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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



mill is liii-iikiii;; III |iii-i-<'s ii;;iiiii-^l the liiiril 

 I'ollinioll Sl-IISf llf tilt* AllKTiiMII IKHIpliV 

 .Villi ilisti-ilil of llio lill|;llt.V nil riiili|U)>riliK 

 fiirri' wlilrli Its li'iiili'rs pvlili'iilly Ih-IIi'vi- 

 i' III l>i>, iiiiil lis soiiio lliiiiii cltixoiis four 

 il Id 111-. «i''ll In- siirjirlsiHl slmrlly to liioU 

 iiIkiiii IIS mill siM> iiotliiiiK l<'t'l lull il lot 

 o."" wn-rkiim' iiloiiK till" sliori'. 



Kill tlii-ri' is II piml |iriii'tli';ii worliiiiK 

 Imsis of triitli ill liilior iiiiiuiiisiii wliicli 

 uill siivo it fniiii iittor iiniiiliiliitioii. miil 

 vlillo the wiilkliiK iloU'K'ilL' will, I am 

 lliiily I'oiivliii'iil. lie out of ii Jot) soon, or 

 III- put oil vor.v short tiiiio iil vi-ry short 

 ptiy. Ill' will Im' ivliistatiil soiiii- tlnu- 

 ill till' fiitiiro; mill liki> iiimiy miolhiT iiiaii 

 who has lost a jro'xl J<'1> hy making ihi- 

 iiiistaki' of U'iii'viiiK that \iv is the wholi' 

 sl;ow, hi- will foiiit' hack a sadder, wiser 

 and inei'ker man; and instead of the swa^- 

 >:erin;r. liliisterinR. ignorant and oflfensive 

 rieatiire whii-li he so ifften is in tliis day. 

 he will heroine a reasonahie and tlierefore 

 a vnliialiie iiiemlier of society. 



Kor lioth the trust movemenl and tlie 

 lalMir niovenieiit have been earried to a 

 point of insane folly, where they have met 

 the stern disapprilvni of the Anieriran peo- 

 l)le. And whenever any movement reaches 

 that jioint its doom is certain, for tlie 

 .\inerie;in people .'ire almndantl.v able to 



put a erimp into the stronjresi of tiiem. 



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.\U(1 it is tiins that eiviiization is made 

 wave on wave, each washiiifr somethinj; up. 

 and of that which is washed up the people 

 el.oose that which is of value, and leave 

 the niWiish for the next wave to taki' 

 away. 



When tile earth was vei-j- young and in 

 a iilastic state science teaches us that its 

 surface «as suliject to tremendous iii>- 

 lu avals and tliat a continent would lie 

 eivcted or would sink from sight in a 

 single day: but now the earth has become 

 old and its surface flrnily "'set," and the 

 enntour of a continent will scarcely be 

 clianged by so much as a foot in a hun- 

 dred years. Tlie day of mighty up- 

 heavals has gone by, and it is only by the 

 action of the waves, eating in a little here 

 .-ind building up a little there, that any 

 change is wrought at all. 



.Vnd it i» the same with society. In the 

 early days there were upheavals and revo- 

 lutions without end. A civilization would 

 grow up almost in a night and almost in a 

 iiiglit it would disappear. Rut society is 

 old and "set" to-day and such changes as 

 are made are made but slowly. And when 

 anyone tells .voii that the labor movonieiit 

 or the trust movement or the free silver 

 movement or any other movement is going 

 to cause a general upheaval or a general 

 blotting out, don't you believe it. It's .just 

 a wave that will wash out a little here 

 iiiOybe or till in a little iheic maylie. and 



that is all. 



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Another thing noticeable in this connec- 

 tion is the inal)ility of any human law or 

 enactment to check the progress of one of 



tli'^c waves until It has spent its force. 

 We read of how old King l"annte had his 

 chair of slate carriiil down to the sea- 

 shore when tlie tide was coining in. and 

 linw he laid his royal command on the 

 sea that it should come no nearer to his 

 myal pcrKoii. .\nd tlic comniaiid of 

 I'liiiulc had the same elTecl on the rising 

 tide of the iicean that the various anil- 

 trust laws had upon the formation of 

 trusts — until the people made up their 

 minds that the movement had gone far 

 ei'nugh. .\nd then how little iuihI of law 

 lliere was to stop il! 



.\nil when the people have iiiadc up their 

 minds that the labor union movement has 

 u'oiie far enough (as 1 believe they havci 

 you will be surprised how easily the move- 

 ment will be broken to pieces. There will 

 111- no calling out of troops, no desperate 

 situation to be faced, no death grapple for 

 supremacy, or anything of that kind. The 

 \\;ive will just break agains.. tlie people's 

 will and tliat will be the end — of that wave 

 MI least. 



