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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, AUG. 4, 1911
Oregon City Courier
First. Independent Paper in Oregon.
W. A. SHEWMAN, Publisher.
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M. J. BROWN, - Editor.
One time Chauuoey M. Depew gave
New York rewsboys a spread and a
speech, and one of the oity waifs
dobbed him "de peaoh."
Later on Channo got tangled op
with some scaley life iusuranoj trans
actions, and the American people
dronned that "peaoh" business and
Chaunoey dropped into obsonrity for
a time in tue iiopo tnat people wouiu
forget.
But he's a peaoh yet, if he is get
ting well along toward a hnndred
years. He's a talker, a thinker and a
big chief.
Last winter, at a meeting of some
of the pirates of commerce, talk
swung around to the reoent election
and to the disposition of the voters
for free trade, when Ohannoey took
the fear out of the hearts of his broth
er pirates and ttiffened np their spines
with the statement that oongress
oould doolare for absolute free trade
and that it wouldn't make a cent's
difference with the business of the big
combinations, for they oould simply
go over the pond and syndicate, tie up
the stuff and Btop competition before
it oaine into this country.
The great steel trust has boon hav
ing an international "conference."
and yon have no doubt been reading
of it in the newspapers.
"Oonferenoe" is a dandy word. It
stretches like a orooheted shawl and it
may embrace a Sunday school associa
tion or a black hand meeting.
And th id "conference" appears to
be of the Dago order.
One of the delegatos to thU conven
tion, after they had tied tip the steel
of the whole world, slopped over with
enthusiasm and indiscretion and made
this break:
"WE ARE MASTERS OK THE
WORLD NOW."
And as I read this exclamation of
the delegate, in the New York World,
I thought of old world-wise Depew
and his talk to the "interests," and I
oouolude he is just as much of a
peach as lie ever was.
And X want to impress it on you
that wliou the trusts of a oountry get
bigger than a nation's tariff laws and
biggor than a nation's congress tiiey
are getting some big ana some danger
ous.
If a steel trust oan get world-wide
control of steel produotion and tlx
world-wide prices, then so oan other
trusts, and so they will.
And what are we going to do about
It?
Oan a government foroe American
industries to Boll their products for
lesB than foreigu goods sell for here?
What is your constitutional opinion
of a oity ordiuanoe that would compel
a man to so out and mutilate his
shade tree that its branohes wonld
not interfere with a telpehnue com
pany's wires that run through them?
Carried to the oourt of law this or
dinance wonld stand about eleven
seconds, for common sense and justice
tells any man that the growing shade
tree a property owner has planted and
nared for for years has prior rights
over a telephone pole and its network
of wires, whioh operates only through
the right of franchise.
Some of Oregon City's ordinances
will be getting into the joke oolutnns
of the newspapers pretty soon, and
Harry Murphy will be makiug them
cartoon subjects.
Either Delegate Wiokersham is a
orimtnal agitator and liar or oar gov
ernment is a criminal partner in the
hands of the syndicate that is trying
to oontrol Alaska and it should he de
termined which. Delegate Wicker
sham, before an investigating commit
tee at Washington Monday said that
the attorney geueral has shielded
criminals in Alaska; that the Uug
geuheims can lnutiuunoe the appoint
ment of United StateB officials and
oan and do control tlieni. These state
ments Delegate Wiokersham says he is
in Washington to baok up.
It Is folly to produce the wool and,
after shipping it to Boston, bring it
baok again in the form of finished
produot paying a costly freight haul
both ways. It is folly to ship the raw
material east, and buy it baok again
as furniture, paying the freight hauls
both ways besides the prollt that dis
tant manufacturers mid middlemen
must exact Portland Telergam.
Congressman Latlorty has recom
mended to the president the spuoiut
meut of Leslie M. Scott as United
States marshal for the district of Ore.
gon. Scott is a son of the lato Harvey
W. Boott, editor of the Portlaud Ore
gon iim.
Acquaintance jsl Confidence
People doing business together, especially
financial business, must have confidence in each
other.
You wouldn't loan money to anybody on
ten minutes' acquaintance.
Your confidence in people grows on ac
quaintance; it's the same with thin bank.
j jt
We want to be in a position to loan money
when needed to responsible borrowers. There is
no betterjway to establish an acquaintance than
to deposit your funds here regularly.
Now is the time to begin.
The Bank of Oregon City
The Oldest Bank in the County
This talk of dragging down the
"sanctity" of the courts through the
fear of the recall is the weakest kind
of a politioal excuse.
