The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09
THE COMING CLIMAX IN THE
DESTINIES OF AMERICA.
By Lester c. Hubbard.

we knew ne WOulu MAKE d OIdNS
book.
But there is a double emotion COZ
eealed for patriots beneath the pages of
his volume. 1t is the fervent voice of
the great prophet which we hear, but
it is also the reason and the manner
of our daily life-the method, the
qIietude, the argument, which the
man of business puts to his daily call
ing, and the toiler uses for his daily
bread.
Lester Hubbard has published q book
Of 480 pages. 1t is called THE Com
ing Climax in the DestInies of Amer
lea" 1t is printed by CharlesH Kerr &
Co., at 175 Dearborn street, Chicago, for
5ocents. Ioffer these facts, for they will
be repeated none too often, | imagine.
The book is an arrangement of Plu-
tocracy in America, and q complaint
as well as an invocation directed TO the
middle classes-the well-to do men
Of from $25 a week salary to 800 a
week of profit or usurious money.
[ do not know that Lester Hubbard
has written any book before. To so
frame an Indictment as to begin with
minor crimes, sweep toward some vast
w~ickedness, and re-echO the climax,
gentler and softer to the closing page
this would be the problem of the hired
book maker. This is not the name
of Jeremiah, Isaiah, OF Elijah. Neither
has Lester Hubbard assumed the
artists attitude. So that we would do
well to mark the result. Noting the
fire which this author possesses, burst
ing upon him in shining pages-nOt to
be put in memoranda for other chap
tiers. but to be used Gtraightway, in
candescent, patriotic, hereditary, myS-
tic-we must divide u readings.
took hold of the book three times.
Shall l say the book is thrice written?
Aye, let me do more than thatl AS if
this author and prophet were lithO-
gr8pher than scribe-were Prang-
printer with bis colOred inks and
Gtones-I read a portion of his TRADE
against the millionaires. 1t is n
stone, one impression. | commence
another chapter-I e the vivid colors
Of another stone-anOther-anOther-
until l lay down the book, and am
sure a prophet of the Biblical order has
done his wOrk-hss spoken his high
wOrd-has made his astounding pOr-
trayal.
Let me, in justice to a remarkable
book, make the figure palmer. l read
a third of Hubbard's works. In some
sense | see the picture. It's outlines
are 6Il there, / read another third.
The tale Is told again, perhaps. yet the
scene grows stronger. [ read the rest,
and then, as if the final block of the
printer completed my Christmas pic
ture. the painters idea bursts full of
beauty upon me-the book had not
been perfect without these three i'm
presslOns.
To review Lester Hubbard's true elo
quence, | know we should adopt q line
of quiet language. So I am at once
, untitled for my task. cannot sit I'M
moved by truth, put alls 50 poorly how.
then, may l contain my spirit when
the things l would to have said are
burned and branded into my own con
science by a weight that | cannot with
stand? For instance, he piles each
separate and StupendOuS treason on
old John Browns head OsGa and
PeliOn, Teneriffe and Atlas aud Htna
and ChimbOrazO; heaps of ~lawlessneas
are pu5 between John Brown ard peace
between John Brown and order
This was treason, one treason, two
~treasons, three, four, five, six! DID
ever soul this side of Satan 50 deserve
the lawful glbbet Of Virginia?
He was captured, tried. condemned
to death" says Lester Hubbard, land
the second day of December. 1889.
while walking to his doom, stopped
and kissed and negro child, then
mounted the scaffold and was hanged.
On that day, ali owe the great North,
church bells tClled, N wePt, and
men greeted one another with solemn
faces. On that day millions mourned
over an executed criminal guilty OF
treason on treason. Tell them that he
ha1l-n NlA Tnuv - H. L. - -----
the Constitution under foot, and with
reasonable c~omplacency they reply,
Very true, but he was also a hero and
a martyr, for he unselfshIy wrought
and bravely died for human liberty 81"
"AII of this" says the author, "gOeS
to prove that a traditional loyalty to
ones country, and a p~erfunctOry rev
enc for it's constitution, are all very
well and perform their functlors
smoothly, under ordinary conditions;
but hearts over full With generous
rage. and souls aiame at sight Of noble
deeds, quickly declare themselves
enancipated from all orthodox
formulas that would compel"
have copied the words of this pas
sage, but we cannot convey the elO
9uence or power Of the chapter.
am almost silent with admiration
VI the AHOWloiEe WHICH Lester HuO
bard shows. To the Illinois miners of
Spring Valley, after close reading of
Henry LlOyd's book, Hubbard gives q
dozen line Hooking Valley, Pencoyd,
UniOntOwn, JOhDstOwn. 1877. Dee
MOines River, Lowell, Western Union
all the cancers that peck our BODY
politic-thsse are but the life saving
eruptions that bespeak the disease Of
which Lester Hubbard treats, His
session, his seat. his saddle in his sub,
ject. is as firm as Col. Norton's knovl-
edge OF money and banking. I read
this book smell this broth INTO which
the plut0crats have stirred the eve of
newt and toe Of frog. and I heeIn #