The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1884-09-27

upon the Board, the sins and neg
ligence of those, who by the exercise
of the commonest prudence and
sagacity might have prevented such
a calamity. But one of the objects
of this meeting is to show that moth
ing can be gained by bringing up
the past with all its mistakes thick
upon it, but that the true spirit of
progress lies in forgetting all this.
seeing that it is now past and can
not be recalled, and that we have
paid dearly enough for the expert
ence, and for the future, standing
shoulder to shoulder in getting over
a disadvantage that has affected us
all alike, and in doing our best, as
friends and co-workers together, to
make the very best of the circum-
stances that surround us. This
seems to me to be the true philos-
ophy, that both we and you should
work together, as far as we can for
the good of all. "United we stand,
divided we fall"
AT this juncture I was called in
by my friend Mr.. Hughes, who was
passing through a period of intense
suffering on account of the gloomy
outlook of affairs, | said "Let us
wait do not be in too great q hurry,
let us see calmly and quietly how
things really are" l took measures
at oncefor investigation, ,requestedmy
brother Mr.. Alfred Kimber of New
York, to give me a portion of his
time and run over to Rugby and
see how matters stood: and in this
way I found affairs were not so bad
as had been represented: only that
people had lost their nerve and
consequently their judgement. l
found also it had been honestly
represented and Notwithstanding the
deplorable condition in which affairs
stood, 1 determined to put my
shoulder to the wheel, as an out
slider, and, if possible save the re-
putation of my friend Mr.. Hughes,
and the colony. At this time i'm
portant ,busines called me to Aus
tralia, and having travelled over
three-ffths of the circumference of
the globe, | concluded to include the
other two, and so complete the
circuit of the world. But cab'e
gram from London changed my
entire plan-I was informed that
these law suits had broken out, and
| travelled these three -ffths back
again to Rugby in order to deal
with them. The colonists did not
participate in this because their
titles were defended. l found in
one case ffty-two injunctions
against the people here. This
attacked the very life OF the place,
and at very great cost, succeeded in
having the suit withdrawn. 1t
might have been fought out; but
that meant teoo gears cfparaIysis,and
rather than incur such a disaster,
the matter was settled in another
way. The next great suit was the
one attacking the land we sold to
to the Crook Coal Company. This
did not affect you, and therefore we
proceeded more leisurely. Here
allow me to take this opportunity
of paying high tribute to a man,
whom you all know-who is known
most tavourably from Cincinnati, to
Chattanooga man who has moved
about modestly-too modestly per-
| haps-a man who has endured
obliquy and never returned a bad
word, | mean Mr.. r. Walton. loud
applause) Mr.. Walton has beer
maligned and vitilied in the public
press, and in the midst of all this
; he was working day and night with
unwearied patience in unravellins
the tangled web Of evidence thai
was necessary to fight these suits
with any chance of success. W.
cannot afford to fight any opponent
with questionable means, we were
: determined that whatever the issue
of these litigations might be, they