The herald., 1896-02-23
REMARKS
by LEDRU 3. KINNEY

Again over the burdered wires comes the
terribly thrilling and heartrending account
Of . large factory-anotherg great death trap
being made the tomb of human forms
charred or reduced to indistinguishable
ashes, and again comes the sad and awful
news of another mine catastrophe and of
another frightful explosion of dynamite.
0 cruel fire! Thy hell-tipped and relent-
less fangs are pitiless beyond all words
no touch of conscience ever turns thy dead
~ thrusts away from the tortured hearts of
men!
An immense factory rising six stories
high and filled with upwards of four hun
dred girls and women is suddenly afiame!
We are thrilled through and through by
the cry of alarm. OF terror, and
then of despair. We see the wild
and hungry flames with the rush
great structure. We feel the utter insanity
Of fear-the complete paralysis of reason
the agony of impe nding death-of those
who are entombed and doomed. Seas of
flame and smoke and darkness every
where! There is blind and crushing
stampede for the stairs. Floods and
whirlpools of fire which eddy and coil and
surge upward with overwhelming tide,
await them. The maddened mass of hui
manity press on and forms go under--the
breath of life cut off by choking smoke or
stamped out by perhaps the crushing feet
Of dearest friends-forms that never again
will breathe the air of earth. We see some
with prayerful hope rush to the windows.
We see them look down through the ban
ners Of flame and murky smoke to the
pavement below-down a hundred swoon-
Ing feet or more. We see them cling an
instant-then despairingly let go-and fall
With lightning rapidity, to become shape
less mass Of human flesh. The confiagra-
tion RACES on. The entire structure be-
comes mighty pyre, and then, with
laundering lurch and an appalling crash,
collspses into one fiery mass-burying in
ono blazing hecatomb score and ten of
lives with their hopes and dreams and
loves and light to other lives!
If from the tomb, Patrick Henry could
thunder again the eloquence of those DEATH
less words which fired the souls of men in
the old time; if million warriors gone
down to dust on fields more glorious than
the sacred soils of other lands could give
anew the battle cry of freedom; if the i'm
mortal Washington, who made America
the home for the hopes and dreams of hui
manity could speak once moro the old
words of wisdom and patriotism; if Jeffer-
son could on this occasion pen another
words of living light; if Monroe could utter
. sentiment again such as that which now
9llides the dessinies of the American re-
t.lblics; if Webster's patriotic voice could
again resound in the halls of state in
matchless eloquence; if Lincoln, above
whose martyred form Columbia said, "This
was the noblest American of them ALL
could today speak-if all these soldiers and
statesmen and martyrs could utter another
wofd-th1A would at least say, "Hands off,
We Spanish assassins! Take your blood
hounds and your murderous steel, which
Clrips with the blood of freedoms sons
across the seas! The only sovereign which
can ever rule in the new world, now and
forever, is the Goddess of Liberty"
English statesmen are 'falIing all over
themselves in their frantic haste to de.
clare their recognition of the Monroe doc
trine. This swing around on the part of
the anglomaniacs in this country to rally
to the support of the Monroe doctrine.
With the support of these anglomaniacs.
the Monroe doctrine is secure. 1t will be
real nice. dontcherknow.
The time il near for the politician who
has said nothing. but has sawed wood, and
who has fixed up his fences, and did little
loQ-rolling on the quiet, to consider himself
good political timber for any platform.
Then we will have ''bolted caucuses,"
Champaign lies nailed," and 'convention
deadlocks."
If the nations of Europe can dictate what
shall constitute international law in the
new world, why cannot the unanimous
voice of the combined nations of the new
world declare what shall be international
law In this Western hemisphere?
We have suspected right along that Al
fred Austin had employed Johanna, the
chimpanzee in New York Central park,
who has acquired the art of writing, to
compose poems for the use of his laureate
ship.
Henry Clay said that he would rather be
right than president. The large number of
presidential candidates leads us to suspect
that some are sure to be left.
A congressman raised quite a sensation
the other day by making speech almost
wholly from the use of charts. There is
NO doubt but what few statesmen IN this
country need few object lessons.
BY the aid of cathode rays we may now
excect with some possibility of success to
NisA the pocket OF a woman's dress.
The flying squadron is we'll named. We
would suggest that Lord Dunraven he
commissioned it's admiral. He has the
flying maneuver down fine.
The sound money men claim that the
statesman who favors free silver has cart
wheels in his head.
1t il almost time for the politicians of
Ohio to declare again their solidity for Nc
Kinley.
ssUueasy lies the head thar weara a
laureate wreath. ALFRED Austin,
THEY CELEBRATED
Meeting In Commemoration Of the Birth Of
the q. A. K.
WAsH1NGToN, Feb. 22.-The Union Re.
publican club of Washington held public
meeting tonight in Central Market hall in
celebration of the anniversary of the birth
Of the national Republican party. Fully
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