Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 9, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 July 1900 — Page 7

THE MARRIAGE FEAST Joyous Features of the Christian Religion Clearly Presented. Or. Talaare Invltra the Whale World to Joia In Ita Holy Mcrrlaacat—The Wedding In Cana. - [Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.] Washington, July L A remarkable illustration of the Ubiquity of English-speaking people is furnished by the requests that have reached Dr. Talmage in northern Europe for a sermon in out-of-the-way places wiiere he did not expect to find a single person who could understand him. There, as here, he presents religion as a festivity and invites all the world to come as guests and join in its holy merriment; text, John ii„ 10: ‘“thou hast kept the good wine until now.” This chapter invites usjto a marriage celebration. It is wedding in common life, two plain people having pledged each other, hand and heart, and their friends having come in for congratulation. The joy is not the less because there is no pretension. In each other thej’ find all the future they want. The daisy in the cup on the table may mean as much as a score of artistic garlands fresh from the hothouse. When a daughter goes off from Jhorae with nothing but a plain father’s blessing and a plain mother’s love, she is missed as much as though she were a princess. It seems hard, after’the parents have sheltered her for 18 years, that in a few short months her affections should have been carried off by another, but mother remembers how it was in her own case when she was young, and so she braees up until the wedding has passed and the banquetera&re gone, and she has a cry ' all alone.W

well, we are to-day at the wedding in ('ana of Galilee. Jesus and His mother have been invited. It is evident that there are more people there than were expected. Either some people have come who were not invited or moreUnvitations have been sent out than it was supposed would be accepted. Of course there is not a sufficient supply of wine. You know that there is nothing more embarrassing to a housekeeper than a scant supply. Jesus sees the embarrassment, and he comes up immediately to relieve it. He sees standing six water pots. He orders the servants to fill them with water, then He waves His handover the water,.and immediately it is wine— real wine. Taste of it and see for yourselves. No logwood in it, no strychnine in it. but first-rate wine. I will not now be diverted to the question so often discussed in my own country whether it is right to drink wine. I am describing the scene as it was. When God makes wine, He makes the very best wine, and 130 gallons of it standing around in these water pots—wine so good that the ruler of the feast tastes it and says: “Why, this is really better than anything we have had. Tbou hast kept the good wine until now.” Beautiful miracle! A prize was offered to the person who should write the best essay about the miracle in Cana. Long manuscripts were presented in the Competition, but a poet won the prize by just this one line descriptive of the miracle: “The conscious water saw its God and blushed.” We learn from this miracle, in the first place, that Christ has sympathy with housekeepers. You might have thought that Jesus would have said: “I cannot be bothered with this household deficiency of wine. It is not for me. Lord of Heaven and of earth, to become caterer to this feast. I have vaster things than this to attend to.” Not so said Jesus. The wine gave out. and Jesus by mifciculous power came to the rescue. Does there ever come a scant supply in your household? Have you to make a very close calculation? It is hard work for you to carry on things decently and respectably? If so, don't sit down and cry. Don’t go out and fret, but go to Him who stood in tlve house in Cana of Galilee. Pray in the parlor. - Pray in the kitchen. Let there be no room in your house unconsecrated by the voice of prayer. If you .have a microscope, put under it one drop of water and see the insects floating about, and when you see that God makes them and cares for them and feeds them come to the conclusion that He will take care of you and feed you. I learn also from this miracle that Christ does things in abundance. I think a small supply of wine would have made up for the deficiency. I think, certainly, they must have had enough for half the guests. One gallon of wine will do; certainly five gallons will be enough; certainly ten. But Jesus goes on, and He gives them 30 gallons and. 4.0 gallons and 50 gallons

i ana m gallons ana iuu gallons and1130 gallons of the very best wine. It is just like Him—doing everything on the largest and most generous scale. Does Christ, our Creator, go forth to make loaves? He makes them by the whole forest full; notched like the fern or silvered like the aspen or broad like the palm; thickets in the tropics, Oregon forests. Does He go forth to make flowers? He makes plenty of th#m; they flame from the hedge, they hang from the top of the grapevine in blossoms, they roll in the blue wave of the violets, they toss their white surf in the spiraea—enough for every child’s hand a flower—enough to make for every brow a chaplet, enough with beauty to cover up the ghastliness of all the grave. Does He go forth to create water? He pours it out, not by the cupful, but by a river full, a lake full, an ocean full; pouring it out until all the earth has enough to drink, and enough with which to wash. Does Jesus provide redemption? It Is not a little salvation for this one, a little for that and a little for the other, but enough for alL “Whosoever will,

