Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-09-18

If you mean to win tho day,
From %ploughing, clean to the harvcst's
end,
You must hoo as well as pray"
Bill Arp Tells How the Farmers OF
Georgia VIII Run the Government.
Things arc not altogether calm and
serene IN these parts. The farmers
g%roundswcll has amazed and bcwil-
dcred the people.
I asked my friend, John Black,
what he was doing in politics over
in Rome. "Nothing, nothing at ALL
said he in a sad, sweet tone of voice,
"I'm staying inside the house now
and waiting for the storm to blow
over"
"Supposc it don't blow over ut
all said |. "Maybc this thing is like
the dclugc and all you political sin,
ncrs are out of the ark and floating
around on LOGS and chicken coops
and every little while you look up at
the great warehouse with its closed
doors and say Boys, how long is
this Internal shower to last p"
Blessed is he who has n boat OF
his own and does not have to de-
pend upon tho peoples line. Blessed
is he who don't banker after Office.
This whole thing would be funny
if it wasn't death to frogs.
.Afew months ago II town boys
r.yere Juggling around and laying
their plans for the legislature, and
were fixing to catch the Alliance
vote, for it had not gone into politics
then, and the boys got hot over thci,
rights, but they have all swaggcd
down and look rs meek rs II ri,
over calf. The farmers made nc
noise, but simply said:
"Boys, We don't think your sort IN,
fittcn and you amt fifteen to get fit.
ten. So We will attend to this little
business ourselves"
And the boys made a bow anG
said:
O"Jcsso."
| heard a big Allianccman say:
, "We'll show how to run a Lcgis'
turc when orr boys get there. Tnt
boys will cat breakfast at sun-up
just like they do ut home, and in al
hour more you will hear a horn blow
at the capitol, and they will all be
there and go to work and there won,
be any fooling around, and no OK.
cuse 0 abscntccs, nor going. down
town to get a drink nor running of
on excursions.
"The last session cost Il hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, but the
next won't cost the third Of it. III
bet any man suit Of clothes it
don't. We are going to rent out
about half the State House. Every
one Of them stabilized fcllcrs have got
a front room and a sanctum and
sanctorum and a fifty dollar sofa
to sleep on and they have their bust,
ness hours just like the banks and
you can't sec 'cm only when you
don't want to sec 'cm, and they
haven't got to 90 to mill either or
take up the fodder. Dogon 'cm wen
straightcn out their trace chains
when the boys get there.
awe are going to run the machine
in 81 common sense, farmers way,
without any red tape or Sally Mog-
muddy, and if these Judges and
solicitors don't do better than they
have been doing wen turn 'cm all
out and put in some old fashioned
farmer who don't know much law
but do know power of gospel and
high nat'ral justice. There's too
much trigger work on. The courts
have been three years trying to hang
that devil Voolfolk and he amt
hung yet. We could have tried him
in Euharlc justice court in three
days and hung him and saved twenty
thousand dollars that it has already
cost BIB county. It's the lawyers
that do it all and the Judges keep on
letting 'cm, and il they don't change
their ways we'll abolish the whole
concern. There's too much law and
too many books anyhow, and every
time a lawyer makes p little speech
he gets some newspaper man to say
it was the greatest speech of his life,
But we'll straightcn 'cm out and put
( about two-thirds of 'cm in the cot
ton patch"
The greatest man is he who chooses