The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-11-08

men and financiers as to the best means
and methods for the management OF
our vast national concerns? We won
der II the man occasionally seen on our
streets with very long. heavy curly
locks and white, luxuriant. Populistic
wind-swayed whiskers-the flag OF an
inveterate crank, as every sensible per-
son must see-is the self-constituted
adviser of the nation touching the pro-
foundest subject that ever engaged the
attention of political philosophers or
competent and thoroughly conscien-
tious statesmen. And yet the tailors of
Tooley street, who pronounced the
British parliament failure and Eng
land an egg she'll that would soon be
crushed, may have American cousins.
The party of the name Of Clark re-
minds us of the coored brother who
acknowledged that Gen. Grant meant
Well, but said "'Twas crar he did not
onderstan' de plan OBJ de campaign"
Also, of the man in rags, the crown of
whose hat was Tapping in the wind,
who cried to the shipbuilder, Launch
your huge steamer; never mind the
gale; 1 will take the responsibility"
Alas! alas! if those who have shown
themselves to be utterly incompetent
to steer their own craft amidst the
currents of the world-to be no match
for even the ordinary circumstances of
life; who have become mere drift
wood on the stream of events-were not
quite so confident of their ability to
pilot the ship of state, not quite so sure
that all their business misfortunes are
directly attributable to the prosperity
OF Jones, Smith and Brown, backed by
the connivance of the government, not
quite SO certain that Uncle Sam should
saddle the most of their disasters-if
they were little more willing to comply
with the conditions and pay the price
OF business success. C0I1l1 that
their business failures are clearly
traceable to their own weaknesses, sew
eral OF our most serious political prob
lens would at once be solved and our
national horizon would be clearer. Be-
You'd all question the great republic
founded for the purpose Of individual
announcement, is today threatened by
the very class that, ignorantly or de-
signedly, would sacrifice it to their in
terests, and stab it to the heart because
1t canot consistently carry them. In
crowds these men are following Mr.
Bryan. If our freak or his double, COM
posed or about equal parts of curled
hair. insufferable conceit, business dis
appointments, empty pockets and viru-
lent cynicisn, would lie low. sing small,
and mostly keep out of sight, till his
anarchical proclivities. his dangerous
sympathy with strikers, his fellow feel
ing for demagogues and his inveterate
hoStiAAey ~ lhC 6ONCiHHlCH WCiC POI
TALLY forgotten, his name, bleached by
becoming obscurity, would be much less
malodorous than it now is. Clark is
merely an illustration, an object lesson.
"There are Others"
Though this al has no bearing on any
printed work, plead guilty to the terri
BILE charge Of being occasionally seen
on our streets with very long, heavy,
curly locks, and white, luxuriant Pop
ulistic whiskers," and 1 also confess to
an abiding sympathy with strikers
against the Pullmans and Carnegies
And while it is news to myself and the
general public that the grand jury has
designs upon me at the time of the
strike, I will say here and now that !
am still talking, writing and singing
along the same line, that my "senility'
shall be waived and that can be found
by the authorities any time that I am
wanted; and also that there are others
lin fact, so many of us all over the nation
that it might be somewhat embarrass-
ing on the part of officers to arrest us
and still more to find accommodations
for us all, unless they should turn lis
loose in the palaces of the Vanderbilts
Astors, Whitneys and Rockefellers as
the charitable and penal institutions are
already Overcrowded with the victims OF
our English financial system.
am sorry on Mr.. McKinley's account
that the Times writer referred to my
financial affairs, as 1t invites unfavor.
able comparisons. earn moderate liv.