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VOL. VII.
CRADLE SONC OF THE FISHERMAN’S WIFE.
Rwung in the hollows of the deep.
While silver stars their watches keep,
Sleep, my glistening seabird, sleep! fill.
Our boat the fishes
Oar prow turns homeward—hush! be
1 still—
Sleep, my seabird, sleep—
Sleep, sleep.
The wind is springing from out the West,
I Nestle thee deeper in mother’s breast,
Best, my seabird, rest!
There is no sea our boat could whelm
While thy brave father is at the helm,
Best, my seabird, rest—
Best, rest.
PAID IN FULI
A Lighthouse Engineer's Terrible Ad
venture With a Madman;
I.
F you love me,
£ .go!” Harry, dear, don’t
dJ?' 3 $ “I must, Cis,
I- beggars can’t be
m I choosers," I an
^ swered bitterly.
— “After all, dear
.JKF est girl, it will be
i _only for a few
months.”
; V— “A year, I’m
afraid, Harry,
from what father says.”
“Well, since he has found me this
work, I mustn’t shirk it. Good-by,
my own girl.”
What misery does poverty entail on
loving hearts! Cicely Fleming and I
had loved one another for years—ever
since indeed we were children to¬
gether. I had spent the few hundreds
my father left me in completing my
ongineeriug education in Germany.
Then I came home, confident of find¬
ing work. Bnt nothing came my way,
in spite of every endeavor. At last
Mi-. Fleming’s interest procured me a
place as assistant engineer in build¬
ing a new lighthouse on the dangerous
Island of Skryu, off the west coast of
Ireland. It was not tho work I wanted.
It would bring little credit, however
well done. The pay was poor, and
the prospect of the liai dahips and lone¬
liness were not calculated to raise one’s
spirits. There would be but one other
skilled engineer on the spot—an Irish¬
man, I understood, named Callau.
I parted with Cis on a Tuesday.
Friday morning found me on the small
craft which was the only means of
communication between Skryn and
the mainland.
Soon we landed, and I waded ashore,
and walked n *. the steep path to the
top of the eli ti ft
As I reach- the summit a man met
me, and, holding out his hand, said:
“Good-morning! You’re Mr. Bry
don, I suppose? I’m Caban!”
I thought the voico unpleasant, but,
glancing up into the man’s face, de¬
cided that it was even worse than tho
voice.
He was not so ill-looking—at least,
as far as feotuves went. It was not
till later that I discovered the peculiar
repulsion he inspired me with was due
to his eyes. These were extraordin¬
arily dark and piercing, but across
the iris of one was a remarkable pale
yellow mark, which, combined with a
very slight squint, gave him an abso¬
lutely unoanuy appearance,
j Callan walked back with me. A
very few steps brought us to the huts.
They were the regular ready-mode
article of wood and zinc. There was
one for each of us, and a little way off
another, a good deal larger, for the
workmen. There were six of these—
rough Connemara men.
{ From where grass-clad we stood knoll—for on the sum¬ the
mit of the
island was no more—we could gaze
out seaward to where immense rollers
poured in gentle thunder over a ledge
of black, skarp-fanged rooks. Far out
on this ugly reef could be seen the
beginning of tho new lighthouse.
, I was busy all that day getting my
things unpacked and my little cabin
into order. It consisted of oue room
only. On oue side was a bunk, on
the other an oil stove, on which was
perched a big irop kettle. I found I
had to do my own cooking. A table
and two chairs completed the equip¬
ment. There was a door on the east¬
ern side, and a single window just
opposite. I turned in early and slept
like a top in the cool sea aiy.
Next day I was up betimes, boiled
my big kettle, made my'coffee, and
was out on the reef before Callan
was visible. The men were already at
work. I spoke to them, but either
they could not or would *hot talk.
Presently Callan came out scrambling
along the reef. What a burly brute
he looked in the clear morning sun¬
light! He spoke to tho men with ex¬
traordinary roughness. They evidently
feared him, and, I soon saw, hated
him, too.
This puzzled me till I knew opened him
better. But a very few days
my eyes. If ever there lived a
without one grain of pity in his
position, it was Eugene Callan.
seemed to take an absolute delight
crnelty for cruelty’s sake. There
a boy called Barney McKeown, wht
Hcted as servant to Callan. Tho wai
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DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF JOHNSON COUNTY AND MIDDLE GEORGIA.
