The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-10-31

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two or more in view. aud YOU are talking
with two Or three afferent men. Amy ore
VINO las resided IN tots city for few months
| Al thinks of purchasing Il lot wbereon he
may erect a hCusP, If it becom-s 5 known. as
can testify, he Will have dozen men afre
him every day to sell. You then e0ter into
nes oiatons with some man and he makes
you an Offer not entirely salts actory, II you
| please; u while you are negotiating On
thar subject another approaches you.
In reply to the second YOU state frankly:
whether l can purchase from you or not
is uncertain, because 1 have been offered a
lot by another party; while that Is pending,
until. ascertain whether get it or not, can
not give you definite answer aud wish to
know from his first man what he is going TO
do definitely, SO that l may know what
arrangements to make" So I'm this matter,
my friends, Mr. Blaine. when he was briug
ur!ed To take an interest in certain
other matters, knowing IL he purchased
tina interest from Caldwell, to assist In
| budtng the road that he would have to
invest money In 1t, until he had definite
proposition from Mr.. Caldwell he could not
say whether the means be had on hand could
be used for what Fisher d. sired or not. And
l have already stated it is Gle rly estab-
lished that 1t WAS sn interest IN the enter
pris- that was being offered him. When
/ have stated what the offer made
was, and that it did not refer to bords,
you have Key to what follows in the
same letter. You have the key to the Ian
guage, 81 do not rhink that shall prove q
dead head In the enterprise If | once should
embark IN 1t | see various channels in which
l know l can be useful"
WHAT does 1t mean? The 1.-TWO mon, Cald-
well aud Fisher. had under AIKEN 10 build that
road. They had offered To Mr.. Blame All in-
| terest in tlat enterprise so that he might
come In and asst them. He replied to them
in toe letter referred to: "If L do engage
ltasth hat ~ hall
tho road, l know l shall not prove dead
| head IN 1t. l see various channels in
which l can make myself useful" Ny
| FREUD Schurz says this means that he
would corrup'ly influence legislation.
in violati Of his constitutional oath,
| to assist these men, and that no other
answer is po'slbl.; and yet what was the
| factg They were a1out to engage la the
| building OF that road. Mr.. Blaine SAYS that
he knows be would not be a dead-head il he
engages with them. And what does he
! meany What is he 10 dos Does he mean that
he should 60 aud with his own hands shovel
gravel, that he shall lay the lies or the
rails or drive the spikes! Does il not mean
| that, like others, when he engages i'll an
enterprise of That kind there would
| be bonds to n"goti7te, moneys to
raise, stock sub. crip,ions to collect, secu
rites 10 neGotintr, the s'news necessary 10
ca v on an construct the road, and that IN
this dir elton he honOraby aod legitimste'y
can make himself usefuy Applause. Here
sits man to night, Gen. \ lger, who but few
moths ago undertook To cons,ruc railroad
| from "A point few miles north OF Bay
| City up toward Alpena | ask you, did he
prove deadhea in that enterprise? / ask
| you, old ne go and with his Cwn hands
build that road, or did he sit here In his
off . IN ID troit, call in others t.
assist, and with his own money, his
| own means, his own cred { and the credit
| n ri.pd raj M ne
and construct tine road in an honorable man
| ner, not proving uead-he d, simply to sit
and draw his share of the prof S! Applause
| Al q so lay, my trenOs, when hr. Blaine
| In hat ettrr wri es TO thess men, IF yhu
will sell ne an interest in that enterprise
will not prove u dead-he d." he meant he
would perform hi, DUTY in every respect in
an honor Bile mann 7, "a 1t wouli have
| teeu bound t., do. IReuewed applause.l
1 ask on Tonight is tn It not only the cor.
rect answer 10 the qur s,ion aud
solution of the language of the letter,
but is it not tie pla aud the only proper
C ,nstruc ion that Can be placed thereon, a
c lllrlIucii3n which ach and every man OF
| you Vol ask shouid V ur anguage or your
/ tt>rs or " ur CONTRACTS be Drought into
courty II not, my friends, when you get in
t. he courts, If they would undert IKE to
place wrong and corrup' construction up
on Your laDgu &c, wh-re there was a doubt
a out II, II tuey would attempt TO do SO
WIN n tue clear meaning and the clear object
stands out as In this, there Is scarcely
a uan in tDis audience who would not by
The same netho, of reasoning be proven cor
rupt and unworthy of the respect Of his
fellow citizens, ICeeers.
THE OCTOBER LETTERS.
[ again call your attention to the two
letters of Oct. 4. NV fr end, in starting
our, makes a somewhat astonishing remark,
which contains, in my opinion, great deal
OF wisdom. He Gays E ose two letters were
not written upon the same day without
some obi c.. In all my ex erience l have
hardly ever Known OF IA perao undertake
ing tn wrl lettrr u less he had
an OBJECT IN view, except it night be
@ young man writing love-etter:
ard having tried thai. | do not know
but that in my time may have sent some
off WITHOUT having any very definite or
clear object in view. [Laughttr.] But
he violates hat rule 10 which | referred
moment or lwo ago, OF taking tue fair
and reasonable const uct'on, but places
Que of his own appar mt tn cries on
these letters. And what Is itl | again quote
from Mr. Schurz. He saws: "UnquestiOn-
ably lie wrote these % Ter, for the pu DO Q of
offering TO Mr.. Fisher and Mr.. Caldwell an
inducemeut for getting hun that additional
inter st IN he railway enrerpri,e for which ne
was asked" He & oes state 1t ve'y clearly
| aud very emphatcally; and | ssk you what
proof there is upon whicI % base such con-
clusioD or to diaw such an inference u, he
doe Turn to the letters themselves, be.
use they are all he produces; anu let me
cal your attention to them, aud show you
object as stat d IN those LEI ters. Mr.
Schurz does not find any fault with
he writing OF the first on that day,
because there was nothing in that thar he
could find any fault with bn it was the ct Of
his writing the S. 9 nj 1T er on the same day
tn at ne dii find ulf w tn. Aud remember
he says, PROFESSIONALLY the writing was for
the purpose of offering All Undue mept 10
these men 10 give him an intere.t I'm that
road | read the first sentence OF the second
let and will ask auy business man preseaJ
If 10 0oes Iot state tie object Mr. Blaine had
in view: "Ny dear Mr. FL htr-I have Ell.
closed 'nJracts Of the parties named IN my
letter OF yesterday Ito remaining contracts
will be Completed as rapidly as crcum-
stances Viii permit" / ask you what the
objt ct was in writing that letter! Was 1t
not as expressed in the first sentence 1 have
just read, for the purpose of enclo ing con-
tracts that Mr.. Fisher was cntitl d TO, aud
that we're in Mr. Blalne's hands Was that
corrupt " ~ that PROFESSIONALLY for the
purpose OF offering an inu ucement to these
men to give him I'M interest IN that road =
/ ask GU again. business men, when you re
ceive or have occasion, even on tue same
day, to write 8 cond letter to some cores
pondent, do YOU do il with q corrupt OF inn
proper purpose or motivei Ifa business man
should enclose an account or contract 70 an.
other. or send u claim or account against
him, is II improper for him to write tbe Sec
ond letter on the same dayl In this letter
Mr. Blaine refers t. the Caldwell PROPOSE ion,
q l ask your atien ion az in while 1 read