The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-29
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ATLANTA Constitution.

ATLANTA Constitution.
The spring is fairly upon US, and 1t IS
really the birth Of a new year. The
sweet odor of violets is in the air and
alder tags are blooming in the glades'
The robins are boiling around and the
setting hen comes clacking from her
nest. Fire is on the mountains, and the
busy farmers are burning brush and
cleaning up the fence rows or hauling
guano to make the biggest crop OF cot
ton the world ever saw. That is what
they told me in North Carolina, and L
reckon it is so all over the cotton belt.
The poets "Nhatever is, is right"
and so we have to be reconciled and let
the farmers do just as they please and
take the consequences. In fact, it is risky
and impertinent to advise a man about
bis business. But editors will DO 1t,
and T heard farmer tell one not long
ago that he could run better newspa-
per If be would give it more attention
and give the farmers less advice. Wen,
It stands to reason that man who has
been farming all his life knows more
about it than town raised editor who
never farmed day.
The farmers are in earnest now. Fol
itics has settled down in the old ruts.
The Ocala platform is dead and buried,
and all the vain hopes that inspired 1t
have vanished away. Just as the "forty
acres and mule" played out with the
darky, so have all the expectations OF
some big thing from the government
played out with the Peoples party. 1t
was delusion and snare, and nobody
but few politicians profited by it. 1t
is at last an admitted fact that the far
mers must depend on themselves and
not on the government. Paternallsm
is the curse ola state or a nation, and l
am glad to see that Mr.. Cleveland is
going to put his foot down upon 1t.
Protection for projections sake must
go. We want no more infant industries.
They must start full grown and COM
pete with the world. This pension out
rage must be reformed, for it grows
bigger as the years roll on. 1t is the
politicians hobby, and he rides on it into
Office. Over eight hundred thousand
are now on the rolls, and not one-fourth
of them ever saw a battlefield. It is
nothing but paternalism, and it has
cotton to be an epidemic. Most Every
body wants some help from the govern
ment, and if they can'o get it one way
they will another. Our revolutionary
fathers, who were wounded and disa-
bled, drew pensions, but in course of
time, they died, and the pension
stopped, but now the pension keeps
running on and spreading out to wild
ows and children and grandchildren,
and most of them are to foreigners who
fought for the money ,hat was in it and
nothing else. Just go into the national
cemetery, at Chattanooga, and see the
names on the headstones, and you
can't pronounce half of them without
corkscrew. For the honest patriotic
soldier, we have the profoundest re-
spect, but We rebels know something
about the foreign hirelings we had to
fight the last two years of the war.
Paternalism is run mad-one hun
dred and eighty millions of pensions is
more than the government can stand.
The nation has put Mr.. Cleveland there
to reform, and we believe be will do it.
The salaries of the Government officials
are too large. Millions could be saved
by a healthy reduction, and then there
would not be so many Office seekers.
How is it that our Governor and our
Supreme Court Judges get only about
half as much as a United States Mar
shal or Clerk of United States Dis
trict Court? How is it that little post
Office like Gainesville pays 81, 500, when
there are ten men and twenty women
who would take it for $1,000.
Let US get back to the economy of
our fathers, and then the duties on the
necessaries of life can be taken off, and
the common people can get their shoes
and blankets cheaper. Washington is
called the father of his country, and now
we want Cleveland to father the country
some, too, besides little Ruth, and take
the burdens off the people. That is all
the paternalism we ask fora clean
and honest administration. Kill the
snonopolies and trusts. Let Hawaii
alone and the Nicaragua canal and
everything else that calls for more
money and more taxes. Don't fret 50
much about the money or tne scuff1e
between gold and silver; it is doing
very we'll. 7 was once young and now
am old, but I have never seen the
time that there wasn't enough money
in town to pay for everything the peo-
pie had to sell. I farmed for eleven
years, and my corn brought me- fifty
cents bushel for every crop. 1t isn't
the kind ofmoney, whether gold or sill
yer or paper, that concerns US, but it is
the solvency and honesty of the banks,
-or IS per cent. of all the business is
done by checks and deposits. There
are enough dollars and dimes to do all
th.lrest. Who ever sees piece Of gold
coin? Who ever looks at national
bank bill to see what bank issued it?
They are ali good, from Maine to Cali
fornia. In my opinion, the world has
no better currency, and dread to see
the day when any man or set of men