The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-12-28
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The following from Harper's Weekly lSls
hits the right place and hits 1t hard
A Boston poet who contributes 70 t1se
Transcript seven long stanzas OF sfe .lss.
about ..Roosevlt and his Guest 1 l'sisS'
that the brands Of war are smouiaeii ny
under this peoples calm, great .i i'a Z
and that q million men@w1ll r1sc as , w
from the northern for ests " ere e'. 1ile
grim chopped, and blood VIII run 2it ON
sea to sea, maybe, just so soon DIS NV
children Of privilege forget that the slsiss STAY,
is free. The Transcript is o well-equlppee :,
newspaper. and has an ice-box In which
its more infiammatory poems are usually
cooled before serving, but this one, some
how, missed refrigeration. It is an inter
esting echo Of old times, but of course It
is not good sense. The child of privilege
who wrote it seems to have forgotten that
the slave is free, and that whenever the
men of the northern forests get e,sclteu
about the prospects of the southern ne
groes they are quite at liberty to so
South and collect just as many negroes
as they can fetch loose, and perso1lallv
conduct them to any better lana tiiey
know of. Three carloads of Alabama ne
groes with their families started north
on December 18th from Birmingham, IN
Scotia, who has hired them to work in
his furnaces There was nothing to HIN
der. That is one difference between times
present and times past. Before the war,
when the northern heart bled for the ne
gro, there wasn't much to do but to tax
fight. but now the slave is free ana ms
friends can take any action theySs can
afford to further his development and
enjoyment of life. There is very much
less excuse for the production and pup
lcation of untimely and unseemly sec
tional verse in Boston than there is for
the Discrimination to eat with negroes IN
Georgia. One (the latter has reasoning:
behind it which at least can be under
stood though it may not be approved,
but the other has neither basis nor back
ing. but is a. sort of sentimentalism that
would be mischevous if it were not so
conspicuously inane.
The personality of the new Secretary
of the Treasury is thus outlined by the
New York World:
He Is an earnest Methodist.
He is opposed to dancing.
He never drank liquor nor tasted to-
bacco.
He belongs to no secret societies.
He is democratic, and it is said, treats
his servants as his equals.
He is both banker and lawyer.
He leaped from obscurity into political
prominence by replying to free-silver
speech by WI j. Bryan.
He is 54; very hale and vigorous.
He was born in a log cabin in Vermont
and spent his boyhood on a Vermont
farm.
He earned with his own labor the money
that put him through college.
He says his success in life is due to
hard work.
He always got to his law office at A.
NJ. and stayed there until 10 P. NJ.
He was superintendent Of two Sunday
schools for 20 years.
lie has high forehead. thin gray hair,
a heavy moustache and gray, clos1.
cropped side whiskers.
He looks, in dress, like Methodist
minister
He announced at a Methodist confer
ence in Chicago last year: IT am an or
ganization politician. A machine politi-
clan is not as great nuisance as a fool
TefOrmer"