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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN TELEGKAM. WfcDWfcSDAY, JULY 7, 1915

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Government Ships The Chamber of Commerce of the United States has polled between 600 and 800 commercial and trade' bodies throughout the country on

the subject of the merchant marine. The question of government ownership caused the vote to be taken, but to this original query the national Chamber of Commerce added others relating to subsidies. According to the preliminary count, government ownership and government ownership under private management are overwhelmingly rejected. Majorities almost as great are returned in favor of a shipping board, an initial subvention, and a subsidy sufficient to cover the

difference in the cost of operating ships under the American flag. The poll is interesting, but until an analysis has been completed the figures can not be taken to mean much. On its face, however, opposition to government ownership is more vigorous than indorsement of the subsidy plan. Out of almost 800 organizations questioned, 698 voted against government ownership, while 82 voted in favor. Only 54 approved private operation and government ownership while 711 opposed. The. creation of a shipping board to investigate the whole subject and report to congress was indorsed by 645 and rejected by 116. During the height of the government ship controversy, the Boston Chamber of Commerce -suggested that the government subscribe to the entire stock of a marine development company to be capitalized at $30,000,000, this company, in turn to lend money for the building of merchant vessels. This was government aid in an indirect form, and was indorsed by 442 organizations and opposed by 314. .. - ,

Government ownership finds no sympathy among the people who are clear sighted enough to view the ultimate cost. So, too, with a sub

sidy. It is possible that the voting bodies felt an

increased need for shipping aid inasmuch as the seamen under the recently enacted La Follette law, are to be "emancipated." The feature of the voting is the interest displayed in the merchant marine. This shows that business men realize a national need. The approval of the creation of an advisory board is in line with the tendency of

the times. Indianapolis News.

Judge Comstock in Address Narrates Stories of Road

The following is a stentotyped copy of the address made by Judge D. W. Comstock at the Centerville Old Trails road association meeting: I We have been speaking about a time within the memory of men still living and I have certainly very thoroughly enjoyed the very exhaustive, I won't say exhausting account, given by tour distinguished citizen Mr. Foulke and the very eloquent speech of our old citizen Mr. Harris and our distinguished representative In Congress. These are speeches,- of course, that have been reminiscent and it is especially gratifying to me personally as it must be to those who know Mr. Harris that he retains such a kindly remembrance of the places of his boy hood and his early youth. It is a compliment to the community; it is a mighty nice compliment and credit to one who has lived in a community to come back and receive the cordial welcome that Mr. Harris receives always in Wayne County. And it is especially gratifying to me to know that at his age he may return to the home of his boyhood and' .find the cultured grain still golden, ' the morning sunlight yet fresh and fair. Recalls Move Westward. I can remember at an early day and I don't want to be outclassed I don't want to be understood that I am too venerable, but I remember going over this National Road as a very young boy myself. I remember having stopped at a number of the capacious town farm houses. Many of them were hotels and resting places and I remember U was an every day occurrence hundreds of times a day almost to see on painted signs in front of the farm bouses, "Entertainment for man and beast. Hay, oats and corn for sale here. Travelers rest. Movers room." In many of these places in the barn lots there were houses erected. Some of them were temporary structures for the accommodation of movers and I speak of the time when there was a tide of emigration going to Illinois and to Iowa the whole day. Many varieties of equipment, some comfortable and some almost luxuri

ous as It appeared then stopped over

night and they would stay in these

houses for a day or two, rest up their

horses, do up their washing and be

prepared again with new energy to

pursue their journey to the west.

I remember a Btory that Mr. Mark

Reeves told me a number of years ago when he was a young man engag

ed I think in some mercantile pursuit in the town of Hagerstown perhaps at Greensfork, but he made this trip

over the National Road as it was part

ly constructed at that time for hundreds of miles, on horseback and he

met Louis Napoleon at Philadelphia. Mr. Reeves was then going to buy his goods in Philadelphia or New York, a custom which the merchants had in those days and he met Louis Napoleon who for reasons satisfactory to himself was spending some time in the United States. And he told me that be was the first man that he ever saw who wore a mustache. He remembered that. He was invited on the boat by Louis Napoleon to take dinner with him at his individual table. Dines With Napoleon. He said It was the first occasion where he had ever seen wine drank at a table and he was invited by Louis Napoleon to sit down at his table but he said that he was too timid. He was too modest to do that but he was thoroughly impressed with the

