Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1893 — Unpatriotic Uncle Mose. [ARTICLE]

Unpatriotic Uncle Mose.

Indianapolis Journal. “Man come around to see me,” said Uncle Mose, “to see es I’d go on strike. I axedheem his business, an’ he sayed he was a agitator, an’ when I tole him dat I was so busy trying to git enough money to git de odder kind ob tater dat I didn’t had no use fer de agitator, he got mad an’ tole me dat I didn’t know de fpst principles ob bein’ a wukkinraan.” Young Coningsby Disraeli has lately made his oratorical debut in Parliament, and it is observed that he has the same spare figure, with sloping shoulders; the same curl on the forehead, heavy, blinking eyelids, and the same air of dignified self-consciousness which marked Lord Beaconsfield. Old members thought there was a good deal of Beaconsfield’s earlier voice and habits of gesture, too. Frederick Douglass has organized a company for the purpose of establishing a large manufacturing enterprise near Newport News, Va., .building a town and giving employment to young negro men and women. That is a good, practical way of elevating the negro race and helping along the new South at the same time. a Mr. Gladstone astonished some of his auditors in the House of Commons the other night by using the word “gumption," yet who could employ it more appropriately, see ing how much of the quality of the G. O. M. possesses himself?