The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-10-01
BILL ARP
Talks with Els Friend Jake on Some Pub.
lie Matters.
atlanta Constitution.

Els natural disposition is not to critlcise,
but rather to apologize for everything and
everybody. When there is conflict and
excitement and bitterness he takes no
side, but offers excuses for both.
'"There are two sides to this thing"
says he, "and FOLKS ought TO discuss it
more calmly" It always interests me to
draw him out on the perplexipg questions
of the day, and hear him express his
"learnings." -
81 haventmind enough, :. says he, "to
decide betwixt 'em, but it will all work
out. right after awhile. @0ur
Heavenly Father is mighty good to
His creatures as long as good people are
in the majority. He would have saved
Sodom if Abraham could have found ten
good people there. l don't know how
big the town was-big as Atlanta, 1
reckon, but It must have been an awful
place. God puts up with heap before
He lets his wrath boil plum over. He
never sent The flood until the number Of
good people was reduced down to eight,
and I reckon one of them was pretty
hard case and WAS just saved on account
of his kinsfolks. believe there is many
young man and young girl, too, who
will be saved on account of their father
and mother. Atlanta is said TO be right
wicked town, but reckon there are
several hundred good people ther -pret.
ty good people-aud I think she 'afe.
The towns are worse than the untry,
for you see the devil hasent got Il ne to
run round from house to house and whis'
per his devilment in their ears. lie
wants 'em by the Wholesale. He Won't
set bib trap to catch one bird. He's got
sense, he has. He won't waste bis am-
munition."
"Uncle jake" said I, whats your
opinion about the alliance, and the sub
treasury ?" "Oh, I don't know" said be,
"it will all work out right after awhile.
There are two sides to it, and whenever
there are two sides It gets up discussions:
and ws will hate to wait Until the argu-
nent is over. 1t is in right smart tan
gle yet, but the people will do right when
they have time to SEQ what rights The
farmers are raising powerful rumpus,
and if they are demanding too much 1t is
good way to get something, I remem-
ber when thew; 'chword ofour party was
'$54.4O or 6ght,' out we settled down to
$S6 30 and dident fight, either, for
that was all the territory we We're entitled
to. 80. - .. F..
5"Folks will have:to make q fuss sone77
times, or they will DO run over. You
know Bob. Smith actually quit his crop
and went to preaching all the week, and
when bis boss made fuss aboutit, Bob
said ;.'We is just obleezed to go to
preaching. You white folks done got dis
here world, and we niggers is fixing to
get de next one.' The farmers have been
paying tribute to protection for seventy
Eve years, and they are tired. They want
their time to come. They want bounty
in some shape. Sugar has got one, and
why not cotton and corn, and wheat and
rice9 Five dollars bele On cotton
would help powerfully, and that would be
only s4O,OOO,00O year. That's nothing
for government lire this. Suppose re
paid sloO,oOO,oOS a Seaf to the farmers
In bounties, they would get the money
and their products be no higher. The
poor people would get them as cheap as
ever. ! can buy my sugar at s cents, but
the sugar planter gets 9 cents pound
more. This plan would stimulate farm.
ing and beat the sub.treasiiry scheme.
The manufacturers have had that much
or more for fifty years through the pro-
tective tariff-why not the farmersG"
'But Uncle Jake" said /, "%here will
the government get the money to pay
these bounties?"
"Ob, I don't know" said he, "where
there's will there's way. There's the
income tax, that they could make as
heavy as they please, and they could put
some more on whiskey-whiskey will
stand sight. It pays sl8o,ooo,ooo now,
and could just as easy pay $2S0,COo,.
OOO."
"But suppose" said I, "the temperance
movement abolishes whiskey-what
then ?" "Why, then," said Uncle Jake,
smiling, "we would have such millenni-
I'm we wouldn't need any. If whisky was
abolished it would save q thousand mil
lions year to the country. Without
whiskey We would all get rich. Whisky
runs poorhouses and lunatic asylums and
orphans homes and jails and chaingangs
and prisons of all kinds. Whisky runs
the courts and the taxes and pretty much
the lawyers and doctors, to say nothing of
broken VOWS and broken hearts. We
could afford to swap away every bounty
and pension and protection to get rid of
whisky, but we won't talk about that
now, fer it's not IN sight. It's only a
hope, dream. The devil will give up
everything before he will whisky"
"L Lncle jake" said I, "do you believe
in real, personal devil?" The old man
looked surprised. "Why not" said be.
"Why not? Don't the Bible tell US all
about him and all his of1icers-Satan and
Beelsebub and Apolyon and Moloch and
Belial and all those fellows? Why, the
old scoundrel came here first. He had
possession when Adam was created, and
he began right straight to work on him,
and he's been working on his posterity
ever since. Don't I feel it? Don't /
know it? He's been working on me all
my life, and 1 have to fight him every