Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-05

one Of the wonderful men Of our time.
Tall, thin, OF gray eyes and aqueline
features, Of nervous temperament and
brimful Of good humor, it is not strange
that the original proprietor OF Birming-
ham is the mayor of his city, elect
ed by the people to whom he sold
these building-sites now occupied by
houses for four tht usand five hundred
people. If what was said OF Colonel
Powell by the Cincinnati EiHQuireT's g
correspondent, and reproduced in the
APPEAL, were true, Colonel Powell
would hardly be mayor Of the city in
which property-hOlders constitute the
great mass Of voters.
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MONKEY
was this: Mr. Linn, the Norwegian
banker, and POWelPs partner in many
real estate transactions, is an ats sble, IN
telligent gentleman. Thirty-five or
forty years ago, Powell, then young
man, was his fathers assistant or clerk
in hotel at Montgomery. Linn came
one day utterly penniless and uHem-
ployed. He could hardly make his
wants known, so ignorant was he of the
English language. He had monkey
given him by some shipmate at New
Orleans, and Linn wished TO sell it to
young PJwell. Powell directed him to
the hotel bar-keepeT, and the monkey,
the firSt perhaps evs seen in Montgom-
cry, became hugely popular, and drew
crowds to the bar-room. The whisky
vendor paid Linn's board, as Powell
said he would. in consideration Of the
monkeys services. A rival bar-roOm
was opened, and Linn sold his monkey
to the new Bacchus for fifty dollars
This sum constituted the foundation of
Linn's fortune. Powell wss never 2
bar-keeper or whisky vendor, and the
Enquirer should not have lent itself TO
the purposes Of those who would excite
against the only American duke, and
an iron duke at that, the ire of all the
whisky-headed crusading women north
Of the Ohio river.
THE GROWTH OF BIRMINGHAM.
Rapid as it seems, from nothing to
four thousand five hundred inhabitants
within two and a half years, with build
ings as tasteful and almost as costly as
the best in Nashville or Memphis. The
growth of Birmingham is only restricted
by a scheme Of financial government
which presents capital a means Of IN
taxed investment, capsciOUs enough to
absorb the whole currency of this coUn-
try, and then this same government, in
conjunction with subordinate systems
imposes such OnerOus burdens upon
every species Of property, real and per-
sOual, that 1t can give 10 revenue to its
owners and none, Of course, to money
lenders or to real estate purchasers. No
property except untaXsc bonds, is worth
money. Thus all money is driven from
circulation and the bOndhOlders throttle
cities, railways and every description Of
public and private enterprise. Birming-
ham can hardly breathe, and every city
on the continent and every farm con-
fesses the subOrdination of government
to the purposes of their mOneyed bond
holding rulers. The
NEXT CONGRESS
viii be Democratic, and then there will
be 3 revolution in the cOuntry's finan-
cial fortunes, ard all men viii be equals
in the Eyes Of Federal legislation. 1
am much inclined 10 believe that as be-
tween the two classes, the people and
the b0ud mOnopOliSts, the former will
be preferred by the Democracy, and
their interests and wishes will be con-
suited. Rsdicalisn has ridden the
negro TO death, the back OF the hobby
horse is broken, and even here in Biz
miDgham the white Republicans b ave
dismOunted, and SambO wearily logs
along IN solitude without q master
Democracy, in Alabama, means the
white mans party, and Radicalism is
black as the neither extremity Of mid
night. The civil rights bill has simply
served 10 effect here the end attained in
Tennessee. Partissnship is 3 social as
well as political fact, and no white man
or woman is recognized az white who
adberss to the negro party.
RAILWAYS.
Politicians and courts can't run a
railroad. Governor Lindsay should
have paid the interest on bonds used by
Stanton and suffering him to complete
and equip the Chattanooga and Ala
bama road, enforced the States claims
after the highway became self-sustain-
ing. Then the necessity for the fore
closure, as the APPEAL alleged, would
never have arisen. Stanton would have
paid all be owed, and millions would
have been saved which politicians,
courts and adventures have stolen or
squandered. If Federal bonds be made
equivalents Of greenbacks, worth neither
more nor less, and the prosperity OF the
country be restored, the Alabama and
Chs ttanoogs road, managed by Stan
ton or a Murdoch, will speedily become
one Of the most Profitable highways
ever built. What
WONDERFUL COUNTRY
is thisl From one window Of my room
1 see a range Of mountains resting on a
stratum Of iron thirty feet thick and
fifty miles in length. On the north
there is another range Of lofty bills rest
ing on coal-beds as ricl as those that
make Pittsburg s'seat OF manufacturing
industry, and as inexhaustible as these
iron-fields now attracting TO this mas
cent civ the wealth and manufacturing
skill of Europe. The half has never been
told Of this wonderful region. Lyell and
never discovered half the riches
destined to make Alabama the central
seat of southern industrial and maDufac-
turing wealth. Within the twenty-six
years Of the century, before
the APPEALS letter-heads bear the inn
print,
MEMPHIS, A. D. 1907
there will be q thousand furnaces light
ing Up with eternal fires the narrow val
ley IN which Birmingham reposes,
walled ia on the north by mountains of
coal and on the south by those of iron.
These mountain ranges are only two
and half miles apart, and here are col
located greater riches than were ever dug
from California Ruiches or gathered from
the plains Of India or mountain.fast-
nesses OF Peru.
THE ooeT
Iron costs here, even now, when pop-
Ulation is spare and labor costly, twelve
dollars and a half per ton. II il, even
now, transferred to Pensacola az three
dollars per ton, and is worth there
fifteen dollars and half per
ton. Vessels, freighted with cot
ton and naval stores, viii return to
Europe taking iron a. ballast, and it will
be delivered in Liverpool at a gross cost
OF eighteen dollars (cuueDcy) per ton.
The4 are simple facts, and ali that is
needed to effect these results Is q govern
ment Of white men, fer the benefit Of
white men, and for Justice and equality
before the law 20 the negro. And this
reminds me of fresh idea infused into
politics BY the blessed civil rights bill.
CITIES IN THE SOUTH
nave peen feuoceu 10 poverty on bank
rupted by thieves invested with Offices
by the irrepressible Segro. Enormous
taxation imposed upon city property hy
vulgar villains are paid at last bv
farmers trading with these cities. Tax
alton is aided 10 tue cost Of everything
that farmers buy, and each voter "a The
south is interested in lfssening the cost
Of municipal governnsnts and eanl.
Legislature la the south, sooner OF later,
viii SO amend al corporate laws tisat
none shall vote except property helasrs
10 municipal elections. Think r a. r.
Is right. fE3thi1g besides tais can ave
the towns ard cities IN which pil sious
or incapable voters mort 10 eenlfeaatf
frona ufterruin. Constitutional aniez
msats do not stand in the way osgIv
refoSEn, and the civil tights biIl 9eath
forming alld reorganizinz page. She
blas ns 70 effect resnlf Ifnotwifh.
deemed impossible. i9k long TINS
lead the way, and Al e4inglx tic
white mail's State, aF stomach has
tie most pfoasiele bieA kIere s
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