let him come.** Each man an ocean fall for himself. Promises for the young, promises for the old, promises for the lowly, promises for the blind, for the halt, for the outcast, for the abandoned. Pardon for all, mercy for all. Heaven for all. Not merely a cupful of Gospel supply, but 130 gallons. Aye, the tears of Godly repentance are gathered up iinto God’s bottle, and some day, standing before the throne, we will lift our cup of delight and ask that it be filled with the wine of Heaven, and Jesus, from that bottle of tears, will begin to pour in the cup, and we will cry: “Stop, Jesus! We do not want to drink our own tears!” And Jesus will say: “Know ye not that the tears of earth are the wine of Heaven?” Sorrow may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

1 remark, further, Jesus does not shadow the joys of others with His own griefs. He might have sat down in that wedding and said: “I have so much trouble, so much poverty, so much prsecution, and the cross is coming. 1 shall not rejoice, and the gloom of my face and of my sorrows shall be cast over all this group.” So said not Jesus. He said to Himself: ‘‘Here are two pei^ons starting out in married life. Let it be a joyful occasion. I will hide my own griefs. I will kindle their joy.” There are many not so wise as that. I knew a household where there are many little children, where for two years the musical instrument has been kept shut because there has been trouble in the house. Alas for the folly! Parents saying: “We will have no Christmas tree this coming holiday because there has been trouble in the house. .Hush that laughing upstairs! How can there be any joy when there has been so much trouble?” And so they make everything consistently doleful and send their sons and daughters to ruin with the gloom they throw around them. Oh, my dear friends, do you not know those children Will have trouble enough of their own after awhile? Be glad they cannot appreciate all yours. Keep back the cup of bitterness from your daughter's lips. When your head is down in the grass of the tomb, poverty may come to her, betrayal to her, bereavement to her. Keep back the»sorrows as long as you can. Do you not know t?iat that son may after awhile have his heart broken? Stand between him an®ill harm. You may not fight his batues long.

light them \vl«le you may. Throw not the chill of your own despondency over his soul. Rather, be like Jesus, whp came to the wedding hiding His own grief and kindling the joys of others. So I have seen the sun oh a dark day, struggling amidst clouds, black, ragged and portentous, but after awhile the sun, with golden pry, heaved back the blackness. And the sun laughed to the lake, and the lake laughed to the sun, and from horizon to horizon, under the saffron sky, the water was all turned into wine. I learn from the miracle that Christ is not impatient with the luxuries of life. It was not necessary that they should have that wine. Hundreds of people have been married without any wine. We do not read that any of the other provisions fell short. When Christ made the wine, it was not a necessity, but a positive luxury. I do not believe that He Wants us to eat bread and sleep on hard mattresses unless we like them the best. I think, if circumstances will allow, we have a right to the luxuries of dress, the luxuries of diet and the luxuries of residence. There is no more religion in an old coat than in a new one. We can serve God drawn by golden plated harness as certainly as when we go afoot. Jesus Christ will dwell with us under a fine ceiling as well as under a thatcned roof.

vt hat is the difference between a Chinese mud hovel and an American home? What is the. difference between the rough bear skins of the Russian boor and the outfit of an American gentleman? No difference, except that which the Gospel of Christ, directly or indirectly, has caused. When Christ shay have vanquished all the world, I suppose every house will be a mansion and every garment a robe and every horse an arch necked courser and every carriage a glittering vehicle and every man a king and , every woman a queen and the whole earth a Paradise, the glories of the natural world harmonizing with the glories of the material world until the very bells of the horses shall jingle the praises of the Lord. I learn, further, from this miracle that Christ has no impatience with festal joy; otherwise he would not have accepted the invitation to that wedding. certainly would not have done that which increased . the hilarity. There may have been many in that room who were happy, but there vvas not one of them that did so much for the joy of the wedding party as Christ himself. He was the chief of the banqueters. When the wine gave out, He supplied it, and so, I take it, He will not deny us the joys,that are positively festal. I think the children of God have more right to laugh than any other people, and to clap their hands as loudly. There is not a single joy denied them that ,is given to any other people. Christianity does not clip the wings of the soul. Religion does not frost the flowers. What is Christianity? I take it to be simply a proclamation from the throne of God of emancipation for all the enslaved, and if a man accepts the terms of that proclamation and becomes free has he not a right to be merry? Suppose a father has an elegant mansion and large grounds. To whom will he give the fh-st privilege of these grounds? Will he say: "My children, you must not walk through these paths or sit down under these trees or pluck this fruit. Thesa, are for outsiders. They maywalk in them." No father would say anything like that. He would, say: "The first privileges in all the grounds and all of my house shall be for my (

