The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-03-01

The more man gets the more be
wants is the saying, and / guess it is the
same with nations.
I got tired yesterday and just throwed
myself down on pile of cotton seed at
the ginhouse and listen to the rain pat
ter, patter, ratter on the old boards of
the roof. 1t sounded just as it used to,
somehow; just as it did when, as little
boy, they tucked me away to sleep up
stairs at the old home. None but the
older generation can know how sweet it
was to sleep up stairs in the old time
houses and have the rain all night to
patter, patter, patter on the boards. It's
memory-but old folks live in the past.
Every age has its vigor and strength OF
young manhood, but it just as surely has
its in6rr step and bending age. Each
generation takes it's turn-once young
then old. It will come your time to be
old some day, you that live long enough,
and then you won't wonder at my cher
ishing these memories of the paat-the
long ago past.
Hawaii" studied as I lay there and
listened to the rain. Thinks /, that
sounds long way off. 1t don't sound as
near as did the Cherokee country" nor
Texas, nor the territories-it's got an out
landish whang to it, 1 thought. But the
young generation is in for annexiDg, !
think, aud there is no use in saying
thing. I watched some of the young
generation roll up big SNOWFALL the
other day. There was rivalry between
two sets as to which could make the
largest ball. One ball got immense as
they kept rolling it. 1t was so large after
awhile that they could not handle it.
They made supreme effort and with
their combined strength and ingenuity
succeeded in getting the great ball to the
top of q hill. Now they had it was the
thought, they could roll it now-apd they
did roll it-down. When it was started
down it was so heavy and ponderous they
couldn't stop it, and so it went, faster
and faster, till at the bottom it flindered
into millions of fragments. You can
make the application here without my
going to work to tell you all about what
my thoughts we're as lay there on the
cotton seed and the rain paltered, pat
tered, pattered on the house top.
don't guess it makes any difference,
but I'm opposed to any Hawaii annexa'
ton. There are plenty of people living
who can remember what a craze there
was to eecure the Cherokee Indian coun.
try. The Chattahooche river was then
the western boundary line between the
whites and red men, and folks thought it
che very thing to get the territory the
other side. They thought we needed it
and they thought they would be satisfied
when they got it. 1t hadn't been very
long since the poor Indians had agreed to
this line and they thought that now the
whites would be satis6ed, for they said,
as they crossed over the river, Gala.
bama, Alabama" meaning "Here We
rest, here we rest" So the State took
its name. But they were not allowed to
rest there. The whites have been no
more satisfied than before, nor did the
great State Of Texas satisfy them, nor all
that territory west of the Mississippi
you can't satisfy them, they want the
earth. We don't need any more terri.
tory. 1t might seem clever in us to open
cur door to Hawaii, being they are
knocking, and give them good govern.
ment, but charity should begin at home
good government for what is already
here should be the first consideration.
There is lots OF wailing about hard times,
lots of men ont of work and the women
are having to pitch in and do the "sup.
porting" act, but if We annex Hawaii
aud let all of that population of Chinese
into citizenship, it won't be two weeks
till they'll think themselves as good as
u ll.fedged Georgia cracker and take the
washing from the women besides. The
Chinaman must be kept down. They are
all the folks We can abuse now. 1t has
got so we can't cuss the yankees nor the
negroes-I daresent spell it with two
"gs" any more-and I don't see how We,
will be able to cuss at all if the China.
man ''gets there" In this connection,
and in seriousness, will state that it is
appalling to an old man like me to see
how the foreign element its outstripping
the cracker" Foreigners are not to
blame. It is natural for them to be
clannish, and it is natural that they
should 60 to work and run this govern.
national, state and municipal-to
suit themselves if they can. If they are
not quite holding the balance of power
Trey are making great strides in that di.
rection, and they have us ''hacked" go
that it is only matter of short time
till the Georgia cracker will not be in it,
il be don't wake up and assert himself.
As the rain pattered on l found my.
self taking up hsndfuls of the cotton eeed
and letting them run out in stream.
As old as am would like to get out in
the sand and make froghouses and "play
miller" and watch the sand pour as I
uster, but it wouldent be now as it was
then the little playmates would not be
there; many of them-most of them
have passed over the river, and the ones
who still tarry could not stoop around
and pat the sand on their feet and lean
over the doodle houses" and glibly call
doodle, doodle, DOODLE" till the little
bug would come up aud they had him in
the hollow of their hands. They are too
stiff in the joints for the bending and