The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-16
Bill Arp MoralIzcs on Men and Matters.

keeps the terrestrial ball q rolling; not
only the ball, but everything that is on
it. Maj may jump up like hopper
grass, but he Las to jump down again.
There is a cure for every excess, Il set off
for every Offset. Every bile has to burst,
and every bubble, too. Seasons may
como and 60, and drouths and floods,
and caterpillars and cotton worms and
potato bugs, but the average is all the
same, and the Scripture is fulfilled which
says that seed time and harvest shall not
fail. Well, of course it don't mean that
the farmer shall make as good crop one
year as another, but he had the time to
do it, and If he failed he tried all the
harder next year and perhaps made up
what he lost. The account is kept bal
anced someway and what is lost is gained
if a man works for it in the right way.
There is many n blessing in disguise.
When big fire sweeps away block it
is built up better the next time. When
pestilence comes everybody goes to clean
ing up. Riches have their curse like
poverty its pleasures. Generations play
at see saw, up to-day and down to.mor.
row. Bankers and merchant princes
break and great men die, but nobody
stops to mourn or pity. The busy world
looks for moment at the vacant place
and says "close up! close up" and we
mourn and pity on the run. was rumi-
mating over your varigated paper what a
world Of news every day Of accident and
incident, of ups and downs, of fire and
flood, and failures, and deaths, and mar
riages, and miseries, and murders, and
how it would ali foot up in years cal
endar. was thinking about the railroad
chess.board thot the magnates are play
ing on, and how first one and another
says "check" and they keep on losing a
pawn or piece, but nobody is mated as
yet and / hope never will be, for the
balance must be kept even for the peo-
pies good, and be kept even some way
or another, for it never was intended that
money kings shall oppress the people or
overthrow them.
THE SOVEREIGN PEOPLE.
was thinking how easy it would be
for Jay Gould and Vanderbilt and Victor
Newcombe and few others 10 combine
and control 81! the cotton or corn or
wheat in the land and make beggars Of
the nation if they dared to, and then l
thought of the forces that kept them
from it, for they know how far to go, and
they know the people wouldn't stand it.
The people are at last the sovereigns, the
kings of the earth, and they are becoming
more so as the years roll on. They allow
kings and emperors like they use to, but
that divinity which doth hedge about n
king is gone. He holds the office and
draws the pay, but that is about all. The
world is assimulating. The masses that
use TO be hewers Of wood and drawers of
water are looming up and coming to the
front. Everybody is getting smart; not
so much from schools or books, but smart
by contact and by absorption. There is
no inquisition now, ne olignrchy, no ty.
rannical priesthood, no barons with their
vassals. Every man can have his own
opinion and is free to speak it, and the
voice Of the people is generally the voice
OF God. In the multitude of counsel
there is safety, ord most every man is
counsellor now. Whatever is, is right,
whether 1t seems wrong or not. The war
was right, aud our defeat was right
slavery ,was right, for it was ordained for
the good of the negro, and freedom was
right, for the time had come when it was
curse to the white man. Everything
moves on according to q plan, proyi-
dence. We remember that years ago
the farmers wore out their lands and
moved westward. This peopled new
territory and gave the old lands rest.
They grew up again In forest and have
been peopled aud cleared again. We
remember when the bermuda grass was
considered curse in middle Georgia,
but now it is blessing and is diligently
cultivated. Time and experiment is
working wonders. The people arc rub
bing against each other, and what one
man learns Is soon caught and absorbed
by his watchfnl nnbors Fixed laws of
justice and morals and business are pre-
yailing ali over the land.
PUBLIC OPINION.
Public opinion is getting 10 be the
supreme law and governs everything.
Public opinion says ono wife is enough
and 80 Mormonism must 20. When rail
roads combine against the people the
people rise up and make commission
to regulate and control them. Jay Gould
may combine with Newcombe and Wad.
ley or any other men. They may bull or
bear the stock, but tho people will con-
troll the roads. The people are long sui
fering and bear great deal. but when
they become desperate they speak in
thunder tones. Stock brokers' and spec.
ulators make power of noise and fuss,
but they don't hurt anybody but them
selves. They are just like passel of
gamblers round gaming table They
bet high and lose and win, but the spec
tators are only amused and entertained.
It is the surplus cash that is ut stake.
It's not my money or yours, nor our farms
or capital in business. We don't care
whether the Louisville and Nashville
stock is one hundred or two hundred, SO
it carries Us and our freight at reasonable
prices. If man has stock in it and it
pays fair dividends let him keep it,
whether it is up or down, and if it don't
let him sell and put mis- money in some
thing else. Stock gambling suits some
folks and SO lei 'em gamble on. Money
made in that way don't amount to any.
thing. If the possessor does not lose it
his children will spend it and leave The
world as poor as their father came into
it. A fortune made in year rarely
sticks to anybody. Five years is hazard
Gus; but one gained by the pursuit Of an
honest calling for ten or twenty years
brings with It that high reward which
justly entities q man to he classed with
the true aristocsacy.
SUDDEN FORTUNES.
No man ought to desiro fortune to
come suddenly. Tswould embarrass him.
It takes several years to learn its best
uses and to handle twith becoming dig
nifty, have great respect for that class
of rich men who made their fortunes
slowly. like these presidents of rail-
roads, and banks, and manufacturing
companies. / can tell 'em as they walk
the streets--there is bearing of dignity
and moral worth about 'em. / give 'em
the sidewalk, do, for have regard for
them. They control money and they
control men. Thousands are dependent