The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-08-02
COMMUNISM IN NEWBERRY.

found tackled to 4 telephone post at
the end of Mollohon Row:
= Notice to the property owners and
Insurance Companies.
This block can be blilt no more.
Mollohon Row must only live in the
history OF the past. Modern progress
and public necessities DEGREES thus.
Do not attempt. Merchants and own
ers are well paid for losses, perhaps
never so much again, so listen to the
notes of warning. Insurance agents,
warn your companies OF the impend-
ing danger. For twelve months have
we worked for public good, and now
since it has been consumated do not
toy with the Gods any more. We are
strong and determine. We do not
destroy for our good or gain but the
peoples. Ii Insurance companies per-
sist in their efforts against lis. then be
the consequence upon their head,
build ND and we will tear down. You
see us every day and those whom You
least suspect are one Of us. or with us.
None know us and we will find time
and opportunity sufficient to carry our
plans into execution. Mollohon must
die that Newberry may live! Corio-
s-''Mother, thou hast saved Rome
but lost thy son." Mollohon to
s,. Commune
Now. we like that. Think Of it Fer
twelve long months these Gods
with big "G''-have actually been
working for the public good. We
have their word for it. For twelve
months the Gods, with a big &C. were
in Newberry and nobody suspected it !?
And these Gods, with a big G., say
that they must not be toyed with any
more. That is modest request and a
perfectly reasonable one; and they
Shall not. our word for it, they shall
not be toyed with any more. Why,
can it be that the irreyerent citizens
OF Newberry have had the audacity to
toy with these Gods, with big ''G?"
For shame. And they were working
for the peoples woodworking twelve
months! Poor Gods, with big c.?
howtired they must be, to be sure'l
And at last the good for which they
have worked so magnanimously is
ssconsumated'' with one ''m'); Mol
lohon Row sis dead" II you have
tears to shed, let the eistern catch
them. Now, nobody doubts that the
people OF Newberry would have APP
plicd the torch TO Mollohon Row
long ago, if they had only known
that the Gods, with capital "G.,"
wished it but they didn't know it,poor
mortals. and the mills Of the ''strong
and determine ''immortals ground slow
" on A., All !how they must have worked
for twelve months! We fancy that
we can see them taking slug after
slug OF whiskey-the proper nectar Of
Gods, with big &C." and kndling
their wrath as they think OF the fires
to eome-on Mollohon Row. They are
working for the people; so magnani-
nous And, as they take patriotic
slug upon drink, they look into the fu-
ture and pity, yes, tenderly pity, the
insurance men. How our souls. are
weighed down with sadness as we
think of fhe reprobacy of Newberry /!
Then. to think that these little Gods,
with a capital ''G.," their only cap
ital. have been walking the streets
of Newberry. and we have been I'M
able to detect them! We should
like to hold converse with these
visible Gods, who are ''strong and de-
termine.'' If we knew at what office
they expect to get their next mail,
we'd wash and refill our old inkstand,
then get new pen, then lay aside our
old hat and write:
"Dear Gods with big ''G'0
You are trumps you are. Drop in
and wet your. .whistle-and tell us of
the future. Weare as full of questions
as an interrogation point. We want
to know how you expect to benefit the
people by burning Mollohon Row;
and we would like to know what es-,
pecial interest you have in progress,
or anything else pertaining to the well
fare of Newberry. And, you will par
don the presumption of an erring mor-i
tai, we are anxious to know what par
ticular, far away realm produces Gods,
with big &C., and whether you
made your advent upon the streets of
this town from an abode whose name
begins with B." and ends witht
':R.'' And, tell us, We Gods. with
a big &C. as. the future stands
unveiled before you, do you see Mol,1
lohon Row again in ashes? and dc
YOU see two upright posts with a cross
beam from which is suspended a rope
(known among mortals as a gallows)ic ic
and do you see dangling at the end O
that rope god, with little ''g. >" anP
a broken neck? Ye classical Gods
quoting Coriolanus, without applica
ton, rhyme or reason, tell us of tn ~
future. Is Rome really saved? The,
we are happy! Maybe you are Re ,
man gods; no, they never put on th'
big &C. But, what do we see Yet
Even the big &c" is TO q
small for projecting beyond it ", :,
catch glimpse of (ha ha shall vi |
say it y a glimpse of Cha ha! ha! e2 c
cllse our levity, but we really cant
help it) we catch a glimpse of the tips
of-of ears And as we look upon the
tips of those ears, we plug our ears
with. our fingers, for we expect an air.
splitting, resonant bray from the Godss
with q big ''G.'' Be generous old fel-
lows; she'll off that big c. and go
to your homes where your sweet voices
are familiar barnyard sounds" 81
We say, if we knew the address of
these newborn deities who must not
be ''toyed- with any more" we'd
write them polite letter OF interro-
CATION but we do not know their adj
dress, and we must continue in the
common ignorance to which mortals
are heir. The Gods ''decrees thus''-
in the elegant phrase of the, Gods.
with big &C." Don't trouble your
self about any stray Gods that you
may meet; ''let them alone and
they'll go home with their little tails
behind them.'
. The most reliable, carefully prepared and