Who are these judges that they are in
violable? How long since they took
the holy orders? What makes their
political jobs sacred?
You know bow the trusts land many
of them, and you know what they land
for the trusts in return.
These men should have the recall
over their heads just as much as should
a congressman, and we will never get
equal justice and do away with trust
verdicts nutil the people, through the
fear of the recall, compel these men
to use the same justice scales
The writer of these lines knows a
supreme court judge In the state of
NewJYork who but a few years ago
was but a fourth-rate country attor
ney. An ability to orangize and han
dle voters gave him a oongress nomin
ation in a state where a convention is
an election and the politicians pack
the oonveutioo.
Charges were preferred against him
In the state legislature for grafting,
and an obliging governor made him a
supreme oourt justice, where he sits
today.
Putting on a supreme oonrt robe
may tuck on a little digniy bat it
doesn't purge rascality. Sitting on
the benoh doesn't ohange him simply
raises his price.
The whole oountry needs what Or
egon has, the recall for any publio of
cial who betrays the people.
What many politicians and promi
nent men cannot nnderstand is the
difference betweon loading and driv
ing. There are men born to lead they
can't help it men born to lead be
cause other men will follow them
and these are the kind of men our pol
itics need and the kind of men our
politics is going to have.
Just so sure as that a pencil traces
these words, just so certain has the
time come when men are going to baok
up on being whipped or driven into
line. .
Tha day of knuckling is passed, men
won't longer play it. They had rath
er be free to dn what their heads tell
them is right than to have the good
will of anything on two logs who calls
himself "Boss."
Leaders, yes; drivers, no.
When the Panama oanal Is complet
ed and the European steamship com
panies run steamer lines direot to
Portand and San Francisco, it won't
be so much of a problem how to settle
Oregon.
Clackamas oonnty is one of the rich
est in the state, but back ten or
twelve miles from its one railroad the
oountry is wild, wooded and thinlv
settled.
A settler oouies in and wants cheap
land. Take him'ont whore he oan got
oheap land and he won't take it too
far from railroad and markets.
With the big liners bringing thous
ands of emigrant farmers direct to
this country the waste land will soon
be cleared into productive farms and
branch lines of railroads fwill follow.
The Oregonlan says Insargneoy is
dying, but that paper is interested In
the Lincoln-Tart Republican re-or
gauizfttion.
lusurgeuoy is spreading every day-
it is hard to rind a man who will con
fess he is a "rugular" old line Re
publican or Democrat now.
The Insurgents of this country have
reason to wear (badges and he prond
of lusurgouoy. Tliey have caused the
oleauiug up that is going on, the
oleaning up that is ooming, aud the
political reforms that have oome about
in almost every state. They have
stopped the thief in Alaska.
Insurgonoy isn't dving. It has be-
oome so common it ceases to attraot
attention. We are all insurgents, ex
cept a few of the politicians who live
In the hope that the old political ma
chines may be rebuilt, oiled up and
put to running again.
One after another convictions have
come to trust officials, but what has
it amounted to furthei than lines not
sufficient to pay the expenses of the
projoootfous.
Our government has couvioted the
bathtub tiust, wire trust, meat trust,
Standard 0.1 trust, sugar trust, and
so on with a line of them, but has it
PUNISHED any of the big thieves?
But let a guardian of a litle trust.
money use it and go wrong, let a bank
oashior oop out a few hundred boues,
or a conuty ofHcial be a little sliort
on oash, and what thoy will get will
be prison.
There's a very old proverb which
reads "We punish little thieves aud
take off our hats to big ones.," but
it i a very true one.
If the reoall could have gotten in its
work on JudgeArohibald of New York
dou't yon believe he would have sent
those self-oonfeBsnd wire trust mem
bers to jail for awhile, instead of let
ting them off with lines?
You know that there is no eanalitv
in justice which imprisons a chicken
thief and lets a big robbor off on a
flue, and so long as we got those two
varieties of justice hauded down from
the benches every day. the newsnaners
and poiltioians waBte ink and breath
talking aganist the reoall of judges.
That attack on Wilov looks like a
put up job to attract atteution from
the Alaska rascals.
' With cotton goods higher than
at any time since the civil war,
both eastern and southern manu
facturers are cutting down pro
duction beoanse of the difference
in prioe between the raw material
and the manufactured artiole.
