The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-11-06
BILL ARP'S CHAT.
The Investment of Money In the Southern
States.
atlanta Consultation.

John Bull and Brother Jonathan are
circulating among US now. They are
persuing our country with pocket full
of money, and if anybody has got any
thing to sell there is good chance for q
good price. They don't like each other
very we'll, for both are manufacturing and
are competing for the trade of the civil
ICED world. But both are candid, and
seem to like US very well, and say we have
got the richest mineral treasures in the
world. Brother Jonathan has not yet got
tired of protection and high prices, but
Johnny Bull says that that is all that is
the matter with us, and that free trade is
bound to come in the near future.
Last week l mixed snd mingled with a
hundred yankees from Boston and Bangor
and Portland. They came down in their
own palace cars and camped at Button,
a new embryo town about thirty miles
below Rome, and by invitation | met
them there. My son and myselfsold that
iron property to some Yankees about two
years ago, and / wanted to see what mon.
ey and brains were doing with it. I
hardly knew the place. Three of my
boys had mined there for months, and
shipped their ore to Chattanooga, and
Birmingham, and made some money, but
it was hard, dirty work. The natives
were rough, rude people, and knew how
to strike for higher wages just as we'll aB
the knights of Labor. Sometimes we
had eight or ten OK teams. and sometimes
ne had none. Sometimes the steers were
turned loose iu the woods, end the drivers
were running blind tigers fo- a living. In
wet weather the roads to tho bluffs we're
awful, and the poor steers suffered the
usual barbarities. II my soul has to be
trausmogrifed into an animal, as some
old philosophers believed, may the good
Lord save me from becoming steer
l have been sorry for them all my life
But we sold the property, and now they
have broad streets and graded roads and
fine hotel and electric lights and hand
some dwelling houses and grassy lawns.
They are building an arms factory 22o
feet long and 70 feet wide. just think Of
it factory to make guns and pistols so
that our boys can have plenty of them
ready for the next war. They have near
ly finished plant for car wheels, and
before long the busy hum of machinery
will be heardalon g the banks of Terrapin
creek. These visiting Yankees were
charmed with the scenery arouod Bluff
ton; for it is, indeed, grand and beauti-
full. They were charmed with the climate,
the air and the water, and when the sale
of town lots began they bid freely, and
most that were sold brought from $50 to
$50 foot. In about two hours over $751;
900 were invested by them, and it took
but five acres to cover it. Much more
was purchased at private sale and no
noise made about it. These men mean
business and soy they had rather build
town than boom one. They are sll rich
you can tell that by looking at them.
A man who has succeeded in life and got
rich from long years of work, moves about
with satisfied, comfortable manner-you
can tell them. I've studied them in At.
lanta. I've watched Major Wallace and
Moore and Marsh and Kiser and Lowry
and Wylie and Markham, and even
George Adair is beginning to carry him.
self proudly. That is all right. | like to
nee it when man hss earned his own
money aud earned it honestly.
Will those Yankees at Bluffton all look
that way2 / don't suppose there was one
but could drawa check for 100000. How
different appears the man who lives on 8
strain. He has hacked and subdued
look. He may be pleasant and smile and
tell anecdotes, but he. .soou relapses into q
careworn appearance and seems to think
that everybody knows he hasn't got any
money.
Most of these Yankees were Demo
Gratis. Even the Republicans we're of
mild type, and all were friendly and gave
us right smart tsfy. A real mean Re
publican won't come south. He has
abused us 30 long and go much that he
feels ashamed to look US square in the
face and so he won't come. Tom Reed
wouldn't come for thousand dollars, but
General Anderson came, and he is gen.
tleman from head to foot His sou is the
president of the Blufton company. The
General ran against Tom. Reed for Con-
gress once, and came within 112 votes of
being elected-what a pity-but our
comfort is "The Lord loveth whom he
chasteneth."
Bluffton has just started out in life.
They have but 800 or 400 people there,
but they know what they are about. AL
ready they have public school with
near 100 children in attendance, Not
many of them sre their own children,
but all the little chaps of the neighbor-
hood have been invited and uow they
wash their faces and comb their hair and
are looking up and have hope of being
somebody. Some of them are the chill
dren of the steer drivers and the rough
men who dig in the mines. These Van
KEGS are civilizers, and are doing good,
and / hope that lots of them will Come
down and live with us and give us the
benefit of their money and their brains,
their economy and coutrivance. Just
such invasions will solve the race problem
and macy other problems. Mrs. Arp
wants to know if it will solve the race
problem. Yes, it will. 1 never saw q
darkey in that Blufton hotel, where
there:H.., were $50 guests. White
girls waited upon us at the table. They
we're pretty and neatly dressed aud knew
exactly what to do and how to do it. But
I wouldn't give one good faithful darkey
for any servant iu the world. The trou.
bic is how to keep one when you find
one, for it does look like they are dying
out or getting ashamed of their bust
ness.
I found DR.. Mann very jubilant over
his great Methodist University which is
located on beautiful hill that overlooks
Blutfton. The work of laying the fbun
dation is to be begun at once. He in-
formed me that be had ample funds to
put up the building, and was now secnr
iug the endowment "How do you go
about that" said 1. "Why," said he,
eve work for it, write for it, plead for it
among the rich men of the nation, and
every now aud then some man like Rock
afeller surrenders, and gives away mil
lion. The world is full of rich men,
and I have no fears about the endow
ment."
a few days ago happened in Chatta
nooga while Johnny Bull was there,
with his 900 iron and steel men, who had
come over to spy out the land. They,
too, were all rich, and some of them were
of the nobility. They had been to Bir-