The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-01-10

ANDERSON. Sc,
hundred thousand feet of q day and kiln
dries about half that it cuts and dresses
all that it dries, and the plant cost four
hundred Thousand dollars. The logs are
doated twenty miles in plank race that
cost twenty thousand dollars. The logs
are end to end the whole line and moves
just as the company wants them: This
company is from Michigan and OWNS over
l1OO, 600 acres of timber land, and they
intend to cut it all up. The yankees are
taking that country. I met one who was
preparing to plant 100 acres in ,Lecompt
pears. They will find use for the land
after. the timber is all. cut away. They
build good houses to live in. They dress
Iwell and drive good teams. They build
nice, churches and academies, II know
one dwelling that cost $4,000, and aey;
ieral, that, cost; half that sum. All this
venture of northern men and northern
capital has come within +! tWo 4 years, and
the. CRY is still they, come. They don't
come footing horns nor waving banners.
They don't come in syarms \ y 81 nor plstoons,
but they. are slipping down upon us
quietly, and before we know il have
boughti up our lands or our mines at
their own figures. They prefer to invest
in. new places where our people have
slighted and then go at once to developing.
I find them wherever I 60 and am. glad
tosay that our people give them welcome.
They seem content in their new homes,
and their wives and daughters 60 into
raptures over our climate. They are
nearly all republicans, and civilty, morals.
Ity and energy is making their politics re-.
:apectable. They have no love for, the
negro, and say that in a few years he will,
not be a factor in national politics. They
say that his party tried hard to get bis
vote, and failed, but they do not need i
now, and do not desire bis afiliation.
One man said to me: , sol, .t,;5.
~ You Southern Democrats know better,
how 70 manage him and we will, glaatdlly,
let You do it. We have q clear majority
|. in both houses, and will soon make some,
more republican States out Of the terrific.
ries, and will run the government until
new issues come up, and new parties are
formed that will divide the solid south,
and, in the meantime, we will help to
divide it BY transplanting thousands Of
our best people to this inviting land.
Your people seem at a loss what to decide
what was the real cause ofMr Oleveland's
defeat. but / can tell you. Il was not 9
bad administration, nor was it the tariff,
but it MAS the solid south. That battle
cry aroused our northern pride. It was
the chip on the hat. Il. was human ma:
ture; it was not politics."
Alas, poori darky It.looksl.like he is
going. to be leftiout in the icold-goiDg to
fall between. In nationalpolitics he will
not ibe wanted; and in State. politics the
southern republicans will unite with. .tthe
democrats in ruling him out. But.he has
49, - - -i,,-
got his muscle safe and can. always rely
upon that. He has got bis good nature
and his contented disposition SO we need
notworry about him.. Isaw one the other
day in a side show to a circus. he had
his big. black head sticking through a
hole in the wall. as target. to, be thrown
at with a. ball or an egg. .esStep this way
gentleman, and kill the coon" said the
manager to the gathering crowd, and for
hours, the boys paid afnickle for shot
and fred away. The coon was allowed
to dodge bnthis lodging soon was very
limited. If he was hit the :marksmen
got q, dime. # bit twiee;ip succession he
got 4 4 aa.quaarteEand. fol three good dShdb
the fund vas fifty cents. "step this way
gentlemen -anda kill the rooon.@ When
eggsswere used the price was dime q
throw. I saw one fellow poptthe coon
square in the mouth with a ball and it
hurt-I know it did for the coon pulled
in his head and struck for higher wages
and got them. I couldn't tell whether
his lips were swollen or his nose aattened,
but his big face seemed pufed and bumpy
from the daily pounding. Isee him now
like photograph and imagine that I
hear that significant, prophetic speech Of
the yankee manager, "Step this way,
gentlemen, and kill the coon."
'1.;s5 .5 -; BILL ARP.
-