The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-17
RANDALL'S CAPITOL VIEWS.
J. L. M. IRBY,
State Chairman.

Tho Rloh and Prosperouo Have Their Nile
fotunos--The South In tho War and the
Yankee at tho South.
One of the most charming and inter-
esting correspondents In this country
10 Col. James r. Randall, author of
Maryland, my Maryland, who
writes regularly for the Augusta
from recent letter:
THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT.
eee that Mr.. Charles Broadway
Rouss, who Is rapidly growing blind,
offers 81 900, 900 to any man who will
restore his sight. 1t is q pretty safe
offer, | suppose, as nothing short Of q
miracle could help this rich man, who
also admits that no would rather re-
turn to his original poverty than be
deprived of sight, If he could change
tho conditions. Mr.. Rouss considers
Mr.. Cleveland the great man Of the
time, and he also admires Col. Inger-
soil. 1t would take many more mil
lions than Mr.. Rouss possesses to alle-
viate the suffering presumably brought
about by the money views of this great
man, and the injury done by Colonel
lneersoll is supposed to be considera-
BILE In another direction. But here we
have, by his own confession, o man
whose money has brought little or no
happiness, and who has become blind
| in persistent accumulation. was told,
not long ago, that u man Of middle age
in Baltimore, tho tnheritor of millions
of money, declared that II he had good
health or could obtain it by exchange
of his fortune, no would prefer poverty
along with youth. Along with other
aflictions the Garrett family, OF Balti-
moro, may lose the bulk OF their estate
by the Baltimore and Ohio collapse.
How the property could have been op-
amazing, and it is strange that ths
CARROTS did not know enough of tho
real condition of affairs to unload their
holdings gradually. Perhaps they had
family pride in the matter, but whore
is 1t all nowp Not even prestige re-
mains, and the son Of a poor Pennsyl-
vAnia blacksmith holds In solution. as
co-recoiver OF the operation, tho for
tunes of the mighty.
PRo-BRITIsH oRAToRY.
II sone congressman were 90 good at
boiling down iaeas and thoughts as
newspaper men froquontly show them
selves TO DO, not q little OF tho pro-
British boaetful eloquenco OF q few OF
our orators might have been punotured
by sending to the desk" and having
road, right In the stomach OF such On
oration, the following points mado by
The Chicago Herald which tells u.
what were English Institutions when
bound this land TO England:
l. A crown imported, German on q
Dutch stock.)
2. An aristocracy.
8. A chamber Of hereditary logisla
tors.
4. A union OF church and State.
5. A religious test for suffrage, Office
and university privilege.
9. Taxation without representation
7. No education except tor the rich
8. Primogoniture and entail.
0. Denial OF self government.
Whom tho fathers had succeeded IN
driving tho EnGlish troops out of th,
country, with the help OF French
! Irish, Poles, and otherB, and sat dowr
: to make constitution for the United
a States, these wero and continue to b,
its essential features:
/. No crown.
{ 2. No aristocracy.
3. Ne heriditsry legislators.
4. Separation of church and State.
o: No religious test for politica
4 rights or education.
!. g. No taxation without represents
8 tion.
# z. Education for all the people.
c 3. Neither primogeniture nor entsi
%. Local self.Eovernmont.
CHANCE OF SITUATION. NJ
o Senator Hawley, Of Connecticut, wa
: born In North Carolina, and recsnl
8 revisited his birthplaco after IA al
V sence OF afty-eight years. He oun
httpe er no vsstigs Of the family awell