How much profit do these man-
ofacturers want? Oroville, Gal.,
Sun.. ... . . J,.- -.,..
Don't ask such Questions just be
lieve in oongress and the adininistra
tion.
Hides are now on the free lilt.
Congress gave np one of our conn'
try's big sources of revenue and cut
off from the west and southwest a Dig
source of profit that the American
people might get cheaper shoes. .
Are we getting them?
Was congress gold-brioked by the
trusts when it put hides on the free
list in its "revision" of the tariff two
years ago?
Shoes have advanced a little over
twelve per cent since onr oountry was
given free bides.
Not only did oongress give to the
shoe manufacturer the revenue which
onr country had been getting by taxing
bides, but these came shoe makers had
the American nerve to tack twelve per
cent on top of that.
They did it because of the right of
might because their trust was bigger
than our congress, our government.
y ow I would like to ask some of
the boss pilots who steer our tub at
Washington WHY bides were pnt on
the free list.
Was it because of a olamor for cheap
er shoes and your desire to represent
your voters that yoa fell li'or lit, and
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Bwauuweu iiuua, nut? buu BiuneiBr
And if so, why don't we get oheap.
er shoes?
If reduoing revenues on an artiole
red noes the prioe of that artiole to the
consumer, why don't we get cheaper
shoes?
Were bides put on the free list to
give the Douglas bunoh more rake-off
or to give shoe wearers a cheaper ar
tiole?
Either the tariff law makers
played the game of the manufacturers
or they were played oy trie manutao
turers' game.
And either way of looking at it
doesn t tend to inspire deep, name
less, unutterable confidence in oon
gress by the shoe wearers.
If congress isn't bigger than the
eastern shoe trusts, then we might as
well throw np our hards and call for
the kickiog machines.
The light that is framing up for
next year's national campaign is
whether the people or the trusts are
going to run this country whether
we have got to stand lor legalized
robbery or not.
The present tariff laws are a nation
al joke, and the moBt of us know it
and admit it. The duty was raised
where it would help the "interests'
and lowered whore it wouldn't hurt
them.
We need less appetite and laughter
In the white house and more back
bone.
Mr. Taft will be the Republican
nominee for president next year if be
wants it, aud there is little doubt on
this point. And Mr. Taft will have
a fight made againts him compared
with which the last oapmaigu wasa
communion servioe
There are several joints in the pres
ident's armor that look weak, and his
enemies are going to pound these thin
places.
They will make the most of the
Alaskan scandal, of how he fought
(ilavls and fiucliot until he got them
ont; they are going to show up his
supreme oourt judges and the trust
decisions these men have handed
down; they will make the most in the
Paoiflo ooaat states of his opposition
to Arizona statehood beoanse Arizona
citizens wanted Oregon's reform laws;
they will make the uioBt of the Qug
genheim attempt to steal Alaska, aud
the president s weak defense iu his
recent message, and they will hold
him up as a disciple of free trade on
farmers produotion and high protec
tion on trust products.
There are other men in the Repub
lican party who would make a much
stronger run for president than Mr.
Taft, but Mr. Taft wants the nomina
tion and big business wants him to
have it.
If Governor Wilson of New Jesrsey
is nominated against him our oonntry
will elect a Domoorat. The masses
see this, and the politicians should,
It is evident enough.
Here are a fiw points that
make you think a little and hunt
rill
for
the joker.
The Republican party has declared
for protection to Amorloan interests
"equal to the difference between the
cost at home and abroad. " -
This is plain, is justice, is fairness.
No conoern has any right to more
protection than the difference between
what it oost Americans and foreigners
to make the same artiole. When they
get this they are on equal terms, and
if nor industries cauuot oompete un
der buoIi conditions, then let that in
dustry close, in justice to consumers.
An now let ns see how this Repub
lican prinoiple is being applied
whether there is any difference in a
party platform and a tariff applica
tion.
Before oongress today is si bill to
revise the ootton schedules 40 per cent
from the present Payne-Aldrioh rates
and a bill whioh President Taft says
lie will veto if passed.
The president of the big Dartmouth
aud Bristol ootton goods mills, Walter
H. ljangBiiaw, makes statement that
he knows of no ootton fabrio made in
the old country that oan be produced
anywhere near as oheap ss In America
llioretore uudor the declaration of
the Republican platform there should
not be any duty on ootton goods, for
the oost of prodoutiou is lower at
home than in England.
And this duty is simply a tax on oot
ton wearers.
