The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-18
Republican Losses as Compared With
 1900.

Editor of The Advertiser:
 recollect the Meyus MultiGaulrs silk worm craze, when men bought the trees to set out and the worms Ito eat the leaves. when the, promoters .hlled their pockets and the eredulops lemptied theirs. dreamed. that the little voracious worms would work for them night and day while they aye A4o slept; that their wives would dress in silk, their children wear silk stock ings and they have silk purses hlled with shining gold eagles and double eagles; but they awoke one nlght Win were on a strike and that the trees were all blasted. Then they realized that their hopes were blasted, too, that t was only a ;dEeamE1a school n,,I' This was after the South Sea bubble burst and after the YaZo0 and spec ulation proved a fraud, but before the California gold fever broke out in This fever was epidemic and swept thousands into the Gulf (of, California; s-farmers from the fields, carpenters from their benches, the schoolmasters greenbags (not greenbacks) doctors from their saddlebags and preachers from their. puapits. Some went to this newly discovered Ophir across the different fever, the Chagres fever. and died before they entered the Golden Gate; others went across the plains in wagons, on horseback and afoot; some lined their pockets with the golden fieece-nuggets of gold and gold dust while other got fleeced and return ed home wiser If not better men.
 This was after the, Argonauts sailed with Jason in search of the golden fleece at Colchio, but before. the Pans anna Canal was finished (if 1t ever. is) and before the Idaho mines were dis covered and fully developed.
 have seen Kuklux and kukiux Klans and Crimson Whites but nevs CT saw the Kentucky Night Riders. nor the Cotton Gin Burners, ana aoh wish to see them, until the. night ria. CTS are strangled i'd tobacco saeks. and the gin burners strangled at the end " I lave seen sophers sold in the Pen- sacola market by the barrel at $i per tors t9ns% and surgeons, big Ash swallow the little fish, oiE tack fish swallow a trout half his size on the hook ana ana line, but I never saw the great nsn that swallowed Jonah in the Medlter- ranean Sea nor Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. a great Ash that swims in the poisoned Society Sea of New York;
 | have seen colored Indians. colored Chinese and Turks and circus clowns cans, and did not expect it til the leopard changed his spots and the Etht" pIA I have ave seen camps, Indian camps, military camps and campmeetings, where they blew the horn for assem bling the congregation (not Gabriefs horn, nor the horn Joshua blew down the walls of Jericho with. nor the horn some are thinking abouD.. and which had straw on the ground for devout young ladies to kneel tor prayers. ana not be hfndered fn' wor : Ship by scarcity. of that. Indispensable article. That was before there were organs and paid ohoirs. In. fashionab ble churches to suit orchestra music and suppress the words of beautiful hymns by .operatic singing.
 I have seen school boys and girls tramp int he woods and scrape sweet gum trees for the natural delicious gum and enjoy the stroll and the chewing.
 ed Gum Tulu from the spruce pines of Maine for the native gum. put their jaws in perpetual motion. work out their teeth and spoiled their pretty mouths.
 I have seen wells and well borers and borers for oil. but never saw bor- CTS for whtskey till the sheriff bored into an irpr safe In Birmingham and found the precious liquids tB-g ham Is bound to lead and has discovered a