The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-01-31
Squire Fewell Talks to the Point.

d. BELTON WATSON, fT6SlueuG.
@- Journal and Advocate please copy.
Squire Fewell Talks to the Point.
Editors Intclligencer If Mr.. Cleve.
land and Mr.. Carlisle don't do the thing
that is right-that is, if they go wrong
1t won't be because they havn't had ad.
vice enough in every essential, and about
everything pertaining to finance, diploma
cy, Democratic platforms and demands,
for think of all the Presidents who have
been at the head of this Government, Mr..
the most criticised of anS. There has got
to be some of the greatest 6nanciers in the
last twelve months, and the most Of them
have never been heard Of before. Even
our own County Alliance has been dicta.
ting to the Secretary of the Treasury about
how he should run the Treasury Of the
United States, etc. take it for granted
that President.elect, before his inaugu-
ration, in selecting men to fill his Cabinet,
picks out man for Secretary of the Treas
ury who is an acknowledged financler-
one who has made success of his own
business and not only that, man who
understands finance in its broadest sense
of meaning when applied to nations and
governments. I will venture the asser-
ton that if the financial standing and past
history of all these advisers to Mr., Car
Isle were looked into, there would not be
more than one man in every ten, possibly
not more than one in fifty, who has, of his
own financial scheming, accumulated
thousand dollars in his whole life, outside
of living for himself and family. Now,
that's the way to look at anything. If o
person advises me on any one thing, al-
ways inquire into his past record, and try
and find out if that was the way he did
business, and if he had made success in
that way. / have no doubt but what a
great many of these advisors, or advisers,
US you might say, have more than thou
sand dollars worth Of property, but where
did they get it, They didn't accumulate
it-they inherited it; for you don't see q
man who has the business capacity Of
himself to accumulate property and man
age his own business successfully who is
always voluntarily offering his advice to
others. He has not got time to be always
m.ddling with other peoples business. It
don't pay him. So ne just goes along and
attends to lis own affairs, and thinks he
docs we'll if he don't make more than
half dozen mistakes in the year In his
business, and is sure to take note of these,
so that he will not be caught in the same
thing again. or course, l presume MIR.
Carlisle meets with certain emergencies
when he would like to have advice of the
right sort, but for every little public meet
ing to be endoraing preambles and resolu.
tions about how he should manage the
Treasury Department, 1t Is not only ridic-
ulous It absurd. 1 acknowledge, for my
own part, that don't know what he had
better do. He has the facts before him,
and think understands the needs of the
Government better than I do, therefore
shall not offer him any advice whatever.
1t is MT his fault that the Treasury has
been depleted. The Republican party did
that. SO let US Try to harmonize with our
President and his Cabinet, and cheer them
on in the noble work they are doing for
us as nation, and if it does not do them
any good otherwise, it will certainly make
them feel like they were receiving the
thanks of the people for the good they
are trying to do for US. We could do that
without any more cost to us than these
aforesaid pream bles and resolutions. My
opinion Of Mr.. Cleveland has never abated
the least in his ability to steer the old ship
of State tv safe and healthy landing, and
If he does not carry as back to the pros.
perity that we enjoyed during his former
administration it will not be his fault; it
will be those everlasting croakers and
chronic grumblers. There Is the Atlanta
Constitution that Is as bad, or worse, than
any newspaper know of claiming to be a
Democratic newspaper, not excepting the
PEOPLES Advocate. If all Of these croak.
ing newspapers and Congressman would
stop their grumbling and put their shoul-
der to the wheel and help the President
and his Cabinet to pull through the tight
place that the Republicans left the Gov
ernment in. instead of standing back and
growl ut every move they mako, believe
it would help the cause. IL would hasten
the time to prosperous mooring, bat in
spite of all they can say and do Mr..
Cleveland is gradually pulling US up and
and We will soon begin TO reap the reward.
Then watch the tune of these aforesaid
grumblers and see the change. 1t will be
keep file OF all the papers you get and
compare them with the publications of the
same papers a year FROM now. Some
times you run out of work to do when it
rains two or three days in succession, so
if you will keep file Of some Of these
croaking newspapers, such as the Atlanta
Constitution and Peoples Advocate, ct al,
it will amuse you TO call up your children
and each take paper, one an old one and
another o new one, and let the one with
the old paper read paragraph, and then
one from new one, and so on, and note
the change.
We Conservatives have as much inter-
est in our National Government as any
body, but none in our State Government,
except to pay taxes and aid Tillmans
spies in enforcing the dispensary law.
Right here let me tell you something about
law (if am not lawyer that some of
Won maybe never have thought of, and
that is this; don't care how beneficial
law Tor o Statute, as they are called.)
would be to people, you never can en-
force it unless it has the sanction of ma
ority of the people. So it will ever be
with the Dispensary Law. 1t does not
have the approval of the mass of the peo.
pie, and therefore you might as well try
to force all the people to be Methodists or
Baptists, or any other denomination, as tn
force a Statute on them that they don't
want. All Of the sherifs, Constables,
Trial Justices, etc., backed by the militia
of the State, will never enforce the Dis.
pensary Law. so the next Legislature
may as we'll repeal it.
Let US all be calm on politics, for we
have no rights in the primaries. | don't
claim any for myself, for I intend to do
my voting at the general election for who
I please let him be who he may, 80 that
he is true Democrat, for won't vote tor
a Radical nor Third party nan. If it
suits us we can call Convention in the
Fall and make any nominations We may
want to or not, just as it suits US. If we
can get control Of the Legislature, SO as 10
defeat Gov. 1illnan for the United States
Senate, aud Gen. Butler, too, as to that
matter, it would be the best thing we
could do. I have man in view who
would suit us better than either of the
now aspirants, but he is not seeking 1t,
nor do I know that he would accept it,
but reckon he would. for he was raised
in our own County, and is not too far from
US to still have claim on him. So lei her
roll. 1.-THE lucky man wins the money"
as the wheel. of. fortune man says.
Editor Williams, of the Greenviile
Nevs, let Gov. Tillman run him off the
fence too soon. He ought to have done
like ne-stayed on. I knew the Cover,