitely too clever
and too devoted to his own party to see
that his message would deal a knocking
blow to the two groups of his political
enemies, republicans and mistake free would silver
men, Btill no greater
be possible than for England to regard
the message as a mere party maneuver.
If this later view gains acceptance the
consequences of the mistake may be
awful. When I reflect on the possi¬
bility of. this and know what I know
of American opinion I am profoundly J ;
depreBBed. Arbitration is demanded
by every consideration dearest to civ- i
ilized mankind, and it appears the in¬
evitable result.