WRIGHTSVJLLE. GA., THURSDAY, JULY 13. 1899.
The loam flies past ns like beaten cream,
The waves break over, the fierce winds
scream, Dream,
Dream tbe my seabird, dream!
of cot where high and low,
Crimson and white, the roses blow.
Dream, my seabird, dream —
Dream, dream.
What tho’ the tempest is on the deep?
Heaven will guard thee—do not weep,
Be Sleep, my seabird, sleep!
brave as a fisherman’s child should be,
Hocked in the hollows of the sea,
Sleep, Sleep, my seabird, sleep—
sleep.
Callan bullied that unfortunate boy
was others appalling. I wondered how the
could see such things happen¬
ing. But I found Callau would not
keep any man on the works whom he
could not absolutely terrorize. He
w as practically king of the place. Me
he did not molest, and you may im¬
agine how careful I was not to run
counter to him. For the thought was
ever present, if I could accomplish
my share of the work satisfactorily, it
might lead to better things. And my
sweet Cicely waiting for mo inspired
me to suffer and be strong.
Very soon I hated Callan as much
as the rest.
II.
A few weeks later we had a storm,
which stopped all work.
I sat in my hut reading most of the
day and listening to the gusts that
at times like thunder. Once
or twice I fancied I heard a shriller
mingled with the gale.
Late in the afternoon it lulled a lit¬
and suddenly there came, dis¬
and clear to my ears a scream of
I sprang up and listened.
and again the cry sounded out.
was from Cuban's hut they came.
I sprang up, rushed across and
open the door. The sight that
my eyes made me blaze with an¬
ger. Stripped to the waist and writh¬
ing with pain, the wretched McKeown
was tied to tho head of Callan’s bed,
while over him stood the big black
bully, lashing him with a rope’s end.
“What’s this for?” I cried,
Callan turned his crooked gaze on
me.
“To teach tho young hound obedi
ence." His voice grated with rage
at my interruption. “And what busi¬
ness is it of yours, Mr. Pry?"
I fancied for an instance he was .go¬
ing for me. But I was much too an¬
gry to think of consequences.
“You’re an infernal bully!” Isliout
ed. “Andif you don’t chuck itl can’t
make you; but I’ll soon let your em¬
ployers know.”
The bully was a coward—that I
knew. But he could have killed me
with one hand. So my relief was
considerable when he suddenly threw
down the ropo’s end. I untied Mc¬
Keown, and, pushing him before me,
left the hut.
But a hissing whisper followed me.
“All right, young man, your turn
now. But you’ll pay for it. ”
I knew well enough Callan would
not forgive me for this day’s work.
And of this I soon had practical proof.
In my spare time I used to fish off the
rocks. Soon after this occurrence I
have told of, I was at my favorite pas¬
time, when—crash! a great boulder
fell from the cliff above, missing me by
hardly a yard, and glancing into the
sea beneath mo.
McKeown, who was pitifully grate¬
ful for my interference, warned me
not to stand under the cliff again.
Two days later I took the dinghy out.
I was hardly surprised when tho ping
floated up in splinters and left me to
swim ashore.
One day letters came across
the mainland, one from Cis and one in
an unknown hand.
Cis’ letter, of course, I read first.
Her letters were my one delight in this
dreary life. Then I tore open the
other and skimmed it through. Then
I collapsed into a chair, dropping the
letter. Then I picked it up and read
it again.
Only by slow degrees did I realize
its import. My mother’s uncle, old
Sir Bernard Child, had died and left
me everything. Why, I had never
seen him, hardly imagined that he was
aware of my existence! I walked out,
and, still iu a dazed condition, called
McKeown to pull me across to the
mainland. Then I bolted up to the
village postoffice and sent off a wire.
If was hours before I got an answer.
B seemed days. Toward sunset the
iorrect reply came, assnring me my news was
in every detail. I looked up
the first train from Culcross in the
luaorning, arranged about a car to take
there, and was soon rowing baok
to Skryn to pass what I felt, with a
sensation of purest joy, would be my
last night on the island,
The sun had long set behind the sea
rim as we pulled into the little cove,
and it was quite dark as we clambered
up the narrow rock path. Beaching
the top, I glanced across to the hats
and thought I saw the gleam of alight
flush under the door of my shanty. I
was about to hurry on when tho boy
laid a hand on my sleeve.
