Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-06

inteption of hettering the condition of the lsboring man, but in the hope of prejudicing them against capital and corporations and securing their votes for some political office promising in return for their votes that they will have laws enacted which will rebound greatly to their advantage.
 The professional ce-seeker, as d rule, has no other stock in trade. Too lazy to work. too proud to beg and afraid to steal ss was once said by the illustrious:Clay in another sense, but equally applicable here. Such men have neither brains nor capacity for originating or directing enterprises of any character: or, if they have any at all, they are of very inferior order Their aim in life is. if possible. to utilize for their own exclusive benefit Whatever they can extract from their fellow men without giving an equivalent. If, by some miracle. or death of relative, they come into the possession of money or property, the poor laboring man Is least in their thoughts. I do not under take to say that the 1aborer Is always fully rewarded for his labor. or that all employers are just and eonsiderate of their employes. When this is the case the millennium will surely have come. The laborer himself is as frequently unjust to his fellow-workmen as are his employers. We must all work for t higher and better civilization; nobler and grandef christianity; a better form of govern ment; approaching as near as possible to the Golden Rule which tells us to do unto others as We would have others do unto ns Put ourselves in his place; have our law makers enact laws 10 enforce the principles enunciated in the Declara tion of Independ- enee Which says that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Crea- tor With curtain nalienable rights that to secure these rights Governments are jnsti- tuted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the goyerned that whenever any sort of government becomes destructive Of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to insti- tute DEW government laying it's founda- tions oa su' principles, and organizing it's powers in such form. as 10 them shall seem most likely to effect their sg fety and happi- ness.
 Shakespeare saYs some men are born great, some achieve greatness and others have greatness thrust upon them. l make use of this quotation to pay just tribute to a great man, the son of a poor farmer, and who, un- aided, achieved greatness. He was the won
 
 times; the greatest railroad builder and operator the world has ever produced, less understood by the public at large than any American citizen in bis day and generation. 4 man who by his indomilable will, intense energy, good judgment. far-seeing sagaeity and kean discrimination, in a business life of less than forty years, amassed fortune of one hundred millions of dollars: but who at the same time gave employment to more than one hundred thousand employees, thus providing for over 0ne-half million Of human souls-the families and dependents upon those employees. Who will say that such q maa was not benefactor; or that this country and multiplied thousands of it's citi- zens have not protited by his having lfved9 friend or foe He never forgot a kindness. He did not make arrangeme with the newspapers to herald his deed Of benevo- lenee. and the result WAS that none outside of his small circi of intimate friends knew the extent of these. The Governor of kan- sas, in the grasshopptr invasion, did not ap- peal to him in vain; and without being asked he sent thousands of dollars to the Howard Association of Memphis in aid Of the yellow fever sufferers, and authorized theaAsseeia- ton to draw on him for all that HIS needed. These are acts of public record and are quite insignificant as compared with many others that will never be known by the public. personally kaow of many firms and indiyid- nals saved from bankruptcy by his unseifsh