. Home school of American literature: . he profane Robert replied: Well, how in are they going to get it? Why, says the farmer, cant jou stomp it ? Suppose we dostomp it, how are we going to redeem it ? Ex-actly, Robert, exactly. That was just what I wascoming to. You see the folks down our way air aginredemption. We want good money, honest money,hard money, money that will redeem itself. We have given hostages to fortune and our worksare before you. I know that the capital is prover-bially timid. But what are you afraid of? Is it ourcotton that alarms you, or our corn, or our sugar?Perhaps it
. Home school of American literature: . he profane Robert replied: Well, how in are they going to get it? Why, says the farmer, cant jou stomp it ? Suppose we dostomp it, how are we going to redeem it ? Ex-actly, Robert, exactly. That was just what I wascoming to. You see the folks down our way air aginredemption. We want good money, honest money,hard money, money that will redeem itself. We have given hostages to fortune and our worksare before you. I know that the capital is prover-bially timid. But what are you afraid of? Is it ourcotton that alarms you, or our corn, or our sugar?Perhaps it is our coal and iron. Without you, intruth, many of these products must make slow pro-gress, whilst others will continue to lie hid in thebowels of the earth. With you the South will bloomas a garden and sparkle as a gold-mine ; for, whetheryou tickle her fertile plains with a straw or apply amore violent titillation to her fat mountain-sides, she-is ready to laugh a harvest of untold riches. MURAT HALSTEAD. JOURNALIST AND HE editor of Tlie Cincinnati Commercial Gazette may be rankedas one of the greatest living journalists. He has directed the policyfirst of The Commercial and then of The Commercial Gazettefor a space of forty years, and has wielded an influence over thepeople of the vast region in which his paper circulates, and, indeed,upon the whole nation, hardly second to that of any other singleman. Sometimes mistaken, but always honest, fearless and persistent, his work asa journalist may be cited as a model of excellence, and he may well be describedas typical of the highest form of American manhood. He is now sixty-sevenyears of age, but he bears his years with such buoyancy and retains so fully hispoweiS of mind and body that he distinguished himself in 1896 by going as specialcorrespondent to the scene of the rebellion in Cuba, writing from that island, notonly a daily letter to The New York Journal on the military and political situa-tion, but also a
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