Good Old Days 4/14/2011

8 years ago

April 16, 1886

Every cross-roads country newspaper is just now teeming with deep, thoughtful and wise editorials on the “lessons of the times,” and each one places our country on the very verge of destruction. This nation has been afflicted with just such false prophets ever since it won its independence. They are shallow-brained, wordy simpletons.

The disappearance of William Warner, simultaneously with the judicial decision that he stole $1,400,000 of Grant and Ward’s assets, proves the general correctness of public opinion. The public opined a year ago that there was something...