The State Record from Topeka, Kansas • 1

FIFTH YEAR. TOPEKA, KANSAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1905. NEW SERIES NO. 35 iver attained the national reputation that made his name famous. The active agent of the Underground Railroad, who has been mentioned already i WHY NOT.

The Minneapolis Better Way, a journal whose Populism certainly cannot be doubted, publishes an ex- tremely pertinent article from which we quote in part, as follows: jjj RECOIiliECTlOHS OF THE Underground Railroad, 4. first visited the Abolitionists south of Gettysburg in 1846. His quick, keen, restless grey eye did not fail to notice the advantages which the hills below the town offered for future contingencies of pursuit. It was a chill, damp cloudy evening of 1849 that he appeared again on the scene, reclining in an elegant carriage which was woefully travel-stained and mud-bespattered. rt 1 mm a What good reason is there why all who believe in the public owner- Bv J.

Howard CUert. ms coacuman was a uui, nanasome mulatto who gave frightened glances backward as tj. he turned from the Baltimore pike into a dirt road that intersected it close to ah old ship and control of all public utilties mJ wooden bridge. The two handsome but jaded steeds, flecked with foam, had hardly been checked near a farm hmiM nn thp inurjuitinr maH imfAra the issuing of all money by the government, the initiative and referend Prof. Howard Wert, a sometimes connbutor to The Record, the U.

G. R. leaping impetuously from the carriage, shouted to a stalwart man who um, the income tax, the election of is giving to the Harrisbui (Penna.) Telegraph a series of papers under stood by a fence: "Quick; a guide to Wolf Hill or this poor man is lost. They are too President, U. S.

Senators and the the above caption, which are attracting much attention, ibth on account close behind for me to stay on the turnpike, and 1 don't know the back route. There Federal Judges by direct vote of the their historical value, and for the romantic interest which pertains to they are now," almost screamed the agent, at the same time poiutiug to a team, in full people, the postal savings bank, the subject 1 view, not half a mile distant, which was being urged onward at frantic speed. remittances 1Z "Zlfe He starts out with a survey of s.averv as it existed, id the chances to the of who was near him. measures which nearly all say are and methods of escape for would-be fugitives in each feection ot the 1 The boy leaped to a seat beside the coachmau. "Drive on, I'll show you, were good we say, what good reason is South and analyzes with close accuracy the feelings of tHfc people of the ooum, ana anaiyxs 0 rr his only words.

Soon they were passiug through mud sloughs half way to the hub, there whv all such should not get cu, together for effective work North, both before and after the passage of the tugitnfe blave Law then, down a steep hill. "Better get down to it faster than that, if you want to git Not in the way of a "fusion" which he rightly characterizes as a Pyrrhic victory for thy slaveholder, away," muttered the boy. ter drive down a hill, hey?" that has been only an expedient and In this connection he says Turn UP here'" was his 8harP command, a moment later, as they reached a bold has never succeeded. But why not ihe Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 contained some odious features fwhich aroused a ride that ran parallel with the road. "Right up in the woods there, 'tween the two big sink all minor differences, pool on popular feeling of antipathy against slavery itself an opposition from a large ele- oaks- as many good things as possible, and ment that hadt hitherto, been dormant in the strife.

Before this the number of active There the faintest trace of a road or path, all seamed with deep gulehes, that unite in a compact party organiza- AbaiiUoni8ttJ nad been small and their influence little felt in the body politic. Now, ran from the public road directly up the brow of the hill. The coachman, wlh a dubi- tion and proceed to "do business" in however whell the same easy going people were liable at any time to be impressed by ous look, attempted to follow the boy's instructions. He was about halfway np the steep 1 the interest of all the people. TT, rQf mtir-hft, int hnsms nf Neirro eatchinir with a heavy punishment inline when a triumphant shout came from the pursuers who were not two hundred There are three men in the United impending if they refused, they did not enjoy the dilemma.

yard8 awa on the toP of the hil1 the fW Ascended. The passage of the Fugitive Slave law, moreover, gav a monstrous "Yer can drive fur nothin'. Give 'em here, was the laconic comment of the States today GREAT men who, if thev are ereat enough, could lead fains ran the arius at tne me tune seizing the reins from the mulatto. Ilk. A wnv t.VirmitrVi t.hf wimi anot tha tartluil a iHi4a .1 such a movement to success.

They impetus to another underground railway in which th We men in whom not only their im- other av, hitherto, for the most part operated in steahfl-W irew, at 1 c' Ul uew Mediate followers believe, but who to at and sustain Jehu; acriS gulcheS; Stnmps aud ts of giant oaks; some have the reputation among people ttme' Wlth brHZen callm- UPn the laW and times in a sea of water with no visible track; sometimes between trees so close on generally of being honest. They its devlish work. We allude, of course, to the kidnapers. On God's either side that the whole vehicle trembled with the violent wrench as the hubs tore are, Tom Watson, W.J. Bryan and fair earth there was no such black and damning tragedy as the drama great chunks of bark from the trunks of the oaks: then, for a short time, in an open Eugene Debbs.

which thev played, and stout hearts sicken to remember, back fifty 'ong narrow lanes, constantly turning and twisting at right angles and acute Let these three leaders say to the true toW of them In his second paper Prof Wert says angles; plunging through deep pools of mire and then, again, in an almost pathless people who believe in the reforms The Iocation of a station of tne Underground Railroad naturally bred at Gettys- woods, across boulders and prostrated and decaying trees. A moment there flashed mentioned above, Bovs, let unite in view a broad, beaten road that the youthful driver crossed at rieht ancles. Dlumrimr jw Hure as at every other point where fugitives were seeking to escape to liberty, a race under one and we believe a UUIK' iuto a very labyrinih of trees and rocks, where he finally stopped at the base of a frown" Innir tpn would he taken towirtk of spies in the slaveholding interest for the money that was in it. One old woman in long step wouia De taKen towatus P' ng 0Uff, the face of which was principally syenitic masses of irirantic size Diled and an effective organization. the vicinity of Wolf Hill was said to have received five hundred dollars for services 1 "MU Are thev big enough to do it? rendered.