National trust regulation is coming.
It is an extremely radical step but the
trusts have foroed the people to look
at it. as the only way to save them
selves from extortion. There is noth
ing that can stop the people of a na
tion when they get thoroughly in
earnest, and they are getting pretty
much interested in trust matters just
at present.
Now comes a resolution in oougress
atking President Taft to start nego
tiations with Mexico for a reciprocity
measure similar to the Canadian
treaty. There will be a lot of opposi
tion to this resolution, and there
should be. Conditions are entirely
differentjbotwheen Cauada and cheap
laDor Mexico,
Wtlann llA aaHl trtKanian at
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Rainier, Wash., Bays voices from an
other world whispered to him to kill
the Coble family. It's a tar cry from
the other world to this Washington
hlirLT. an I haVA an Mokv tha -infrtra
won't go half so much on it as they
win tne can oi me nangman s noose
iu that state.
Yoa farmers of Clackamas county,
did Senator Bourne vote for vonr in'
terests or the trusts' interests when
he voted against the farmers' free list
bill Tuesday? Did he represent YOU
or the MoOormioks and the other big
members of the harvesters' trust? Did
he represent this conutv or did be be
tray it? . . .. ,. I- ..
The free list bill as passed by the
senate will give you farmers uiuoh in
return for what the reciprooitv bill
will take from yon. It will reduce
duties on agricultural implements.
bagging, harness, wire and man
other articles.
Senator Bourne -votea against the
bill and against you.
And in whose interests' did he vote
and WHY?
'. You working nien of Clackamas
county, yoo bosinefB men, you who
are rebelling against tne trusts' ex
tortion trices on necessities, did sen
ator Bourne vote for YOUR interests
or the trusts' interests when be voted
AGAINST the bill that would reduce
the duties on boots, shoes, lumber,
building materials, . meats, cereals.
etor. ...
Who did Senator Bnurue represent
when he voted against the bill that
would reduoe duties on necesitiesf
Did he represent a dozen men in
Clackamas count"-, or a hundred men
in the state of Oregon outside of trnst
connection? .
The men who Senator Bourne is
pledged to represent, the common peo
pie of Oregon, wanted his vote FOR
this measure and the trusts got it
against.
What excuse can he offer?
. He failed to represent. -He
knows what the people of Ore
gon want there isn't room for any
doubt. V1
And Mr. Bourne is a candidate for
senator again next year he wants to
throw you down again.
If you like betrayal, you can't do
better
If yon want representation, you've
a ohauce between now and next April
The farmers' free list has passed
the senate, it will go into a confer'
er.oe with the house, and it will no
doubt be laid on President Taft s
desk very soon for him to make good
bis threat of veto.
This bill red noes the duties on all
kinds of agricultural implements, on
bagging, burlap, sacks, cotton ties.
boots, shoes, harness, saddles, fence
wire, rods, ropes, fresh and preserved
meats, nour, cereals, bread, lumber,
lath, shingles, Bewing machines, salt,
etc.
If President Taft should veto this
measure, passed by both houses, right
after pacing the Canadian reciprocity
bill, he has more nerve than judg
ment.
He has said he would veto it, but
the reason ho gives (awaiting soma
future report of a tariff board) will
hardly offset the list of articles which
the trusts control, and which the tru
sts do not want reduced.
The stand-pat fellows reason that
the game is young yet, that a veto
will be forgotteu iu the next winter's
session of congress, and that the pre
sideut won't hurt his ohandes with
the poeple. :- .. M
The noeDle rememoer tetter than
they used to. This tariff board dodge
won't stick. Thev will look at it as
trading a veto for trust contributions
to next year s campaign.
After the work Presideut Taft has
done for free trade on farmers' pre
duots, it will be the biggest blunder
or his administration If he vetoa
like bill on the trusts' products.
Governor West is certainly getting
In with the GeoDle of Oregon in his
efforts to wake cougrofs do something
with Alaska and one admirable trait
with the governor is that when he
takes a hold he doesn't let go.
He says that with the. Alaska coal
in shape so the people can get it et
moderate prioes, and with the compie
tion of the Panama canal Oregon will
become a field for manufactories, and
will take a great jump into progress.
He scores our representatives in con
grees for being utterly unmidful of
the situation, and apparently doing
as little as they can possibly do to
keep the great wealth of Alaska irom
the trusts' bauds.