cwn children." And yet men try te make us believe that God’s children are on the limits and the chief refresh* ments and enjoyments of life are for outsiders and not for His children* It is stark atheism. There is no inno* cent beverage too rich for God’s child to drink, there is no robe too costly for him to wear, there* is no hilarity ton great for him to indulge in and no house too splendid for him to,lire in* He has a right to the joys of earth; he shall have a right to the joys of Heaven. Though tribulation and trial and hardship may come unto him, let him rejoice. ‘’Itejoice in the Lord, ye righteous, and again I say rejoice.” I remark again, that Christ comes to us in the hour of our extremity. He knew the wine was giving out lie* fore there was any embarrassment or mortification. Why did He not perform the miracle sooner? Why wait until it was all gone, and no help could come from any source, and then come in and perform the miracle? This is Christ’s way. and when He did qome in, at the hour of extremity, he made1 fi rstrate wine.sothat they cried out: ‘“Thou hast kept the good wine until now." Jesus iu the hour of extremity! Ho seems to prefer that hour. In a Christian heme in Poland great poverty had come, and on the week day the man was obliged to move out of the house with his whole family. That niight he knelt with his family and prayed to God. While they were kneeling in praj-er theye was a tap on the window pane. They opened the window, and there was a raven that the family had fed' and1 trained, and it had in its bill a ring all set with~precious stones, which was fpund> to be a ring belonging to the-'royal family. It was taken up to the king's residence, and for tha honesty of the man in bringing it hack he had a house given to him and • garden and a farm. Who was it that sent the raven tapping on the window? The same God that sent the raven to feed Elijah by the brook Cherith. Christ

in tue hour of extremity! Ycu mourned over your sins. You could not find 4he way out. You sat down and said: “God will not be merciful. He has cast me off.” But in that, the darkest hour of your history, light broke from the throne, and* Jesus said : “Oh, wanderer, come home; I have seen all thy sorrows. In this, the hoiuir of thy extremity, I offer thee pardon and everlasting life!” Trouble came. You were almost torn to pieces by that trouble. You braced yourself up against it. You said: “I will be a stoic afid will not care.” But before you got through making the resolution it broke down under you. You felt that all your resources ^ere gone. And then Jesus came. “In the fourth watch of the night.” the Bible says. “Jesus came walking on the sea.” Why»did he not come in the first watch or in the second watch or in the third watch? I do noKknow. He came in the fourth and gave deliverance to His disciples. Jesus in the last extremity! I wonder if it will be so in our very last extremity. We shall fall suddenly sick, and doctors will'come, but in vain. We will try the anodynes and the stumulants and the bathings, blit all in vain. Something will say: “You must go.” No one to hold us back, but the hands of eternity stretched out to pull 4is on. What then? Jesus will come to .ns, and as we say: “Lord, Jesus. I apt afraid of that water; I cannot wade through to the other side,” He will say: “Take hold of my arm.” And we will take hold of His arm. and then He will put His foot in the surf of the wave, taking us on down, deeper, deeper, deeper, and our souls will cry: “All Thy waves a nd billows have gone over me." They cover the feet, come to the knee, and pass the girdle and come to the head, and our soul cries out: “Lord. Jesus Christ, I cannot hold Thine arm any longer.” Then Jesus will turn around, throw both His arms about us and set us on the beach far beyond the tossing of the billows. Jesus in the last extremity! The wedding scene is gone now. The wedding ring has been lost, the tankards have been broken, the house is down, but Jesus invites us to a grander wedding. You know that the Bible says that the church is the Lamb’s wife, and the Lord will after awhile come to fetch her home. There will be gleaming of torches in the sky. and'the trumpets of God will ravish the air with their music, and Jesus will stretch out His hand, and the church, robed in white, will put aside her veil and look up into the face of her Lord, the King, and the Bridegroom will say to the bride: “Thou hast been faithful through all these years! The mansion is ready! Come home! Thou art fair, my love!” And then He will put upon her brow the crown of diminion, and

