The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-05-15
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Louisville Courier-Journal, May 4th.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Daily Observer, of the good city of
Charlotte, in, the renowned Old Tar
state, calls our attention-the OBJ
server leaves nothing unnoticed +
to case Of oversight, not Of neglect,
on the part of the Courier-Journal.
The Courier-Journal was in rem
iniscent mood: The past put its
touch upon 1.-THE tragic past-and,
a little tearfully, let us confess, it was
looking backward over the darkling
passageway of the years that will
never come again, piled up with the
beloved and mighty dead. 1t had
taken a flock of its younger readers
upon it's lap in caressing, grand
motherly way and was telling them
the story, the melancholy story, of
the grand cold ship o. Zion," their
fathers flagship, Democracy"
Brother Caldwell, after our Broth
er Tomplins has led in prayer, will
you please join us in singing that
good old song
"She has carried many thousands,
And shall carry many more?"-)
Well, as we were saying, the Cou-
rier-Journal was telling how, once
upon time, a wicked old witch,
named Free Silver had stolen aboard
in the dead of night and had drugged
the drink of the crew whilst they
slept, SO that when they awol1e and
took their morning draught they fell
into state Of frenzy; and knowing
not what they did, they rose in NUT
my and rage against their faithful,
trained, and courageous officers, send
ing them adrift in leaky boat to the
inh6spitable shores of desert island
to be heard of ncvermore, and putting
in their places number of new, un-
tried, and unskillful helmsmen. And
then how, though all of them had
been riding triumphant tile safe
depths of mid-ocean, the winds came
and howled, and the. waters Kissed
and roared, and the waves leaped
mountain-high, until the ship, having
no pilot, foundered hither and thither
at the mercy Of the elements, the poor
sailors, quite at their wits end, ran
at last into the breakers and upon the
rocks. "Protection,' which people
thought had been sent to the bottom
years before, but which somehow was
kept afioat and refitted and ordered to
sea again, came sailing along that
way. And, how she was we'll fixed to
do the free-booting of her owners,
Messrs. High Tariff, High Finance
company! How she was iron-clad be-
low the water-line, and steel-plated
above it; how she carried tons of sto-
len money for ballast; how her officers
we're not naval heroes, but super
cargoes carefully selected from a fa-
vored class and richly paid; how she
was manned not by sailor-men, but
by poor work-people, some of them
duped into the service, but most of
them impressed; and how she had
been turned loose to drive off the high
seas the very emblem of America, to
warn the commerce of the world away
from our coasts, and to defend the
Chinese wall erected at the people s
expense, for the sole benefit of the
close-corporation Of spectators and
millionaires which had chartered her,
and was running her fer all she was
WORTH. the black flag Of piracy flying
at her masthead!
This wretched hulk, "Protection, :"
for underneath the. iron clothing and
the steel plating, all was worn out
and rotten, came full Of conceit sail
ing that way, and spied our poor old
"Ship % Zion' in her most awful
plight, water-logged and unprovision-
ed, unarmed except for the bows-and-
arrows which had been improvised
out of timbers yet sound, through and
through; but still brave and full Of
fight!
These things, the Old Lady at the
Corner-as here in Louisville the Cou-
rier-Journal is sometimes called-was
telling the nice little Democratic boys