By a strange sarcasm, the most efficient ally of the slave catchers in the heaDed in disorderly ledges. -s- uiM niswwi m.j. "We'll stop here," said the boy, sententiously. He was the only cool one in the The people are ready. town of Gettysburg was a man of gigantic size, himse of African blood.

He made considerable money by his nefarious business. Party- The was more frightened at the wild ride be had just taken than he had JUST BEGINNING. introduces his more personal recollections with the de when ma8ter was Even the nervous. Tom Watson is not discouraged In fact, he and the people are just scription of a locality which was destined to become of mighty historica, "You stay right here," continued the youth. I'll go and tell Jimmy." beginning to get together.

Here is interest and one with which as boys we were both thoroughly familiar, ose in pursuit? suggested the agent, with some trepidation. what he savs of the situation xx tU farm luui 5n ft nf whi.h "Guess there's not much left of that team lhy lrled a foUertn' of my drivln'." i rUIi Tf CI III' "fii 11VV1I fcV -w mmm v-. "I fret ten letters ever dav where retorted the boy dryly. a the mud-bespsttered carriage halted that clqudy afternoon in 1849. How tt I got one preceeding election.

The Jimmy had a son uamed Aleck, stalwart and daring, aud, half an hour later, Aleck fight hae just begun. I felt more little did any of the actors in that drama think that from the same coign had the snuK eusconced in a rock cave at a point from which, through little encouraged in New York, and I cf vantage whence the coming slave catchers could be gimpsed, fourteen apertures In a dense thicket of scrubby pine bushes, there was a glimpse, at a distance feel more encouraged now, than I vears iater would be viewed the blue-coated legions of the North, ponr- of only a few yards, of the only roadway that traversed laterally this wild section, have ever at any time since the cam- distant highway, to give, in the next few days, on the The farmer's boy was right about the condition of the pursuing team. It was the paign opened. hills of Gettysburg, her death wound to slavery. Here follows one of worst wrecked carriae that had been for mu a da- The sIave "JLet us find no man guilty for any pushed forward on foot.

Once, during the early part of the night, the concealed fngi- vote he has cast in the past, but ask Mr. Wert's reminisences: everybody who was ever with us Just south of Gettysburg lived three men of stern wills, who were recognized by and those who think they ought to the community as Abolitionists. Two were residents of adjoining farms, in an open come with us to do so. If we do stretch, three miles south of the town, The otner, but half that distance from Getty s-that, by 1908 we will have a reform hnr llved on tne verse of Wolf Hill, now shorn of much of its wiidness by a large tive saw their shadowy forms, so near that be could have tossed a stone amongst them. Two nights later the mulatto was forwarded to the interior via the York Springs and Harrisburg stations.

Such was the farmer-boy's initiation as an employe on a passenger train of the party that will mean something to number of cozy cottages and productive little farms located; amidst gigantic rocks. In mysterious Underground Raikoad the Uniou and the people." almost an unexplored wilderness, from which the wolves, that vtn ia nsmA Karl nnt vat hn pnt irplv 7K R6RL DHNCGR IN WHTER. When any business is capitalized beyond the actual money required 'The special correspondent of tac ir i 1 The town otuewysourg iwseu uiwjs uwiw ic cUWv w.v.w, the scandal at Panama the most prominent men of the community, whose peculiar views on slavery however to conduct it, that minute begins danger for labor. Even in times of says; "All the negotiations of a were not any too popular with the mass of their fellow citizens. Amongst the most activity, without broad robbery of the public it is impossible to pay non- year seem to me to have been a case conspicuous of these was ihaadeus Stevens, up to me time ne moveu to Lancaster est wages to labor and what arc caned "fair" dividends to stockholders, of outgrafting the grafters all around but he was not nore enthusiastic in the cause of the oppressed than were others who inevitaWc days of depression come, wages must be cut to and the Lnited States government Before the war the chief industry of Gettysburg was carriage making and keep up dividends on the water and finallv plants close and leave labor stands today the position of hold- incr all of the honors Questionable its market was in tbe South 11 iS that the sympathies of many to starve, which with honest capitalization and management, should have 1 mm.

a 1 I 1 2 1C ni.In 1 nKn.nr. as they are." have leaned that way. swvens wraiy wnsiereu uu wc both dividends wgges Will not the people, who on of the colored man as of all labor. He once said jestingly to my mother: 'Reynolds a reauv own tne irancnises 01 cuipuianuns, icui iu Apparent prosperity of a nation (her Drother) has all the Africans behind him and I have all the apprentices: between may not always indicate true wealth, us we have the best part of the town for a following." Regulation that regulates or public ownership must come..