tne table wjji be spread, and it will reach across the skies, and the mighty ones of Heaven will come in. garlanded with beauty and striking their cymbals, and the Bridegroom and bride will stand at the head of the table, and the banqueters, looking up, will wonder and admire, and say: “That is Jesus, the Bridegroom! But the scar on His brow is covered with the coronet, and the stab in His side is covered with a robe!” And “That is the bride! The weariness of her earthly woe lost in the flush of this wedding triumph!” There will be wine enough at that wedding; not coming up from the poisoned vats of earth, but the vineyards of God will press their ripest clusters, and the clips and the tankards will blush to the brim with their heavenly vintage, and then all the banqueters will drihk standing. Esther, having come up from bacchanalian revelry of Ahasuerus. w’h©*e a thousand lords feasted, will be there! And the queen of Sheba, from the banquet of Solojoon. will be there. And the mother of Jesus, from the wedding in Cana, will be there. And they all will agree that the earthly feasting was poor compared with that. Then, lifting their chalices in that light, they shall cry to the Lord of the feast: “Thou ha«t kent the good wine until now ’*

SOLD FOB A SLAVE. ..-. TWO gray-b$ired men met in the hote lobby »nd, with every evidence of delight at the nfeeting, shook bands and forthwith adjourned to the potation department. “There’s a story goes with that,” said the clerk to a reporter, jerking his head over toward the retreat mg figures, “and if you will ask your coachman to hitch your wagon to a star for a few brief momenta I’H give you the particulars as narrated to me this morning by the elder party, who preceded his friend hither by some 18 hours. “I believe that you will find it interesting, for 1 know that I did. It is an incident that shows a side of life before the war, and one of the ways of raising necessary funds that we do not have to-day.” “They are Cubans, as you may have inferred from their dark complexions,” proceeded the clerk. “The name of the older one is Mendez, and of the younger, Guardia, and they have lived in the United States for the past 20 years. While they lived in Cuba they were accustomed to yisit this country every two or three years, having a business connection in New York. This was before the civil war, and traveling in those days was not what it is now. Still they had money and expense vgas no great object to them. They used to come hither on any old ship that might be sailing when they were ready to start, there being no regular lines, and they would land in New Orleans, Savannah or Charleston, as it might happen, and sometimes they would get a ship sailing direct to New York. “Once, and this is where the story comes in, they were delayed in New Orleans for two weeks and ran out of money. They didn’t know anybody well enough to borrow from, and they did not want to write to their New York friends if they could devise any other scheme whereby they might be saved. Finally Mr. Mendez evolved a brilliant idea which was that Guardia should blacken himself a little more than nature had done for him and let Mendez sell him as a darky. Guardia thought it would be a great joke, and they Waited for | a chance. “Thechance was not very long in coming. In fact it was necessary that it should present itself with considerable promptness if they wefe to tide over the financial difficulties without asking assistance from friends in the north, which they did not wish to do. “Mendez had a friend down along^ the sugar coast somewhere, 50 or 60 milesTrom the city, and he asked him if he could go down and spend a few days with him. Of course such a request was only too gladly answered in the affirmative, and Mendez