“Did ye see that?” he said. “Go
quitly, sorr, a miunit till wo know
who’s there.”
Tip-toeing along, we passed round
to the other side of my hut.
Yes, a faint gleam shone through
the glass and then died away. Very
cautiously darkness. we crept up and looked in.
Pitch But listening hard,
I felt sure somo one was moving in¬
side. We stood stooped under the
sill, qniet as mice.
Presently there was a scratching
from within; a match flamed up. The
man who had lighted it was crouched
on the floor, his body between us and
the light. He was unwinding a piece
of very thin twine or strong thread
and carefully stringing it across the
floor from the bed to the stove. He
passed it round a leg of the stove and
then back again, socuring it finally
with infinite caution to a little shiny
metal tube which protruded from the
top of a small parcel. The parcel was
standing well hidden under one of the
chairs at the foot of the bed. As the
man turned I saw his profile plainly.
It was Callau.
An instant’s thought, and my engi¬
neering training made plain to me the
whole infernal plot. The parcel was
gun cotton; the tube held acid in a
thin glass receptacle. Above this was
a leaden bullet, kept in place by a
moveable pin, Tho string so carefully
wound across the floor was attached
to the free end of the pin. A touch
of careless feet against the string, the
pin would pull out, the bullet fall, the
glass shiver and the acid do its deadly
work on the explosive below.
Truly a charming plot, and a clever
one, for who was to provide that I had
not been careless with the cartridges
I always kept store of. No trace of
this pretty mechanism would remain
in evidence.
A sudden glory of rage ran through
my veins,
I half rose, and then crouched again
as the thought came over me. The
man is desperate. He won’t allow a
living witness of such a crime to
escape, I fancied the gleam of a knife,
and my bleeding body whirling down
off tho cliff into the dark water be¬
neath. Life was too precious now to
risk unnecessarily.
I had forgotten for the moment all
about the boy. Suddenly, in a moment
of mad fury—for he, too, had under¬
stood the plot—he sprang up and beat
with his fists upon the pane. Callan
raised himself quickly but carefully,
not forgetting the deadly string. What
ho did forget was how near he was to
the stove. As in a dream I saw his
coat catch against it. It swung, and
the big kettle overbalanced. For an
instant it seemed to hang in the air.
I strove to call out. It was too late.’
Smash, it fell right on to the string.
The whole world turned crimson and
burst into a great glare of flame.
Something struck me iu the chest aud
drove me backwards. * * *
“Praise the saints, his eyes are
open, doctor!” Barney’s voice came to
me from a great distance.
“Yes; he’ll do now,” said another
voice, in a rich brogue.
I went to sleep again.
When I awoke it was bright day¬
light. I was in Callan’s hut, on his
cot.
I felt sore and bruised all over, and
at first could not remember what had
happened.
Then it began to dawn on me.
“Where’s—?” I began.
“Sh!” came in the same soft brogne
us before. “Don’t talk. Callan won’t
be bothering ye any more. McKeown’s
not much the worse, barring his hair.
And there’s nothing broken in yer
self.”
“How long—” I was mad to know
how soon I should be able to travel.
The doctor checked me again.
“In. a week,” he said, “if you’ll lie
still.”
I did, and to-morrow lam starting.
On the Vorue of the World.
Mrs. van Rensselaer thus describes
in the Century the effect, produced by
gazing up-stream at the Niagara rapids
between Goat Island and the Canadian
shore:
At the head of these rapids their
rocky bed is steep and stair-like. It
forms, in fact, long rows of low cas¬
cades rather than a network of rapids;
and these cover so many feet of de¬
scent before they reach the Sisters
that, looking up stream, we see noth¬
ing but cascades—no smoother floor
beyond them. An extraordinary ef¬
fect of force is then produced, and of
mystery also. We seem to have done
what, as children, we always hope to
do. We have reached the horizon,
the edge of the world. But we can¬
not look over it. Where do these vio¬
lent waters come from? What lies
behind tho ragged line they draw
against the sky? It may be anything
—or nothing. All we can say is that,
apparently they are being riven from
the heavy clouds. It is like a per¬
petuation of the second day of the
earth’s existence. Then the Almighty
“divided the waters which were under
the firmament from the waters whioh
were above the firmament; and it was
so.” Except in this place at Niagara.
