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formed by men as old or older, Glad
stone was much older while still the
acknowledged LibeAl leader. His
great rival HracnuSiic,d was at least
threescore and fifteen Wien lie return
ed from the Vienna congress carrying
back to England peace with honor"
Won Moltke was an octogenarian when
he led his conquering legions into Par
Ia, and Kaiser Wilhelm l. was as old
when crowned in the palace of Yer
sailles. Bismarck, one of the greatest
statesman of modern times, was older
than Olney OH that historic occasion
when in the coronation of his emperor
In the home of Louis XIV. he beheld
the completion of his life work, the
unidcation of the German people.
We do not have to cross the sea to
find older men than Olney performing
prodigies of mental and physical labor.
Until near ninety John Marshall, chief
justice of the United States, discharged
with signal ability every duty pertain
ing to his great Office In 1856 Thomas
Hart Benton, at the age Of seventy
four, made his famous race for gov
ernor Of Missouri, canvassing the state
as old man Harper Of Kentucky de-
clared he ran his horses, from eend
to eend"-the most astonishing per-
Torrance recorded of any old man. 9th
er cases might be cited, but these must
4l1f1lon fO c1,n1y Not 1o n S.,
for decapitating Mr.. Olney is not
grounded in wisdom or on human ex-
perience.
My Prophecy Has Come True.
When the old lady heard that the
COW had eaten the grindstone. she ex-
claimed, Il told you SOP When Sen
ator Marcus A. Hanna introduced his
celebrated bill to pension ex-slaves,
predicted that it would be used as an
instrument for fleeing credulous and
ignorant negroes. 1t is with no sort of
pleasure that l here record the fact
that that prediction has come true.
The fleeing process began very shortly
after Mr.. Hanna introduced the bill.
Now it has grown to such proportions
that the post Office officials are think
ing of issuing a fraud order against
the feecers. A Washington dispatch
says:
| Assistant Attorney General Robb yes
| terday morning heard testimony in the
| matter of the National Industrial Council
an organization of colored men having its
! headquarters in this city and working
with the avowed intention of obtaining
| the passage of bill introduced into con-
gress by Senator Hanna of Ohio last win
| ter for the purpose Of pensioning all ex-
| slaves. The work of the council had
been brought to the attention of the as
sistant attorney general to the post Office
department. and a hearing was called to
| decide whether not fraud order
should be issued against them.
1t was said that the council used the
name Of Senator Hanna in connection
with its work without the permission OF
the senator. but this the members of the
organization deny.
Nobody with two ideas above Hot
| tentot doubted that Senator Hanna III
troduced the bill "by request to aid
him in beating Colonel Roosevelt OF
the presidential nomination, and no
body acquainted with the harpies who
have fattened on the negroes doubted
the result Senator Hanna may live te
see his name universally execrated by
the negroes.
The G.-D.'s Little Joke.
The foregoing quotation from the
Globe-Democrat is not the worst 1t has
recently contained touching the Wal
street crowd, for in its issue of Tues
day, Sept. 20, this paragraph was
found: Something hangs over Wal
street. mysteriously says New Yorl
dispatch. A moose might have salu
tary effect" If that is not sugges
ton for lynch law, what is 1t? The
careful and prayerful attention o.
President Roosevelt. Governor Durbil
of Indiana, Governor Richard Yates II
Of Illinois and the Boston Antilyncl
society is respectfully called to thu
above excerpt from the CD, whicl
formerly arrogated to itself the it'll
Of ''the great religious daily" O.
course the CD. would claim that tina
is a humorous fling, but nevertheless
such humor is calculated to cause suct
operatorsgas ]. Pierpont Morgan, Joh1
w. Gates, James r. Keene and Johr
D. Rockefeller to have an unpleasant
sensation about the throat. No doub
they will thank the CD. hereafter Il
either 'pratermit such pleasantries or tt
append to them diagram bearing tile
legend, This is joker
If an nnti-Republican paper were Il
contain such stuff it would be uncere
moniously denounced as anarchy. B,
just such talk Governor Waite of Colo
RADIO won the sobriquet of "Dlood,
Brides" which he wore to the day O
his death.
1t may be-who knows?-that the
CD. man had been on the wrong side
of the market when he wrote that anl
was suffering from a sense of persona
injury, or it may be that he has beer
fnoculated with the lynching virus ani
on general principles would like Il
null off hanging on Wall street JUS,
to see the victims Wriggle and kick.
knew man once who set fire to divers
buildings for the pleasure of hayin.
an amateur fire company to which b,
belonged turn out aud perform. Som.
such motive may have Influenced til,
CD. man to suggest the rope remedy
The following article from the Bank
ers' Monthly on the subject of "Monc
tary StHngency" ought to set the vot
ers Of America to thinking seriously:
While the wisdom OF the action of tn
secretary Of the treasury In making ampl
preparations for relieving any momentar,
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