The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-09


Masked men have been commit
ing outrages in Bedford comfy,
Tenn, and northern papers have re
vived their old tales of kuklux hor-
rOrs. These rascals are about as
much kukluX as the salvation cru
saders. The old Kuklux Khan that
originated in Pulaski, Tenn, with
in stones throw of where we sit
and write, is extinct long ago, after
working out the most stupendous
political and social reformation the
world ever saw. The men who
mask their faces now when there is
no necessity for it for the defense
of our homes and country are cow
ards and villains. Such men are
common to the north and the south
and neither section nor party is re-
| sponsible for their deeds or exist
ence. Four million ignorant ne
! groes, suddenly liberated and infa-
ted with exaggerated ideas of free
dom and civil rights, melted to out
RACES and instructions by unprin-
cipled carpet baggers, threatened to
complete the pillage of a whole ma
ton of people, when the Kuklux
Khan arose and with mighty arm
of vengeance and threatening
overawed them and brought peace
and order. 1t was not only the sal
walton OF the south and her people,
but the negroes themselves were
made better and forced to know
| there was limit to their freedom.
The garb of these reformers was
! used and abused for the perpetra-
ton of outrages and lawless deeds,
but it is a SANDER upon the khan
to call them kukluX.
The recent strike and the high
prices of telegraphing have awak
ened widespread desire to have
government take charge of the tel
egraph system and reduce it to
postal service. 1t will cheaper and
facilitate communication and rem
der it more certain and less liable
to interruption, but there are seri-
Gus objections to a scheme that
gives the government control over a
matter that pertains so much to
the business of men. 1t might be
subverted to party purposes and is
a step towards Capitalization. Gov
eminent is instituted to care for its
people politically and to see that all
have an equal chance and are pro
tected in their persons and property.
When it seizes upon their business
or their means or manner of doing
business, there is danger ahead.
These are objections urged, and yet
to a mind not trained to pick out
ideas with a cambria needle there is
little of this that COLD not have
been urged against the postal ser
vice In its incipiency. Would 1t
not be better to risk this ceptraliz
ing and the unalloyed cussedness
that would ensue to an increased
civil service list than to leave our
selves in the grip of a great monop
ly that already treats US worse than
we anticipate from the change?
San Francisco special; More ru- |
mOrs were afoat within the last few
days about the new residence that
Mr.. Flood, the "BonanzO King"
viii begin building on Mob Hill
house will cost $5,OOQ.00O and will
snrpass Vanderbilt's house in cost
illness of interior decorations. 1t IS /
also reported that the pictures
which Mr.. Mackay is buying so |
literally in Europe are intended for
its walls. The two vacant lots on (!
the hill owned by Flood and by |
Senator Fair would certainly be i'm
proved by fine buildings. Mr..
Floods plans will not be known by
the general public until the work
actually begins. for his reticence is
proverbial on every thing except
stocks. Senator Fair left for Eu-
rope after the divorce scandal, but
it is understood that he will marry
a young woman when he returns.
In this event it is not improbable
that he may vie with other million
aires in building costly house.
Mr.. D. NJ. Eslick, brother of our
Messrs. n. G. and Merit Esllck,
was killed instantly by lightning at
his home near Kelsoe, Lincoln coun-
ty, July "a. He was at the crib
door where some hands were shell
ing corn when he was stricken. The
other men were stunned. Mr.. Els
lick had been in that vicinity sever
al years and by good management
had grown quite wealthy and was
highly respected.
Railroad building has been
pretty lively in the United States
this year. According to the Rail
road Age $500 miles of railroad
were constructed during the first
six months of 1888 in the states
and territories, at a cost of $685.
100000 The work of construction
employed $4,000 men.
Father Rosco, the famous Italian
is now in Paris. He
has erected Summaries which con
tain $4,000 poor boys. He fur
nishes 600 priests every year to the
church. Over twenty thousand
priests educated by him are now
in various parts of the
world.
The life and business of this
depends largely upon the s
iouth. Labor and capital are con-
,entrating to manufacture the two !
,reat staples of the world where |
hey are most standardization I
nd iron. There are no freights to S
at up the profit.
Cincinnati received III July TAI t
ar loads of watermelons over the b