The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-29
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The New York World says: "a strong
light on the real as distinguished from
the campaign causes of our prosperity is
found in the announcement of the awards
of prizes at the Paris Exposition. In
awards of gold medals, Of silver medals,
of bronze medals and of honorable men
tons the industries Of the United States
led those of all the other nations except,
of course, France, while in the awards of
grand prizes our industries We're second
only to those OF Germany. These facts
show not only excellence. but what is OF
equal Importance, enterprise. The mer-
chants, the manufacturers, the workers Of
America are prosperous not because OF
Mr.. Mckinley or his tariffs or his protec-
ton to monopoly and privilege, or his
wasteful and absurd wars but because
their brains are ingenious and their hands
Industrious
That is the plain truth. but some people
do not believe it. Many Americans have
the idea that the country is prosperous
or not according as this or that party is
in power. They believe that legislation
has much to do with prosperity, In point
islaton, less interference on the part OF
Government with business. If the Gov
eminent will only let business have its
free course there will be no trouble about
the prosperity Of this country.
The Philadelphia Ledger, an Independent
Republican newspaper, introduces an arti-
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Beveridge in Chicago as follows:
The most charitable construction to be
placed upon Senator Beverages feyerish
demand for the annexation of Cuba, made
at this critical iuncture III Cuban affairs,
is that it is the ebullition of politician
who has little appreciation of the re-
straints and proprieties which should not
be forgotten in the anxiety to make a
brilliant period. The speech will tend to
injure rather than to advance the annexa-
ton propaganda. The young Senator
seems to be emulating the fame Of the
youth who fired the Ephesian done.' .
From political point of view this
speech may have been injudicous but
Beveridge told the simple truth about the
policy of his party. He was just a little
more candid than more discreet politicians.
That was all.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald, writing from Baltimore, says
that Captain Goodrich. his grandfather,
spoke often of Galveston Island as being
high, we'll timbered and pirates retreat.
and that only at very high tide was III re
water around the entire island. He adds:
TT has been known for many decades
that the island is gradually disappearing,
and the lowlands also, into the water of
the Gulf, and the entire disappearance of.
the island is only matter of time, as the
whole formation there is of float from the
mainland deposited hundreds of years
ago.
..,Ghe sediment has built up the land
and now the quicksands in the subsoils
are gradually being freed by pressure of
that whole coast country, and the quick
sands in the Underground watercourse go
to sea and the lowlants sink
1.-The original fauna and flora OF the
ages long ago have rotted in the under
ground, and the settlement is another re-
suit. I wish the Galveston people only the
very best of good luck in their rebuilding.
but your plan Of a canal and the new
Galveston on the mainland is the best
solution OF Galveston's future.
If this is true Galveston might as we'll
pack up now and move over to the main
land.
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