Here it was not so. Here it is not yet
so. The miraculous division is still
going on,
FOUR MILLION SLAVES
LIVING MERELY TO ENRICH
THE TRUSTS.
How the Single Gold Standard Is En¬
slaving the Producers of Wealth—
Seventeen Millions of Human lieiugs
ltuled by the Monopolists.
The single gold standard is doing
just what we said it would 20 years
ago. The ceutralization of capital has
been going on, individual enterprises
have almost entirely disappeared,while
every day in the year thousands of hu¬
man beings are shackled into trust
slavery. Prompt remonetization of sil¬
ver and the total abolition of corpora¬
tion paper money would have prevent¬
ed this, but it is doubtful now if any¬
thing short of government ownership
of all monopolies will cure the evil.
Following are some figures showing
the number of men employed by the
trusts. They are taken from United
States reports and from state bureaus
of labor, and are up to date:
FOOD.
No. men
Meats employed.
(the slaughtering and
dressed beef trust and paak
ing combine).............. 218,000
Flour (the flour trust and the
American Cereal company—
U. S. Flour Milling company
and the Northwestern mill¬
ers’ combine) ............. 60,000
Fish, fresh, dried and canned
(A. Booth & Co., with 43
plants, and the lobster, sal¬
mon and menhaden trusts) , 22,009
Sugar (the American Sugar
Refining company, “sugar
trust,” Glucose Refining
company, and the Beet
Sugar company) ........... 15,000
Crackers, etc. (the New York,
and American, and Nation¬
al Biscuit companies’ com
bine)............... 30,000
Candy (the candy trust and
the Carmel company)...... 20,000
Baking powder and tartar
products (the baking pow¬
der trust and the New York
Tartar company) ......... 3,000
Condensed milk, cheese and
Ilairy products (the New
England Dairy company and
the New York Condensed
Milk company combine) 5,000
....
Preserved fruit 3 , vegetables,
and meats and juices; also
fruits (the Boston (banana)
Fruit company and the pre
serving combine) .... 2,000
Coffee (the Arbuckle syndi¬
cate) ................ 3,000
Cooperage plants (for the
sugar and coffee trusts) 20,000
Lard (the dressed meats com
bine) ................ 1,000
Starch (the National Starch
Manufacturing company) 3,000
Malt and malt beverages (the
American Malting company
and the five big- brewery
trusts) ................... 35,000
Spirituous liquors (the Amer¬
ican Spirits Manufacturing
company and the Standard
Distilleries and Distribut¬
ing company, “whisky
trust”) ......... 5,000
Bottled beverages, alcoholic
(the bottlers’ combine) 4,000
Tobacco, ....
cigars, plug, cigar¬
ettes, snuff, chewing (the
American and Continental
Tobacco companies, etc.) 136,000
Ice ..
(the Consolidated and
Knickerbocker combine) ... 20,000
Salt and rock salt (the Nac
tional Salt company,the “salt
trust”) ................. 5,000
Cotton oil (American Cotton
Oil company) ............ 5,000
Total 612.000
CLOTHING AND FURNITURE.
Collars and cuffs (the Troy
collar combine) ........... 10,000
Silk goods, ribbons, etc. (the
silk trust) ................ 51,000
Woolen goods, casslmeres, etc.
(the woolen trust)......... 80,000
Worsted goods (the worsted
trust) .................. trust)!!!! 44,000
Felt goods (the felt 2,000
Knit goods (the knit goods
trust) ..................... 62,000
Print cloths, calicoes, etc.
(the print cloth combine of
New England) ............ 220,000
Dyeing and finishing (the
milling combine) ........ 20,000
Cotton ginning and compress¬
ing (the Southern cotton
combine, also tbe Searles
syndicate) ................ 11,000
Leather, shoe leather, moroc¬
co, the tanneries, etc. (the
United States Leather com¬
pany, the “leather trust”).. 150,000
Rubber and artificial rubber,
mechanical rubber, etc. (the
flint rubber trust, United
States Rubber company) .. 10,000
Cotton and Thread (the
Coates-Clark combine, with
headquarters In England and
Scotland) ................ 10,000
Carpet (the Philadelphia car
-pet trust) ................ 15,000
Mittresses (mattress trust) .. 8,000
Mirrors (mirror trust) ....... 2,000
Furniture, house and school
and church (American Fur¬
niture company, furniture
makers’ combine)......... 78,000
Total 773.000
PRODUCTS OF THE EARTH.
