The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-01-20
STANDARD Of A NEW
REVOLT IS RAISED
BY G|TY'S SUBURBS
BAYSiDE, NEW YORK WANTS OUT
OF THE CITY coRPoR.
ALTON. I'te
WILL HAVE APPROPRIATE FLAG
Suggested That Banner BE Painted
With Picture of a Queens Cottage,
isurrounded by Soft shslIed Grab,
An Oyster and Clam, With Motto.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-Bayside has
raised the standard Of revolt and the
greater sity is threatened with q sue
cession of the commuters within the
limits. What does 1t profit man
who lives where there is no gas and
no sewer, say the men In the fringe
of the Borough Of Queens, that he Is
known as a resident of New York,
when his bungalow 10 taxed for more
than he can get in the open market?
Rockaway and Canarsie we're ex.
pected to take the iniative In the line
of secession. 1t was hoped that the
men along Jamaica Bay, the sturdy
commuters who, with two rakes, a
gunny sack and a fat bottomed boat,
dig the rubber like clam from the an
cient resting place, would come for
ward and fly the flag of revolt. But
! 1t has been left to Bayside to become
the South Carolina Of the present cri-
sis. She IL at present petitioning
quietly to sever her connection with
the city and to take her territory and
tack 1t onto Nassau county. y ts
OF course, this will not do. That
tgrand old Queens county loyalist,
John Calvin Mcknight, is against 1t.
He is for the Union, and will throw
into the Union cause the whole regi-
ment Of McKnights whose battle cry
will be Down with secession"
But in the present situation nothing
save secession will appease the wrath
of the overtaxed. They point to the
feet that taxation started with the
grand old revolutionary war that gave
Ito the country some Of the best stories
in the third reader along with the ia
ther of his country, the Battle Of Long
Island, and made possible the D. A. r.
And now it is pointed out that all
that is necessary is united action, and
there can be set up in the city the
Confederate Boroughs and Villages OF
Long Island. If the sturdy sons OF
Bath Beach, Flatbush, Canarsie, Co
ney Island, Sheepshead, Richmond
Hill, Flushing, Whitestone, Elmburst,
Corona, Middle Village, and Steinway
get together. what can stop them?
All that Ia necessary is to get an
appropriate flag, about which all may
rally. 1t has been suggested that in
stead, of the rattlesnake and the
historic words Don't tread on me,
the Confederate flag of the boroughs
and villages Of Long Island bear upon
it's center q Queen Anne Cottage with
a saftshell crab, Rockaway oyster
a Canarsie eel and clam In the cor
ners with the motto, "We insist upon
the right to live and to eat" y
In the movement'f for secession John
Hope, who amassed a fortune in the
little grocery store before Bayside
was a part of the city, is leading the
fight. To his petition to the Cover
nor and Legislature to have Bayside
joined to Nassau county he has GOO
signatures.
These minute men of the new revo.
luton, it is said, will drill in eecret
until the time comes for them to
strike for their mortgages and flower
gardens. Enlisted with him is Ad,
miral Curry, so that should the worst
come to the worst there will be an ad-
equate navy to uphold the Confedera-
cy when peaceful methods at seces.
sion fail.
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