Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-21

ordained for me, for if as Grown Prince the burden appears unbearable, how much heavi- CT will that be which in the future I shali have to bear! This, dear friend, is the great secret which I have long ago wished to im- part to you. deem it supsrfuous to beg you not to disclose it to anybody, as you will readily conceive what the consequences might be for me.
 ALLAN PINKERTON.
 The Greatest Detective Who Ever
 Lived-His Early Struggles-An In-
 domItable Spirit Carries Him
 Through Many Hardships-His Bon-
 nie Wife.
 GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. g. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 At the corner of Muirhead street and Rug len Loan. in the quaint old Gorbals quarter of this Scotch city of brawn and capital, stands tumble-down stone structure, now, es for moro than @ hundred years, the abode of swarms of those whose fortunes and sur- roundings are equally meager and lorn. In the first quarter of this century the head of one of the families occupying the ramshackle habitation was poor hand-leom weaver, who, in his distress to provide for his family, saw no recourse during strikes and labor troubles which deprived him of work, than to enlist as soldier in the British army. After serving for several years he returned to Glasgow, luckily secured the position of a policeman; in time became turnkey in the old Glasgow jail; and finally at an outbreak of prisoners was so savagely set upon that the poor man was disabled for life. It was the same sad story of poverty and suffering with this striver's family as is everywhere wrought among the lowly; but out of the dolor of these days came soul of wondrous bravery and genius in its final vocation, as we estimate the achievement of men.
 That one was the turnkey's boy. Allan Pinkerton, who believe, from years of cons l fdential association with him and complete knowledge of his work and motives, to have l been the greatest detective who ever lived, at we'll as one of the most nobly honest and generous of men. Nor should the appalling detective literature of the day and the just | abhorrence the world holds for the average l misunderstanding detective, be allowed tc 1 nlO9 1EOLu GQo hB lUSt hO"lEdIlOu LII ueu Sl
 lur.inous an example of real greatness under l the conditions and environment which make
 many of similar calling little less than infa
 nous. Allan Pinkerton was the trusted friend of many of the greatest men oul
 country has produced-of Yates, of Logan
 of Judd, of Washburne, of Tom Scott, o
 the Garretts, of Simon Cameron, of Grant
 of Salmon P. Chase, of Mcclellan, of sts
 ger, of Trumbull, of OglesbY, and of thu immortal Lincoln, whose life he saved to
 nation when that life was almost It's singl
 salvation-all of whom, as can personal.
 attest, regarded him, his sturdy and splen
 did personality, his to them intimatel..
 known personal achievements, and above all
 the grandeur of his matchless integrity, witl
 precisely the same degree of real hero wor
 ship as was accorded the highest of this co
 terie by the American people. Bat most o
 these eminent figures have been housed il
 the realm of silences. They have been en
 shriaed where statues and monuments stan
 In history and hearts. Their love of, an
 respect for, this one almost unrecorded nam
 has not been told. Therefore, standin
 where bis life and struggles began, no on
 will begrudge the brief and true words her
 said, while recall, not his almost incredibl
 conquests over the accursed forces allie
 against human order and society, but som of the lesser, humber things in the storm
 prelude to his later days and sterner life as , tivities.
 The eccentric and rugged old fellow neve told anything Ito order;" but there were rt
 peated opportunities in my travel and cor
 stant association with him, as when of dut 3 he was the sunniest of men for delicior condolences and "reminiscences; 50 tn f countless incidents of his real life came in
 my possession, which, am free to comics , were at the first opportunity set down pret 1, nearly as got them. So came to know l. the little things we all love to know of gre
 men; how bitterly the family struggled f. 1 bare existence from the time of his birth ? 1S1s; of the rough treatment they all kne 0 at this old tenement-house at the Gorbals; h the fathers struggles and deadly hurt; tl mothers brave fight for her home; the pror l. hour when Neil Murphy, the Glasgow pa l. tern-drawer, took the boy Allan as an a l. prentice, and the prouder moment when 70 put the first self-earned pence in his bra mothers hands; of his eventual impatien
 in his dreary progress and transfer of ! a boundless boyish energies to the labors of cooper's apprentice-cub, and then, as he to me, the, to him, grandest triumph ot his Ii Ii IS when, on the 9ath of December, 1887, CT l. Coopers of Glasgow and Suburbs Proteoti Association" John Glass, secretary, adm o ted him to full membership and gave hi =, the only "journeyman's card" he ever pc 3. sessed, which is before me, @ long-ago g a from the owner, as write these words; al x, then of his fierce toll and struggle in Gla l; gow and as "tramp cooper" throughs l. Scotland and England in his efforts to ta It the load from his sturdy old mother in kee ,- ing the lowly home together.
 ID "But, faith," he told me, "those were 8 'p times for laboring men in Great Brital as Wages went down. Living went U N, Strikes came, and riots too; and," with
 merry twinkle in his blue-gray eyes,
 wasn't on the side O the law then. We Vt all Chartists. To the government that N 1e worse than Communism in America. Wh In ever we showed our heads the police clubb ur us. But England has since granted far mt ii. than what we fought for in the 'peopl 'A charter of 1884, Anyhow, I became an o1 ar law with price on my head that way" Q; The fact is, during Pinkerton's youth H es die, Bain and others, in Scotland, and Hol ha Tooke, in England, paid the price of tn 1o lives for loving liberty and constitution j.. arms he saw Hardie and Bain perish for th tn fellow men-the only execution this great ,o of eriminaltakers ever witnessed. Wh 'o' as @ result of these executions, the mas ms demanded universal suffrage, voting by .e- lot, annual parliaments, and an abolition or- the property qualification for membership
 parliament, the whole relentless force of
 British government was hurled upon th ara identified with the just movement, precii aI as it is now engaged fin continuing agg af sive tyranny in Ireland.
 ce- A tremendous spinners' strike follow to In the fierce passions evoked one of it's the ponents was killed. Among the strike le .no CTS were McNeil, McLane and others, , for were charged by the government with n prs der. Iu the Chartist council of Glasg are young Pinkerton represented the CooI