Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-05-07

elegant affair ever given In this city. IL not 10
the United States. The room resem bled a con
servatory supplied with plants and blossoms.
The side halls were almost completely hid
from view by plaques of palmetto leaves. in
tertwined with Southern smiiax. deep green
and glossy, and which grows wild In the Caro-
lfnas, from whence this had been brought. The
north hall. baca of where President Harrison
and MT Carnegie sat, was gem from the
florists hands.
Then after vast deal more of the same
sort about "maiden hair FERNS" "palms 16
feet bigh," s'mammoth four-leaf clover"
mounds of Ulrich Bruner, Gabriells
Luizett, and Magma Charta roses" the re-
porter told gaping world what the modern
Lucullus, sired by protective tariff, gave
his guests to eat. Among other things, the
farmers and wage workers of the country
we're informed that the fish, being s'sole,
was secured from England, the mutton from
Scotland, aod the spring chickens from
Louisiana. The celery, olives, and ancho-
vies we're served in the fioest cat glass, aud
the salted almonds and radishes in dishes
of solid silver. The forks and tableware
used throughout the dinner were also of
solid silver, while the plates and service
comprised Haviland china, with the excep-
tion of she fish course, which was served on
plates of royal Worcester" 1t is also stated
that the silver alone on the table cost $3,-
600
To the farmer now in trouble, with
mortgage on his homestead, the interest
unpaid. foreclosure approaching no demand
for what he has to sell, and no money in
the house-to him commend this picture
of the Carnegie banquet as the best explain.
alton of high protective tariff ever before
known in American history. At one end
of the tariff question the manufacturer. the
protected monopoliet, spreads an imperial
banquet board, loaded with epicurean
dainties from every CLINE, and flowing with
wines costlier than nectar, while at the
other end of the question farm laborers,
wage-workers, and all who live by the sweat
of their faces are in deep apprehension, in
s;ghs. in distress, and often in tears. When
reflect on the bitter trials which the far
mers are undergoing at this time, and the
depression and suffering attendant upon
other working classes, there is but one other
occasion of the kind which can parallel, co
my mind, the impious mockery of Carne-
gie's entertainment.
Beishazzar the king madea great feast to
thousand of his lords, and drank wine before
the thousand.
They drank wine. and praised the gods OF
gold. and Of silver, of brass. of iron. of wood.
and of stone.
In the same hour came forth fingers of
mans hand and wrote over against the CANDLE
stick upon the plaster OF the wall of the kings
palace; and the king saw the part of the hand
that wrote.
E Then the sacred historian says the king
was nlled with terror, his knees smots to-
gether, and be cried aloud, and for time
in vain, for an interpreter Of the writing on
the wall. An interpreter came into his
prese ce at last, and after taxing him with
the use of the sacred vessels taken from the
Temple of Jerusalem said:
And thou hast praised the gods of silver, and
gold of brass, iron, wood. and stone. which see
not, nor hear, nor know: and the God ia whose
hand thy breath is. and whose are all thy ways,
hast thou not glOrifed
How swiftly your minds anticipate the re-
mainder of the old and sublime story!
"Mene, Meme, Tekel, Upharsin'' signifed
the downfall of kingdom upheld by in
justice, implety, and crime. My earnest
prayer and belief is that handwriting, be-
ginning in the banquet halls of unrighte-
Gus monopoiies, and spreading over the
walls of all the farm houses and homes of
labor in the United States, is now berading
the speedy overthrow of a system of extor-
tion and robbery more wicked aud criminal
in the sight of God and man than all the
sins of Babylon when her robes were most
scarlet with niquity.
TO RE CONTINTED