The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-09
BILL ARP.
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Southern Cultivator.

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, wouldn't have to think abou
money. He ought to be required t
| marry into another pensioned fam
f lily and IN this way keep up q fam
lily of brains to draw from for GU
presidents and governors and Law
makers. They ought to be pait
enough to keep 'em out of tempta
ton. l like to see a family O
brains keeping up the family rep
utation and the family dlgnit,
for generations to come [ like the
! Adamses and Prestons and Lamar.
and Bayards and all such and / an
| glad they were born rich. l wan
all great men to be rich as long az
they are good. Their influence
spreads all over the country and we
can point our children to them and
say, "There's your mark, now
shoot at it." AS it is now the
struggle seems to be who can gel
the richest, and it don't matter
much how they get money so they
get it and are not caught stealing
of it.
There is no power of difference
in human stock. The pure breed
of Yankees never was a favorite
stock with me. When it is judi
ciously crossed it does very well
and l know some mighty good
grades to come from a mixture of
the yank with the old southern
blooded stock. The old time south
erner is blooded stock. With him
honor and fair dealing and family
pride are bigger things than money.
The yankee runs on money. Their
catechism 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
90 for it and call it speculation.
If they can't get it that way fast
enough they pass laws in congress
and get it by degrees. Through
tariffs and protection and bounties
and railroad subsidies, they got
nearly all we had before the war
and the they are still playing the
same old game. They look upon
us as foeman worthy of their steal.
When a yank gets right rich and
don't want any more, and is 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
a dime, but. yank will get rich off
Of coppers. He will buy nails at
four dollars and ninety cents a keg
and retail 'em out at five cents a
pound. Ten cents and the keg Is
fair profit for him. He will specu
late on anything in the world. 1
knew one to buy his wife's dover in
a piece of land for 5000 and sell it
to his daddy-in-law for a thousand.
That was a cute way of making the
stingy old cuss give him something
before he died. A regular yank is
a perambulatin' man. He don't
mind going from Maine to Texas
any more than we mind going to
the postoffice. He is smart and he
is diligent 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 mar
ries 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 q cross generally does
well and brings good fruit. The
offspring are lively and shifty, and
have the love ofmoney and the love
of honor so beautifully blended
you can't tell tother from which. A
cross between Massachusetts and
South Carolina does very well now
a-days. One 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
amt kept comfortably 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 ain
bomb proof against the debasing
influence of an empty stomach. If a
race horse amt well fed his off
spring will play out, so when one
of the first families gifts poor the
children become a second family
and so on and so forth until you
can't tell 'em from common stock.
Then again we sometimes see the
commonest kind of scrub humans
blessed with an uncommon guam
tity of brains. Then you may look
out and you might as well sur
render for they are going to have a
slice OF your property. A smart
scrub is a dangerous animal. A
cow that horns down the fence or a
hog that roots open the gate or a
horse that lets down the bars is a
nuisance and cuss. They are a
scrub. The old fashioned first fam
lilies wouldn't do a mean thing.
They are above it. They wouldn't t
sacrifice their self respect. l 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 speak to
you. They don't walk nor ride like
common folks. L can tell 'em a
hundred yards off. 1t takes all
sorts of people to make up world
and I'm glad that kind are in it.
I'm most as poor as Lazras, hut /
amt fool enough to hate rich folks.
1 like 'em, but if you think you can
make anything off of rich scrub
just try it. He don't waste enough
to keep a hound dog from starva-
ton. Poor folks are a right good
thing in a country. In fact, q
country is obliged to have 'em to
keep rich folks in money. That S
what I've been doing all my life
and if 1 don't grumble at it no
body needn't. Being poor and
keeping so is my forte, but we have
had a right good time, nevertheless
Notwithstanding, for money brings
a heap of trouble, and the children
get awful tired waiting on a rich
daddy to die. But 1 like money
money is right good thing in 6