The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-11-25
THE MANNING TINES.
WEDNESDAY,, HGVTSfNNssR HGTfNN:sssR: Is, 1881,
Bill ..rn'S I'Ml3soai;Y.

OtueI QaN- I-dS44su ScHt1eIIeu WV
are perusing this country and have
got barrel or two OF pounds, shil-
ings, and pence at home They are
not lords, but they are gentlemen.
That is very significant and compre-
hensive word. The king can be a
gentleman, but not every gentleman
can be q king. Some say that the
Prince of Wales is a gentleman and
some say not. One OF these Eng
ishmen was telling ne what sport was
had in London over the exposure OF
the princes gaming propensities and
his fondness for the game of baccarat.
A leading tobacconist advertised his
goods by sending fancy wagon
around with an Illuminated sign
which read as follows:
Where 90 you get your "baccar at'
Why at Thompson,s Of course.
But the prince is to be pitied, they
say. He is now fifty years old and
all these years has had nothing to do
nothing but to wait and wait for
his mother to die and then he would
be somebody. He doesn't want her
to die, for he is very fond of her and
he is really very smart and would
make good king, but as it is he is
not much account. Our General Dick
Taylor had splendid time frohcking
and sporting with him and says he
is. the soul of honor and q punctll-
ious gentleman. And so it seems
settled that a man can gamble at
cards and bet on horse races and
be gentleman. Andrew Jackson did
both, and so did Henry Clay. Away
back in the centuries gentlemen were
the land holders and ranked the
yeomanry. They were the aristocracy.
They lived we'll and kept open houses,
and gave royal welcome to other
gentlemen. 1t was great compl-
ment to say:
"He is a fine old English gentleman
Bat, over here in this land of lib
erty, a poor man can be gentleman.
If he has a good education, good
manners, and is kind. truthful, and
sincere, he is a gentleman. 1t IS not
every honest man that is a gentleman.
according to our dictionary, though
they come nearer the mark than most
of the rich men who claim to be.
Some of the old English poets made
great sport of their gentry. One says;
When Adam digged and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?
Another says:
4 Christian is God Almightys gentleman.
And Thomas Decker wrote Of the
Saviour in 1920:
a soft, meek, patient, tranquil spirit,
The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
This reminds me in passing of
conversation I overheard between two
little girls who were playing with
their dolls.
eff my dolly dies she will go to
heaven; she is so good and sweet,
said one.
"God is mighty good to good
children, isn't he % said the other.
eyes," she replied; Il spek he is a
gentleman, and I know he is Chris
- These English gentlemen were
very much interested in our elections
that have just passed, and they said
il seemed so strange that we could
turn men out of Office and put others
in every two or four years and change
our government policy and still get
along without any serious friction.
stWhy," said one, sit takes man ten
years to become statesman and be
: Of real service in any great emer-
gency, and yet you people get tired
of him in two or four years, and send
another raw recruit to take his place.
And he is afraid to do anything ex-
cept to ask for an appropriation and
he will log-rol with a hundred others
whether they have merit or not and
they viii all vote together so as to be
reelected, and so the money goes"
And they said that it took only
e90,000,0O0 to run the English gov
ernment last year, Notwithstanding
they have next to the largest standing
army and the largest navy in the
world to keep up and maintain.
aYour government" said he, spends
now third more money in year
than ours, and you have no army to
speak OF, and navy that your own
press makes sport of. Your ex-
travagance is amazing, and if your
people had to pay it in direct tax
shere certainly would be revolution.
But they pay it, nevertheless, and
make no fuss about it. Your people
seem to be prospering in spite of
themselves, and but for your protec~
tive tariff you would soon be the
richest nation upon the earth, for you
have everything here to make you
rich. Instead of borrowing English
money, as you are doing every day,
you would be lending money to the
world"
Well, this is not new talk. 1t is
old, and it comes from the 'other
side" but it comes from men who are
investing their money here in iron
and coal and railroads, and of course
they are honest in expressing their
opinions. They have some politics
over there, too, and raise a rumpus,
but their members OF parliament get
.a.. and tho1, uorl. for the honor