The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-20
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Letter From Mr. Wilson.

EDITOR INTELLIGENCE ;-Nesrly all
the demands of the populists were
based on real grievances: their pro-
posed means of r'ghting the wrongs
were questionable. Why should mil
lions toll in summer fields their W hole
lives through, whilst a handful get
about and see this beautiful world be-
fore they rest 10 it againp 1t is clear
that railroad rates are too high. Mil
lions of mothers in the Mississippi and
Missouri Valleys never get to see the
ocean or feel Its Teviving ~breezes, be-
cause railroad rates are based on
"wateredn stocks. Hoping to reach
a ''better land" they see little of this
good one. Either their hopes are
realized or they never wake to know
the contrary, if ''life Is a short time IN
which we remember and death is a
long time in which we forget" Such
musings came to me as we steamed
out of the harbor of Washington and
looked back at the stateliests Of
monuments, to that matchless man., at
the beautiful city and at the hills on
which he 'rid out with Robert Alex
snder and catched a fox" as he tells
in his journal. Down the Potomac we
steam, tn. noble river he loved so we'll,
past Alexandria, the great slave mart
OF the older and milder slavery as New
York is the great slave mart of
the new and crueller trust-slavery:
for buying and selling trust stocks is
only a disguised form Of buying and
selling slaves of all colors. Last seen
IN the spire Of Christ church where
Washington was a vestryman, where
a Washington is still q vestryman,
an amiable gentleman whose great.
grandfather killed my great-grand-
uncle in a duel; but We leave the long.
buried hatcher undisturbed. Mount
Vernon is watched in aud out Of
sight. A few days before leaving l
joined again the ceaseless chain Of
national pilgrims 10 that shrine and
again felt the hush that falls on all
who stand at the simple tomb of the
greatest OF men. Opposite is Mar
shall Hal, then Fort Washington, and
below is Gington, home once of George
Mason. Here dwells Capt. Tom
Cha Pman who married Virginia, sister
OF our Lexington Alexanders, uure.
constructed, railing at the loss of
capital and labor, as excursion boats
60 by loaded with superclllous Wash.
ington City negroes while his 600 acre
farm goes untitled for want of labor.
"The fashion of this world passett
away" AT Glymont the government
tests its guns; at Colonial Beach the
people rest and battle; all the way
down are old seats of Conway,
''Barons of the Potomac" At Chape
Point IN Maryland | debark, a Lowell,
spot, anc drive six miles to the raj
road town that l could have made il
less time by rail, but the river ba.
more charms.
The old probate books and deco
books of Maryland from 1850 dowr
hold much curious and interesting
history. 10 many cases occurs tn,
names of Belain Posey (uot akin t,
my ancestors) who at a cost of 25O on
400 Marylanders held the English arm,
till Washington escaped from Lon!
Island and capture. In the funera
expenses in most cases there is an al
lowance for rum or other liquor, an,
cakes, fer the mourning friends. Doubt
less their grief compelled such assuag
ing. One preacher gets 800 pounds o
tobacco for the funeral ermon an
other and perhaps a less wlekeI
sinner gets his preached for 400. Th
spelling IN wills is old style. as SIN
c%hlldenug. A oma in 1882 says
''being IN perfect sences but a mos
Languish condition of body do b
Quealh to my loved brother all m
Parrish rell estate to have and to hol
as bis " Properly so Help Of God.
The lists contain "olde cheares" on
olde Gunne, some olde Carprnder
Tules, an olde Saline, Muskett an