was invited to come and stay three or four years if he wanted to. They had money enough to buy two round-trip tickets on the steamboat going that way, and when the boat landed at Mended friend’s plantation he went ashore followed by a darky body servant carrying his luggage. The body < servant, it is hardly necessary for me to explain, was Guardia, fixed up for the occasion on the boat as they came along. “Mendez was received with open arms, but poor Guardia had nothing to do except to take his place in the quarters of the real thing, and when he went into the big house to look after his master in his room, he kicked like a steer and wanted to show his hand, but Mendez pictured to him how necessary it was for them to get funds and this was the only way on earth for them to do it. Guardia submitted, but he did not stop kicking, whenever the opportunity offered. It was no joke to him, but Mendez thoroughly enjoyed the situation* and lost no opportunity to order his body-serv-ant around like a tyrant of ancient Rome. “After a visit of four or five days, which Mendez enjoyed a great deal more than Guardia did, he concluded to return to New Orleans, and ordered Guardia to pack up his traps. The boat came by in the morning, and the evening before, Mendez in a conversation with his host, referred to his body-servant as a likely boy, but said that he did not want to take him to New York with him as he was troublesome to travel with, and was expensive without being especially necessary. Guardiaj it seems, had made a fairly good impression, and when the master spoke of making some disposition of him other than taking him along with him, the host made a proposition to buy him. Mendez hesitated about selling him, but finally agreed to let him go for $1,200. The host objected to the figures, but brought Guardia in for inspection. After looking him over, during which operation Guardia heard himself discussed in a more personal manner than he had ever preveiously experienced, he made an offer of $1,000 for him, spot cash. A thousand dollars was about a thousand times as much money as both friends had at their command, and after a few minutes more higgling, Mendez accepted the -offer and took a check for the amount on a New Orleans bank. “That night in the room ofthe master, they tried to devise plans of escape for Guardia, but could arrive at none, and they parted the next day with an understanding that Guardia must look out for himself as best he could. Their parting at the boat, Mr. Mendez says, was one of the most pathetic incidents of his whole life, and brought tears to all eyes, and especially Guardia’s, for if ever anybody was in a bole, he was. Mendez left on the boat promising to repeat the delightful visit on his way back to Cuba if he came that way, and four days later he was joined in Hew Orleans by his late body servant.

i Guardia s story of his escape from bondage was very simple. He had been sent to the little town about three miles from the plantation on an errand the day after Mendez had gone, and wore under his servant s rig a suit of his own clothes. In the town he scrubbed all the color off of himself, put on his own clothes and appeared at the little tavern with a valise he had bought on his new master’s credit. He stayed in his room during the day to prevent suspicion and slept there that night until four o’clock in the morning, when he slipped out and cut across the country to catch the boat at an upper landing above the scefte of his late captivity. What Mendez* friend was thinking about the los# of his new bodyservant he could not say. “Neither could Mendez, and to prevent accidents or any disagreeable explanations, the two friends got on the first boat up the Mississippi and left New Orleans, having about 8600 between them, after all debts had been paid. They followed the water courses as far up as Pittsburgh and went thence to New York by the usual mode of travel ,then prevailing, part of which was stage and part railroad. Arriving in New York, they at once prepared a letter of the most contrite apology’ to the late host of Mr. Mendez, and master of Guardia, and inclosed a draft for the thousand dollars paid for Mendez’ body-servant. with enough extra change to pay for the valis6 and Guardia’s hotel bill. They were a bit nervous over the effect of the joke on the planter, but he was the right kind of a man, and wrote back offering Mender ?l,0CCi.021-2 for Guardi*.”—N. Y. Sun..

PLANKS QF THE PLATFORM. P»liti That Crap Oat la the Ft it. Sianae at the laipertalftatle Party. The gold standard. . A protective tariff. , The blessings of liberfy and civEL ation by cannon. Ship subsidies to advance the m trchant marine. Trust twaddle. Indorsement of peace conference at The Hague. Reduction in war taxes after the adjournment of congress. The above, in brief, is the republican platform adopted in national convention. For the first time in the history of our American politics a great political party has declared in specific terms in favor * of the gold standard1. It has condemned the bim etaltism, for which its candidate, and the people's president, voted on three occasions as a representative in congress from Ohio. It places itself firmly on record as the party of protection and proposes to maintain inviolate the trust breeding Dingley bill, to the alleged beneficent effects of which, wrth the gold standard,it-is claimed the supposed prosperity now felt in the land is entirely due. The Philippine decla rations are the most unsatisfactory of all the planks of the platform. They indicate an indefinite, uncertain policy summed up in the clause that thesituuBY COURTESY OF HESS

