The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-06
THE NEWBERRv HE I'D AND NEWS WEDNESDAY, sEPTEAIRF

W -iNii VIII thC luililOulllS9 81 4AN'4
enough: Like the horse-leech, their
cry is, "give, 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, monopclles and
trusts, but there is way to dodge all
of them, and 10 one man can afford to
90 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 25 per
cent on another day they know that the
spectators had been bulling it after
they had bought 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 a fair re-
turn for his own labor it would be 6
comfort to know that the millions OF
poor consumers got more of it for their
scanty wages. But these greedy specu-
la;ors in the necessaries of life, these
vampires who buy by the million and
I4oard and keep and bull after they buy
are the curse Of both the producer and
the consumer. The people understand
al! this, and so whenever some schemy,
ambitious fellow gets on the stump and
ki!dees around and talks about JetIer-
sonian Democracy and how neither Of
the old parties can now be trusted,
they fall into line and look to him as a
Moses sent to deliver them from bond
age.
But 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 the country carry
them habisually. Just let row or a
quarrel begin anywhere, even at q
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 prose-
cute-why do you dodge party duty
why do you fail to comeup and testify?
And so it seems that everybody is to
blame more or less fer everything. Our
preacher said last night that he had been
close observer ofthe troubles and afflic-
tions of mankind and in zine cases out
of ten they were the crop that was
planted. What ye sow, that shall ye
also reap" Even the poverty that
many of our people complain of is the
result oftheir own planting. Ifa young
man spends most Of his time hunting
and fishing and frolickiug with little
whiskey thrown in, and after awhile
narries some thoughtless girl and chill
Gren are born to them the family starts
out on the down grade and soon comes
to poverty. They reap what they sowed
ard they try to lay all the blame on
other people, especially on the rich.
No, we can't regulate everything in
this sinful world, but we must do the
best We can both by precept and ex-
aUple. A bumblebee stung me on my
bald head this morning. said I reckon
il was for some Of my meanness- some
crop that T had sowed, but in few
minutes o,!e s,ung my wife on her
head and | can't account for that. He
made mistake I reckon. The little
varmints have got nest under the
foorin the upstairs piazza and because
I stopped up their hole the outsiders
are savage and would sting an angel
unawares. I don't know what such
things were made for, but maybe III
know some time. hope so. The body
might be an accident, but the sting in
bis tail wasn't. AS the lawyers say,
cit was put there with malice afore-
thought" and that's the way he uses
it. BILL ARP.