The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-07-19
BILL ARP.
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sometimes | think that a State or Il
government ought to keep up its human
BLOCK just like people keep up their cat.
t,e STOCK. When man looms up above
tne horizon as great man he ought to
oe Pensioned and supported so that lie
wouldn't have to think about money.
lie ought TO be required to marry inio
another pensioucd family of brains to
draw from for our Presidents and Govern.
ors and law makers. They ought to be
paid enough 10 keep 'em out OF tempta.
tio6. IKE to see a family reputation
ana Tie family dignity for generations to
come. ! ike the Adsmscs and Frestons
ana l1amars and Baysrds aud all such,
and am glad they were born rich.
want oil great men to be rich as long as
they are good. Their influence spreads
all over the country and we can point our
children to them and say, There's your
marx, now shoot at it," AS it is now the
struggle seems to be who can get the
richest, and it don't matter much how
they get money SO they get il and are
not caught stealing of it.
Ihere Is power of difference in hu.
man stock. The pure breed of Yankees
never was a favorite stock with me.
When it isjudiciously crossed it does very
well and | have known some mighty
s7"G grades 10 come from mixture OF
the Yank with the old Southern blooded
steck- The old time Southcraer ;s
blooded stock. With him honor and fair
dealing aud family pride are bigger things
than money. The Yankee runs on mon
ey. Their catechiom says the chief end
Of man is to keep all you get and get all
you can. They like what other people
have got better than what they have got
themselves and they 60 for it and cali it
speculation. If they can't get it that
way fast enough they pass laws in Con-
gTress that will get it by degrees.
Through tariffs and protection and boun-
ties and railroad subsidies, they got
nearly all we had before the war and
they are still playing the came old game.
Ihey look upon us rs foeman worthy of
their steal. When q Yank gets right
rich and don't want any more, and ia
sorter broken down in the loins, he gets
sorter honest and gives some away to
meeting houses and colleges.
A Southerner don't care much for
dime, but Yank will get rich off OF
coppers. He will buy nails at four dol
lars and ninety cents keg and retail
EN- out at five cents a pound. Ten cents
and the keg is fair profit for him. He
VIII speculate OH anything in the world.
| knew one to buy his wife's dover in q
piece OF land for 5000 and sell it to his
daddy for a thousand. That was
cute way of making the stingy old cuss
give him something before he died. A
regular Yank is perambulatin man.
He DONE mind going from Maine to Tex.
as any more than we mind going TO the
postoffice. He is smart and he is dill
gent and is never left by the train.
When clever Yank comes down South
and mixes with our people he improves
by contact, and if he stays long enough
and marries into q respectable family he
IS apt to make good citizen. 1t helps
him and it helps the family, especially if
it is poor and proud. This kind of g.
cross generally does well and brings good
fruit. The offspring are lively and shifty,
end have the love of money and the love
OF honor 80 beautifully blended you
can't tell tother from which. A cross
between Massachusetts and South Caro-
lima does very we'll nova days. Ono is
chuck full of money and the other of
honor. The money keeps the honor from
perishing out, which is a good thing, for
if it ain't kept comfortable it is inclined
to degenerate, and the stock will run into
scrub in two generations and have to be
withdrawn from the turf. Honor nor
nothing else amt bomb. proof against the
debasing influence of an empty stomach.
IT a race horse ain't we'll fed his offspring
will play out, and SO when one of tho
first families gifts poor the children
become q second family and 80 on and 80
forth until you can't tell 'em from COM
mon stock.
Then again we sometimes see the COM
monest kind of scrub humans blessed
with an uncommon quantity of brains.
Then you may look out and you might
as well surrender for they are going to
have q slice of your property. A smart
scrub ia dangerous animal. A COW
thai horns down the fence or hog that
roots open the gate or horse that lets
down the bars is nuisance and a cuss.
They are scrub. The old fashioned
first families wouldn't do mean thing.
They were above it. They wouldn't
sacrifice their selfrespect. 1 like them
sort, especially if they are rich. They
have big ideas and big ways and hold
their heads up and look at you when they
apeak to you. They don't walk nor ride
like common folks. I can tell 'er a
hundred yards off. It takes ell sorts of
folks to make up a world and Pm glad
that kind are in 1t. I'm most as poor as
Lazarus, but amt fool enough to hate
rich folks. like 'em, but if you think
you can make anything off of rich
scrub just try it. He don't waste enough
to keep hound dog from starvation.
Pour folks are a right good thing in a
country. In fact, country is obliged to
have 'em to keep rich folks in money.
That's what I've been doing all my life
and if don't grumble at it nobody
needn't. Being poor and keeping so is
my forte, but we have had a right good
time, nevertheless Notwithstanding, for
money brings heap of trouble, and the
children get awful tired waiting on a
rich daddy to die. But l like money
money is right good thing in family,
and would like TO feel the feeling of q
rich man for little while, may be it
would stretch me up little. Mrs. Arp
says I'm getting hump.shouldered. I
would like to be patriarch In a church