Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-04-28

goes on. here IS the true lnWardness
dilatory motions or "6llibustering," and thi
state of things is called "deadlock."
have once seen the House of Representa-
tives in continuous session for three day
and two nights, in just such dead lock
taking a recess of not more than an hou
and half at time. A great crisis justi6e
this sort of thing, but no ordinary crisis does
This may after all be great crisis, for it il
deciding the right of the majority to thu
rule and also it is meeting boldly the tactics
which the Democratic side will be likely te
adopt next Winter. After an allnight ses
sion of the sort, the bits of torn paper will lie
on the floor as thick as Autumn leaves in q
grove, 80 serious and restless do the multi
tude of idle hands become. 1t is exceedingly
wearisome also for the galleries; but it is in
the midst of Just such desdlocks that squirt
of fiery debate that blazes all over the coun,
try is liable to arise. 1t is only within four
years past that this sort of tactics has crept
into the Senate Of course, when there is II
large majority of either party it cannot occur.
1t is these near y evenly divided houses that
make tedious and ineffective sessions. .,-.--
OUR TINES AND OLD TIMES.
When my mother was going to get new
dress, or gown as it was called then, sixty
years ago, the woman that was engaged to
come to the house to cut aud make it told
her she was so tall and large she must get six
yards for it. Five yards was common pat
tern, and fifty cents for cutting and making
and dinner found, What change from
that day to this! The cloth cost one dollar
and the making fifty cents, and the dress was
worn to meeting. The fashion and pay of the
preachers has changed. The first Methodist
preacher in our town got $l00 for one years
salary, and if he had a present of pair Of
socks he must report it. The second preach
er had a wife and got $3.50. The third
preacher had wife and three children, and
s35 was added for each child, Bishop He'd
ding in our time got less than $75 year
Also Priest Cough and Lorenzo Dow, less
than either. Our old Methodist preachers
worked for living and for God instead Of
for reputation and a salary.
I was thinking about the fashions in domes-
tic affairs, say music, ffty-6ve years ago.
Governor Trask and I met at Monson for
Thanksgiving with the family where he got
his wife-at old Uncle Saul Squires', uncle to
US both. Their house music was, for treble,
the flax spinning wheel, played or run by one
of the girls for the tenor the large spinning
wheel, played by another girl; for bass, the
old lady whacking away at the old loom, all
working to make their music profitable and
healthy. The fashion of those days was to
have good, healthy family of from eight
to ten children all learnt to work for a living.
What change Instead of good healthy
family now, all up in the morning early to
work, we see from one to three little pimp.
ing children, with sickly mother not able
to take care of two as easily as our mothers
would ten, fifty years ago, without a hired
girl. The children now must be in fashion
lie in bed until eight or nine in the morning,
no appetite, little vitality. They play on
some kind of instrument, and 60 to school to
be crowded with more kinds Of lessons than
our old school teachers ever knew. But
this is the fashion and pretended improvement
of this age.
,nass rthHiRHgs II as d6, "bdf think rhat Lick
economy and morality are not improved by
getting high wages or fashionable education.
This generation will spend what its fathers
have earned. Generally it is watching the
pulse of the man who has property, longing
for the time to come when it will come in
possession of what it has not earned. 1t is a
known fact that the rising generation are
spendthrifts. In my travels in different
States 1 see many old hard. working men
come to want in their old age by their chill
dren, to whom they have given up their
property, who produce nothing, but consume
what others have produced. Old men, keep
the key of your corn crib in your own hands
while you live! What would this educated
generation do for livingif they were thrown
back upon their own economy as their fathers
were sixty years ago? or where many now
live in new sections of the country by tilling
the land-the work God desired man to do
think the time is near when many of the
loose, loa6ng and tramping class will fall
back to tilling the land or starve-or steal,
which is getting so fashionable in many
places. What great change in this respect
in sixty years! About one.half of the pop
ulation have to support the other halt by
tiling the land, for there is no intrinsic
value, except what comes by digging in the
earth -Letter TO Spr;nofeld Republican.