Governor West savs the goverment
should develop these coal lands, and
he urges that Oregon send a delegation
to Washington to show congress" the
great value of these coal deposits, and
to nrge that laws be iraraea to pro
teot them from the trusts.
It Is hard for people to under-
J stand the state of mind that would
leaa to tne vetoing oi a relieving
wool measure, despite the lapsus
linguae of the president at Win
ona. The country knows that
President Taft thinks the wool
' sohedule to be iniquitous, and the;
country wonders if it really can be
true that he will veto its favorable
amendment. Portland Telegram.
It isn't as hard for the people to
understand this as it nsud to be.
It isn't the "state of mind" that
has to be inquired into but the state
of trusts. It doesn t matter what a
president thinks of a measure, it is
what the "interests" think oi it.
Oan any of yon tell me when any
politioal party was ever In control of
all the law malting power oi the
American government? When parlia
ment passes a bill it is law. When
oongress jmsses a bill and the president
approves it, the bill is not a law until
the supreme oourt says so. And a
bill that the supreme court says Is law
today it has power, by a bare major
ity vote, to say tomorrow that the
same bill is not law. W, S. U'R'eu
in Seattle speeoh.
If President Taft should vntn thn
wool hill, tha fi-AA Haft hill nr int
other bill that will cut off the trusts''
rake-oft and give the people cheaper
necessities, publio wrath will bump
mm nam next year. The excuse that
be must have a report from a tariff
commission will hardly hold on the
wool hill, Whlnh ha himaalf hna rta.
olared in open speeches is inde-
leusiDie.
Good roads propositions and under
takings come so fast these days that it
takes a big one to attract attention.
There is a convention in Portland
Thursday and Friday of this week
the purpose of which is to build a
great highway from British Colum
bia to Mexico, and the matter isn't of
enough news value to get a top posi
tion on the last pages.
Bites of noiannnna tnaAnta that nanaa
the flesh to swell an must be treated
with a healing ntianti that acin
ooouteract the poison and heal the
wuuuu. OitbttKU'ij BUW UM
MENT aUSWera AVArv rMininamant In
such cases. Prioe 85o. 60o and. $1.00
per bottle. Sold by Jones Drug Co
NEWS OF OREGON.
Jack London, the famous author
accompanied by his wife, is taking
a bear hunt among the wilds of Curry
oounty.
' It cost the state of Oregon 1350.000
for the month of July, this amount
having been paid out from Salem, and
it being the reoord tor any one
month's expense.
William Lane of Medford was
orunhed to death while trying to loose
a sledge load of rook on the side of a
hill, near Prospeot. Saturday. The
man got in frout of a sledge of robk
whioh he was trying to' slide down
hill and the mass slid on top of him,
breaking every bone in his chest. He
lived 80 minutes, bnt not long enough
for a physioian to reaoh him.
Weighing but twenty pounds, tbe
second colt of tbe Shetland breed
born in Tillamook oounty, made its
advene reoently near Bay City on tbe
Whitney Oo. ' ranch. The oolt at
time of birth was twenty-one inches
tall, measured sixteen inches around,
and from the tip of her nose to the
roots of her tail the tape showed
thirty inches.
The U. 8. Civil Servioe Commission
announces an examination on August
18, 1911, for the position of painter at
0 per mouth at Vaoouver Barraoks,
Vancouver, Washington. The age
limits are 20 to 60 years and anyone
interested is urged to inquire of the
secrtary of the Eleventh Civil Servioe
District, Room .24, Post Uttlce Build
ing, Seattle, Washington, for applica
tion blank and full information.
A Washington hop buyer says
"Growers are refusing offers-of 3(1
cents for hops in the field. Tbere is
no telling how high the price will go.
You simply cannot bny bops on tbe
ooast. Offers of 26 cents are refused
and it is said no surprise will be
caused if offers are made soon at 80
cents. A few dealers believe hops
will go np to 40 oents, while several
say the price may possibly go to 60
cents. "
Seventeen oarloirln nf radr nart.
ly dynamite, will be exploded in one
gigantic uiaui Dy Uie u.-W. a. S N.
R. R. Oo. now building along the
Snake river tnwarria Hnnknna ' Tl.la
big blast will be touched off sometime
within a iortnight, and It Is intended
to move hundreds of tons of earth.
One Of the mi nan t.n ha arnlnrlari !!
be more than a quarter of a mile long,
UUu 11 C11B en.sinnp.rn' nalnnlatlnna ars
correct, no rooks will be hurled into
the air. and the snnntnnla will ha aa
saie as a nreworxa display.
