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TTTE TIKE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. APKTE 12. 1011.
WHEN PASS WAS THE THING
Eecollectioni of the Joy Riding Era of
YeRr Gone By.
SIGN OF THE ELECT BAJHSHED
Brrrrhoiir lh Pull Worked It
(krap'r tn RIH Tk to tr
t Mom" Hf form Wortk
Millions.
Pv ysr tisv elBisrl slnr th cruel an1
Inliiimnn Hi'"-n taking- a stranglo
hold on the railroad. r-fmirell1 them to
foign their pl-aiinK practise of handing
nut pawe tn all romtri, and, Instrart, to
erupt real mony for the privilege of
hauling the clilznnn of tills fair land.
In those five yearn more free-horn Amerl
rsna have Stayed at home than tn any
other ten years since railroads ware In
vented. staylnir at home aggravates, rather than
xtlflfg. wanderlust, yet time mercifully mel
low all aorrowa After five year. It Is
poMslble to contemplate the passing of the
psM with outward compiaure. though not
without Inward emotion. Lt u. then,
take from the bureau drawer the little pass
that waa cut off In Its prime, rendered null
and void, and hark hack to the blesned
time that lithographed formula recalls.
What delightful memories mingle with
the odor of lavender flowers In which that
Pmks Is emhlatned: What visions of Joy
rides from coant to coast, and from lakes
to aulf. It conjures up! And It was all so
eimple and Inexpensive.
To he seen at the ticket window In the
good old days buying railroad transpor
tation was equivalent to making public con
fi slon that you controlled no vote but your
own. that you had no social aspirations,
no political ambitions, and no commercial
BiandlnK. for everybody who was anybody
tiaveled on passes, and they wanted every
body else to know It. '
The- "tain of the Klert.
To pontes a pas was equal to a place In
the four hundred. The only distinction
between the common herd of the eminently
' respectable nd the elect was that the lat
ter carried a wallet full of annuals Instead
of traveling on trip passes. One runic
MKher up the ladder. Pullman passes were
sdded to the annuals. Those who really
Knew the ropes, also carried a dining car
frank, and cracked a Joke with the porter
In lieu of a tip.
In the good old days before 1906, a certain
riillioad out of New York City ran a
Grafters' limited. It was a special train to
the state capital to accommodate pass
holders. It is said that tickets were so
rare on that train that when the conductor
chanced to discover a passenger with that
form of transportation his hand trembled
fo that he punched holes In hla thumb
mMead of the pasteboard. Then he would
hurry on to tell the flagman, the head
brakeman and the baggageman that. t
"That hed-headed, speckle-faced cusa In
the third seat on the thumb-hand side In
the smoker is rldin' on a ticket. Say, If
business keeps on plcktn' up this way the
company ought to be able to stand a raise
fur us fellers."
Then the trainmen to whom these sensa
tional disclosures were made would parade
l ack and forth through the smoking car to
gape sidelong at the speckled-faced phe
nomenon, while "Peanuts" fell over his own
feet In his haste to reach that gentleman's
side.
Without a moment's delay, "Peanuts"
proceeded to find a diamond ting right un
der the ticket holder's feet, a half Interest
In which, he declared with unparalleled
fairness, belonged to the latter. In the
excess of his desire to play fair, "Peanuts"
wound up with an offer to renounce his
own claim tn the find for the small sum
of $1. If the ticket holder did not fall to
that, there was the short change racket to
''close a transaction In figs or literature;
or. as a last resort, there waa the shell
Kama,
Oh, It was a great distinction to travel
on a ticket In the old days!
A committee of the Iowa legislature. In
an exhaustive report on passes submitted
In 1SK.', declared that the legislative' pass
was regarded as a "heritage." An Inter
ference In the enjoyment of this heritage
was regarded as unwarranted presumption
on the patr of the railroads and waa rA
eented as such.
When Marked O."
The Chicago A Alton found this out,
when In 1901. It had the effrontery to send
members of the Illinois legislature passes
stamped: "Not good In compartment cars,"
"Not good on the Alton Umlted," "Not
Ootid locally between Chicago and Jollet."
Naturally, these Railing restrictions
roused Indignation In the breasts of the
statesmen. They Immediately started an
Investigation of all wrecks on the Alton for
the preceding six months, but thought
better of It when passes commensurate
with the dignity of statesmen were sub
stituted for the offensive pasteboards.
