Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-08-29
A NEW YORK LETTER.
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he had been honored with member
ship in an English international
Club, said, repeating fer the editica-
ton of his hearers, ANDREW d. White
and others) that Lord McCauley said;
ain England no farm laborer was
ever known 10 rise above his station"
A writer on country paper at once
took up the quotation, not denied by
Garfield, said 1t was not true, not that
he Garfield lied, but that Lord Nc
Cauley did. That Robert Burns was
farm laborer and that he wrote some
of his most beautiful poems on his
plough handle and that he became an
officer of the revenue, but then dared
TO write "a man is a man for all
that" following which he was forever
stopped from going higher In the SER
vice OF his king. And he did not come
to free America and enjoy our freedom
as the reputed great oratorlcal speeker
goes to England to learn what land
lordism is and comes back the speaker
or counsel, possibly In their behalf to
be followed by the Lord Chief Justice,
who will no doubt improve an oppor-
tunity when introduced by Mr.. Coch-
ran,at dinner,b by the New York city
bar to tell them IN a law lesson, that
in speaking OF our extent OF country,
"YOu did not make It," AS did Lord
CoOlridge and not a single lawyer
either directly or indirectly answered
the slur covertly given, that 1t was
poor law, and not according to inter-
national law or the law of nations.
1t remained for an obscure country
lawyer in country paper to answer
this and to say that not only did we
make the New York and Brooklyn
bridge, erecting 1t from anchorages
and cassion bottoms to height Of
tower, forging the steel, spinning the
wire, making the bolts, drilling the
holes and rlveting it together, max
ing monument TO peace greater
than the greatest English ironclad,
but we made every inch, foot, rod,
acre, mile, state territory and all from
the Alaskan mountains to Florida
Keys by the blood OF our fathers from
l776 to 1883, and since then by the
fvugality Of the people, with gold and
silver to buy and make it all, the
United States OF America, and under
our flag the stars and stripes.
Whittier are we drifting, is this no
longer a free republic? Do our law
yers have TO go to England and then
come back and advise us afterwards,
and then dare TO say of another law
yer who stays at home, you are not
worthy of giving advice, you do not
believe what you say, you are deceiV'
ing the people who have almost unan
imously nominated you for the high
est Office in the gift Of the people aftel
with their new states and new dele
gates doing away with the old finan
cial attorneys ofsthe Democrat party
the holdoyers for the last sixty year
and selected in Senator White o
California man who does represen
the people and the Democracy OF Oh
country and who comes from a stat
richer than New York. II Burk
'Cockran is true, a richer state an
zone three times as large and in tina
selection got counsel for our cour
try.
About this time Burke CockTa
said
The Democratic party remain
faithful to Democratic principles"
I'VE must oppose the nominatio
OF the Chicago convention"
the Democrat platform is Pop
hsm' liberty tainted with Republ
eanism."