IuimerlifltA nmiflH-nnHnn ft a rail
roal from Eugene to Marshfield, at
a cost pst.iinaf.Bil at R nnn firm aa
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authorized Monday by . the Southern
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buiuw vuuijjauj. x i i ji lui u ti y sur
veys already have linen marta and air
enlgneering parties are in the field
locating uie permanent line. Although
the defiuitA nnnrRH thrnnlrh url.inli tha
new load will be constructed has not
yet been selected, the general route
will ba along the Siuslaw river.
through the OnuHr, Kano t.n tha nnnat
theune south to Marshfield, where it
will connect with the Coos Bay, Rose
burg & Eastern Railroad.
m:rgan may be witness
Explanation of Tennessee Deal Is
- Sought by Committee.
New York The Ccogress.onial com
mittee of Inquiry into the United
States Corporation is now desirous
of hearing personally from J. Pier
pont Morgan with retard to tbe ab
sorption of the Tennessee Coal &
Iron Company by tbe Steel Corpora
tion in 1907.
"The best man to defend J. P. Mor
gan for bis part In the Tennessee
Coal & Iron transactions," sa'd
Cha'rman Stanley, ":s -Mr. Morgan
himself. I sincerely hope that Mr.
Morgan's engagements In Europe will
not deter him from appear. ng."
That the New York .financier will
be subpenaed to appear before the
committee when he does return now
seems certain.
Part of Oregon Law Held Invalid,
Portland, Ore. A part of the law
creat'ng the Oregon State Railroad
Commiss on was held Invalid by Fed
I al Judge Wolverton. He declared
that section 27 of the act, requiring
:nerc' ange of business between ra!l-
ads, is so sweeping In Its require
ments as to affect not only Inter
state business, but interstate trafflc
as well. He held that It Is, therefore,
"obnoxious to the commerce clause ol
the Federal Constltut on." .
REBELLION DAYS.
History of Fifty Years Ago, Re-
called by a Veteran.
That the people of the North were
not entirely discouraged over the de
feat at Bull Run is evidenoed by the
enthusiastic cheers that greeted the
twelfth MaBsaohnsetts regiment as it
passed through New York Oit a few
days after the battle As tbe regiment
passed through the streets the people
who thronged to see soldiers march
through the city recognized thn words
they were singing as what proved to
be the gr atest marohing song of the
northern hostd during the war. The
chorns contained elements of simplic
ity and sentiment, so essential in a
war song. It was a Drustlng iortn oi
New England's well known hostility
to salvery and a glorification of John
Brown as personification of the cause
of the war. A few months before this
song would not have aroused any out
burst of enthusiasm In the North, but
now, with war sweeping over the
country, the summoning of old John
Brown Irom his grave naa a oortons
effect.
The New York Independent con
tained the following account of the
singing of tha song by the Twelfth
Massachusetts regiment:
"Who would have dreamed, a ysar
and a half since, that a thonsand men
in thn streets of New Yoik would oe
heard singing reverently and enthusi
astically In praise of John Brown 1
Suoh a scene was witnessed on Satur
day evening last (actually, Wednes
day). One of the new regiments of
Massichnsetts on its way thrcugh this
oity to thn seat of war, sans
'John Brown s body lies a-moiner-
in iu the grave.
"The stanzas whioh fellow are in
the same wild strain:
'lie's gone to te a soldier in the
army of tbe Lord,' etc. " .
"Seldom, if ever, has New York
witnessed such a sight or heard suoh
a strain No military hero ef the
present war has been so honored. No
statesman has thus loosed the tongues
of a thousand men to chant his
patriotism. Little did Captain Brown
think of the national struggles that
were to follow his eventful death.
But his oalinrwss and firmness gave
evidence of his faith that the oaosn of
freedom demanded thn saoriflce of his
life, and he nobly died.
"It was a notable faot that while
the regiment nnited as with one voioe
singing this song, thousands of private
oitizens, young and old, on tho Bide
walks and In orowded doorways and
windows, joined in the chorus. The
music was in . itself impressive, and
many an eye was wet with tears.
Pew who witnessed the triumphal
tread of that noble hand of men ar
rayed for the war of freedom will for
get the thrilling tones of that song."
The regiment that thus Introdnoed
"John Brown's body" was entitled to
notice, for tbe name of its colonel
was Fletcher Webster, a son of Daniel
Webster.
