The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-12-06
BILL ARP.
Tho Times arc Getting Better In spite OF
tho Legislation.
Atlanta Constitution.

LILO 4o6AoAoshShs
atlanta Constitution.
It looks like the times are getting
| better. I don't know that legislation
| at Washington has had anything to do
with it. In fact, believe the panic
would have passed away just as soon
without the repeal as with it, consid-
| ering that it took three months to dol
The laws of trade are more powerful
than the laws of congress. The panic
c1me just like comets come, and twill
j, 70 just like the comet goes. Like the
comet, it came unexpected, butit takes
longer for it to disappear, for conf
dence is plant of slow growth.
So far as trade is concerned, we see
no difference between now and year
ago. The stores are thronged with
customers, especially from the country.
Cotton does not bring good price, but
there is lots of it, and the kind-hearted
farmer will spend some of the proceeds
on his wife and children. Hats and
cloaks and Sunday shoes must be had.
Cotton keeps on rolling in and the last
little boil has opened. The late fall
and beautiful weather has added not
less than 20 per cent. to the crop in
North Georgia, and almost every far
mer is selling some and keeping SOME
back for higher price. 1t may 90 to
8 cents next spring, but I believe that
the time has passed and passed forever
when cotton will bring more than S
cents. It's average will probably belt
cents, for there will be no more short
crops. The yearly increase Of acreage
| in Texas will make up for all disasters
elsewhere. There is still world Of
unsettled land out there, and it is
being settled By immigration. They
can make cotton at 3 cents pound and
they will keep on making it. The pro-
duction will exceed the consumption
the supply will exceed the demand,
and Of course the price will be low.
Burning gin houses or passing Alliance
resolutions will not have the slightest
effect. The laws Of supply and demand
are ine1orable, and nobody but fools
and demagogues will ever preach any
thing else to the people. / remember
when cotton sold for 5 and 6 cents a
pound every year, and was hauled 200
miles in wagons to market, and the
people didn't complain as much as
they do now.
Idon't believe much of these charges
against the white caps burning gin
houses.
Every fire that takes place nowadays
is laid to incendiaries, when, the truth
is, most of them are from carelessness
or natural causes. Of course, there
are some lawless vagabonds tramping
over the country, and it does seem like
there are more this fall than usual.
Sometimes they burn stables and
barns, 80 as to rob the dwelling while
the family are at the fire. But the
tramps don't go about in droves, like
they do up north-up there it is very
respectable profession. They map out
their routes, and start out without
scrip or purse. They know who keeps
dogs and who don t-who will let them
sleep in the barn and give them some
thing to eat and who won't. They
know the charitable widows, and never
slight them. I didn' know how they
could travel over thickly settled
country until I was up in Ohio the
other day. I was told about rich,
kind-hearted old widow who made it
speciality to feed them for the Lord 8
sake. When they called, she gave
them welcome and lunch and cup
of coffee and bade them God-speed.
She always kept pot of coffee on the
stove for the tramps. One day when
they had eaten all her ready supplies,
another one came along and she had
nothing left but piece Of bread. AS
| she gave it to him, she repeated her
customary benediction, "Not for my
| sake, not four your sake, but for
Christ's sake, I give you this bread. ;"
The tramp smiled and said Not for
your sake, not for my sake, but for
Christ's sake, put some butter on it. .
She did 80, and he tramped on.
A widow who lives not far away
from us killed fat shoat the other
day and concluded to leave it out in
the back piazza to cool off during the
night. But she consulted old Jack,
the darkey, about whether it would be
safe to leave it out there. II don't
know, mam-its powerful onsartin =
dar' some strange tramps gwine .roun :.
Eber since desc dimmercraticks got
hold OBJ de country everything are
gwine wrong-dat's what dey's tellin'
me-.
That reminds me- of a speech that
Alex Stephens made away back in the
'4O's, when the strife was very bitter,
and he charged the Democrats with
being responsible for the short crop
and the yellow fever in Savannah, and
lots Of fools believed it,
I don't know how it is in an all-cot-
ton region, but in North Georgia and
Tennessee and Kentucky I don't see
any signs of distress, especially out
side of the towns. The country is in
a good, healthy condition. Right here
in Barlow where corn and meat used
to come by the carload, there is no
corn and but little meat coming now.
The county is full of corn and it
brings SIS cents in this market. Coun-
try cured bacon is quite common.
Chickens, eggs and potatoes are plen-
tiful. Everything the farmer has to
sell brings fair price except wheat.
The big crops in the West and low
rates Of freight have broug hit wheat
down. The silver question had moth.
| ing to do with it, but thousands of
prejudiced people will charge it to the
Democratic administration. This re-
minds me of what Carlyle, the grea4
historian, said about his people, eng
land has a population of 10000, 600
mostly fools" I don't say that about
our people, but it does seem like the
fools and knaves together raise a pow
erful commotion. If IAN intelligent
| stranger should come over here from
Europe and read our papers on both
sides of party questions, he would be
amazed and bewildered, and finally
would set us down with Carlyle s
crowd.