The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-06-20

fattened on protection so long they can't
do without it. 1t is right funny to see
some of them bounce off the cars here at
Cartersville, and before they say howdy
they want to know how much we will
give thera to stay. How much land for
brickyard, or how much money for a
stove plant. From the character of some
of their demands, it looks like if We will
furnish the hooks and lines and poles and
bait they will give us halt the fish We can
catch in our own mill pond. But our
folks are not fools, and it takes two to
make bargain. Subsidy is the watch.
word now, and our people have caught it
pretty we'll. When anybody wants to
build railroad they map out the line and
keep it secret, and then make their en-.
gineers survey various lines to the right
and to the left Of every town on the line,
and so get the poor little town scared half
to death, and they go to bidding against
each other for the railroad, ard by the
time the company show their hand and
where they are going they have got nearly
enough money to build the railroad. I
have known them to ask half of mans
farm, to put little one.horse depot on
his lind. They will charge little city
fifty thousand dollars not to 60 around it.
Not long ago company run pretended
line away from little town, and the
people had to strain themselves to make
up purse to hire them to come nearer,
and had to give them hundred acres for
a depot, and after everything was arrsng.
ed the everlasting rascals laid off the
hundred acres into town lots and adyer.
tised for a big sale for 9 new town that
was to dry up the old ones. and the citi.
zens had to 60 over and buy the lots at
about O thousand dollars an acre to scotch
the game and save their town, and they
have got the lots now, and nobody ever
proposes to build on them, and the rail
road company put all the money in their
pockets and smiled smile in their pal
ace car. That's the way they do it.
They want the earth and the fnlness
thereof, and it looks like there isn't but
one way for common folks to get anything
out Of rich ones except to catch the
cholera, or yellow fever, or have an
earthquake or reservoir to burst. In the
good old honest days of our fathers, when
they wanted to build a railroad, the good
people all along the line took stock and
paid it or worked it out, and they built
the road and everybody knew all aboutit
They had no secrets. But now there
isn't any stock, and nobody knows who is
behind it or who it belongs to, or where
it is going to land when it lites. But
there are construction companies and
bonds and mortgages, and in due time The
whole concern gets tangled up in feder-
al court and by the time is is untangled,
a few sharp achemers have gobbled itup,
and you can tell the gosta from the sheep.
But after while the law of compensation
comes in, and the road catches hail
Columbia from the juries when they kill
q cow or cripple man or strain q woman
in her spine. It lis action and reaction all
the time-so il is all right, I reckon, but
I don't want to have my leg broken to
get even with railroad.
The ewhole system of subsidies is wrong,
and our people ought to stop it. Now if
a northern concern wants to move their
stove works down to Dixie, why don't
they choose location that offers the best
natural and commercial advantages for
their business and move there and go to
work. What makes them run up and
down the railroads putting up their bust.
ness at auction to the highest bidder?
Of course Cartersyille can't bid against
Chattanooga nor Admission nor Birming-
ham, but Gainesville has got some things
that those big towns have not got, and
they will keep until some more liberal
and deserving people find it out, and will
come without begging and batting. They
are already coming, and we confidently
expect to see the Pennsylvanians from
Bethlehem and Lehigh valley, who have
just purchased the Cooper property, plant
millions of dollars right hereinmediately
if not before. They are not specializing
nor fooling around, and they are not
asking us to give them anything.
Let us all do the fair thing. One
wrong does not justify another. The love
of money is at The bottom of all devilment
and we won't find much up yonder except
what we gave away in charity. That
much will be up there to our credit on
the books. And so Cartersville sends
hundreds dollars to Governor Beaver to-
day for Johnstown and sends her sympa.
pathy and her prayers along with it.
May that God who tempers the wind to
the shorn lamb send comfort to those who
suffer and sorrow.
BILL ARP.
Poison in the Milk.
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