The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1883-07-20
LIVE STOCK VIEWS APPLIED TO HUMAN
BEINGS,

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Sometimes 1 think that State or gov.
ernment ought to keep up its human stock
just like people keep up their cattle stock.
When man looms up above the horizon as
a great man he ought to be pensioned and
supported SO that he wouldn't have to think
about money. He ought to be required to
marry into another pensioned family and in
this way keep up a family of brains to draw
from for our Presidents and Governors and
law makers. They ought to be paid enough
to keep 'em out of temptation. like to see
family of brains keeping up the family
reputation and the family dignity for gen
erations to come. like the Adamses, and
Prestons, and Lamars, and Bayards, and all
tsr-ss,ttss.S h;alE ,lea -tiu, rssa;harn rich. I
Wart Eeatnep 70 bss rob as long 1s they
are good. Their influence sprcads al) over.
the country aud We can point our children
to thel Nd say, "There's your mark, 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 is and are not caught stealing Of it:
There is power of differance in human
stock. The pure breed of Yankees never
was favorite stock with me. When it is
judiciously crossed it does very we'll, aud
have known some mighty good grades to
come from mixture of the Yank with the
old Southern blooded stock The old time
Southerner is bloodcd stock. With him
honor and fair dealing and family pride are
bigger things than money. The Yankee
runs on money. Their catcchism says the
chief end of man is 10 keep all you get aud
get all you can. They like what other peo.
pie have got better than what they have got
themselves, and they go for it aud call it
speculation. If they can't get it that way
fast enough they pass laws in Congress that
will get it by degrees. Through tariffs and
protection and bount les and railroad subsi.
dies, they got nearly all we had before the
war and they are still playing the same old
game. They look upon us as foeman worthy
Of their steal. When Yauk gets right rich
and don't want any more, and is sorter bro
ken down in the loins, he gets sorter honest
and gives some away to meeting houses ard
colleges.
A Southerner don't care much for dime
but Yank will get rich off of coppers. H,
will buy nails at four dollars and ninety
cents keg and retail EN- out at five cents
pound Ten cents and the keg is fair prof
for him. He will speculate on anything il
the world. knew ore to buy his wife,
dover in piece of land for 5000 and sell i
to his daddy .in-law for thousand. That
was cute way OF making the stingy old
cuss give him something before he died.
A regular Yank is perambulatin man.
He don't mind going from Maine to Texas
any more than we mind goining to the
postofice. He is smart and he is never
left by the train. When a clever Yank
comes down South and mixes with our peo.
ple he improves by contact, aud if he stays
long enough and marries into respectable
family he is apt to make good citizen. II
helps him and it helps the family, especiall,
if it is poor and proud This kind Of
cross generally does we'll and brings goo,
fruit. The offspring are livelv and shifty
and have the love of money and the love o
honor SO beautifully blended you can't tel
tother from which, A cross between Mas
sachusetts and South Carolina does YER,
we'll nowadays. One is chuck full o.
money and the other of honor. The none,
keeps the honor from perishing out, which
is good thing, for if it amt kept eomforta-
bio it is inclined to degenerate, and tn,
stock will run into scrub in two generation
and have to be withdrawn from the turf
Houor nor nothing else ain't bomb>proo
against the debasing influence of an empt,
stomach. IF a race horse ain't woll fed hi
offspring will play out, and 50 when one o
the first families gifts poor the childre,
become second family and 30 and so forth
until you can't tell 'em from common stock
Then again we sometimes see the com
monest kind of scrub humans blessed will
uncomon quantity of brains. Then yo,
may look out and you might as well surren
der for they are going to have slice of yop
; property. A smart scrub is dangerou
animal. A COW that horns down the fenc,
or hog that roots open the gate or hors,
that paws down the bars is nuisance and
a cuss. They are scrub. The old fash
! ioned first families wouldn't do a mear
. thing They we've above it. They wouldn'