Kvery once In a while an upstart railroad
had to be taught Its place. Une such rati
road in Ohio had the Impudenoe, not to
say the indiscretion to refuse a pass to
. the chlet of police of one of the larger
cities In the state. Immediately thereafter,
tialns pasxlng throng), that city were fre
quently stopped and their crews were ar
rested for violating the ordinances against
whistling, bell ringing, exceeding the speed
limit, blocking crossings and similar crimes
These stoppages caused so much delay
and confusion that the service waa demor
alised. Observing this, the chief of police
remarked that he "rather guessed there'd
be something doing In the way of passes
before long." And tie was light.
One of the softest snaps congress ever
struck came about through the Indiscretion
of the Pennsylvla railroad In encroaching
on a public park when It built its old sta
tion In Washington. Every year an In
e,uirv was started as to the right of the
' railroad to occupy a part of the govern
ment's land. This continued until the
Pennsylvania came down with a liberal
bunch of pasties for all hands. Then an
adjournment was taken until mora trans
portation was needed.
Some Who Wouldn't Hla Free.
There were a few eccentric Individuals
who did not appreciate the privilege of
being able to bestow free rides In other
people's cars. A Chicago alderman re-
s'gned In dlnguet. in ltW. because he wss
pestered to death by constituents In quest
of railroad passes. He said there were
never fewer than fifteen dally applicants
for passes at his office, while the number
not Infrequently rose to Tjrty.
Hut there were actually politicians who
would not accept a pass.
The most remarkable case was that of
Ansel Baecom. a member of the New
York legislature In 1MB. who would not
even accept a pass for himself from,th
Albany and Rochester railroad, but re
turned It with a letter to the president n
the road, saying that he went to Alban
to represent the people, and not the Alban
,- It., cheter railroad; that It was part c
his duty to watch the railroads to see
they did no wrong, and. In consequence, It
ould be a ft and on the state to take th
pa a.
ltaacom's Spartan Self-denial made him a
public chsran-r for a brief season, but he
scon dropiM-4 Into oblivion. Think of what
he mltcht have become had he but helped
himself to the good thlnae In his way.
Mill, you never can tell. In the nelgh
burliig stat of Uaaeachusetts ther waa a
legislator who wss not so self sacrificing
as Bascom. yet when ho went before the
people for re-election he wss defeated. As
he said afterward, he could not under
stand how It happened, "because he al
ways got passes for his constituents who
asked for them."
Htn Iteqnesfs Were Worded.
For a federal Judge to ssk In the first
person singular for a railroad pass would
not only have violated the etiquette In sti"h
rases made and provided, hut it would
have stained the ermine to an extent that
would have kept the dry cleaners working
overtime. No. Indeed. The private secre
tary or a clerk wrote a courtly epistle in
the third person In the Judge's behalf,
thus:
"His honor, Judee CJraft. will spend a
portion of his vacation In California. He
has already been kindly supplied with an
annual for himself; but, if the rules of the
company permit, he would be glad in have
the courtesy extended to his family of
eight persons who will accompany him."
For a governor, this form wss all to the
sand dome:
"His excellency. Governor Pedhed wishes
to take n trip to the seashore with his
wife, four daughters, three sons, a niece,
two slsters-ln-la w. five maids, a valet,
nursei governess and coachmHn. He has
ben tendered a private car on the N. O.
line, but would prefere a special train
over your route. Kindly send me trans
portation for the governor and twenty
from Sorkettoum to New York and re
turn." The way not to do It was beautifully
exemplified by the prosecuting attorney In
a Western state, who wrote a ion, threat
ening letter to the president of a railroad
company reminding him that he had fa
vored the Judges In his territory with an
nuals, whereas "I have daily to grant the
favors of the law of a great slate for your
railroad. Your men are all liable to prose
cution for running trains on .Sunday, also
for letting trains stop across public streets
and In Other ways."
Impossible to Iteekon rasa Values.
How could such a man be Riven a pass?
Or. how could the lieutenant governor of
another slate get what he wanted when he
had the bad taste to write:
"In appointing my committees, I have
favored the railroads, believing that the
Interests of the state demanded It."
What possessed the chairman of a cam
paign committee. In asking for pastes for
twenty-one men to canvass the state, and
hold out the hope that, in event of suc
cess, "we may be able to do you some
substantial favors?" A
No one ever knew, nor will any one ever
know, the money value of free transpor-
atlon given away hy the railroads. No
railroad report ever referred to the subject.
possibly no railroad management has ever
kept any statistics, for a contemplation
thereof surely would have given the
board of directors several kinds of shock
Search all the reports of all the state
railroad commissions from cover to cover,
and you will not find so much as the
words "passes" or "free transportation,"
to say nothing of any Information about
the quantity Issued. The Interstate Com
merce commission's voluminous literature
s silent on the subject.
