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"IiKST WE FORGET."
c One does not hear so much nowadays
of Ben ("Beast") Butler as he
did- a-third of a century ^and more
ago. Butler \fcas a general In the
Union army during the War Between
the States and afterwards was elected
to Q'ongress from a Massachusetts
^ district. When New Orleans was captured
l>y the Federal forces Butler
was put In command of the military
district of which the city was a
part und It wns while In command
. vof the district that he Issued his in
famous order directing his soldiers
to treut n? "women of the town" any
lady "who by word or gesture expresses
contempt for any Federal of
nc-er or souiicr. i ne orucr rumcu
for Butler the contempt "and execration
of the clvtlir.ed world outstde the
flutes of the North, the Bondon Saturday
Keview saying at the time that
!t was "read In England with a hor^
ror which no other event In this
deplornle Civil war has created" and
that nutler was "the most ruffianly
commander the world ever saw or
dreamed of."
A writer In the Now Orleans Pleflvtine
said that "he was In all truth
the most ferocious, cruel and vulvar
henst that ever figured In human
form In this country. Hiving or dead
* the truth of history must he written
of him and It is not worth our while
to soil the mantle of charity !>v
spreading It over his beastly record?"
But it remained for John Young
Brown, n representative in Congress,
in the decade following the War
Between the States, to describe Butler
"as brutal in war. pusillanimous
In pence and Infamous In polities."
Butler's chardcter was painted as vile
and his fentures as hideous and repulsive*
"He was unable to understand
an honest man's thoughts or
n gentleman's feelings, and lie therefore
glortlicd In his villainy and
boasted of his nhnmc."
rtrnwn's speech in Congress created
n sensation and ho was said to hnvo
liorn tlio only man who over sue.
rrortfi?i In piercing tho think hide of
Butler. The speech was as follows:
"Mr. Speaker: Tho South is
broken. It Uoh In helplessness un<l
, * despair, with homes dilapidated, villages
wasted, its people bankrupt. Itthere
nothing In that situation to
touch yoti with pity? If vrfur magnanimity
cannot be touched will you
not be moved by the sense of- Justine?
By n eonspiraey between tho
attorney general and Kellogg ami a
drunken federal Judge. ,the sovereignty
of State was overthrown. That
usurpation has been perpetuated
s'lioe by bayonets. But recently one
/ of your generals entered the legislative
halls, ns Cromwell entered the
English parliament with Colonel
Pride, and ruthlessly expelled the ooe
a pants. Onward and onward you "go
in defiance of the sentiment of the
country, without pity , and without
Justice, remorscly determined, It
seems, to drive the Southern people
to destruction, to givo their roofs to
tho (lames and their flesh to the
eagles.
"A federal general Hteps on the
scene and- sends a dispatch to the
world that the people of the State
are banditti. We have heard It
echoed everywhere that they were
thieves and murderers and nightThe
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riders. The clergy of that State,
Jew and Gentile, have denied It. The
business .men and Northern residents
have denied it. A coipmlttce of your
own house, a majority being Republ'.'cans,
has given its solemn and emphatic
contradiction, and roiled the
slander to the counter
"Now what should be said if that
accusation should come froin one?
peak not of men, hut of language
within the rules of this house?if
'hut accusation against that people
should come from, one who Is outlawed
In his own home from respectable
society, whose nnnt% Is synonymous
with falsehood, who is the
champion and hns been such on nil
occasions of fraud, who is-the apologist
of thlovps. who Is suelj a nrod'gy
of vice and meanness that to describe
l\ln? imagination would sicken and
Invective exhaust itself! In Scotland.
vf>ars ago. there was a man whose
lrs.de was murder, and he earned his
Ivelihood by selling the hoiTles of his
\ ictlms for gold.
"'This man's name was linked to his
crimes, and today throughout the
world la known us 'Burking.' If T
were to characterize all that was pusillanimous
in war. inhuman in peace,
forbidding in morals una i..
politics. I shottUL cull It 'ButlerlxIng.'
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Speaking of the effect of Younn?
remarks, a newspaper writer gave
the following descriptive acount:
"Bufler himself was not one of the
first to catch the meaning of the hot,
biting words which ran* out so clear
and distinct that not one syllable was
unheard In the. farthest corner of the
hall. Butler clutched nervously at his
desk, and leaned forward, as if he
wanted to drink In the fearful arI
relgnmnet to the full. Brown was
| evidently deeply In earnest, and after
the first interruption i?y Hale of New
j York hsjd' the benefit of an exceedingly
attentive audience, every one.
both on the floor and in the galleries,
! having turned to hear what he Intended
to say. He is one of the best
speakers in the house and gifted with
a tenor voice which sounds with all
the .clear ring of silver. Ho has a
leal of warmth and earnestness In his
manner that makes his delivery unusually
Impressive under any clr u
instances, and this Increased today
as he neared the climax of his characterization
to a pitch of hot. passionate
utterance that made him
more eloquent than any one who has
spoken In congress for yenrs. As the
mi imcm or nis words became apparent,
the speaker rattled savagely
with his gavel. But Brown was no
mere to be stopped than a whirlwind
lie leaned forward, his face erimson
with passionate determination that
moved him, and his hands clenehed
together as If t/> force the* scathing
words out faster and still more forel- |
l?ly. As his voice died on their ears,
the first Impulse moved every one to
a long breath of relief. Such stinging
words, such terrible denunciation,
put with so much of real eloquence,
are rarely heard, and could not hut
have moved the most stolid auditor."
Brown was ceusured by the speaker.
and wore it as a hndge of honor.
He was the only man who ever pierced
the rhinoceronian hide of Ben Butlei.
Armenia Once Great State.
While Armenia generally now Is
regarded as a country full of starvtto
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ing, oppressed people It w^s once
a great state. Its people were one
of the few ancients that did not come'
under the Hellenic influence during
the palmy days of the Qreclan empire.
As early as 1000 B. C. a distinct
Armenian pebple dwelt on the
tablelands near Mt. Ararat. Having
no definite boundaries the state was
seldom Independent, being subjugated
by Babylonia, the Medes and
Persians, the Seleucidae and the
Itomgns. Conquest in those days,
meant little more than tribute, however.
In the early middle ages Armenia
attained its highest position
through Christianity. In 310 A. D.
Gregory the Illuminator arose and
attached himself to Tiradates, who
soon became king. After much persecution
Gregory Christianized the
whole state** The worst enemy Armenia
met was the religion of Islam,
during the seventh century. In the
old days the state stretched from the
Caspian' sea to the -Mediterranean,
and at one time reached from Persia
to Syria. The Armenians have a
strong business instinct and a talent
for languages, und have learned to
bend, instead of break, before their
persecutors.
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The Increased Cost
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Cement, per barrel
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