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BILL ARP AGAIN.
He Makes a Dig ut the Oficehold-
ers and O~ficeseekers.

"Bil Arp" having threshcd out his wheat
seems TO thlnk he needn't work any more
the Constitution. His last lis In thai paper O
Sunday, and. this Is an extract from IT.: .
Well, the corn is GROWN out OF sight. II
amt given us any chance to lay 1t by decent
IN, for the rain come along every time Wher
we get ready TO pillow, and then we, have tt
wait for the ground 10 dry. Old PcckcrwoOd
remarked that 1t was the ranlest time he ev'
er experienced, and he rcckoncd somebody
must have hung up q power OF dead snakes
this spring. II these good seasons continue
there will be corn enough made for another
small war, and I'm afcnrd 1t Won brine
more than - cents bushel. II every body
had a little money we would all be comfort
able, for things we have to buy are powerful
cheap. But that's the trouble, and VIC motto"
cd for thirty years that when the things
wan ted arc cheap as dirt / didn't have n cent
to buy with. j do believe 1t Is better to have
Il pocket full of poor money and let things be
high, for there Is comfort in fcclin' of 1T tho
1t amt worth much. When 1t took Il hun
dred dollars in "COnfcd" to buy q pound o
tobacker ! felt sortcr like a gentleman, If
had the money; but now l feel as mean as q
yallcr dag when my assets gifts down to half &
dollar.
I think I understand these 1aw makers
purity well. It Is to their intruSt to make
money scarce. You sec they are very keer
full not to reduce their own salaries, tho one
dollar will buy three times as much, now as
1t did when they voted themselves six thou
SInQ QOlltIS ~ StbT. lGS lo NOiuCI tuCS
stand for reelection" Human natul
would stand forever on such q hand as that
But we, the people, are the sufferers, for !
they don't reduce salaries they can't reduce
taxes. We are just like them mules that
pulled round the thrasll-work, work all tho
day long at the crack of the whip, but the
wheat is all for the white folks. l suppose
we will git Il little Of the straw. Times use &c
was when the people called Il man from his
retirement, and axed him to serve them, but
pow-a-lny vs. n fellow can hold on to an offs
until he thinks it belongs to him. Hc don't
ahead Of everybody, and you can hear him
a mumblin "I'am in, and I'll be burned If ]
nint II goin' to stay in. I've got some person
al friends, and ! can get the niggers and seal:
awags, and you may 60 to the devil with
your convention"
You see they control the scallawags by
keepin' 'em In office, and the scallawags con-
troll the niggcrs. and they oil mix up hash to
gcther and call 1t independence. This hash
party Is CROWN bigger and bigger and II oul
people don't mind they will absorb q heap
more Sorebacks than ToOmbs. Bob never
would work in q wagon with Il driver behind
no how. and l have thought that may be If Inc
could get in the rear and butt 1t around like q
goat, and once or twice in Il while turn
the concern over, he would bc satisfied. But
some how or other / like Bob-as Il man-not
as Il very great man-for In my opinion, onc
man amt very much greater than another nc
how. The principal difference is in the guam.
tity of conceit and ~impudcncc. Time was
when mOdcSty was one Of the ear marks Of
greatness, but that's a lost art now.
Yours, BILL ARP.