Brick, cement, tile, granite for
paving and building (Amer¬
ican Brick company, cement
trust, tile trust, granite
trust) .................... 25,000
Borax (the borax trust) ...... 1,000
Carbon (the carbon trust) .... 2,000
Pottery, crockery and kaolin
(the pottery trust) ........ 21,000
Clay pipe for sewers (the clay
pipe combine)............. 5,000
Smelting and refining (the
American Smelting and Re¬
fining company) .......... 2,000
Gas and natural gas (the
Standard Oil, and Addlck
and Yerkes combine,alone). 25,000
Coke (the Carnegie-Frick
combine) .................. 10,000
Class, chimneys, for windows,
bottles, etc. (the flint and
plate glass and bottle
trusts) .................... 60,000
Marble (the Vermont marble
combine) ................. 24,000
Petroleum (the Standard Oil
products)................. 15,000
Asphalt (the Barbour com¬
bine) ................... 23,000
Zinc, spelter and zinc oxide
(the mining trust) ......... 4,000
Iron (the Rockefeller and Lake
Superior-Gogeblc combine).. 40,000
Bituminous coal (the Morgan
"coal - carrying railroads”
combine of New York and
Pennsylvania) ............ 175,000
Anthracite coal (the Morgan
“coal - carrying railroads”
combine of New York and
Pennsylvania)............. 125,000
Copper (the copper trust) .... 9,000
Lead products (the National
Lead company and the lead
trust) .................. 5,000
Lumber, timber and logging
(employing 300.000 men in
all; the lumber trust and the
Alger combine) ............ 200,000
Quicksilver (the quicksilver
trust) ................ .... 1,000
Iron and steel; the general
products (the Federal Steel
company and the Carnegie
combine) ............... 165,000
Tin plate (American Tin
Plate company) .......... 39,000
Total 966.000
TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNI¬
CATION.
Cars (palace cars and general
car construction for steam
railroads; also the Schoen
Pressed Steel Car company) 139,000
Car springs (a general com¬
bine) .................... 2,000
Western Union Telegraph
company................. 150,000
American Bell Telephone com¬
pany .................... 100,000
Vanderbilt - Morgan railroad
combine (the Transcontinen¬
tal system, the consolidated
roads and the coal carriers’
pool) .................... 400,000
Whitney - Flower - Elkins
Yerkes surface traction syn¬
dicate of New York, Brook¬
lyn, Chicago, Philadelphia
and Hudson county,New Jer
sey 50,000
Electricity and general elec¬
trical products for illuminat¬
ing purposes and for heat
and power (Edison General
Electric combine)........ 50,000
Automobiles; now centralizing
into one enormous trust, and
when present plans are fully
in operation will employ.... 50,000
Total 941,000
MACHINERY AND METAL PROD¬
UCTS.
Air brakes (the Standard
Coupler company, the New
York Air Brake company,
the Westlnghouse combine).. 5,000
Axes (the ax trust) ... 1,000
Iron and steel tubes and
pipes (tube trust) .... 13,000
Bolts and nuts (the bolt and
nut trust) ................. 8,000
® rass (Ike brass foundry and
machine combine)......... 23,000
Bridges (the bridge builders’
trust, a trust in structural
bridge iron and steel)...... 10,000
Car wheels (car wheel trusts,
both for paper and steel
wheels)................... 5,000
Cartridges (cartridge trust of
New England)............ 5,000
Cast iron (molders’ combine). 10,000
Rolling mill products (gener¬
al rolling mill trust)....... 20,000
Switch and signal (a general
combine) ................ 2,000
Saws (Philadelphia saw trust) 3,000
Scissors and shears (the shear
trust) ..................... 2,000
Screws, iron (screw trust) .... 2,000
Silverware (International Sil¬
ver company) .............. 3,000
Stoves, car heaters, etc. (the
stove trust and the Standard
Car Heating company; also
the foundry trust)......... 150,000
Steam pumps. (Worthington,
etc., the International Pump
Co.) ........................ 5,000
NO. 18.
(Tack Trust.) ........ 1,000
implements.
