Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-06-05
A Card from Mr.. sligh.

Sigh, formerly State Senator from
NeWberry county. Mr.. Sigh is
spoken Of for Congress from this Dis.
trict. Please publish and oblige.
FARMER.
Editor Of the Charleston World.
This is a day Of vituperation and
Iridicale, and the misjudging Of the
motives Of fellow -citizcns. Such
might be expected to exist between
persons of different political parties,
but how is it to be accounted for
with people of the samo political
household and family? I propose,
with your permission, to give MY
views on this subject.
Something has been said about
corruption within the party con
nected with tile administration of
the affairs Of the government, and
those who have been at the head of
such affairs seem to be very much
hurt at such accusations and charges.
don't think that there has been
any corruption, and but little intcn-
tional wrong perpetratcd upon the
people by oflicc-holdcrs, or those iii
authority. stg
Again it has been said that our
State and county governments are
too costly, and that our Legislature
is too cxtrasagant in It's expenditure
of the peoples money. I have held,
and still hold, that with State
constitution formed by oar own pco-
pie and adapted to the circumstances
by which we arc surrounded and to
the condition of affairs existing in
the State, with a judiciary properly
arranged and managed, backed up
by q Legislature in full sympathy
with economical measures, that
much money might be saved, both
directly and indirectly, to the pco-
pie of the State. But | am not pre-
pared to assert that there has been
willful and intentional extravaganza
on the part of the officials. What
might seem to be extravaganza in
the opinion Of one might appear to
and impress another as being strictly
economical, and what might appear
to be just the right kind of economy
in the eyes of one might impress
another with the idea of being Mig
gardly and stingy. And now, Mr.
Editor, this thought brings up this
whole subject, and puts it into a
nutshell, and explains in my mind
the difference of opinion on this
subject that now exists bctwcen all
honest Democrats of the State.
No one will deny but what there
is a vast difference even between
persons of the same family in dispo-
sition and taste. All have their likes
and dislikes. Education or culture,
or training in early life, makes these
differences more apparent. A man
raised up, for instance, between the
plow handles, Utterly making his
bread in the sweat of his face and
compelled, from year to year, to use
the most rigid economy to make
tongue and buckle meet, will not
he cannot approve of what he has
been taught all his life to regard as a
waste of useless cxtrava-
gance. Again, man brought up
under the influences and benefits of
wealth, who has never been taught
the value of money, born, as the
saying goes, with silver spoon in
his mouth, with his wants all sup
piled without any effort on his part,
will not, he cannot, fully enter into
the feelings and opinions of the
other man in regard to matters of
economy. Now these are two ex-
trcmc cases 1--WE have both classes in
South CarolinW and they show how
deep and wide the gap is that keeps
apart these two classes on this sub
jcct. But all along on this same
line, on one side or the other, we
find all other men, and as general
rule just as their training and cduca-
ton have been, they will more or
less bc inclined to array themselves
on ono or the other Of these sides.
That the State before the war was
controlled by Il class whose cduca-
ton and training led them to regard
in a different light in which
these same matters were looked upon
by the masses of the people, is very
clear to my mind. That this class
in controlling the affairs of the
State, in the election of State Oni.
GERS, Judges of Courts, Congressman,
etc, etc, brought to themselves and
families political and social promi-