The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-09-06
BILL ARP,
he Says BE Can Already See Brighter
Times.
Atlanta Constitution.

pot through the clear liquid that has
been so dark and muddy. Time is a
good doctor, in little while the pa
tient will convalesce. Old folks cam t
| be fooled and alarmed like young folks.
When I was in Texas last year [
met hundreds Of good, honest people
who we're wild with excitement about
Clark and Hogg. The cry on one side
was, "Turn Texas loose" and it SEEM
ed like the great State was bound and
gagged, and her ruin was inevitable if
Hogg was elected. The newspapers
and the people in the towns and cities
cried in frantic tones, "Turn Texas
loose"
But Hogg was elected, nevertheless,
and Texas is there yet in all her glory
and all her strength. | never took
sides, for it was none of my fight, and
I was too old to be alarmed.
Memory goes back now to great ex-
citements, both political and financial, !,
and when I hear the wild screech OF
the politician as he predicts ruin
ruin ruin /! if they don't do his way.
I feel like is history just repeating
itself, and the storm will blow over as
usual. A little time is all that is
wanted-time to reflect, and rest and
recuperate.
The great DR.. Abernathy was asked
the secret of his success as physi-
clan. He replied:
s'I amuse the patient and let nature
do the work.
Just so the nations finances are
now sick, and Congress is the doctor.
Up to this tim the doctor hasn t
given any medicine. nor done blessed
thing except to amuse the patient,
and I verify believe there are signs of
recovery.
The truth is the doctor might safely
be discharged and the patient would
get we'll. Just let the cotton begin to
move, and the South will be alright.
England will move it if the United
States cannot. and there will be two
or three hundred millions of dollars
put in circulation down South this
fall and winter. There will be proba-
bly, thirty millions paid out in Georgia,
and probably three hundred thousand
dollars in Barlow County. Good gra-
cious-what pile Of money I've
got no cotton, but surely [ will get
little Of that money.
That will pay lots Of debts and that
will turn Georgia loose and turn Texas
loose. That money will not be hoard
ed nor hidden. Most of it is owing
now to merchants and the merchants
will watch the farmer when he sells.
That money is bound to circulate, for
they say that $40 paid to debtor does
not stop, but keeps on paying from
one to another until it has paid hun
dreds or thousands, and is as good or
better than the clearing house certi6-
Gates Of the banks.
But we haven't lost confidence in
Congress. There are some Statesmen
there-men whose patriotism is above
party-men who rise above self-inter-
est AID reelection and have the good
Of the people at heart. At the last
they are the men who control. They
are the men who will settle this ques-
tion of disturbed finances, and they
will settle it right. So let the wheels
roll on. A year from now we will all
wonder that we were so much alarmed.
The truth is the common people, the
bone and sinew, the farmers and pro-
ducers, are not panic struck, and they
wouldent know there was panic it
they dident read the papers. 1t is
the towns and cities and merchants
and bankers that are hurt. The only
apprehension of the farmers now is
that the money kings will pull down
the price Of cotton so as to speculate
upon it and get richer and richer.
They will find money enough to buy at
low price, but have none for fair
price. When will the millionaires get
rich enough? Like the horse-leech,
their cry is, 'sgive, give" and they
keep on bearing what they buy and
bulling what they sell until they suck
the life-blood out of the working man.
The Government has passed laws
against combines and corners, monop-
olies and trusts, but there is way to
dodge all of them, and no one can
afford to go to law about it. That s
where the peoples party comes from.
When they see in the papers that pork
dropped so per cent in one day and
wheat Is per cent on another day they
know that the spectators had been
bulling it after they had bought it all
up, and when the hand they played
bursted the drop came. The producer
would be willing for his bread and
meat to be cheap to the poor. IF he
did not get fair return for his own
labor it would be comfort to know
that the millions of poor consumers
got more of it for their scanty wages.
But these greedy speculators in the
necessaries of life, these vampires
who buy by the million and hoard and
keep and bull after they buy are the
curse of both the producer and the
consumer. The people understand all
this, and so whenever some schcmy,
ambitious fellow gets on the stump and
kildces around and talks about Jeffer
soniau democracy and how neither of
the old parties can now be trusted,
they fall into line and look to him as
Moses sent to deliver them from
bondage.
Both parties cannot remedy these
evils. There is law now in our code
forbidding the carrying Of concealed
weapons and yet half of the young
men of the town and country carry
them habitually. Just let row or a
quarrel begin anywhere, even at a
camp meeting, and see how many pis-
tolls are drawn. The trouble is that
the courts do not execute the laws.
The courts fling this charge back upon
the people and say why don't you
prosecute-why do you dodge jury
duty-why do you fail to come up and
testify And so it seems that every
body is to blame more or less for
everything. Our preacher said last
night that he had been close observer
of the troubles and affections Of man
kind and in nine cases out OF ten they