The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-02-23
LAsHED TO FURY.
Hawthorne Pictures Senator
Tillman Discussing the
RAILROAD Rate BILL.
Ia the Senate. sud Describes the Won.
d.rfuI TRANSPORTATION from Lodge
and.the Islessof the BEST to
the Storms and the Bnc.
cdneers.

ouiou haWWiUIue urAW8 on anus
Ing picture OF Senator Tlllman ad
dressing the Matted States Senate
last week on tho railroad rate bill
With the SCHOLARLY Senator from Mas
sachuseets, SAYS Hawthorne, we hac
been. sailing long and smoothly or
Summer seas. He seemed to be en-
acting the parts both of Youth q,
the Prov and of Pleasure at the
Helm.
The rise and lapse Of his melliau
GUS q cents, aSghe read his speech
and. at statedSSintervals, lifted the
leaf from the pile of law books on bis
left and laid i6Sgently and accurately
on the slowly &ugmenting pile on his
right, seemed like the aofsly swelling
and subsiding waves OF the blue
tcsan over which we voyaged.
The Senatorial audience sat en-
tranced, With eyes half closed in
dream comfortableness. The CALLER
les, graced withmuch that was femi.
nine and beautiful, sailed on sereneIy
with the rest Of us.
Mr.. Knox, keeping his eyes resolute,
ly ajar beneathShis level and slightly
gathered browa, gave his most oourte.
GUS attentions Other great railroad
representatives Foraker, Aldridpe,
Elkins, GalliDger7 attempted not to
conceal the plentitude of their satis.
faction In the argument of tbs spokes-
man OF the Waite House.
The desks Of the opposition were
less we'll filledisbut several of their oc
cupantS confessed to the spell of the
orator. Mr.. Islllnan read pamphlets.
but he was to8speuk after Massachu
setts had finished.
The lsla of{5she Blest seemed near.
All waaaa vel! sstae$$, sta$$ and aloft.
The nation, under the aegls CT tie
Executive, vas safe. The rate bill
was an imporSan6 measure, but Mr..
iSssssu a had s6t,r n,s VI. ~
way rsGes -4esn aUuenUIuT dE.
Ing several months, and he knew, he
might venture toObeliebe something
about 1t. He, had even gone so far as
to unload his modest holdings OF rail.
way stock before beginning his exami.
nation, lest any shadow ef solf.lnter-
est might creep into his point OF
view. He was explicit, after all this
study, in announcing that personal
rebates were really and truly wrong,
and must be stopped. But ahl gen
tlemen, what mighty and prosper
Gus nation was ours; and all again,
what mighty element OF benefcence
were our railroads.
Railroads are the property net of q
few naughty millionaires, but of mil.
lions of trusting and deserving stock.
holders, for whose benefit they are
conducted. TO injure railroads, thon.
Is to aim blow at the common peo.
Pile.
is any here SO base that does not
love the common people? If any,
speak, for him have / off1ndl And,
do not railways d psnd upon the pros.
pcrity OF the country for their living
How, Their, cau they bs suspected OF
working against It's interests.
1t Is preposterous, exclaimed the
Senator, almost raising his voice,
shat they should be suspected of be-
Ing shortsightedly avariclous."
And 30, at last, he laid down the
last leaf upon the tour 2quare pile
and turned to receive the congratu
lationS OF Messrs. Aldrich, Foraker
and the estof the men against whose
interests the Hepburn bill is under
stOod to be aimed
1t was boautiful 1t was like the
lotus eatsrs; and wo were just falling
in0o the sweetest slumber when all al
once an awful bhing happened.
In the Senate Mr.. Tillman is al
mosb the only event that ever does
happen. Up be came from the dark
some hold OF our Ship Of State, say
age and threatening, o freebooter
armed and tierce. .eyeo; q butcaneer
With q knife between his teeth and 6
pistol In either hand.
The Summer seas passed away like
o dream. Tne Isles of bhe Blest sanl
beneath the horz)n. The clouds
blackened the sky and the storm
wind shrieked in the silken cordag,
Of the rigging.
Tillman had ripped the entire bot
tom out Of our craft, and We wort
sinking.
The seas rose In fury; we wer'
plunged headlong into them, swim
mirgly suddenly for our lives. Ther
was no peace, no pros ,eriby, no econo
milo beneficence Of natural laws
Sharks bit tff our legs, swordiBh lm
paled uS-water swalloW we'd uB whole.
The nat.on ~aS Onoe B,uIa btrug
CLING In the grasp OF the octopus
They were starving, they wer
~ronged, they were victims Of an out
rageous and destructive tyranny.
And what o hideous farce it al
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