The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-07-20
BILL ARP'S TALK.
Arp says Everything Is all right.
Atlanta Constitution.

Arp says Everything Is all right.
Atlanta Constitution.
Everything looks hopeful. Even the
pessin ts and third party folks must
| admit mat the prospect for better times
ls bright and grows brighter as the sea-
son advances. I have recently travelled
over five States and have never seen more
promising crops. The wheat and oats
are already harvested. The corn is on
q strut and much of it is secure even
though q drought should set in. OF
course there is enough cotton made and
as the reports show less acreage, then
the price must 60 up in proportion. Be-
sides all this the people have been re-
trenching in their family expenses. We
are at my house, and wo are trying to
| follow the Irishmsn's advice, who said
that the way to get rich was to buy
nothing that you are obliged to have. I
never ssw such gardens, and 1t is luxu-
rious pride to mo to 60 out before break.
fast and dig the potatoes and I can almost
hear them murmuring in the ground
and saying "Git furthez-make room
quit acourging me-" We are on the
second crop of beans and the third OF
peas and the tomatoes are six feet high
and loaded with fruit. l have got them
ataked and ridered and tied and can al.
most see them grow. Squashes and
onions and cucumbers and beets end
okra are abundant, and green corn and
sweet potatoes are in sight and with a
little piece of bacon for seasoning what
more does poor man want? Then
there are apples and berries all over the
country and sugar is cheap and any.
body can have dessert if they are not
too lazy to make it. One of my little
grandchildren was trying to learn her
chatechism for Sunday School and when
her rlother asked her "Why should you
love God ?" she answered because BE
makes preserves" She was very near
it-near enough for child Of four years
old.
Even politics seem to be in healthy
condition and the conservative press all
over the country admits that both Har.
rison and Cleveland are good men
men of principle and honorable in their
conduct and pure in their domestic re-
lations. In fact, Harrison would be q
gentleman but for his prejudices against
the south. I told my wife that the
country was safe, for Harrison and
Cleveland and Reid and Stevenson we're
sll Presbyterians, and in any event the
doctrine of election would be confirmed.
She never even smiled at my wit but
piled her needle and thread as she said,
"Will ne never have Southern presi-
dent again 2" "Whom the Lord loveth
He chasteneth," said I, "and our chill.
dren will live to see the south on top
again. Mr.. Oates, of Alabama is the man
for me. BE has got bis bill through at
last. 1t passed without dissenting
voice and now rebels can hold Office in
the army and navy just like the yankees"
':And confederate money will be good
again ?" said she. She has some hun
drsd.dollar bills that are drawing inter.
est and she looks at them sometimes and
ruminates. think she counts the inter.
est.
Now, let everybody strike for Cleve-
land and if ne can elect him believe ii
will be the dawn of new era-au era oi
better feeling between the north and
south. Another Mr.. Oates will come to
the front and demand equal rights fol
our living and oar dead and the north
will grant them. They are relenting now
and have backed down from the force
bill and even the Tribune says there is
no issue but protection. That's fair and
square. That is the way 1t used to be
| in the good old times. The wings were
for protection and the democrats against
it. The wings we're for internal improve
ments and the democrats against them
The wings were for strong central gov
ernment aud the democrats for state
rights. The whig changed their name te
republicans and carried all their meas
ures but it took war to do it, and they
spent the nations money like it wai
water and they have fastened upon the
people programme that takes bill
lion dollars a year to run it. This thing
must stop. This tariff must be reformed
or I will have to quit buying poke
knives for grandchildren. The very same
two. .bladed knife I,used to by from BsiI
& Kirkpatrick for so cents is now 65, ane
they say it is the Mckinley bill. The!
have got in Rome one of the best ar
ranged post Offices in the south and the
rent was only $500 year, but as all tn
smart young cities of the nation wer
getting an appropriation for 3 govern
ment building, Rome put in for one ant
Mr.. Clements log.rolled with the othe
congressman and got one for Rome tha
will cost $4,000; and Mr.. Grimes go
one for Columbus, and I saw splendi'
one at Vicksburg, and, as Cobe says
"they are getting more thicker and NOR
denser all over the country" and if thi
great paternal government is to be rul
this way, we want one at Cartersville, an
| one at Adairsville, and one at Kingston
and few small ones at Pinelog, an
Possumtrot and Shake.rag and Bluegiz
zard-why not? But this thing has GO
to stop or the government will be bank
rupt. In fact, man told me that al
other man told him that Dan RountEe
l..