RENOMINATION OF 2PKINLEY. It la tke Will •( the Truti ud Me. aoeollM That He Be Ceatla* act ta Office. Four years ago Mr. Hanna succeeded in nominating Hon. William McKinley as the republican candidate for president of the United States. But it was only accomplished after two years of the hardest kind of preliminary political work, the aid of creatures like Wimberley, of Louisiana; the purchase of several hundred head of delegates from rotten southern borohghs, and the most lavish promises of patronage. On account of these malodorous but necessary preparations, Senator Platt, of New York, often andi feelingly referred to Mr. McKinley as “the mortgaged candidate." His shrewd business manager did not escape- harsh criticism at the hands of many party leaders of that day. Hanna did- not mind the slurs of his antagonists in the game. He made his plans, kept his check book in a condition of pernicious partisan activity, and landed his man. Between the time of the St. Louis convention and that in Philadelphia, how things changed! Again Hanna was on hand to nominate William McKinley. He had not had to do any preliminary work, and there was no one to say him nay. He was no longer the rank outsider trying to elbou RS. HANNA AND PLATT,

tion demanded that the United St ltps should put “down armed insurrec ion aud confer the blessings of liberty and civilization upon all the rescued people.” And now, “the largest measu e of self- government consistent with their welfare and: our duties shall be sec ured to them by law.” “Self-government consistent with their welfare and ou dutis” is a policy capable of any interpretation, a deception on its face, a f aud on the American people, typical ol McKinley. Trusts that are conspiracies “tu restrict business, create monopolies, limit production and control prices.” are condemned in the paragraph preceiling the indorsement of the protective policy, which creates monopolies, Units production, and controls prices by means of forced combinations. And these particular trusts are condemned by the republicans after the party has had undisputed cdntrol of eery branch of the federal governmer; for four years and has not passed, ns r seriously proposed, a single me; sure locking to the curtailment of These great combinations that are menacing the business liberties and personal opportunities of every citizen of av< rage means in the. land.

With the congress adjourned, the war said to be oyer, the war taxe; still remaining, the platform declarer for the removal of those annoying axes which, had the party been sincer • and the state of the treasury '•what is ■claimed, might have been remov, d before "the adjournment of congress But the indorsement of a peace conference. every sentiment of which has been and is being violated b the annointed administration, appr* aches buffoonery. Vie wed" upon its x »erits the platform is weak, fit in that r spect for the head of the republican ticket. Viewed from a democratic staau-point it is an inspiration to victory.—Buffalo Times. — -Until recently the republicans have professed to be cock sure < f carrying New York for McKinley, but a change has come over the sp rit of their pipe dreams and they are viewing the situation with anxiex r and alarm. The democrats of Xetv York, on the other hand', are confic nt of carrying the* state for Bryan a id for the democratic candidate for governor. The democrats of Nev York are thoroughly united and h; rmonious and will put up a stronge • fight to carry the stale than the; have ever before done in the history of the party.—Syracuse (N. Y.i Tele* ram. »'

himself to the front of a bunch oi party managers. To-day he standi alone, supreme, unchallenged! To till naked eye, there is nothing whatever left of the national republican party, except what can be seen under thi hat of Marcus Alonzo Hanna. Peopls who are curious enough to look bey neath the surface are aware th« while he is the unresisted autocrat 01 the great political organization rules with a rod of iron, he is pe mitted and able to do so only as thl delegate of the combined trusts and’ monopolies of the country, who control and dictate to him, even as he controls and dictates to his candidates, his men in office, from the highest to the lowest, and his herd of political cattle in the senate and house of representatives. As it was four j’ears ago, it is the will of the trusts and monopolies that he shall be continued in power, through the nominal" presidency of his personal creation, McKinley. He has but to give the nod. and the job is done. There is a chance that, it may not prove to the liking of the great voting masses of the union; but that is a question which cannot be decided until next November.—Washington I Times.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS. -“McKinley and Roosevelt” is the i logical ticket, as each is subject to a ^ changed mind without previous notice.—Kansas City Times. -The republican party seems to have two United States flags, one of which dees not follow "the constitution and the other of which does.—Si. Louis Republic. -"Even the republicans, who now stand for “cooperation of capital,** are willin,* to denounce “criminal monopolies” if they can catch democrats at it.—X. ¥. World. -—Gentlemen connected with protected industries and trusts are not complaining of the unseasonably cool weather this year. Upon the arrival of Marcus with his historic skillet the supply of caloric will be quite equal to ail demands.—Chicago Chronicle. .-Had the majority in congress been sincere they could easily have legislated against the trusts in the early days o< the session, "when genuine antitrust legislation could have passed both houses and been signed by the president, without delay. No effective anti-trust legislation has been intended.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.