The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-20
An Interview and What it Leads
Back To,

DUNN 4Os
Mr.. w Preston Reynolds our busy
timber dealer dropped into the Oxford
Pres office the other day when they
Immediately attached the news pump
and started the engine with the follow
ing result:
Mr.. Reynolds buys trees in Cecil
county, Md, and Chester and Lancas
ter counties, Pa. He cuts them down
and ships the logs to Hopes. Brother
& Darlington Company, proprietors
West Chester Wheel Works, Pa. Since
last August he has cut down about 1900
trees, hickory and white and black oak,
which were shipped to West Chester
and converted into rim strips. Mr..
Reynolds is buying and cutting down
walnut trees in the Sixth. Eighth and
Ninth districts, Cecil county, and
Chester and Lancaster counties. He
recently cut 2000 feet of walnut stuff
from tree he purchased in the Eighth
district. Mr.. Reynolds has such an
experienced eye that he can tell various
trees in grove as far as he can see it.
Mrs. William Evans of the Sixth
district. recently sold tall hickory
tree, one of the monarchs of Maryland,
to Mr.. Reno, sawyer. After he had cut
los feet of logs from the tree it measur-
ed Is inches acrosslthe butt of the top,
l,of no oh
usually large one. The Iumberman got
2000 feet of stuff out of the two.
In 1874 the mate of The above tree
was cut down, James Evans then own
ing the woods in which it grew. Half
a hundred yoke of oxen drew it to
Captain Krauss' tavern. near Harris
vile. One of the drivers of the team
was S. J. Krauss, armed with Polk
stalk. When planted by the old brick
inn 80 feet of the stick stuck up in the
air for a long time.
We can beat the above "hickory
OLE" The writer the same year cut a
hickory 8 inches at the butt which
measured 104 feet which pole was raised
on the road side with flag floating
from its top bearing the motto Polk,
Da las and Texas That huIrah cam
paign eliminated in the defeat of Clay,
tie annexation of Texas, followed by
Mexican war as the immediate result,
the acquisition of New Mexico and
California. the discovery of immense
deposits of gold which added to the
worlds stock of money and gave won.
derful impetus to industry in the
United States and Europe.
The defeat of Henry Clay was the
blow which gave the Wing party its
death wound b. preventing the rechar,
ter of the United States Bank. The
decadence of the Wing party and the
acquisition of Texas as additional slave
territory made the slave oligarchy of
he southern states more arrogant and
domineering. The leaders of this oil
garchy took entire control of the demo.
Graf party out of which the slavehold-
ers' rebellion sprang. The domineer-
ing arrogance of southern statesmen
in turn created revolt IN the manhood
of the northern and western people
which was unified and consolidated in
the Republican party which overthrow
the shareholders revolt. In this
chaotic state of parties and passion the
Old political element which had strug-
gled so hard to fasten its sucking tubes
on the wealth and industry of this new
country and which had been beaten
back and temporarily repulsed by the
iron power of Jackson, saw its opportu-
nifty to make another effort and by bril-
berry false pretense and working skilful-
~ on the heated passions which were
engendered by the great rebe lion sue
ceeled in fastening the sucking tubes
of the money power of Europe, which is
directed by the Hebrew family of Roths
childs, upon this country through a
system of national banks, founded on
an immense national debt, almost all
created after the war had ceased and
the government had commenced to
pay off the debt that the war had Great
ed. When this debt was firmly estab
lished it was doubled in va ue by de-
monatizing silver which a so doubled
the power of the sucking tubes of the
money trust, the debt drawing inter
est at one end of the line and the
national banks resting on that debt
drawing usury at the other. This
burning the candle of industry at both
ends is irving the fat out of the people
at rate that no peoples ever experience
ed before. So here we are; a wonderful
historical panorama unrolling world
wide from two hickory poles cut on
the OctorarO hi Is.
Orphans Court.