The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-03-21

they would kill his little babes.
know the old fellow loves those child
rem better than all the gold in his
vaults, and he would not be a human
being if he did not.
I am now going to say something
that is unpopular in my section of the
country 1t ! we're an office seeker
/ might be tempted to do wrong, but
l always did say before my people
what l thought was right. l think
that Mr.. Rockefeller is a good man,
and am going to think so until some
one shows me that he has done
wrong. I see his employees very often
and l never saw one of them who
did not speak well of him. l am told
that he never had a strike among his
employees. l am told another thing
that he has given more millions
| do not think much of him for that,
because he had more than he had any
use for, but he has given more of
them-to the poor, to charity, to the
churches, to education, and to build
hospitals all over the country where
they are needed for his employees,
where they can go when they are sick
and be cared for, than any other man.
If anybody in the United States does
not like that let them put it in their
pipes and smoke it. Laughter) 1
have said it.
If my friend from Arkansas is op-
posed to what l call prosperity, 1
would like Mr. Rockefeller to come
down and run his pipes through Mis-
sissippi He can go all over my land.
(Laughter) We shall be glad to have
him. / used to pay 40 cents a gallon
for oil to be burnt in my lamps. We
are little better off now, We are in
dependent, because we have got cleo
trio lights, but we paid 40 cents a gal
lon for oil, and now we can get it for
: 10 cents gallon. l do not know whe-
Their Mr.. Rockefeller is the cause of
N IiiNC NOlHlHS uONu 10 III cents,
) but think it will be that way in Ar
kansas if they get the conyeniences
that this pipe business proposes to
give them, and l intend to vote for
Inc pipes, That's all there is to it.
Uaughtcr)
Well l want you to understand [
am a plain, blunt, old confederate SOL
der l wore the gray and I fought
and bled, but l did not die though |
skedaddled frequently You under
. stand that word "skedaddled.' These
old soldiers will understand it.
l had the honor during my Service
to capture some very prominent men
in the Northern army; among them
was General Coburn, Of indianapolis.
Ind. | captured one great, big man,
who afterwards became General Shat
ter He was then major in the
Nineteenth Michigan. He was a very
, poor shot, for I advanced on him with
my saber, and he shot at me five
times and never touched me. Uaugh-
t teri
= Now, | will tell another story. That
r. fellow Shafter gave me an awful
t scare When l approached him he
S handed me his pistol and said:
you are welcome to it, but it will
t DO you no good, as / have shot all the
0 cartridges away, but over at the
% stockade near Franklin, Tenn, / have
70 a Valise that has got a thousand cart,
+ ridges in it, and you are welcome tc
= those, if you will go after them"
e | said:
Thank You for the pistol; I will &c
II after the cartridges"
2, In few weeks later with Forest
It went to Brentwood Station, captured
l. the fort and got the cartridges, bu
= l never used them. l never fired
n shot during the war daughter.
IS Ihat is a fact. l had just about en-.
d ough to do to look after the men
a had engaged. That is the kind of
G soluler ] was. / told the other fel
lows to do the fighting. A grea
IS many Of them stayed at home, and +
! | had been as smart as they were,
might have done the same. Oaugh
|, teri
When the Confederate soldier an,
S the Union soldier-we called then
a "Yanks" in that day, and they callec
e Us "Johnnies"-met they were al
d ways friendly Genral Coburn ask
70 ed permission Of General Cheathan
l. and General Polk to present me hi
r. sword for kindnesses extended tc
d him when he was a prisoner of war
s ! carried him from near Franklin t,
y Tullahoma, Tenn, and that swor,
t. was presented to me at Tullahoma.
sent it home with the petition that
a had with tho c;o,,t,,. -