The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-26
FROM JERUSALEM STREET.
The New Hope People Remember a
Brother in Need-Mad Dogs Killed
The LittIeness of Human Great
ness-Watching FOR the Mail
Carrier.

| Carrier.
If any one has "built a backyard
fence" "erected an ash-hopper" or
run away with thirty-year-old mule
on the road to his best girls house."
in this community, for the last on
perzoomable slipe Nv Ammo Mundi,
such highly edifying fact has not been
communicated to "Yours Truly" and
while I must accord to such frequently
periodical ebuIlitions Of reportorial en-
ergy a certain degree Of consideration,
as evidences OF a distinctly local inter-
est, am 10th to admit to the same
rank the goings and comings of some
few men, whose names have freighted
the weekly correspondence from GER
tain sections until one is impelled in
anguish of soul to ezclaim, "How long?
how long till the yoke comes off?"
On account of the scarcity Of appii-
cants for federal position, from South
Carolina, I am led to suggest that it
would be the part of patriotism for
some of US to place our names at the
disposition of President Cleveland, for
fear of embarrassing his administra-
ton by causing him to send his cabinet
down as committee of office-seaker-
EN- inquirendo. Let US stand by the
administration, even if we are COM
PEELED to take an office or so. That it is
not as bad IS it is said to be, allow me
to adduce in testimony the subjoined
clipping from that loyally-Irish,
staunchly-C Catholic and rottenly-Re-
publican sheet, the Irish World:
"Another indication of this readiness
to profit by the past is seen in his re-
markable order that those who held
office under his first Administrator
need not apply for those Offices Sec
ond time. This has been explained
semi-oficially as meaning that the
President is 40 mpressed with the num-
Der of the hungry and the thirsty in
bis party that he wants to make the
official ''pap' 60 as far as possible and
to give a taste to as many as he can.
He thus applies the four years princi-
pie with rigidity never either avowed
or practiced by any of his predecessors.
But this, think, is not the real ex-
PLANTATION. It seems but reasonable that
Mr.. Cleveland, with his conviction
that "public Office is public trust,"
should have been pretty we'll disguised
with the crowd who obtained appoint
ments under his first A administration.
And be is shrewd enough to know that
the discredit they brought upon his
Administration haG much to do with
| his defeat in 1888. So he seems to have
concluded that he hardly can do worse,
! and may do great deal better, by Sc
curing new set entirely ---z.-~-.-. -
| "In this he is rather hard upon the
Democratic politician. In fact in 1884,
after quarter century of abstention
from national office, that politician had
| forgotten its ways and its restraints.
| For ten years or more he had been
shouting, "Turn the rascals outw until
be had persuaded himself that when
the other "rascals" got in they would
have a very good time of it. He had
| worked himself into such conviction
that Republican ofice-holders had fine
pickings and not much work that when
be got his chance he looked for moth
| ing less for himself. And when his real
principles were not strong enough to
keep him straight this notion about
his predecessors did much to put him
astray.
"Hence it was that incompetence,
neglect of duty, disregard of laws, con-
tempt for departmental rules, and in so
many cases downright dishonesty were
| characteristics of the civil service dur
ing these four years. But the Presi-
dent is too hard on the boys Before
be went out of office most of them Lad
learnt better, and had come to know
that good deal of hard work and a
fair amount of faithfulness and honesty
were indispensable if the Government
service were TO be carried on, and more
of both than were eXacted before the
| War. The change from Southern plant
ers to Northern business men as the
heads of departments, when the South
threw up its monopoly of the higher Of
fees and went into rebellion, had stiff
ened up the discipline of all the depart
ments in a way which cannot be re-
velsed except by a long series Of Demo-
cratic administrations"
offer the above, not in any spirit of
sympathy with its utterances, but SIM
ply as a palliative during the preva-
lence of the eimminently epidemic agony
of the near future, which I am enabled
to predict with an accuracy derived
from an intimate acquaintance with
certain signs that are as plain as the
"pope nose" of strutting gobbler.
The lessons of the past, in regard to
the over production Of cotton or rather
the under production of other things,
have seemingly been forgotten, and I
predict that with favorable seasons the
crop will be the largest that the world
has ever seen, that is grown this year;
just as last years crops would have been
had not Infinite Goodness laid his all
powerful hand upon the countless mil
lions of acres and forbid them to curse
US with their rsuperabundance And yet
wnen anyone speaks of the untold beEe-
fits that grew out of the short crop, in
nine cases out of ten, with the plausi-
bility of an Ananias, the average cotton
tot, will ascribe it all to his sagacity.
"Me and Betsy" will keep on killing
the bear until the last vestige Of selfish
ness is stamped out of US by the iron
heel of abject poverty. I sometimes
think that were Holbeim permitted to
repaint the dance of death" that
prominent figure would be a poor clod-
hopper, bent out of human semblance,
under a load of lazy negroes and cotton
bales.