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and where any bright or unusual
idea or expression, by reason Of
its rarity under the circumstances,
is exploited by the Associated Press
and by other news agencies. TO har-
monize the whole matter the fact
that Judge Griggs, Senator Carmack
and myself, each in his own peculiar
way, voiced the same idea may be TAX
en- as new evidence of the old saying
that great minds run in the same
channel" If all of US put together can
shut off the professional gushers, we
will deserve well of our long suffering
contemporaries, who were too young
to squeeze into the civil war.
In his book of "reminiscences Colonel
John f. Darby of Missouri laments the
fact that, while he was the pioneer adj
vocate of the Pacific railway and work
ed at it for years and while Thomas III.
Benton opposed the scheme a long time
and only gave in his adhesion at the
last moment, Benton got a statue of
heroic size for his eleventh hour per-
fornance, while he Darby received
nothing-hardly mention. But Colonel
Darby should have remembered that in
Benton's speech the great senator arose
to the dignity of major prophet and in
closing, with hand pointing to the west,
exclaimed: ''There is the east! There
is Indiaw a declaration which is just
now being fulfilled.
I am not trying to settle the question
of priority between Judge Griggs and
Senator Carmacl. They are both bril-
liant as star and need no help in any
contest of brain or wit. | am. rather,
endeayoring to console myself because
I did not receive the exploitation due
to my Christopher Columbus perform
ance, and, by the way, Christopher
had his Amerigo Vespucci. Likewise
William II. Seward. pioneer Republic
an, had to make way for Abraham
Lincoln, and Richard Parks Bland, ere
ator of the silver issue, saw William j.
Bryan walk off with the presidential
nomination.
Finally, blessed be the name Of Griggs
or Carmack or any other man that
shuts off the gush and the gusher!
Cussing.
The wild and wooIly west must look
well to it's laurels or the cultured east
will rob it of all. A Harvard professor
is on trial for murder, committed with
the vulgar western weapon known as
a revolver. Now, that's bad enough,
but New York preacher has taken to
swearing, which goes far ahead of any
thing which has happened lately west
of the Mississippi. He is Rev. DIR.
Rainsford, rector of st. Georges
church. In a speech Of great vehe-
mence before the credit men of New
York he declared that most of the crit
icisms on the missionaries in China
was damned rot" Perhaps it is.
The doctor knows. But when the pa
pers exploited his emphatic remark
and he found it was likely to injure
him he apologized for making it. for
which certain journals laud him as a
hero, a brave man. Perhaps he is, but
swearing is common performance.
1t is frequently apologized for, and
that, too, by men who thereby get no
credit for being heroes. Has Or.
Rainsford read the New Testament?
If So did he believe what he read?
Does he think that Jesus of Nazareth
meant what lie said when he uttered
these words: "Swear not at ally' II
he had given heed to that clear COM
mand, he would not have been forced
by decent respect for the opinions of
mankind to apologize for his euss
words. Despite his apology. did not
Rev. DR.. Rainsford dishonor his cali
ing, so far as in him lay, in swearing
In the first place?