Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-02-09


days Of Reconstruction. had muster
ed so blatantly under the old flag
and an appropriation" tumbling over
themselves 20 get beneath the ban
ners of the Panama Company of
France
Upon its face this company show
ed its fradulency. II began by de-
manding hundred and fifty millions
OF dollars; fell TO a hundred millions,
and finally offered to take and did
take. forty millions. A mere palpa-
BILE confidence game, a greater rob
berry. was never perpetrated upon a
peoples treasure house.
There was a certain resistance.
But it proved unequal and abortive.
One gallant old man threw himself
into the breach and stood to his guns.
7 The congress cannot claim. the pub
] &c men of the time canno; pretend.
the newspapers cannot say. that they
proceeded without Amusement Nor
gan held the field until he fell dead
In his tracks, denouncing the infamy
and telling the truth Nothing brav-
CT, more tragical and painful. was
ever Witnessed in legislative halls.
All men knew him TO be as unselhsh
as he was fearless But he was old.
he was alone, he fought singlehand-
Cd against odds he could not last
forever so they said and seeing
him badgered and nsulted. outwit-
ted and obstructed without coming
10 lis rescue, they saw him fall at
last, whilst corruption Gcurishcd and
The devil danced the can-can through
out the lobby at Wash ngton and The
bucket-shops of Paris
Hlnds lifted, hats OF. TO the mem
DRY OF John Tyler Morgan. OF Ala
bama! Every word tina; he uttered
has more than come true. Forty
millions TO the forty thieves was but
a mouthful to the birds OF prey who
/ gathered over the remains Of the De
Lesseps carrion at Paris. has swoop-
ed down upon Wash ngton. thence to
swoop down upon Bogota, thence to
sweep down and TO settle down i'm
Panama. having gorged themselves
with quite forty millions more-to
require how many hundreds OF ad-
ditlonal III lions no prophet can tell,
ncr even a this rate giving us any
I assurance OF cana which shall re-
/ turn dollar Of the mill ons IL has
cost us
From first TO last the Courier Jour
nal stood by Morgan II was his
only prop and hacker outs de his own
| immediate newspaper constituency
All il get for its pains were bored
public and press. where no, apa-
thetic, abusive
Years Afterwards, when Morgan
had long lain in his grave and the
enriched thieves had sevcrally dis
persed, each to his lair leaving not
trail behind them, two American
| newspapers venlured TO echo the
charges VIII oh Morgan had made and
! tn; Courier-Journal had repeated in
the teeth of the scoundrels whist
they were engaged in actual work
OF rebbing that treasury without their
daring 20 defend emselvts-,heib
being a still hunt and play for tine
and what happened? The brigsnds
baclttd by \ foolish Administration,
grew bold again. Not a scrap OF in
eliminating evidence left outstanding
and no chance OF reprlsal or recovery
they come out Of hiding The ncvs.
papers are hauled into court 20 ans
wcr a criminal libel.
They have come off-indecd with
feathers IN their caps We con
graduate them But alas and aIack
The day II the Courler-Journal n
grand old John Tyler Morgan could
have had the New York World and
the indianapolis News by their side
b whilst It was yet not too ls.e. Lin
den might have seen another sight.
tho country saved and the treasury
intact