The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-04-20

Estates he was trustee, had been re-
csivine anonymous letters. advising
them to look into the judges trust af-
been using renewed pressure to make
him let 60 all his Seaboard stock,
which they wanted to secure at the
how prices to which they had dc.
Ipressed It. in order that they might re-
organize and carry out the scheme
they had been so long planning. Judge
lSAnds went on to say that the day he
fwas compelled to sell his Seaboard
latock he would have to make public
An announcement OF his condition, as
there could be no sale without the
courts consent. His closing was:
Ny dear daughter. no one knows better
than ] the almost hopelessness OF expect
ing any relief from your operations. But
90 hopeless have 1 become OF late, so
much ann 1 reliant upon you, my dear
child, and eternal hope 30 springs In all
OF US when confronted with great neces-
stiles, that have hoped and still hope
khat you are to be the savior OF your
gamily; that you, only frail child. are
Through Gods marvellous workings to be
the one TO save the honor OF that name
NE both love more than life. the one to
keep the wolf Of poverty from that door
fhrouGh which 30 far has come nothing
but the sunshine OF prosperity and hap
piness. the one, my dear Boulah, who is
70 save your old father from a dishonored
grave. Dear child. forgive me for plac-
5ng upon your weak shoulders the addi-
fional burden OF knowing l am now help
Less and compelled 10 rely absolutely
upon you. After you have read my letter.
af there is no hope. command YOU TO tell
me 30 at once. for although l am now
financially and almost mentally helpless,
] am still s, Sands. and there has never
yet been one OF the name who shirked his
duty, however stern and painful II might
be
y. When l handed the letter back to
Miss Sands, she said:
"Mr. Randolph, let me tell you and
Mr.. Brownley little about my father
and our home, that you may see our
situation as II is. My father is one OF
the noblest men that ever lived. ! am
mot the only one who says that--if you
were to ask the people of our state to
name the one man who had done most
for the stiste as a state, most for her
lpfogressive betterment. most for her
people high and low, white and black.
they would answer, Judge Lee Sands
He has been, and is, the idol Of our
people. After he WAS graduated from
Harvard, he entered the law office OF
my grandfather, Senator Robert Lee
Sands. Before he was 80 he was in
congress and was even then reputed
the greatest orator OF our state, where
orators are so plentiful. He married
my mother, his second cousin, Julia
Lee, OF Richmond, at 25. and from
then until the attack OF that ruthless
money shark, led a life such as a true
Imam would map out for himself II his
Maker granted him the privilege. You
would have to visit at our home to ap-
jpreciAte my fathers character and to
understand how terrible this sorrow is
ito him. Every morning OF his life he
spends an hour after breakfast with
my dear mother. who is cripple from
hip disease. He takes her In his arms
land brings her down from her room to
lthG library az II she were child. He
then reads to her-and he knows good
books AS we'll as he knows his friends
After he takes mother back to her
room, he gives an hour to our people
the blacks OF the plantation and his
white tenants throughout the county
lie 10 q father to them all. He settles
|All their troubles. big and little. Then
for hours he and go over his business
lakairs. Every afternoon from four to
lfte he devotes to his estates and the
men and women for whom he acts az
trustees. He has often said to me
1--WE have clear million of money and
property, and that Is all any mau
should have In America 1t IL al he
10 entitled to under our form Of gcv
,lSrnment. Any more than that an
honest man should In one way or an
other return to the people from whom
he has taken II. / never want my
family to have more than million
dollars. When he went into the Sea
hoard affair, he explained to me that
1T was TO assist the Wils0ns-they
were old friends, and he acted as thell
solicitor for years-in building up the
south. He discussed with me- the
right and advisability OF putting IN the
trust funds. He said he considered II
his duty to employ them AZ he did his
own In enterprises that would aid the
whole people of the south, instead Of
sending them to the north to be uset
~ Wall street as betting for the 'sys
tenn grinder. These fortunes Were
made In the south by men who loved
their section OF the country more thar
they did wealth, and why should the,
mot be employed to benefit that par
of the country which their makers ant
owners loved? remember vividl,
now perplexed he was when. at the be
Giphing. the Wilson's would show hin
that the Investments were returning
pausually large profits.
~ 1t IL not right. Beulah,' he said tt
~ one morning after, receiving q let
her from Baltimore to the effect thai
Gesboard stock and bonds had ad
0Gncsd untn his investment snowec
6Ser 50 per cent. profit. 1t 10 not rlghl
~ - % make this money. No mar
x America should make over lega
39I6o - iitersst and . fair profit o.
W. 3hv0ofmput, that d q inIeel12n!