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.Vnd any fears that any movement will 

 iiM rwhelm this countr.v — that the trusts or 

 labor unions or railroads or any other 

 agency will subvert our institutions, or 

 sei-iously oppivss our jieople, jit this time, 

 :irc all bosh and moonshine. Tiie Ameri- 

 can people are too .voung and strong, too 

 lull of vil.-ilitv anil entliusiasni, too well 



eiliicaliil and well Infoniied, and they have 

 Ion liillch determlnalioii and sclf-res|HM't to 

 lie overwhelmed or undeniiincd or op- 

 piessiil by aiiybiHly or anylhiiig. 



The time iiia.v come, centuries heiici-, 

 when the character of the people may have 

 deteriorated, when such a thing may be 

 piiKsible — hut not now. The supreme power 

 ot this country at present Is the people's 

 \\i\[ and no law can restrain Its action. 

 When the people wish to register their 

 will they tind a way, and that the puny 

 ti lists or the pun.v labor unions I'an cihtcc 

 tills mighty nation, or drive it, or make 

 it afraid is ridiculous. 



There are signs, Iimi. iliat another wav.' 



is about to wii'ck it.self, and that is the 



wave of grafting and biHidiing, which has 



come roiling In in such power that some 



people fear it will engulf the nation. But 



there are abundant signs that tlie piHiple 



have grown disgusted and tiiey will raise 



tiieir hand some da.v and the tiling will 



stop; and a lot of fellows will lind tlieiii- 



si-lves looking tlirongh a jail grating from 



the wrong side. As to how they will stop 



it we neeil not concern ourselves. They 



will find a way. 



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For as .\braham Lincoln said, "the gi'eat 



heart of the people is sound," and Its In- 



ti lligence is clear and its conscience Is 



clean. And one may appeal to that heart, 



mind and conscience with absohite eoii- 



tidence. 



From Nea^r ©Liid Focr. 



CHICAGO COMMENT. 

 W. .\. Whilman, manager of the Soulli 

 .Vrm Lumber Company's plant at Mar- 

 iinette. Mich., spent a day or two in Chi- 

 cago last week, looking after business, 

 and incidentally paying up a few social 



obligations. 



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(Jeo. H. Zearing of DeValls Hluff, Ark.. 

 Avas another visitor to the Chicago market 

 last week, and favored the Record office 

 witli a call. lie says things are working 

 all right at the mill now and they are put- 

 ting out a standard article in the wa.v of 

 iii,inufactur(>, which consists principally 

 of HUartered oak and gum. Zcariiig is 



the right kind of stuff. 



* * * 



Mr. Glauber, of the K. Sondheinier Com- 

 pany, has returned from his trip to Europe. 

 He was absent for nearly two months, de- 

 voting tlie time largely to recreation. 



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Ml'. ,\lex JjMidrum, of the renrod Wal- 

 nut Corporation, Kansas City, Mo., was in 

 Chicago this week visiting some of his 



old-time friends. 



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Kd. Heath, of Ileath-Witbeck Company 

 started south on a business trip a couple 

 of weeks ago, and got as far as Memphis, 

 returning from there with a case of 



iliplillicria. Kd is one of tile kind of peo- 

 |ile that don't tarry long on any kind of 

 a proposition and he nipped this thing in 

 llic bud, as it were, so that we are able to 

 report now that he will be on deck again 

 in a ver.v few days. 



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-Vmoiig other visitors to the city were: 

 ,1. S. Goldie, Cadillac, Mich.; Charles 

 Christianson, accompanied b.v Mr, Naud, 

 .(r., of Manistee, Mich., and Frank May, 

 .May. Thompson & Tli:iyer. Hvansville, 



Ind. 



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Mr. Van Cleave, formerl.v bu.\er in the 

 hardwiioil dc])artmeut of the Edw. Iliues 

 Lumber Cunipan.v. has accepted a position 

 with the hardwood firm of Uyan & Mc- 

 I'arland. and will look after their city 



sales, 



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We arc in receipt of notice from Mr. 

 (). (!. (lardner. the well-known hardwood 

 hiinbernian of Mercer, Tenn., that he has 

 removed liis headquarters to .Tackson, 

 Tenn., and is now conducting his Ijusiness 



from that jioinl. 



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The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Compituy 

 arc out with a stock list wliich is not only 

 complete and well arranged, but is an ar- 

 tistic production in the bargain. It shows 



