The Saint Paul globe., 1897-06-27
HALLIDAY,s DISCOVERY.

All hail, Mr.. Halliday, he Of the state
Of Arkansas. Debs and the lamented
Coxey sink into petty commas on the
pages of history contrasted with the
new altruist. Coxey aimed only to
make people rich, and Debs to make
them free. Mr.. Halliday, of Arkansas.
would make them free and rich and
happy. CoXey needed the machinery
of limitless bond issues, and Debs con-
templates an elaborate political auton-
omy. Not so Mr.. Halliday; he has
everything he needs. 1t is only neces-
sary to press the button and take out
whatever may be desired. Cramped by
residence in Arkansas, the brilliant
genius of the discoverer has been
long obscured by the political sagacity
of the Mr. Jones who makes his home
at Hope, and the fame of the hanging
judge at Fort Scott. But benefits to
suffering millions are not TO be hidden
always, even by the state of Arkansas.
In some way and at some time Prov
panacea that is to Danish care and
sorrow. 1t was little thought when
Mr.. Halliday was selected as the dele
gate to the meeting of the Mississippi
river commission by the citizens of
Arkansas, who delighted to do him
honor, that it was the working 'in
mysterious ways" that was to give
new glories to the state that furnished
Mr.. Jones, Of the town OF Hope, to a
dazzled and bewildered world. But It
was even So
While the delegates from the other
states were pleading for additional
dust" to use upon their levees, Mr..
Halliday, with the serene modesty of
the truly great, was announcing a dis
covery so splendid in it's possibilities
that even Ponce de Leon never dream
ed it in the widest of his elixir visions.
'The constitution" said Mr.. Halliday,
guarantees us life, liberty and protec-
ton. To US these are levees. Where
are they at?' For years men have pom
dered over the constitution and have
passed by this essential point. "Come
who thirsteth," says the constitution.
as it is interpreted by the delegate of
the state of Arkansas to the Mississippi
river commission, "and drink pink lem
onade; come who hungers and rejoice
in lobster la Newberg; come who is
weary and rest on the wire springs and
under the baby-blue canopy of a white
enameled bedstead." No more grief; no
more wailing; no more regret. Above
all and over all the constitution spreads
out its beneficent arms and drops, from
horns of plenty, whatever may be de-
sired, from fOurth-class postmaster
ships to millions for building mud
banks along the beautiful banks of the
Mississippi, running in placid content
through the state Of Arkansas. Old age
is not protection, is not liberty; there
will be no more old age. Illness is not
happiness; there will be no more ill
ness. Poverty is not to be desired
IIlCIC VIII NC uO IlOIe pON6TIy. w mere
things exist which are not what all
men wish, out will come the funda-
mental law Of the land and whisk them
away to benighted lands where organic
instruments are all unknown. No
crime, no sin, no hunger, no floods, no
nothing-only the constitution and Mr..
Halliday, of Arkansas, both smiling
down on a redeemed and regenerated
world.
1t is no time for delay There are
wrongs to be righted, sins to be atom
ed, drink to be given to the thirsty and
tears to be wiped away. Pass the con-
stitution to Mr. Halliday and turn him
loose. Sound his praises in Arkansas
and Texas and Kankakee. Let him
roam up and down the world, eXorcis-
ing the demons that infest the body
polite. Let him wave the constitution
where men suffer that they may be
glad. And in Arkansas erect a statue
in his honor and sing his praises, while
all the people look on admiringly and
bless the day when the people of Null
bury, Beuhla or Cabin Center discov-
cred Mr.. Halliday in the obscurity of
the state of Arkansas, and get him to
tell his glad tidings to the leevee COM
mission for the lower Mississippi.