The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-04-14

Mr.. Davisl the other day make speech
in which he abused Rockefeller If there
is man iE the United States that am
sorry for, it is Rockefeller. [Langhter.]
can not help sympathizing with fel-
low that everybody is "cussing," and |
never could see what they "cussed"
him for un' ess because he had more
money than anybody else. ! do not
think that is fault, but it is mis-
fortune l am sorry for man in his
condition, when he can not go out on
the street and have eve his little grand
childre walk in sight of him without
thre ats that they will kill his little tabes.
know the old fellow loves those chill
dren better than all the gold in his vanlts;
and he would not lie human being If
he did not.
am now going to say something
that is unpopular in my section OF the
country. II were an Office seeker, l
might be tempted to do wrong, but
always did say before my people what
l thought was right. l think that Mr..
Rockefeller is a good an, and l am
going to think so until lsomebody shows
me that he has done wrong. l see his
employees very often, and never saw
one of them who did not speak we'll of
him. am told that he never had a
| strike among his employees. am told
another thing, that he has given more
/ millions-I 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
q churches, to education, and to build
n hospitals all over the country where
9 they are needed for his employees,
y where they can go when they are sick
t and be cared for, than has any other
t man. If anybody in the United States
y does not like that let them put it in
d their pipes and smoke it. Laughter l
/ have said it.
}. If my friend from Arkansas is Op-
d posed to what call prosperity. would
e like for Mr.. Rockefeller to come down
n and run his pipes through Mississippi
II He can 60 all over my land. Laugh
n teri We shall he glad to have him.
d used to pay 40 cents a gallon for oil to
3. lie burnt in my lamps. We'are little
lie letter off now, we are independent, be
n cause we have got electric lights, but
@ we raid 40 cents a gallon for Oil, AND
II now we can get it for 10 cents ga lon
do not know whether Mr. Rockefeller
ID is the cause of the price coming dowr
ID to 10 cents, but think it will be tha
le way in Arkansas if they get the con
ID veniences that this pipe business pro
10 poses to give them, and intend to vot'
~ for the pipes. That is all there is to it
e. Laughter
re Well, want you to understand tina
of | am plain, blunt, old Confederate
o. soldier. l wore the gray and | Tough
h. and bei, but | did not die, though
ad skedaddled fire equently. Laughter
Il You understand that word ''skedad
er died" These old soldiers will under
wv stand it.
fe, had the honor during my service t
le, capture some very prominent men i
: / the Northern army; among them wa
rd. General Coburn, of Indianapolis, luz
res | captured ole great, big man, VIII
| afterw ards became General Shafte
wv He was then a Major in the Nineteent
Michigan. He was a very poor shO
mr. for | advanced on him with my sabe
and he shot at me five times and neve
lot touched me. [Laughter.l
I'VE Now, will tell another story. Th;
,on fellow Shafter gave me an awful scar
,nt When | approached him he handed n
his pistol and said
,rn "You are welcome to it, but 1t wi
oo. do you no good, as | have shot all tt
vas cartridges away, but over at the stoc
nv. ade near Franklin, Tenn, have vail
rho that has got thousand cartridges
\ it. and you are welcome to those, if "
TN. will 60 after them"
emf l said:
ald, "Ihahk you ioi '"v p'''o'
20 after the cartridges"
In a few weeks later with Forest
,ara went to Brentwood Station, captur
ard the fort, and got the cartridges, but
the never used them. never fired ST
one during the war. Laughter That
fact. had just about enough to
osas to look after the men that / had I