Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-07-20
Sam Jones Letter TO tennessee
Methodist.
Sedalis, No, July 3, 1898.

AuC ~ ubhlt Ed-A Nttk aurU tHt
I'll re came fer me ~ write my
weekly letter. bat. thanks 20 .
good pro, idence, | am on deck
again.
We clOsedthe meeting at Jack
son, Tenn. in good shape, and
Brother Stuart left for his bone.
and wife, children and myself
ran up to our Kentucky home
and spent Il week. How Pleas
ant aud Testful il is for a tired
man to withdraw from the
crowds occasionally aud enjoy
The quiet retreat of country life
Tue yellow, waving harvest
fields, tile luxuriant fields and
meadows Of clover and Timothy.
the grain growing, corn about
waist high, The beautiful young
colts, the fat short horn cattle,
the lovely lambs and Berkshire
hogs, etc /; rs YOU lock on all
sides of well kept Kentucky
farm in the Blue Grass regions,
you are charmed with lie pic
ture.
Friday nigh: wound mp my
fun on the farm, aud | left to
fill other engagements, and for
four days | have been lecturing
at the Missouri Chatauqua AS
semjy, located in the park of
this city SedIiia is a beautiful
city of fifteen thousand people.
Tho public buildings, churches,
&C. are magnificent, aud Ibis
seems to be a prosperous and
conteLted people. The. town is
steadily growing in spite OF
hard times, and these are times
that will try any town, that will
try any bauk. anything or any
b1sy. If there Is not a change
for the better in the next sixty
days something uas got to bend
or break one. From ocean to
ocean, from the northern boun>
dry of Caaada to the Gulf, this
country in a fearful condition
financially 1 care not for caus
es that led TO it. or names you
MY give the situation-the
whole thing IS "Oat of waack,'
and now the gu stion ia, can
Congress put siIags In line
again The worst feature in
the whole situation is the fact
that all the silver mines are
closing down in tie est, aud
the large ron aud coal indus
tries of the East are closing
down, thus throwing out of EN-
plOyment tens of thousands oil
men and no work and no money,
with distrGst on all sides There
will be infinite want and trouble
unless the causes can be remOv.
ed and the country put III run
mag order 2gaIn.
The time has come when pO
@Ii!ical pariIssuship and dema'
gogucry OUgh; To lie laid aside
tn Congress, and Republicans.
Democrats aud Populists all
should harin0niZs aud work TO.
getlitr TO the common end that
the country MY he relieved.
oar capital turned loose, our Ia.
Dor employ ed. and machinery
all put TO running sr10Othly
again. | Can the United States
Congress do thisl = will they
do 1T The Democratic party
viii make a spoen or spoil -
horn in the next sixty days /.
for one. sincerely hope they will
make the spotu. But whether
they do or not, this | kuaw
most of us will liz euntil we die.
Bread and butter we're never
so cheap as now, and meat is
coming down I bought "a good
pa,r of breeches the other dag
at EnineDee tor ninety cents,
and was offered a shirt for less
money than the PANTS cost
With sugarat ave cents a pound,
and sasifsc'' roots for tue dig
GIN :, we will all make the ldut.
Ing somehow or somehow else
lille the poor VII suffer in
many ways. yet il is true that
the rich have lost millions Oh
top of millions by shrinkaga in
values, etc, and they. too. are
feeling the fearful Influences Of
these times. Wall Street has
lost more money in the last SIX
months than all the merchants
and manufactures and bankers
combined. l dare say, in the Uni
ted States These times, like
death itself, is no respeeter of
persons
There is a lesson in all this for
this nation, and If we only learn
that lesson well We will not
have suffered in vain w have
lived too fist. and nave risked
too much. A nation suffers, ike
an individual. from exeessess,
and the sport which wrecks his
life will sooner or later call a
halt and feel a reaction as fear
fui, almost, as the horrors of
the damned. The reaction has
come on US, and the attending
horrors are now felt Shall we
survive che awful condition in
which We fud ourselves, or