Fletoher Webster had left his
oharming oonntry home in Marshfield,
Mass., to recruit this regiment, and
had enlisted in it some of the best
yonug men in his state.
The progress of thn regiment in its
organization and drills had been fol
lowed by local papers with more than
usual enterprise. When it was ready
to start for Washington it was pre
sented with a stand of colors made by
Boston women. The presentation
took place at- the Massachusetts state
house, the speeeh of bestowal being
made by Edward Everett, one of the
oelebrated New .England orators' of
the time.
Bnt Boston did not divine then that
the song, whioh had originated at an
island fort in its harbor, would be
come the slogan of the marohing hosts
of the Union, just as "Dixie" had al
ready become ' the war-tune of the
Confederacy. - ,
Tbe tune of "John Brown's Body"
Was not original to Massachusetts,
and antedated the war. . Acoordmg to
aooepted tradition, it was composed
by a Philadelphia musloian, on order,
for a Charleston, S. C, fire oompany,
that desired a "chantez" to sing on a
picnic
There were sundry rude verses to
acoompany this original music, the
first line being:
"Say, Bummers, will yon rneta us?"
There was so much "ginger" in the
tone that it was quiokly adapted as a
revival bymn, the first line being :
"Say, Brothers, will yon meet ns?"
As a souroe of inspiration in camp-
meetincs. the tune was highly sno
cessful, and at the beginning of the
war it was well known us a camp
meeting: melody.
The story of the adaptation of the
tune to the words of "John Brown
Body" has been well told in a small
book, with illustrated pages, printed
abont twelve years ago in a private
edition of 100 copies at Philadelphia
by James Baale. a veteran or the
Twelfth Massachusetts. The text had
formed a paper read by Mr. Beale b6
fore the United Servioe club of Phil t
delnhia -
This authority states that "John
Brown's Body" originated with the
Second battalion of Massachusetts in
fantrycomposed of the Four.eeu'th
aud Eleventh regiments and known as
"The Tigers" stationed at . Foft
Warren in the epring of 1861.
There were a number of singers
among the troops, and a quartet was
formed, of whom one was. jonn
Brown, a Soot, who, because . of his
name being the same as that of the
abolition zealot, was the butt of many
good-natured salies whioh he did not
always take with good grauo.
It was the custom ot tbe quartet to
have an hour's singing after a hard
day's work.
The story goes that 'when two of
this Quartet were returning to the
fort John Brown aud the other being
seated near the sallyport the qnery
was shouted, "What's t'ie newsr"
Promptly came the retort, VWhy,
John Brown's dead." Someone an
swered. having in mind the John
Bown then bt-frre him, "But he still
goes marching round."
This idea tickled the fancy of the
regimental wits, and shortly a "John
Brown ' song was being put together,
to the southern tpne, and the n
gera" were chanting:
"John Brown's body lies a-moidering
in the grave,
But his soul is marching on."
The first line was repeated three
times, and there was a chorns of
"Glorv. Hallv. Hallelujah," also re
peated three times and followed by
"His Boul is marohing on."
Suoh was the origin of the song.
"The Tigers" left Fort Warren,
Mav 25. when the Twelfth Massachu
setts had areadv been there more than
two weeks. The men in the original
"John Brown" quartet enlisted in
the Twelfth Massachusetts, and oar
ried thier song with them. '
It soon became the fashion after
dress parade for the regiment to strike
up the song, and march around the
parade ground. This marohing sug
gested the seoond verse :
"John Brown's knapsack is strapped
upon his back,
As we go marohing on."
It was a favorite 'figore of speech
with the army chaplains to character.
ize the troops as "soldiers of the
Lord." and from this the "song-mak
ers of the Twelfth drew an idea for
another verse, thus s
"He's gone to be a soldier in the
army of the Lord." -Still
another verse was suggested bv
a nickname of the regiment, whioh
was "Webster cattle." ', This verse
was begun with : .
His pet lambs will meet him on the
way,
As they go marching on.'.' -
Tbe Twelfth had an excellnet band.
whioh was instrumental in populariz
ing the new song.
"The air was whistled to the. band
master, William J. Martkuid," writes
Mr. Besle, "and written down by
one ot the band, S. O. Perkins, and
soon the tnne was played on dress pa
rade as aocompaniirent to the 1,100
voices of the regiment."
A copy of the song was given to the
leader of a celebrated local band, Gil
more, and be helped popularize it in
Boston.