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Incident Itself and he said that at that time they were still at Washington on the National Road. It had been partly completed and Napoleon took a broad and statesmanlike view of that important National movement. He spoke of the influence that it would probably exert. He was interested especially in the fact that this beardless boy had made this trip of so many miles several hundred miles on horseback and alone. Napoleon Invited him, should he become emperor of France and should he visit Paris, to come to see him but in his late days he did visit Paris and Napoleon was emperor at the time but he said even then he had not quite overcome the modesty of his youth and he failed to avail himself of that privilege. Traveled in Coach. I recall a story which I heard of the great Tom Corwin, a man whose name was fame a good many years ago to everybody who was Interested in eloquence or In distinguished achievements in a political way. Corwin made the trip over this road as a member of congress, a good part of the way in a state coach. Traveling in those close quarters day after day men were obliged to be sociable. They depended upon themselves for entertainment and on this particular trip Corwin had done the best be could to entertain all who were In the coach. His traveling companions had done the same except one man who said nothing. He told no story; he had nothing to say. His silence was noticeable and it was spoken of and he said it was true that he didn't say much, he wasn't much of a talker but he did a good deal of thinking. Corwin said it was interesting to meet one who was thoughtful and he begged to know the subject of one of his thoughts. He said he bad devoted most consideration to solving the problem of life. Corwin said that was a pretty big problem and he begged to know his solution if he felt at liberty to make It known. He said he had solved it. He had reduced it to three propositions. First, never invite a man to take a drink. It might induce the formation of a bad habit and result in the ruin of that man. Second, never decline an invitation to drink because it might result in provocation; it might unnecessarily make the man whose invitation you decline your enemy for life, so never decline an Invitation to drink. Third, never care a damn what happens unless it happens to yourself. Well now It is surprising the number of men who conduct business and live under those selfish "rules. None

in this community of course do. I remember at one of the hotels, part of the Allison property I think it was, part of the Reid property now, I believe it is known as the Reidston An

nex. That was a favorite stopping place there. There was a brick house

for travelers. It remained there for a good many years. There was a place where the travelers roomed. Men

stayed there for days and I remember the first time that I ever saw what was known at that time as a drum simply an extension or enlargement of

the stove pipe opening up into a room

above. Our room must have been

over the office of the hotel the Star hotel then it was. I remember it was in the fall of the year, not cold enough to justify probably heating a house but it was cold enough to justify making the office comfortable. I presume the stove was in the room below which must have been the office. It was a corner room. The drum opened out into the room juet above which we used as our bedchamber. It was a sheet iron structure and it was warm but it was a mystery to me. Nobody put anything in it and I couldn't understand as a boy where the heat came from. I never of course will forget an incident of that kind. Refers to Htnry Clay. So much reference has been made here to Henry Clay, a man the charm of whose personal presence is still cherished In Kentucky and wherever he has been known; a man who is the father of internal improvements and well deserves the tribute that has been so generously paid him and which are only a conservative statement of his merits and deserts. But I remember my mother who herself grew up in Kentucky and like all Kentucky women adored Henry Clay and it was true and not peculiar that regard and admiration and almost affection for Henry Clay which characterized women was not confined to Kentucky alone but was general throughout the country. If the women had had votes when he was a candidate for the presidency and the time I refer to was in 1844 and I am taking

you Into my confidence in saying that I wasn't four years old at that time, but I remember after the election my

father started on this trip in the car

riage with two good stout horses and a little trunk on a rack behind the

carriage which held all our baggage.

We were gone probably eight or ten days, maybe two weeks, after voting.

This trip was taken in Indiana and coming back the elections returns at

that time came in very slowly and the last election returns came in when

we were almost within sight of home and we met a man on horseback who

was an acquaintance of my father's.

My father stopped the team and in

quired about the news and he said

that Clay was defeated. Story Causes Tears.

The news had just been received that day the last news which gave a

final and conclusive report of the result and I remember that my mother cried, so wrought up, so interested was she in this splendid man, the man of great achievements so far as re

sults show and he was right after all Men as they know one another be

come better acquainted with one another, have more respect if they are worthy, esteem each other higher and

with the imperfect communications

even of today between the North and South the War of the Rebellion would

have been impossible; slavery could

not have long withstood close intercourse with the intelligence and enter

prise of the North. War would never

have happened even with these im

perfect communications. Mountains and rivers intervening made enemies of neighbors. The improvement in intelligence, the increase in intelligence, the cultivation of the amenities of life grow out and are dependent upon this contact and social intercourse which

takes place between worthy and In

telligent people.

I won't detain you longer. This

road, the old National road, will be constructed. Its route, as our distinguished representative has said,, has

not been definitely settled but there is a demand upon the part of the people for the improvement in highways by

which intercourse, social and business

will grow closer and stronger and bet

ter. There is a demand that this intercourse shall grow and be encourag

ed not by states alone, not by communities alone, but by the nation, a

nation better and greater even than

its fame to say nothing -of its wealth or power or humanity or intelligence and for these reasons It is a destiny which is irrestible that this road is to be constructed perhaps not next year nor the year following, but it is

bound to be.

I thank you my friends sincerely,

It was not my good fortune to have been a native of Wayne county but I have received such kindness, so much greater than I deserve from the people of Wayne county, I am sure it could not have been better had I been born here, had my parents been born here and had they here been buried. But it doesn't lessen the gratitude which

I feel for favors past. I would be un

manly and unworthy if I failed to

make acknowledgement of the gen

erous and magnanimous treatment which I never hope to forget. I thank

you.

