The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-06-12
ARP ON THURMAN.i
Bill Arp Doesn't Like the Tail of
the Ticket,
And Gives His Reasons for Disliking Him
A Little Talk the Tariff-The
Revenue From Whisky.

revenue Il rom W hiSkys
Hurrah for Cleveland! will say that every
time. But am like Pope Barrow about Thur
man. don't care anything about him, and
for the best reason in the world-he don't care
anything about me- He hurt my feelings with
malice aforethought. He made Hong Kong
goose of himself about Henry r. Jacksons
speech in Macon and our tribute to Mr.. Davis,
and when it was all explained, he didn't have
the manliness to make decent apology. He
is little too uppity and biggity for us COM
mon folks. He thinks he is Jupiter and we
are nothing but a moon. What was said or
done at Macon was none of his business. He
was hunting around and shutting the air for
treason and thought he had found it, and SO he
fred off an alarm gun and paved dirt and
throwed mud and-and SO I've lost about 80
per cent of my respect for him and the other
en- for his red bandana. When we elect
Mr.. Cleveland L want his life insured
for four years for I'm afraid
of Thurman.
Now, we all admire Mr.. Cleveland, not so
much for his democracy as for his pluck and
fearless honesty. He is a leader, and not a
follower He runs the machine, and so far
has run it pretty well. He does not try to
carry water on both shoulders and please
everybody, for he knows he can't. But every
card he plays is trump. Every veto he signs
is right. In fact, he is about the only watch
dog the treasury has got The members of
congress are all log-rolling. They are playing
the game of you tickle me, and III tickle
you you vote for my bill, and I'll vote for
yours you build me a 100000 postottice,
and III build you one." when the truth is
neither of them ought to be built Now, if
Gainesville was in the pot maybe l could see
different but she is not, and so we are opposed
to the big fish swallowing up the little ones
and cutting the treasury just because there is a
surplus there. That is the way all these fraud
ulent pension bills are passed. Nobody watches
them but Mr.. Cleveland They are afraid to
watch. for every member has got some pet
bills of his own and he wants votes. Once in
a while they will rare up and Cayort and abuse
one another terrific, and send their big speeches
to their constituents, and that night they will
get together and hob mob and plot and scheme
to put their bills through. They are like the
lawyers in o courthouse who get awful mad
and abuse each others clients ten dollars worth
and then compromise and both sides take a
hundred out of the pile.
And SO the American people are now look
ing to Mr.. Cleveland for protection against
congressional rascality. His message about
that surplus and reducing the tariff is right,
but he is not for free trade. OF course he is
not-nobody is, but everybody is for reduc-
tion-a reduction on everything that he is not
making himself. We are obliged to have a
tariff for revenue, for we cam run the machine
without it. But if the whisky revenue is to
be collected after the old fashion we won't
need much of a tariff on other things. 1t rolls
about 100 millions into the treasury now and
is rapidly increasing. France runs her govern
ment mainly on tobacco. She buys all that is
made or imported and sells it again for two or
three times its cost and pours the profit into
the treasury, but we run ours on whisky, and
the devil says it is good way, but think the
money ought to be set apart to build orphan
asylums i'll every town or city. The laws of
Sparta required that all the spoils
taken from their enemies in battle
should be appropriated to the support of the
families of those who fell in the fight, and
that was right and just and encouraged pa
triotism. just so, all the revenue from whisky
should be set apart as q sacred fund with
which to repair as far as possible the ruin it
does under national protection. If Atlanta
gets fifty thousand dollars year from licenses,
that money ought to go to buy food and cloth
ing and fuel for the wives and children of the
poor men who spent it at the barrooms. Put
it right back where it came from-pour it
back in the Jug.
What set Of political towards these con-
gressmen are. They were afraid to vote upon
the Mills bill or any other tariff bill, and they
are afraid now. They will fool along until
after the election. But Mr.. Cleveland was
not afraid. He wanted that surplus
reduced at once. He wanted the ma
ton relieved and no lodging around
Politics is science, the science of self-interest
When a man is in office he wants to keep in
and so he never makes an appointment to Of
fee or recommends anybody, but what the first
question is what can he do for mellow much
influence has he got in his county-how many
votes can he control-and that is the second
question and the third. When men come out
for office they lay their plans and combine with
those who want some other office and then
they all pull together. The judge of a circuit
is not elected by the people of his circuit nor
by the votes of the members of the legislature
from his circuit, but by the members from sew
enteen other circuits who know nothing about
him and so his election depends on his combi-
nation qualities and his combination qualities
depends on his political smartness and rascal
ity. Now,and then we have an upright, honest
man in congress and in the legislature, but
their name is not legion. There is not much
III politics now but Office and the spoils of
Office. III bet two dollars that man can't
tell the difference between the platforms of
the parties. Both of them will so dodge the
tariff issue that it can be construed to suit
anybody. Both will deal in gittering gener-
alities, and have plank to catch the foreign
vote and another for retrenchment and reform,
| and another for fostering and protecting
| American labor, and after the two platforms
| are built the great hoodgates will be opened
and the sluces of SANDER be poured out and
the nation win seethe and fret, while the poll
| tiCians sing:
"Doube, double toll and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble"
What an awful turmoil is before usl
| The politicians can fall ont with each other
ana laIl IN AGAIN, Dut the people are the mon
! keys who burn their paws in pulling the chest
nuts ont of the fire. l don't care much about
| national politics now, but / do want the re-
| publicans to nominate a good man-GreSham
| Tor instanCe--so that if we should lose Cleve-
| land we would have good man in his place
| Blaine is out of the way, and if we
can escape the venormous claws OF
| John sherman, we will all be
| happy. All l want to know about a northern
man is whether he has kindly feelings toward
the south and her people. That is the talsman
! the open sesame to the southern heart But