The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-06
"A NEEDED REFORM
The People Should Protect
Their Rights With Their
Votes

1t is now nearing half century
since Harriet Beecher Slows won-
derful Uncle Toms Cabin" wax
IN, d the hearts and minds Of the
American people to a realizati IN
OF the evils Of slavery which held
in bondage nearly the entire color
ed population Of the United States.
Never since the founding OF this
government after the Declaration
Of Independence, had the nation
and its people become 30 wrought
up to degree of excitement which
resulted in IA determination to rid
this land of freedom of the curse
Of slavery.
AT what a cost of lie and prop.
-rty, and how near the government
was Ia obstruction, is well known
to ev-+y adult American citizen.
For FIVE lcng years ragged the bloody
conflict between the North and the
south, with human slavery as the
only bone OF contertiou. the most
terribl. civil WAT of modern history
wherim hundreds of thousands Of
lives were sacrificed in vindication
Of iLeir principals Of right or wrong
Abraham Lincoln was elected
President and proved to be the
emergency leader needed in this
greatest reform movement ever
started by the people. and whose
uane is today Recognized as the e.
nsncipator OF the colored race.
For several years after the clos
ing # the evil war aud tine dove OF
pea:.. had spread her white wings
over this broad land, prosperity
aud Happiness returned to bless
The nation and the North aud
tnr South became reunited under
ih.. old hay ut original union 49,.
During period of more than a
quarter If n century, contentm-nt
ruled thu hearts Of all people in
reconstructed union until the clos.
ing decade, uf the last century when
spirit Of unrest seemed to have
cum over the uiasses as seen in
gathering If C,,x-ys army aud its
unrch to Wushin .ton, aud were
provision-.i -nroute 10y the masses
IN sympathy with the movement.
This army, whose rank aud hle
WAS mn,l- up Of those all over the
lamd, from every state aud city aud
village, reached The Capital city
after j,urneying hundreds aud
som. thousands of miles. The onl y
salisf sctiou granted WAS. Keep oil
the grass" Not wanted here, We
c8n do nothing for you, 81 return
to your ~mnderinys and discomfort.
Not until the dawing of the pres
-ui century did the people begin
to r-aliz,- what was troubling and
why the poorer classes became
poorer each succeeding year, dur
my times of seeming prosperity.
Al last the populace are getting
Wise to the tact tina. this country IL
no longer, "A government for til.
p. ople by the people" but rather
| is today controlled and managed
by the inpmey power aud by the
corporations that have absorbed
ninety percent of the nations mon
ey and which is ruling the people
with rods If iron aud bringing pov
-rty and distress u many millions
1t is believed that another emer
reucy has come which can alone b'
r-medled by the masses Ut voting
population striving In thelr united
strength to wrest the control OF thu
government from the hands ot th'
Sec. u, and NV. y NV. = of Section No. Is, i
Twp. No. l5S Range No. 81 w. 6th. p. NJ. and vii
offer proof to show that the lani sought is NOR
valuable for its timber stone than for agi
cultural purposes. and TO establish his claim t
| s,id land bef,,re L. NJ Nourse, u. 5. Commi,