The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-03-22
=sRYs CITNKSCALES & LANGSTON.
BILL ARP
Has Something to say en- the Tariff 9uos-
ton.

has Something to say en- the Iarln Hues-
ton.
We are tired-yery tired. We want
some protection against the tariff. We
want little time to rest and digest. The
people are torn all to pieces and no two
are alike in their views. In fact, there
is hardly any one alike. Il am not alike
myself and believe / had rather pay
my part and take receipt and quit.
The whole thing is in taugle. The
Constitution interviewed six men the
other day and they all differed. If the
differences were small we could compTo.
mise, but they are not. I believe that
the politicians are making more fuss than
the people. If you wantto hear argu.
ment just circulate around these people
who haven't got anything else to do.
Get about three lawyers and two editors
and one doctor and two or three gentle.
manly loafers together, and they will
make the fur fly from the tariff. But it.
takes candidate for the Legislature to
illuminate it. overheard one talking
to some farmers to day and I couldn't
tell which sidehe was on. He said eff"
and "provided" and "however" so.often
that / was reminded of old Squire
McGinnis, who charged the jury that "if
the COW was on the track in the trains
time, or the train was on the track in the
cows time, then they must find for the
COW, provided they. could reconcile the
evidence, and if they believed the lawyer
on the cows side, or the lawyer on the
trains side, or nary one, or both just as
they pleased, then in that case they
should find for the cow. But if the COW
broke out of the paster with malice
aforethought and jumped on the track in
front of the bulgine, then they must find
for the cow-and my costs are two dol
lars and thirty-one and q quarter cents.o
The people who work hard for living
haven't got time to fool with the tariff.
They lose more than they make by it. !
knew man over in Rome who lost q
whole week running about town trying
to have man beaten for mayor because
he was in favor of building an academy
and taxing the people to pay for it. He
Just quit his work and cavorted about,
saying it would ruin the hard working
people to pay so much tax. I figured up
his part and it was Just forty:6ye cens,i
and SO 1 gave him. a dollar and told him
to hush. Cobe. says he don't know
nothin' about the dogon thing no how,
and he don't 'keer,' and he thanks the
fordeYery night that he is out of Jail.
The rich fotks-Rho want to get richer
seem very much concsrnet for,f fear the
wages Of the poor laboyers will come
down.S!I like that. 1T shows their
humanity, their sympathy. I reckon
that is the reason Mr.. Gambler is so mad
about the reduction On marble. He is
afraid. that marble company over in
Cherokee will cut down the wages of the
men who are at.work at the,quarries..
I wonder if We hadents better let Che,
whole thing alone andtlet thatssurplus
get bigger and bigger and divide it out
among the States. Just let the money
90 round and round like the rivers run
into the sea and the sea evaporates into
clouds and the clouds send down the
rain and keep the rivers going all the
time. Georgia woulds gets.abont FIRE
millions q ysar that way and its sWoad
build a good school house at every cross
roads and pay the teachers and work all
the roads and build all the bridges:
There are so many different interests all
over the vast country that we can never
harmonic onia tariff bill, but We could
agree on division among the States and
the poor people would get the largest
benefit. lam willing to that right now,
and 1 know that Cobe is. When Uncle,
Sam gets rich he ought to divide with
the boys. OF course he oughteut tosgeti
rich off of the boys, but they are quarrel.
ing all the time, and I reckon the old
man had better tax them until they hush
and give his money to those who make
the least fuss and need it the most. Such
as me aud Cobe, for instance.
But, then, all this issUtopian nonsense,
and Arcadian simplicity, for Uocle Sam
is not going to do any such thing Ran
dali and Carlisle won't let him. They
are the biggest boys in the school, and
rather quarrel than not, and SO We will
have to let them and their followers fight
it out. I.reckoni we can stand it. Sup
pose the marble is high; We won't want
tombstones until We die, and as for mar.
BILE top bureaux and washstauds. we can
do without them while longer. 1t is
not the tariff that worries us. 1t is these
every day expenses that never stop.
There is no tariff on wood or coal, or
meat, or bread, or coffee, or school bills,
or music lessons, or goiug to every fool
show that comes along. There is no
tariff on Methodist concerts, or Presbyte-
rian. suppers, or Episcopalian bazaars !;
but We have to go to them all the same,
and haven't bit of protection from the