The Marshall republican., 1907-06-07
When I handed the letter back Il
Miss Sands, she said:

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Miss Sands, she said:
"Nr. Randolph, let me tell you and
Mr.. BROMLEY q little about my father
and u home, that you may see our
situation as II 10. My father 10 n Of
the nobiest men that eve lived. I am
not the only one who says that-lf you
were TO ask the people Of our state to
name the one man who had done most
for the state a. q state. most for her
progressive betterment, most for her
people high and low. white and black.
they would answer. Judge Lee Sands
He has been, and IL, the idol OF our
people, After he was graduated from
Harvard. he entered the law once Of
my grandfather, Senator Robert leo
Sands. Before he was 30 he was In
congress and was even then reputed
the greatest orator Of our state, where
orators are 80 plentiful. He married
my mother. his second cousin. Julia
Lee, OF Richmond. at rs. and from
then until the attack of that ruthless
money shark. led a life such as a true
man would map out for himself II his
Maker granted him the privilege. You
would have TO visit at our home to ap-
preciate my fathers character and to
understand how terrible this sorrow 10
70 him. Every morning of his life he
spends an hour after breakfast with
my dear mother. who Ia q cripple from
hip disease. He takes her In his arms
and brings her down from her room 10
the library a. n she were a child. He
then reads to her-and he knows good
books q well a he knows his friends.
After he takes mother back 10 her
room. he gives an hour 10 our people.
the blacks Of the plantation and his
white tenants throughout the county.
He 10 . father to them all. He settles
all their troubles, big and little. Then
for hours he and ] 80 over his business
affairs. Every afternoon from four TO
five he devotes to his estates and the
men and women for whom he acts ~
trustees. He has often said TO me:
We have . clear million OF money and
property. and that 10 all any man
should have In America. II 10 all he
IL entitled 10 under our ferm Of gov.
eminent. Any more than that an
honest man should In n way or 4 n
other return TO the people from whom
he has taken II. I never want my
family TO have mor than q million
: dollars When he went into the Sea-
board AFFAIR. he explained 10 ma that
II was TO assist the wiisons-thsy
we're old friends. and he acted 10 their
solicitor for years--in building up the
south. He discussed with me the
right and a~dvisabiiity Of putting In the
trust funds. He said he considered II
his duty TO employ them N he did his
own In enterprises that would aid the
whole people OF the south. instead OF
sending them TO the. north TO be used
In Wall street a. betting for the 'Sys-
tenn grinder. These fortunes were
made In the south by men who loved
their section OF the country more than
they aid wealth. and Why should they
not DO employed to benefit that part
OF the country which their MAKERS and
owners iovedf ! remember wildly
how psrplexed he was whom. at the be-
ginning. the wilson's would show him
that the investments were returning
unusually large profits.
ct IL not right. Beulah.' he said TO
me morning after receiving q let
ter from Baltimore to the effect that
eaahoard stock and bonds had adj
vanced until MS Investment snowet
ovsr 80 per cent. pront, II 10 not right
for us TO make this money. No man
In America should mako over .Jegsl