The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-04-10
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
What the Philosopher Has to Say Through
The Constitution This " eek.

Old DR.. Alternately, or some other doctor,
said that he was the best physician who
amused the patient until nature restored
him. Our law makers at Washington have
been practicing on the people that way for
about a year, and l verify believe the pa
tent is getting well. They have fooled
us with bread pills and sweetened water
and fed us on hope and promises until
the reaction has come, and now we don't
care a darn whether they do anything or
not. AS C0be says, IT'S all Optionary with
me-" Business is resuming it's natural
channels. The wheels of industry are
turning. Retrenchment and reform at
home have effected more than silver bills
or tariff legislatio Adversely has taught
us all a lesson, and now another good crop
will set the country all right. The people
have been fooled with the idea that con-
greSs could give relief. The average
American citizen is a simple minded, credu-
lous creature He knows more about
this silver question than 1 do, and 1 don't
know whether 1 know anything or not
How should | know, when my teachers all
differ SO widely, and one man tells me one
thing and another says it's not 50? 1t is
amusing to read the interviews with repre-
sentative men in Atlanta. Some of them
went to school with my boys-some of them
don't know what Seigniorage means, but
all of them are like Jack Bunsby-they
"haVe an opinion as is an opinion" Some
say Cleveland is a great statesman and
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a knave, and has sold out to the goldbugs
and will make enough by this veto to retire
as a millionaire. | was up at Sanford the
other cay and man told me confidentially
that another man told him that he had
just come from Washington and it was
norated there that Grover went a-fishing at
Egg harbor and got on bender and thrOW'd
some of the eggs at his friends. l don't
believe that-do you? But about politics.
my opinion is that the people attach too
much Importance to them. There men
around Clear Water talking politics while
their wives are at home sewing for Il living
and supporting the family. That is the
way everywhere. The lazy, disconnected
men are lying around waiting for relief
while the pale-faced wife is doing all the
work The love of Office seems to be a
passion with a large class of people. They
brood over it and scheme Tor it and banker
after it. 1t docs look like great man Who
is worthy of high office would naturally be
retiring ard modest and not be everlast-
ingly setting up his claims-his claims-his
services to the party. The wild rush for
the succession before Senator Colquitt was
buried disgraceful. 1t was ike some
of them Atlanta lawyers who hear OF a
railroad wreck and rush wildly there ana
importune the injured man Tor the case
while the surgeon is setting his broken
limb, or they offer their services to the
bereaved widow before her husband is
buried. These are not fancies-they are
facts, and it is a sign of falling from grace
when the people allow such things to be
done without rebuke-Without Scorn ana
contempt.
There are men in every state who, like
old Bob Lee in the army, are above the
spirit of detraction. Such a man l thought
was General Evans, and that is why L
wanted him for governor, and l am sorry
that he ever agreed to take the stump
and be hawked at oy the politicians. There
was no necessity for it. Every little jack
a-nape who is sidewiping around to get the
orthograp ply of a little office will jump up
and down and say I'm for this, or I'm for
that when if he would go to work he
could earn more honest money than he VIII
eyer get waiting for office
But the issue is upon the country. The
old parties will be torn asunder and new
aignments made and maybe that VIII
break I'D the solid south and the almost
solid north, and bring about a new era
like there was in the parties when wings
and democrats divided the people. There
are thousands of good democrats down
south who favor a protective tariff. and
they will turn to a party that Will give
it. There is bound to be a new deal OF the
cards-a new move on the chechpoaru
The old issues have been brushed up ana
worked over until they are threadpare
Mr. Cleveland may be right, but he is not
with the party-certainly not with the party
in Georgia, for our people say they want
more silver and an income tax ana the
removal of the 10 per cent TAX on state
banks.
But, after all, the man who will work
diligently and attend to his own business
will get all the free silve- he needs tax
or no tax, tariff g. no tariff, ana ne won
have to borrow money from state banks
or any other banks. The Almighty Father
may afflict him, but nobody else. 1t makes
me sad to think how He has afflicted thou
sands by the lale wintry blasts that have
destroyed the fruit and the crop:s but we
can't help thct by legislation.
BILL ARP.