The nearest approach to definite Infor
mation from any authoritative source la to
be found In such fragmentary assertions as
the distribution of free transportation by
the Pennsylvania railroad to the value of
el.0OO.000 a year In the Keystone state
alone; that a certain railroad In Pennsyl
vania distributed 2.5(iO passes for a single
state convention; that a western railroad
resident boasted that he had been able to
effect a saving of $1,000 a flay merely by
regulating the Issue of passes. Not stop
ping. Just regulating!
Millions In It.
It Is related that a Philadelphia banker.
who has been a member of the board of
directors of the Pennsylvania railroad for
many years, assured a group of friends
that the cost of deadhead traffic to the
company from 1S.: to 1W6 almost equaled
he aggregate cost of tho tunnels under
he Hudson river and the new terminal In
New York City; and that the deadhead
passenger, freight and express service to
federal officeholders and their families had
been not less than $X.0O0.non.
In the absence of any definite statistics,
the next best thing Is an estimate by an
expert. To secure this, 1 asked the presi
dent of an eastern line, one of tho pioneers
In the anti-pass movement. What the dead
heads used to cost the railroads of the
nation.
He said that If all free transportation had
been paid for, pas.-enger revenues would
have been Increased la per rent.
In the ten years before the Hepburn law
went Into effect, the passenger revenues of
all the railroads aggregated S.1.S3K.&u6.921.
Fifteen per cent of this would amount to
fT:,73,R38, or an average of VJ,WS.33 a
year. This would have paid 5 per cent In
terest on an Investment of tl.M1.S2T.tsi0; and.
no doubt, It would have been, welcome, for
as late as 1W8 one-third of the railroads In
the I'nlted States paid no dividends. To
put It another way, the cost of deadhead
transportation would have built and equl-
ped 13.2b! miles of railroad ae an average1
ped of HO.OOO a mile, which Is a liberal
rate.
Every Une la Klve a Deadehead.
This estimate would seem to be very con
servative, from the fact that In 16. when
the deadhead was In full possession of all
his perquisites, passenger revenues on all
railroads aggregated t486.43o.s02, while two
years later, In 1307. after the rigors of the
Hepburn lew had set In, they were t4,-
718,578. This extraordinary Jump of tSS.297,
TS, or M per cent. In yearly earntngs'ln so
short a period would seem to Indicate
something more than natural Increase In
traffic
This natural Increase would be more
than offset by the elimination of the mere
Joy-riders. When they had to pay for
every mile they traveled, people ontv wan
dered from their flresddes when driven hy
grim necessity, whereas traveling on passes
used to be cheaper than staying at home.
It Is doubt lc well within hounds to say
that, formerly, one passenger in every five
was a deadhead. That Is. In 1902, when the
average number of passengers on a train
as forty-two, at least eight were dead
heads. I-assenger earnings. In 1K. aggregated
tf)7,H3.l. Fifteen per cent of this sum
the amount the deadheads would have been
entitled to under the old regime would be
rSS.7M.i40. Now. tssodO.OtO is worth taxing,
a fact which Is generally recognized by the
statesmen at Washington. At the last ses
sion of congress, no fewer than eight bills
were Introduced to compel railroads to
carry free, as of old. various classes of
deadheads, ranging from war veterans
and milkmen to Insurance agents.
That makes a good start. Kven with no
Increase In the rate of legislation, eight
billa a session will soon get us all back
within ths free-transportation fold again
Railroad Man's Magaxine.
Moat Food Is Poison
to the dyspeptic. Klectrlo Hitters cure dys-l-epela,
liver and kidney complaints and de
bility. Price 50c. St4d by lleaton lrug Co.
Copper Mrrurr awe I'oktponed.
NEW VOKK. April 11 -Hy agreement of
counsel the hearing on the leiltiou of G.
,M. Hyams of New York for a temporary
injunction to prevent the consolidation of
the Calumet and Hecla and nine other
copper mining companies has keen msl
poned until April 11 The raae was to havo
come up today betjre L'mied blues ii
Utci Juvlce kM.
NOTED LEADER OF RED MAN
Remarkable Traits of Halfbreed
Chief of Comanches.
ROMANCE OF HIS PARENTS
Me, rhllosonber nnd Friend
of
Hie Race, a Peacemaker and
Protector In Dealings
Tilth Whites.
