The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-25
4 1vorSe calamity than the siluer dollar IS
the 1Udnt of ii.

the 1ydnt of 1t.
Imet man the other day who. two years
ago, was running a small paper Mt LARA
bie's Slough. He was then in his meridian
as a journalist. He boldly assailed the
silver dollar, and with his trenchant pen he
wrote such burning words Of denunciatlon
that the printer had to set them on ice be-
fore he could use the copy. Last week
met him on q train. He was very thin in
flesh, and the fire Of defiance was no longer
In his eye I asked him how he came on
with the paper at Larrabie's Slough He
said it was no more.
ut started out" said he, 'in fearless
way. but it was not sustained"
He then paused in q low tone of voice,
gulped and proceeded:
'Folks told me when began that I ought
to attack most everything. Make the
paper non bipartisan but aggressive; that was
their idea. Sail into everything, and the
paper would soon be power In the land
So cggressed. Friends came in very
kindly and told me what to attack. They
would neglect their own business IN order
to tell me of corruption in sombody else. ~
went on that way for some time in a defiant
mood, attacking anything that happened to
suggest itself ,.,,
"Finally thought would attack the sill
yer dollar. didso: thouSht thaV rrlencs
would como to me and praise mo tor my
manly words, and that could afford to
lose the friendship of the dollar provided
could win friends.
sin six months I took ON une1pired an
nunl pass over our Larrabie Slough Narrow
Gauge or Orphan road, and with nothing
else but the clothes I wore, told the plain
tiff how to jerk the old Washington press
and went away The dear old Washington
press that had more than once squatted my
burning word into the pure white page.
The dear old towes on which 1 had wiped
nv soiled hands for years till it had almost
become a part Of myself; the dark blue Cor
don press with its large fly wheel and inter
mittent chattel mortgage, press to which
had contributed the first joint OF my 'front.'
finger; the editors chair; the samples OF
large business cards printed In green with an
infamed red border, which showed that we
could do colored work at Larrabie's Slough
lust as well as they could in the large cities;
the files Of our paper; the large wilted po-
tato that Mr, A1onzo G. Pinkham OF Erin
Corners, kindly laid on the table-all, all
had to 60. ''F.. . hi. o..
~ fled out'into the great, hollow, rnocking
world Of people who had requested me to
accress. They were people who had called
nv attention to various things which
curht to! attack. had attacked those
things T had also attacked tho; Larrabie
Slough Narrow Gauge railroad, but the
manager did not sec thu attack, aad SO my
pass was good. ~: 20 I,ji..i r.. b
Yt.a% Xo,,1l ~ r had otta rlya6 avGrV-
thing, and more especially the silver dollar,
and now I was homeless For fourteen
weeks I rode up the narrow gauge road one
day and back the next, subsisting solely on
the sample nice pecan meat that the news
boy puts in each passengers hap. you Iook
inc adulous, Isee, but 1t Is true. lfeel dill
ferently toward the currency now, and
wish I could undo what have done. Were
I called upon again to jerk the Archimedean
lever would not be SO aggressive, especi-
ally as regards the currency. Whether it
is Inflated or not, silver dollars, paper GER
tifcates Of deposit or silver bullion, 1t does
not matter to me.
81 yearn for two or three adult dough.
nuts and ono Of those thick, dappled slabs
of gingerbread or a slat Of pie with goose
berries in it. presume that could write
scathing editorial on the abuses OF our
currency yct, but am not SO much in the
seattle business as used to be.
IL wish you will state, if you will,
through some great metropolitan journal,
that my views in relation to the silver coin
age and tho currency question have under
gone radical change, and that any plan
whatever, by which to mako the American
dollar less skittish, will meet with my
hearty approval. If have done anything
ut all through my paper to injure or repres5
the flow of our currency, and l fear have,
l now take this occasion to chcerfully re-
gret it." He then wrung my hand and
passed from my sight Bill Nyo in Boston
Globe.