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How Early Pioneers

Settled In County

NOTE This is the second in- 1 stallment of the address of Addison C. Harris at Centerville, delivered in connection with the Old ' Trails good road celebration. Now Jefferson when - he saw this

land secured which came to be a part

of America when peace was establish

ed. Jefferson said this land, this free land, this land that is not populated, this land shall never be cursed by the

foot of a slave. Slave holder as. be was his father was a slave holder, his wife was a slave holder yet his heart was filled with that emotion of liberty and freedom which filled the heart of all the good people of that time and he brought about in this government more than a hundred years ago an act of congress which declared

there never shall be slavery on that land that George Rogers Clark cap

tured, but it shall always be free land.

Now my people were Quakers long

ago. Very lone ago. And the Quaker

church had issued a letter to all the

Quaker people in which they said It is against the law of God that one

man shall hold another man in bond

age. And so the Quakers down there

in North Carolina where my people

lived all said, "We will free our slaves.

We will be slave holders no more. But they could not free their slaves

in North Carolina because the law of

that state prohibited the owners of

slaves from making them free men. And so the Quakers of that locality, down in Guilford county, at the New Garden Quaker meeting house, sold their property and the Quakers were

well to do people then as well as now, and my great grandfather and others of his neighbors brought their slaves on this side of the Ohio river. My great-grandfather bought land for his slaves in what is now Darke county, Ohio, and then a little village called

Smithville had just been started

where' Richmond now is.

There were only a few people but

they were Quakers and my grandfather and my great-grandfather went up north of Richmond four miles in the woods and the first thing they did was to build a cabin and the next thing they did was to build a little Quaker meeting house and it is still

there not the same house but the

same meeting New Garden meeting house. And my early forefathers lie

there and so it is that wherever I go

and whatever I think of, when I think

most of my people and those whom I

love most, I think of Wayne county because here my ancestors came to

make their home in this wilderness

and to make it a free land and that emotion, that love of liberty, has made Wayne county characteristic all over this great west as the beacon light in the beginning of this county for liberty, for love of religion, for high living, for good education and good neighborhood.

My father was born not far away

from here. He was in a sense, a. pion

eer. He was born the same year that

Indiana was made a state. That was in 1817. He traveled from here to Indianapolis when there was no National road. He wrote a little book for me descriptive of his boyhood and told the story of that journey and the road then was, although it was after harvest when people visited and his fath

er was going to see his brother whom I am going to speak of in a moment, yet the road was so bad that the people had to go outside through the woods to get around the mud holes

and the impassable places in the pion

eer road which had just been cut out from Richmond to Indianapolis.

Ob, those pioneers were hardy men. Mr. Foulke has told 'how they traveled. My father's uncle, Obadiah Harris, was an old pioneer of that time. He was born in North Carolina and came to Indiana with his father when he was IS years old and always said

that the eighteen years that he spent in North Carolina were not to be counted against him because be left there and came here as soon as he

was able.

Now he tells a very interesting story. He lived up here at that time just north of my brother's farm, north of Greensfork a mile, and he wanted

to go farther west. The pioneers always wanted to go west. He wanted to go to the capital, which had not yet been laid out, but had been established, and so he got a team and drove through an Indiana road, a kind of trail, up to Anderson. There was no road to Indianapolis in that time. That was In 1819 or 1820. And so he built a flat boat (turning to Mr. Foulke) not one of these boats you described, but a safe flat boat and he used to ask me sometimes in a kind way to let him tell the tory when got to be an old man, of his first journey in Wayne county. After he built a flat boat he floated down White river. "Well, how did you live, uncle?"

"Oh. I took a pioneer's supplies." "What were a pioneer's supplies?" "Don't you know, boy?" "No!" "Why, a barrel of. flour, a barrel of pork and a barrel of whisky." "And so you came out here to Indianapolis that summer and' built your cabin?" "Yes." "And lived on your supplies?" "Yes." "Well, which lasted the longest?" "Well, I don't remember, but I know which gave out first the whisky." Now those were grand old men fearless,' confident in their own strength and ability to make a home and a country. And now see what they have done. There are more people today in Wayne county than there were in the entire republic on the 4 th of July, 1776, when this nation was born. All this country between the ocean now has nearly one hundred million people. Go where you will Europe, Asia, president or ancient times, where was there ever a people so rich, so educated, so free, so happy as the American people are today? They are all around the globe. On our land we are people of peace and God willing we will remain a people of industry and peace so long as this republic shall live. And this peace is to be maintained by encouraging aad promoting the patriotism and love of country which brings you here today and which is bringing people together in their localities as I have before said, from sea to sea, all to celebrate and to bring once more to their minds and hearts the "privilege, the glory" of being citizens of this great peaceful nation. We ought to bless God every minute before we go to bed. before we close our eyes, that we are Americans and citizens of this great republic. To Be Continued.

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