The most picturesque figure In the ah-
orlglnal life of the southwest and he int
of the great leaders of the red rare in that
quarter," summarizes the tribute paid tn
the memory of Quanah Parker, deceased
chief of the Comanche Indians by Frances
K. I.eupp In the Moston Transcript. In his
capacity as commissioner of Indian aff.Vrs
tinder Roosevelt. Mr. Ieupp came in direct
contact with this most remarkable leader
of red men. and learned to appreciate Ms
honesty, Integrity and uns?lfish labors in
behalf of his kindred. What he aeom
pllshed and how. his characteristics end
his parentage are thus detailed by Mr.
Leupp:
The father of Qtianah u a notable Fn
among the Cotnanrhes; Quanah has repeat
edly spoken of him to me as a chief, hut
I have heard this i-.lnlm denied, though ev
eryone familiar with the family readily
accords him a hlsh rank. The mother -.van
a white Kirl taken captive by the tribe In
one of its forays. Her name was Cynthia
Parker and she lived In Chilllcothe, O.. or.
rather. In the then wild region which Inter
furnished a site for the present city. She
was about seven years old when a hand
of Indians -found her at play at some c"s
tance from her father's house and kid
napped her. This was In the latter end of
the eighteenth century. The disappear
ance of Cynthia and an elder sister, who
was taken at the some time, aroused great
excitement among the settlers In that part
of the frontier, but the searching parties
sent out at once were unable to find a
trace of the children or their captors.
Discovery of the Captive.
A whole generation had 'passed wien
one day, on the plains of Kansas, a com
pany of white troops surrounded a band
of hostile Indiana and swept down upon
their camp, where she was found, In the
tepee of the head man of the band, a fine
looking woman In Indian costume, with the
Indian carriage and address, but obviously
not of Indian blood. Although she could
speak no Knglish, having forgotten her
mother tongue through long disuse, the
commanding officer discovered through an
Interpreter that she remembered some of
her child history, and she was soon Iden
tified as the stolen Cynthia Parker. She
was taken back to Ohio, where a number
of her relatives recognised her and did
all they could to Induce her to stay with
them; but she could not reconcile herself
to (the change from the free life of t.i
Indian camp to the restrictions of the
modern social order, nor could she bear
separation from her Comanche husband
and the children she had borne hlm. one
of them being the baby Quanah. So, after
a year's vain struggle to adapt herself to
the ways of those about her, she was per
mitted to return, and thenceforward fol
lowed the fortunes of her adopted people.
This Is the story as I nave had it from
Quanah's lips, with many details not neces
sary to rehearse here. Quanah was always
very reverent of his mother's memory and
used to say that his faculty for getting
along with the white men's government
was due to the white strains of blood which
he drew from her. Of his father, most cf
his stories had to do with humorous Inci
dents. '
A Poser.
Nobody among the Comanches of our
day ever attempted to contest with Quanah
his authority In the tribe, which was king
like both In Its scope and In hts manner
of exercising It. The national government
early recognized this trait as a valuable
asset In transacting business with his peo
ple, and made large use of It. Ho really
continued to rule long after It had been
made known to the Indians that the era
of chiefs had passed away, and that their
fealty was now to he given to the Great
Father at Washinaton. When n payment
of money was to be made to the Coman
ches per capita, he always sat at the head
of the pay table. Identified the men and
women as their names were announced,
verified the numbers and sexes and agea of
their families respectively, maintained or
der when any trouble threatened, and In
every way proved a useful coadjutor to
the atient and his clerks. It was the same
way when Individual Indians wished to
lease their lands to white farmers;, Quanah
was able to furnish the leasing officers
with whatever information was needed
about the circumstances of a would-be
lessor or the condition of his household.
Family disputes within his following were
referred to him almost every day, to set
tle like a benevolent police magistrate;
and to his credit it should be said that,
although In morn ways than one he re
sembled an oriental cadi, he usually con
trived to do substantial Justice in matters
which would have sorely puszled a white
Judge unskilled In the Intricacies of aborigi
nal ethics. He had a quaint way of put
ting things which sometimes upset the
grave conclusions of men better educated
than he. Secretary Nohle, during ths Har
rison administration, set himself the task
of breaking up polygamy among the In
dians. Some of the chiefs affected resented
his Interference, and threatened mischief.
