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SENSIBLE LETTER.

SENSIBLE LETTER.
Which Will Set Chronic Grumblers
| and others Right Before the Pub
lie.
! After thinking on the subject for q long
time, lin fact nearly half an hour) l have
come to the conclusion that the condition o.
is daily getting better. Indeed, there is nc
| telling what progress we might make If II
we're not for some foolish and stubborn people
amongst us. For instance, some men (strangt
| as 1t may seem) actually object to being taxed
| to build railroads, on the ftlmsy pretext thai
| they will not be individually benefited there
| by. Just think OF 1t! A citizen of the United
States not willing to sacrifice even his proper
| ty for the good of his country! Why, a man
ought not only to be willing to sacrifice his
property, his family and even his life for The
good of his country, but he ought to be even
% praise those noble no lei men who % sit around S towf WI
discussing politics, while their families are In
actual want at home.
your property go, let your clothes be shabby
but, above all things, take care OF the United
States. But alas too many Of our people are
Iunpatriotic. When they ought to be In town
| or Qf they live too far from town, at the coun
try post-office watching for q chance to bene
| fit their country, they are at home engaged in
ploughing or hoeing, or some other equally
low and contemplate employment No won
Ject to civilization, for railroads and civiiza
tion are inseparable. 1t Is just as impossible
| to have the one without the other as 1t is tc
make water run uphill, in fact more so %
| wealth. If you receive no benefit from Q
railroad yourself. you ought to be willing. to
sacrce for the sake Of cixzi1e SlG,
being civilized. These people who object tc
railroads, and consequently to civilization
have not one particle of sense, but there are
want to get rid Of the negro. Thisis too aw,
| full to think Of: The negro is the salvation Of
| the South. What would become of all oul
patriotic farmers II there were no negroes al
taking care Of their country? Where would
our pugilistic young men find objects on
| which to exercise their skill? or who would
our lawyers, politicians and other great men
abuse for their stupidity, ignorance and ras.
cal;ty if the negroes were gone?
But there Is another class who have less
! sense than either Of those already mentioned
They are opposed to immigration: They
think all foreigners are rascals and would
you believe it?-they can't see the difference
between poor rascal and a rich rascal. No
body wants the poor man whether he be Q
rascal or not. think Congress has provided
for him. We will not let him land. Well
send him back. No matter how good he may
be, If he has no money this country is nc
place for him, and he might turn out to be @
rascal. He must stay away. But every one
can help to develop the resources of the coun.
try, and he will be q "mayor" or a "coloner'
Again, s there hi is another Glass with less sense
than any have yet spoken OF. These grudge
to pay tax to educate other peoples chill.
dren, especially negro children. Don't they
er," If his skin is black? Do they forget that
he Is citizen of the United States, and must
be educated to fulfill the duties of citizen:
hip7-that is to fill the offices of profit and
trust. The uneducated negro is confined in
his rascality to the stealing OF chickens and
pigs; and for this he is often sent to Jail, and
sometimes to the penitentiary Give him ar an
bank, and let him have chance to defalcate
and make an excursion into Canada. He will
thus become respectable while his forefathers,
pendages, are ohattering in the dark forests OF
Africa
But happily these dotards are In the minor.
ity. The immigrants will come, the negroes
the railroads will be built It is true that
one Of our courts recently decided against the
validity OF q railroad tax on the ground that
a township is not corporate body; but our
enlightened and patriotic legislature can, in a
single session, incorporate every township in
the State and their Intelligent and patriotic
constituents would sustain them. When we
get railroads enough, they will bring to the
even cotton itself cheaper than they can raise
It. Still some old fogies may prefer to run
farm. Well, MIR. Tillman Is providing for
few thousand dollars to establish an agricul.
tural college where they can learn to raise q
crop without work.
AS | said, these anti.progress men are in a
quated notions are fast fading away before
the light Of science disseminated through the
free schools; The country is full Of ardent
or or profit, ready to vote taxes to build rail-.
roads, or factories, or to establish colleges, in
q word to devote all their time talents and
energies to the service OF their country. Then
the women are coming to the front, Women
in all countries and in all ages have been gen.
erous and self.sacrificlng. When Gitteau saw
that President Garfield was about to destroy
the republican party and thus ruin the coun;
the president and was hanged for the good of
his country. Many men have sacrificed heir
lives for the sake OF honor, but he sacrificed
not only his life. but his honor and reputa-
died the death of felon. That Is about all
that mortal could do. But woman can do
more than that. She has feelings and senti-
msns which but
and fame to man. Admired, loved and al
most idoliZed by the opposite sex,-a very
queen of love, beauty and grace-she reigns
triumphant over the hearts and affections Of
high pedestral, and subject herself TO the con-
Eliminating influences, and mingle with the
brutality and profanity of political life is a
sacrifice Of which man can form no adequate
conception, yet, through all this we see wo-
men coming to the rescue. Some, as yet,
merely on the outskirts Of politics, travelling
around lecturing on temperance, others, fur
ther advanced, clamoring for woman's rights
and at the last presidential election we had at
least one woman who was willing to descend
from her throne. lay her crown on the altar of
her bleeding country and serve as president
Of the United States I call this the me plus
ultra" Of patriotism.
When the reigns OF the government are
committed TO the hands OF woman, we may
begin to look for the Millennium. With her
acute perceptions Of wrong and her devotion
to right, she will soon discover and correct all
the evils and abuses Of the government.
Men have debated and discussed the princi-
Piles Of government for centuries, and they
are not yet well settled. But woman can see
at q glance what man can find out only by q
long process Of reasoning-if ever. This is
we'll illustrated by the woman who knew be-
forehapd that the cow would eat the grind
stone II she were turned into the yard, while
her husband has not found 1t cut yet, though
he has been investigating the matter for more
than forty years. S. H. ROSS.
Nipety-Six, S. c., Aug. 10, 1888.
ms" GOOD LETTER.