Not long after that the words and
musio were offered to the publio by
an enterprising Boston . publishing
house.
Other publishers also brought it
rut, the favorite form being a penny
dodger of red, white and blue, with
the stars of the nag. These versions
closed with tbe verse:
Now, three ronsing cheers for the
Union 1
Now, three rousing cheers for the
union i
Now, three rousing cheers for the
union :
As we go marching on 1
Glory, hally halleujaht Glory, hally
naiieoiah i
Glory halleujaht Hip, hip, hip, hip
nurraui t
His soul goes marching on. " '
PROSPECT FOR BUSY
WEEK IN CONGRESS
-
Future Legislation Depends on
Action of the House During
. the Week.
Washington. A busy week Is la
prospect for both houses of Congress
and it Is likely that before the week
ends the calendar will be cleared for
several of the Important matters now
pending and the dote fixed for the
final adjournment. The president has
cancelled all outof-town engagements
for the near future and will probably
remain In the capital until the session
ends.
The situation In the House Is the
key to the entire tariff tangle In Con
gress. Upon the action of the House
this week rests the possibility of fur
ther tariff legislation at this session.
Speaker Clark expressed confidence
that a wool bill would be agreed on In
conference and that It would be
signed by the pres'dent. Other
House, leaders, however, adopted a
more pessimistic view of the presi
dent's attitude and expect him to
veto any wool bill framed by the pres
ent Democrat-Insurgent: Republican
coalition In the Senate.
Coalition Threatens General Revision.
The coalition of Democrats and In
surgent Republicans which bowled
over the regular organization and
passed a compromise bill for the revi
sion of the woolen tariff by 48 to 82,
flushed with victory, . Is threatening
not only to pass tbe so-called "farm
ers' free list bill," as it came from
the House, but to put through a cotton
bill as well. The Insurgents want the .
sugar and steel schedules Included In
the program.
Tha Democrats of the House com
mittee on ways and means formally
decided to recommend to the House
that It ask the Senate for a confer
enco'on the wool tariff bill.
' Wiokersham Evidence to House.
Following general charge and' de
nials between the two Wickershams
of the government the Attorney Gen
eral and the delegate from Alaska
the House committee on judiciary de
cided that It tad no power to do any
thing but report the evidence to the
House.
It reported Delegate WIckersham's
resolution ailing on the attorney gen
eral to furnish all the paper and
data bearing on alleged frauds In con
nection with government coal lands
In Alaska. The committee did not
recommend that the House Investi
gate Delegate WIckersham's obarges
that Attorney ' General Wlckersham
has shielded and protected Alaska
"syndicate crimlnale."
Entrymen May Take More Land.
Congressman Mondell has juat se
cured from Secretary Fisher a vry
important Interpretation of the 820
aore homestead law, making It possi
ble for entrymen who have taken less
than the maximum under that law to
enter now additional land up to the
full amount. - '
New Instructions, embodying the
changed Interpretation of the law, will
bo sent to all land offices. Members
of Congress have 'received thousands
of complaints from entrymen who de
sire to take up additional traota un
der this law, who have only filed on
160 acres.
National Capital IrevHIaa,
' The government has dsaided to ap
peal the Harriman merger case to the
United States supreme court
Fines of $500 to 15000 for each of
fense for sending Intoxicants from one,
state to another are provided in a bill
Introduced by Representative Jackson,
ot Kansas. -
' Unsatisfactory conditions la tha na
tional banks, according to Controller
of the Currency Lawrence O. Murray,
are due, In nearly every case, to tha
failure of the directors to direct. Ia a
letter to the national bank examiners,
just made public, Murray Implored
them to be more stringent In their ex
aminations. Toung men ambitious to enter the
United States army need not depend
upon a nomination to West Point So
great 1 the demand that the Secre
tary of War has Issued a general call,
and any young man with good moral
standing, and who can produce let
ters of reference will now be desig
nated for the competitive examina
tion.
A bill prohibiting the employment
in any capacity of persons under It
years of age by the government or any
government contractor and providing
that special delivery letter carriers
shall not be less than IS year of
age, was Introduced by Representa
tive Berger, of 'Wisconsin, tlx So
cialist member.
The Department of Justice Is plan
ning immediate prosecution of all
trusts or monopolies which do mot
dissolve or take other step U obey
the Sherman anti-trust law, as It baa
bees Interpreted In th Standard Oil,
tobacco and powdar truat eases. AV
tomey-Genarai Wiokersham la suthiT
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