Others sulked and plotted. Quanah re
ceived with perfect good nature the lecture
on his sinfulness which the secretary de
livered to him In person, and then re
sponded: "Mr. Secretary, I have three
wives. I love them all the same. I don't
know which two I should put away. You
tell me, and then 1 will go home and
do It."
As he had cleverly foreseen, his adver
sary was posed. The secretary rubbed his
forehead, played a little with his eye
glasses to kill time, cleared his throat,
cententtously, and pronounced his Judg
ment that Quanah had better keep all his
wives as long aa they lived and behaved
! themselves, but not take any more; but
bade him bring up his children, and the
young men of his tribe, to the practice
of monogamy.
Heap Like W hite Mast.
Quanah's function as universal referee
among the Comanches won him the good
will of a number of the white cattleman
of Oklahoma, where the tribe had its res-
ervatlon. These men used to get pennls-
slon to graze their cattle on the common
lands of the Indians, paying a certain
yearly stipend for the privilege. All the
negotiating and all the paying were done
t .
IMtOX
Are recognized everywhere on a brotherhood basis
of uniform quality.
Fof tale at out ageocias reary whoa.
through Quanah before the government
established Its more modern svstem of
handling these thins. When trouble arose
bet Keen lessors and lessees, growing out
of alleged trespass or otherwise, the cat
tlemen were quite content to leave the
case to Quanah to seltle. and he always
treated them fairly. After the passage of
several esrs they subscribed to a fund
with which they built hlm a fine large
house, and he set his peopie the example
of living In It. believing that this would
be one of the symptoms of advancement
which the Oreat Father would most ap
preciate In them. A member of the white
group who had been absent when the hat
was passed wished to contribute his share,
too, and asked Quannh what form It had
better take. Quanah promptly answered
that he would like a roller-top desk and
swivel chair. His white friend exclaimed
In astonishment at this, as the chief could
neither read nor write. So Quanah ex
plained himself.
"You see," said he. Illustrating with
appropriate gestures as he went along,
"me open desk and sit down In chair
so and lean back, and put feet up on desk,
and light big seegar, and hold newspaper
up in front of me, all same white man
sabe? Then, by-m-bye white man he
come in and knock at door, and he say:
'Quanah. me want talk t' you a minute.'
And me swing 'round In chair so and puff
lots of smoke In his face, and me say;
Go 'way! Me ve'y busy t day!" "
Ilamnr on Tap.
Quanah's humor was always on tap.
even when he was engaged In serious
business. When the ghost dance furoie
broke out In the northwest, somewhat more
than twenty years ago, the news of It
spread Into the Oklahoma country, and
the Comanches. with their neighbors, the
Kiowas and Apaches, became more or loss
excited by It. Quanah took the matter
calmly, and it was largely through his in
fluence that the three tribes sent a Joint
committee to Dakota to Inquire Into the
business. When they returned the emis
saries united In explaining that the cause
of the uprising was the report, generally
believed anion the northern Indians, that
the Messiah was about to come back to
earth, restore to the Indians their ancient
heritage and drive the whlteB away. The
Apache committeeman was pretty well
convinoed that this was true, ana disposed
to counsel his fellow tribesmen to prepare
for the great event. The Kiowa member
was a trifle uncertain, especially as a
tribal election was Impending in which ha
had something at stake, and he waa anx
ious to propitiate both radicals and con
servatives. But Quanah chuckled a little
when called upon for his opinion, and de
livered himself thus diplomatically:
"Mebbe-so Messiah he come; mebhe-ao
no. Any way, me going keep one hand on
Messiah and one hand on Gov-ment then
me safe!"
It Is needless to add that the Messiah crane
wrought little havoc among the Comanches.
A Red Proa-resslve.
Quanah was a progressive, without being
a reckless Iconoclast. He uniformly advised
his followers to adopt the ways of civiliza
tion, employed white physicians when he
was 111, sent his children to school and
tried to make his home a radiating center
of rational modernism. He even joined a
Christian church In his later years, though
I suspect that he would have found It dif
ficult to expound the grounds of his faith
beyond a simple wish to lean on something
unseen, and higher than himself, now that
the worship In which his fathers Indulged
had been largely swept away or so adul
terated aa to be hardly recognizable. He
remained, through all his cultural vicissi
tudes, si loyal lover of the old things, even
after he tad entirely ceased to regard them
with awe. One of the last talks I had with
him waa about the changes time had
wrought In the white man's Ideals as well
aa the Indian's for that waa a firm tenet
of hla philosophy; and he framed hla argu
ment so aa to compel support of the plea
of some of the older Indians that they
might be allowed to gather now and then
for a big dance In the costumes of a former
generation, sing their songs of war and
the chase and self-glorification, and gen
erally live again for a little while the life
of their traditions. Referring to this very
Washington's birthday season for an Illus
tration, he Inquired what harm It did the
white man to dress himself up once a year
In the costume of the Continental troops,
and have shara battles with a mock enemy;
and he reminded me that he had been to
the theater on some of his visits to the
east and seen white men perform in plays
where they went back to a far remote and
barbarous period for their armor and
their weapons, and In which the action was
chiefly fighting.
