The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-10-24
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GouNTY coRREsPoNDENcE.
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Let up, please. The press Of the coun-i
try seem to be in q bad FIX for somSthing
to write about. fEvieEs Since :.i5 election Of
Harrison as President, the readers of the
pareEs have been surfeited with articles
ON the solution of the NEGRO pfotlehi,"
and the best that can SS said of any
OF thena Is ''that confusion Is worse
confouhded." Let the negro alone. The
law protects him the same as 1t does the
white man, in the rights OF citizenship,
and let us see what he htakes OF these
great privileges. Let up, Hlease, On the
interminable negro Question. It will set
tie itself If leiS alone,
Another question about which the peo-
pie are surfeited is the tariff question.
An amusing incident took place in our
last Legislative can vnss, which illustrates
forcibly tho. exact status OF the tariff
question before the people. One of
the candidates for Legislative hon
ors had led off in labored ar
gument on the question, which really did
| not interest the people OF the State, as it
was a National question, when one of his
competitors who was announced to sue.
coed him, rem marked as be com mnenced his
speech that Bill Nye was near the truth
when he said that there but two men In
the United States who understood the tar-
iff question, and one of them was dead,
and the other was in the lunatlc asylum.
It is more of an economic question than
political, anyway, and commission OF
merchants, manufacturers and farmers
| could settle this whole question on bust.
ness principles in half the time, and far
more satisfactorily than Congress of
politicians is likely to do. There are
other practical questions looming up
before the people which ought to engage
more of the attention of our editors than
| these threadbare questions of the negro
problem and the tariff. For instahce, 30
. far SIS this State is concerned the people
| are more interested On the subject of tax
alton and public education. Giles J. Pat
terson, of Chester, has recently contribu-
ted an exhaustive article on taxation,
which ought to be discussed thoroughly
by the press Of the country. The public
| that they may become, TO the masses Of
our people, the colleges of che land. Then
| there is The road law, which concerns
everybody, and its comitant an effective
| drainage law. This last more immedi-
ately in wolves the general health Of our
! County and is therefore entitled to the
first consideration: And then, for Varie-
ties sake, if we must have National
question Of great practical Importance let
the press agitate the currency question.
Some Of these questions, as for instance
the free coinage of silver, was bravely
introduced to. public attention by Mr.. Ter
rell, the Alliance Lecturer. In this field
of discussion there is ample room for 3
display of the editorial talent cf the State.
Let up on the negro and the tariH and
give us something practical.
Mrs. w. +. kendrick, and Misses
Manic and Fanny, daughters, of Green
vile, are on visit 10 her sister, Mrs. E.
A. Russell, of Hamilton. They bring
good news from Greenville as to the pro-
/ ductiyeness of the present crop.
Cotton is resuming her sway as King, at
| least in the South. Within radius of
two miles we can count ak cotton gins in
| full blast. Cotton Heed is becoming an
importer faction in the value of this
| crop, but we would warn the farmers
| against the delusion Of selling the cotton
seed from the farm. AS fertilizer, 1t is
unequaled for cotton or wheat.
T. Fl. r.