The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-08-02

Knox, when he learned how slow: con
gress was in coming together 'sfors in
confidence I tell you that my move:
ments to the chair Of government will
be accompanied by feeling not unlike
those Of culprit who ia going to the
place of execution" -. r. -..1.. -.
Departs with a Heavy Heart
When the day for his departure
came, his diary spoke the same heazt
ness Of heart. about ten O'Clock"
he wrote, II babe adieu to Mount Yer
non, to private life,. and to domestic
felicity; and with a mind oppressed
with more anxious and painful sensar
lions than have words TO express, SEA
out for New York. .~>
He did not doubt that he was doing
right; he doubted his capacity in civil
affairs, and loved the sweet retirement
and the free life he was leaving be-
hind him.
Grief and foreboding did not in the
least relax his proud energy and
promptness in action. He was not a
whit the less resolute to attempt this
new role, and stretch his powers to the
uttermost to play it in masterful fash,
lon.
He was only wistful and full Of a
sort Of manly sadness; lacking not
resolution, but only alacr1ty.
Obliged to Borrow Money.
He had hoped to the last that he
would be suffered to spend the rest Of
his days at Mount Vernon: he knew
the place must Lack efficient keeping.
and fall once more out Of repair un,
der hired oversears; he feared hls
strength would be spent and his last
years come ere he could return to look
to it and enjoy 1t himself again.
He had but just now been obliged to
borrow a round sum Of money to meet
pressing obligations; and the expenses
Of this very Journey had made 1t neces-
sary to add full hundred pounds to
that new debt.
K the esta<ee brought money 90 slow.
ly in while he farmed It, he must
count upon its doing even less while:
IL was aWaX: and yet he had dakaB
mined to accept no salary as presi.
dent, butsonly his necessary expenses
while In the discharge Of his Official
duties, as in the old days Of the war;
Washington Perplexed. :.
Hhad brought distressing perple1tt
ties upon him to be thus drawn from
his private business to serve the ma:
ton. Private cares passed OF, nc:
doubt, and were forgotten as the jour
ney heightened. But the other anH
tety, how he. should succeed in this
large business of statemanship To
which he had been called; E; did not
pass of; the Incidents of that mem.
erable ride only served to heighten It,
When he had ridden to Cambridge
that anxious summer Of ITS, he had
been hailed by cheering crowds upon
the way, who admired the fine figure
he made, and shouted for the cause he
was destined to lead; but he. know
himself a soldier then, was but forty.
three, and did not fear to find his
duty uncongenial.
The people had loved him and had
thronged about him with looks and
words it had quickened his heart to
see and hear as he made his way
from New York to Annapolis to resign
his commission but six years ago; but
that was upon the morrow of task
accomplished, and the plaudits he
heard upon the way were but greet
1ngs to speed him the more happily
homeward.
Things stood very differently now.
Though he felt himself grown old,
he had come out to meet hope he
could not share, and it struck subtle
pain to his heart that the people
should SO trust him-should give him
SO royal progress as he Jared on his
way to attempt an untried task.
A Royal Welcome.
No king in days of kings divinity
could have looked for SO heartfelt a
welcome to his throne as this modest
gentleman got to the Office he feared
to take
Not only were there civil fete and
military parade at every stage of the
Journey; there was everywhere, be-
sides. running together from all the
country roundabouts of people who
bore themselves not as mere sight
seers, but as If they had come out Of
love for the man they were to SEQ
pass by. ,.:~% { I
1t was not their numbers but their
manner that struck their hero with Z
new sense of responsibility; their
earnest gaze, their unprecedented
cries Of welcome, their simple JOY to
see the new government put into the
hands Of man they perfectly trusted.
He was to be their guarantee Of
IT. good faith, Of its respect for law
and its devotion to liberty; and they
made him know their hope and theil
confidence In the very tone Of theil
greeting. >s5.u ~ ! =
Strew Roses Before Him. i
There was the manifest touch Of
love in the reception everywhere pre-
pared for him. Refined women broke
their reserve to greet him IN the open
road: put their young daughters for