And what answer was possible to such
logic?
TREASURE LOST IN MAILSACK
Thirty Yen re Between ArciMtUa and
Vindication, and Mow It
Came.
The vindication of the Rev. Mr. Bur
dette of Springfield, Mass., from the sus
picion of stealing t3.600 contained In reg
istered letters thirty years ago is complete,
but it Is a recoil on other agencies. In 1KS1
he, as postal clerk In Peoria, 111., received
and put Into a mall bag twelve registered
letters containing t3.M0, which were en
tered In the registry book. But the rail
may mall clerk failed to find the letters
that the book called for, and reported the
loss. Suspicion fell on Mr. Burdette, but
nothing positive could be proved. He
studied for the ministry, served on foreign
missions and la now preaching In Spring
field. A few days ago tn an old mall bag sent
to the San Francisco poatofflce shops for
repair the twelve letters with the tt.MO
were found in the leather lining. It had
been traveling around the country for
thirty years. Presumably the bag had been
Tiled and emptied some ten thousand
times, but ths letters remained In their
hiding place. Mr. Burdette Is vindicated
except from haste and carelessness In put
ting the valuable letters Into the bag. But
It leaves Inferences as to the care of the
I service, which would be damaging If it were
not the exceptional case out or scores of
millions.
How waa It that the first railway clerk
I when he found 13.600 that should have
ben " the bag missing did not examine
I the bag thoroughly enough to find the
! valuable letters that were there? Think of
the thousands of other mall clerks who
hsve emptied the bag day after day and
, year after year, but never carefully enough
to And the letters. Next to Mr. Burdette
the one thing vindicated Is durability of
the mall bag, which, though in IBM, waa In
Mats
such had repir as to lt the twelve let
ters slip back of the lining, stuck to them
during the vicissitudes of thirty eai s
postal sevrli . Pitlsburg IMspatch.
USE CHANGES QUOTATIONS!
Polishlnsr Process of Common I e Im
proves the Thonahts of
t.reat Men.
At the recent centenary of Horace
Greeley's birth the newspapers very gen
erally, Including the Journal which he
founded and which he edited for a third
of a century, quoted hlm as urging In his
paper, "tin to Hiclimond!" Instead of "on"
a much more aggressive word was em
ployed. Here is the entire expression in
which these words figured:
"Forward tn Richmond! Forward to
Richmond! The rebel congress must not
be allowed to meet there on the 2nth of
July. My that date the place must be held
by the national army."
This paragraph appeared at the head of
the New York Tribune's editorial columns
on June 2i, Wl. and was repeated for sev
eral days. Vhdoubtedly It was one of the
Influences which Impelled General Mc
Dowell to advance before he was ready,
and the disaster at Bull Run on July 21
was the consequence. Greeley afterward
denied that he was the author of the slo
gan, but as editor of the Tribune he ac
cepted responsibility for its publication.
In the school books of long ago we were
thrilled by the response. "Millions for de
fense, but not one cent for tribute," which
was ascribed to Charles Cotesworth Plnck
ney. one of our special envoys Palis,
when he was told by a represci..d.tlve of
the directory, which governed Fiance at
the time, that Immunity by our merchant
vessels from attack by French warships
could not be gained by us except by paying
for the favor. What Plnckney did say
was, "No. no. no; not one sixpence." The
fictitious answer, however, lends Itself bet
ter to sonorous declamation and has per
sisted. "If a due participation of office Is a mat
ter of right, how are vacancies to be ob
tained? Those by death are few; by resig
nations none."
This Is what Jefferson said when the
merchants of New Haven protested against
his removal of the federalist collector,
Goodrich, and the appointment of FTshop.
democrat, in his place. As descriptive of
the clinging characteristics of the average
federal office holder these words, In mod
ern speech, have condensed themselves Into
"Few die and none resign." This phrase
la neater and more compact than the other,
but It is not Jefferson's. Harper's Weekly.
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