The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-10-26

such a magnificent and reckless scale. Yon
have not built the pier. you have not
opened the freight road. you have not taken
cut an ounce OF ore You know more OF
Valencia than you know OF these mines:
you know Il from the Alameda to the
Canal. You can tell me what night the
band plays IN the Plaza, but you can't give
me the elevation Of one OF these hills. You
have spclt your days on the payements in
front Of cafes. and your nights In dance
halls. and YOU have been drawing salaries
every month. I've more respect for these
haif-breeds that you've allowed to starve
IN this fever-bed than I have for you. You
have treated them worse than they'd treat
q dog, and II any Of them die. it's on your
heads. You have put them In a feve.-camD
which you have not even taken the trouble
Co drain Your commissariat il rotten. and
you have let them drink all the rum they
wanted There is not one Of you"
TIE Eroap Of silent men broke. and one
Of them stepped forward and shook his
forcunger at Clay.
No msn can talk to me like that" he
said. warniuEly. and think I'll work un-
der him. ! resign here and now"
You what cried Clay. you resIzng'
Pc whirled his horse round with a dig OF
his SPUR and faced them. How dare you
tab ~ ~reSigning? III pack the whole lot
az you back 70 New York on the arst steam
cr, % / want 10. and III give you such
Characters that youT be glad to get a job
carrying a transit. You're In no position
to talk OF resigning yet-not one OF you.
Yes. he added. interrupting himself, zone
Of You Is MacWilliams. the man who had
charse or the railroad. It's no fault OF his
That the roads not working. ! understand
that ne couldn't get the right-of-way from
the people who owned the land. but ] have
seen what he has done. and his plans. and
] epc.oEfZe to him-to MacWilliams- As for
the rest Of you. III give you a months
MTNNL- II Will h. n month haFaEa -. 49,
steamer could get here anyway. and I'll
give you that long TO redeem yourselves.
At the end Of that time we will have
another talk. but you are here now only on
year GOOD behavior and on my suferance.
Good-mornlnE."
Is Clay had boasted. ne was not the man
Ia throw up his position because he found
the part he had 10 play was not that 81
ladinS man. hut rather one OF general util-
ity. and although Il had been several years
since IL had been part Of his duties 10 over
see the setting up Of machinery. and the
policing OF a mining camp. he threw him
self a. earnestly into the work before him
as though 20 show his subordIn1tes thatit
ola not matter who did the work. 50 long
as II was done. The men at first were
NIX reseutfGl and suspicious. but they
could not long resist the fact that Clay was
doing the work OF five men AMI five diGe--
eur kinds OF work, not only without grum-
bling. bus apparently with the keenesr
pleasure he ccucAlfated the rlcn cOuee
planters who owned the land which he
wanted Tor the freight road by calls OF the
most formal state and dinners Of much less
Formally. for he saw that the iron mine
had its social as well as its political side
Ard With this fact in mind. he opened the
railroad with great ceremony and much mu-
sic and f~casting. and the first piece Of ore
taken OUT Of the mine was presented TO ths
wife a. the Minister OF the Interior IN a
cluster Of diamonds. which made the wive,
OF the other members OF the Cabinet regret
that thelr husbands had not chosen that
portfolio. Six months followed OF hard. TN
RENTING work. during which time the
great pier grew out into the bay from Mae
Wiliamss railroad. and the face OF TIE
inst mountain was SCARED and torn OF it,
green. and left in mangied nakeduess. while
the ringing OF hammers and pickers. and
the rackinS blasts OF dynamite and IN
warning whistles OF the dummy engines
drove away the accumulated silence Of cen
turtles.