The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-10-21

constitutes the three most essential ele.
ments in successful public speaking 2"
he replied: action first, action second,
and action third.
To the question what constitutes the
three most potent factors in the produc-
tion of great crop of wheat, or indeed,
ofany other, the answer might be manure
first, manure second, and manure third.
LEONARD WILLIAMS.
Greenville, S. c., Sept. 10th, 'S6.
BILL ARP.
The Weekly Budget of the Cherokee Phil
losopier.
atlanta Constitution.
One by one they go. The big fish
keep on swallowing the little ones.
There is hardly railroad now that is
limited by State lines or by its charter.
They have all been merged into the big
syndicates. They were obliged to merge
for they couldent run an independent
schedule. They were pooled out. The
East and West road has sold out to the
East Tennessee and Virginia. This is
all right, l reckon, as long as great COM
petiting lines are left, but now there is
rumor that the East Tennessee and Vlr--
einia is selling out to the Baltimore and
Ohio. The tendency of everything is
towards consolidation. A few years ago
we had about twenty railroads in Georgia
and every one running on its own hook,
but now we have less than half dozen
independent lines. There were several
hundred in the United States, but they
have all gone into about ten great syndi-
Gates. This ABSORPTION has done good in
developing the country and building new
line, as feeders. but it is an alarming
symptom of consolidation of power and
morey. Railroad commissions are utter.
" oowerless to regulate or to control
them, for the commission is hedged in by
State lines and the railroads are not.
The commission can fix the tariff from
Atlanta to Augusta, but it can't do any
thing from Chicago to Atlanta. 1t has
too much power in the State and too
little out of it. Competition is at last
the only regulator. do not know that
there is any complaint of oppression or
unjust charges, but | look upon the gen
eral tendency of things with great con.
cerrl, to say the least of it. There is the
Western Union Telegraph company that
has swallowed up all competition: There
is the Standard Oil company that now
OWLS all the oil wells, and their profits
are millions of dollars annually. They
havs taken competition by the throat
and choked its life out And nov they
have bought up all the cotton seed oil
mills from North Carolina to Texas, and
if they came across stubborn man who
refused to sell they bought all the seed
in tne neighborhood and forced him to
surrender. I see that the iron men and
Goa men are consolidating immense
interests in Alabama and Tennessee.
The strong are smothering the weak. a
few years ago there were score Of retail
dry goods stores in Atlanta, now there
are only eight The small fish bad to go
under and become hirelings. Capital
and brains combined will crush out capi.
tai without brains OF brains without cap.
ital. The big towns swallow up the little
ones in the same way. They swallow up
their trade, and all the little towns can DO
is to keep boarding houses for the people
who live in the city by day and 60 to the
country at night. Country people wont
take their own County paper now for the
great Atlanta Constitution is cheaper and
four times as big, aud 80 the country
weeklies living do languish and languish-
ing do live. The time was when there
was q little settlement at every cross
roads and there was a wagon shop and q
smiths shop and a shoemaker and little
store and meeting house not far away,
but they are all gone now. The little
tanneries and the little mills are gone,
and you will never hear man say I'll
meet you at the hatters" again. 1t does
loo!S like pity that we have to go flye or
six hundred miles after wagon when
right here we have everything to make 8
wagon of. And it is the same way with
all the carriages and buggies and chairs
and furniture of all kinds. We are now
sending the walnut and cherry and poplar
and elm up there and even the marble to
put on the tops and they send it back to
us all fixed up and we buy it. What in
the world is the matter with US. We
have got lots of good schools and colleges
and we educate our children, but lone OF
them seem TO have any fancy for the me-
chsnical arts. Mr.. Brumby is getting
rica making chairs in Marietta. Why
CART somebody try it at Gainesville and
Rome and all along the line? What is
the reason that We can't make as good a
wagon for seventy. five dollars as they
make up North? The timber is better
and the iron cheaper, and the freight
would be saved. :.
But it is all right, 1 reckon, or it
wouldent be no. If we are happy and
contented that is the big thing. am
happy on my little farm, aud I'm not
going to make wagons. I had rather dig
potatoes. I've been digging all Gay and
i've earned my "tater" by the sweat OF
my brow. thought / would dig little
and pick up a little and tote to the heap
a little and rest good deal, but it is a
fascinating business and you keep on from
hill 10 hill to see the big one rol! out
ungil you are all sweatty and your back
aches, but you enjoy it. I love 6, e to ,..l dig
tat,.rs, but I miss the boys. They used
to enjoy it aith me and would hunt tor
the biggest ones and help pick up and
sort out, but they are gone now. Their
dogs are here and look lonesome. They
follow me about now. Jessie comes home
every Friday evening, and then am
happy till Monday. Carl comes home
on;e month and brings some of the
grandchildren, and we have a big time.
We all went on the Mountain last Satur-
day-we children did. We climbed trees
and got chestnuts, and burr fell on
barefoot and il hurt bad and cried. We
took the dogs along and the guns and
killed rabbit and some birds, and we
eat maypops and came back to the fish
pond about sundown, and the chaps
paidled around in the batteau and got
wet, and had no clothes to change IN,
and had to be wrapped up in cloaks and
things until their clothes were dried by
th, fire, and they got good scolding and
q good supper too, and q promise that
the big circus might come and might 60
Without their cooperation.
This is country life and country happi'
ness. So let money and power keep on
consolidating, provided they leave us
these pleasures. 1t may be that some OF