(Harvesters’ and Threshers’
Combine.) .................. 43,000
Fins and needles............. 2,000
Type, typewriting and printing
machines. (Typefounders’
Trust, Typewriter Trust and
Mergenthaler Linotype
Trust.) ..................... 10,000
Nails, iron and wire and steel
wire products. (American
Steel Wire Co., Washburn
Moen Combine.) ........... 28,000
Jewelry; also stamped ware.
(Jewelry Trust.) ........... 18,000
Safes and scales. (Herrlng
Hall-Marvin Combine.) .... 8,000
Ammunition. (A general
trust.) ..................... 2,000
Hardware. (Not Incorporated
trust, but a hard-and-fast
agreement between the mak¬
ers and jobbers.) .......... 20,000
Total 397,000
MISCELLANEOUS.
Paper. (The International Pa¬
per Co., The Paper Trust.).. 30,000
Wail paper. (The National
Wall Paper Co., The Wall
Paper Trust.) ............. 5,000
Strawboard. (A trust.)....... 1,000
Paper bags. (Union Bag and
Paper Co.) ................. 1,000
Playing cards. (One of the
oldest of the trusts.) ...... 1,000
Envelopes. (Envelope Trust.) 3,000
School books. (The Book
Trust.) .................... 10,000
Coffins. (Coffin Trust.) ...... 9,000
Brooms. (The Broom Manu¬
facturers’ Association of the
United States.) ............ 11,000
Soap. (Soap Trust, now form¬
ing.) ..................... 10,000
Kodaks. (Photographic Appar¬
atus Trust.) ................ 2,000
Chewing Gum. • (Just formed
and incorporated.) ......... 5,000
Fertilizers. (The New York
and Boston Fertilizers Co.).. 10,000
Varnish ...................... 2,000
Chemicals, acids, etc. (Chem¬
ical Trust; The General
Chemical Co., thirty-five
plants.) ................... 17,000
Paints. (Paint Trust.) ...... 9,000
Matches. (The Gould and
Swift, Courtney and Beecher
Combines.) ............... 2.000
Celluloid. (The Celluloid Co.) 1,000
Soda fountains. (American So¬
da Fountain Co.) ......... 1,000
Rope and twine. (Standard
Rope and Twine Co., a gen¬
eral combine succeeding the
old Cordage Trust.) ........ 18,006
Horseshoes. (A general com¬
bine.) ..................... 1,000
Plumbers’ supplies. (Plumbing
Trust.) .................... 6,000
Fireworks. (The Central and
Consolidated Fireworks Cos.) 1,000
Linseed Oil. (The National
Linseed Oil Co.) 2,000
Total 158,000
Grand total 3,547,000
P. S.—Most of the combines men¬
tioned in brackets have been formed
since the investigation of the present
administration. As soon as It became
apparent that the British gold stand¬
ard was safe the fellows who furnished
the money for Mark Hanna’s campaign
began to garner their pounds of flesh.
It is estimated that nearly 350,000 men
have been thrown out of work as a re¬
sult of the combinations.
PERSECUTING SCHLEY.
It looks as though the attack of the
naval bureau ring on Rear Admiral
Schley might cease.
United States Senate* George Well¬
ington of Maryland has notified Presi¬
dent McKinley that his attitude in per¬
mitting the naval clique to harrass
Schley is likely to cost him the politi¬
cal support of that state.
This is an argument which will ap¬
peal to the president. McKinley is a
politician first, last and all the time,
and while he might like to encourage
continued persecution of Schley, the
fear that he will lose votes by such a
course is quite likely to give him
pause.
As an argument to prove his asser¬
tion concerning the situation In Mary¬
land Senator Wellington says that the
antt-Schtey crusade, unchecked by the
president, was almost wholly responsi¬
ble for the overwhelming defeat of the
Republicans at the municipal election
in Baltimore last spring, and that the
entire state will go for fusion in the
national campaign next year unless
the persecution is stopped.
The people of Maryland, Senator
Wellington explains, have reached the
conclusion that If such Injustice to a
naval hero can be perpetrated with a
Republican president and a Republic¬
an secretary of the navy, it would be
a good thing to change both, and (hey
will vote their convictions.
It will be gratifying to the fair
minded people of this nation to have
the malignant persecution of Rear Ad¬
miral Schley ended.