Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — FAMOUS NICKNAMES. [ARTICLE]

FAMOUS NICKNAMES.

Queen Elizabeth was called Good Queen Bess by her friends and Bloody Bess by her enemies. She was also designated the Maiden Queen, the Queen of Virgins, the Untamed Heifer, Fortune’s Empress, the Glory of Her Sex, the Miracle of Time, Astraea, Orlana, the True Diana, Gloriana, and other names respectful and the contrary. Oliver Cromwell was nicknamed the Copper-nosed Saint, in allusion to his red features. He had numerous other nicknames, among them being Almighty Blasphemer, Brewer, Brother Fountain, His Noseship, Glorious Villain, Great Leviathan, Immortal Rebel, The Impious, The Impositor, Man of Sin, Old Noll, the Town Bull, Lord Achon and Sagest of Usurpers. Washington had innumerable nicknames. He was called the American Fabius, in allusion to the fact that he pursued a cautious policy, and without ever winning a battle managed to harass and worry the enemy; the Atlas of America, the Olnclnnatus of the West, this name by Byron; the Deliverer of America, the Father of His Country, the Step-father of His Country, the Flower of the Forest, a name given by the Indians, and Lovely Georgius, a name bestowed by the British soldiers engaged in the war. »■. ■ fa ■ Even so ultra a protection organ as tLe New York Tribune is opposed to restoring the McKinley duty on wool. Fre'e wool is already doing its own talking, and the time is not fa.* distant when coal and iron ore shall also be placed on the free list. If free hides aud free wool have stimulated manufacturing and at the same time cheapened such necessaries as boots and shoes and woolen goods, why should not all kinds of raw material be placed on the free list?

Never in the history of any country wer? the wages ot more than a million wage earners voluntarily increased until this year. This has occurred the fiist year after tne reduction of tariff taxation. It is a well established fact a fact set forth by James G. Blaine in nis “Twenty Years in JJoiigress,” and proven by statistics—that the most prosperous times this country ever knew was under a low tariff era, beginning after the passage of the Walke. tariff of 1846, tlie general prosperity of the people has no paral-" lei in our history. It is true that no millionaires developed in that pe iod. The wealth of th-* nation was fairly well distributed. Un der the low tariff epochthe laboring millions were not taxed to support pauper corporations. It was prophesied by the hire lings of protection that, in case the tariff manufacturers would quit doing business in this country ;that they would close tljeir shors;Hhat the wages of American workingmen would be cut down to the level of the thickly populated countries of the Old World. What false prophets these hirelings have shown themselvea to be! Today tne iron mills, the steel mills, the woolen mills, the cotton mills, the lumber mills, a d other protected industries are running on full time and have morn orders than they can fl 1, and the wages of a million workingmen—mostly in protected industries—have been increased from 10 to 20 per cent.