The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-11-07
esquire Eewelps Letter.


How virtue and vice blend their black and their
How genius, the illustrious father of fiction,
Confopnds rule and laW reconcile' contradiction
sing: II these mortas, the critics. should bristle
care not, not /, let the critics 60 whistle"
think that one of the most true sayings
that the Rev. Sam Joles ever made was
when he said 1.-THE hit dog always does the
following"
i remember hearing my daddy say when
I was little boy that he hauled four bales
of cotton to Hamburg one time, Il think
ir was the fall Of lS44) and only got $50
for the four bales, but you see, Mr. Editor,
I have beat my daddy trading, for got
S3I for three bales the other day at Pied.
mont, but it counts mighty slow-eighty.
one dollars for three big bales of cotton.
Ee could buy more than four times as
much coffee for dollar then than We can
now, for by referring to the prices of coffee
in New York, January /, 1845, see coffee
quoted at 81 cents per pound and raw
sugar cents per pound He could buy
quo pound SACK of coffee for $l3 and 25O
pounds of sugar for Sl0-real good old
brown sugar, with hard Jumps in it for
the children, and 1t tasted q great deal
better than the brown sugar does now
days I know how We boys use to look
down the road to see the wagon coming
back from Hamburg, and would run to
meet it and get lump Of sugar. When
man sold few bales of cotton then he
didn't have to pay 1t all out for bacon and
lard and store cloth like We do now. They
would buy few punches OF factory yarn
for the warp, and the filling was spun at
homs and the cloth wove and made up
without any further outlay of money-that
t. or nr1r
you see If we didn't have to spend 80 much
money ne wouldn't need 80 much. think
if we would 90 back to some Of the old
fashion ways we would get along better
I EN- afraid We try to live too test. We
want to do everything In minute, 30 to
speak-we can't wait for the bees to swarm
Ne have to transfer them. We don't
want to SOW wheat and wait till next sum-
mar to get -four from it. We must rush
off to the store and buy barrel of flour on
a credit and 90 to work to make cotton to
uay for it with. I am getting more hope
fui, for I don't think the people are In
debt very much this year, and the most Of
the farmers are making plenty OF corn to
do them in this section. SO We will have
the hog and hominy If no more, and I am
going to SOW some wheat with the hope
that some OF our enterprisiDg citizens
somewhere in the county will build full
roller mill to grind it. II not we will have
to 90 ali the way to Greenville or Cedar
Falls, in Greenville County, and help TO
make another County rich instead Of our
own.
Tuesday will be election day and hope
the strife will end with it, ior think we
have had enough OF 1t for one time. l
don't see anything In this County for the
reiormers to be kicking about. for We con-
seryatives have not made any contest with
them, but pitched in and helped them 10
nominate their best men las We thought)
for the various Offices and reckon we
will help them to elect them. But one
thing I can't do and that is, vote for
Convention, nor do think they would
If they would stop and take sober thought
ON the subject. If all Of the white people,
(that is the white Democracy of the State,)
we're united as we were in 1915, why then
there would be no very great danger to
the liberties of the people in Convention,
but while we are split up In factions, with
so much hatred and passion on both sides,
1t is one of the most dangerous experiments
that our people have ever undertaken. Ii
there are objections to any part OF our
Constitution why not let our Legislature
amend it and submit to the vote OF the
people without cost to the tax payers Of
the State, for I think we have taxes
enough to pay now-that ie, We conserva
tiyes do I don't think 1t is 30 hard on
the Tillmanites, while the whole machin.
ery is in their hands. For example, my
land is assessed nearly dollar per acre
higher than my neighbor, who Is Till.
manite-and it, too, of the same real value.
Who ia responsible for that? SO it would
be if Convention is called-it would all
be one way. I am no prophet nor the son
OF one, but let me tell you one thing, If the
Convention is called there will bs many
a man in this State who will regret that he
ever voted "yes'' on his ticket in less than
ten years from today. 1t won't do, there
is too much passion among the people
Nor would it do If the conservatives were
In power any more than 1t will with the
reformers. We must harmonize better
before Constitution could be framed that
would give every man his rights. If the
Constitution was to be submitted back to
the people for their acceptance or rejection,
it would come nearer doing than it will
tho way it is to be done. Iflt did not suit
US we could then vote it out, but this way
of forcing Constitution on free people
that they don't want is a very dangerous
thing-one fraught with more objections
than one when soberly considered.
News is scarce just now.
The health of this section is very good
Just now. There have been few cases of
fever in and around Piedmont.
Miss Anna Russell has been quite sick
with typhoid fever at Piedmont, but Is, We
are glad to say, improving.
Married, by Rev. @. L. Stewart, at his
own residence or Sunday, October 81, 1894,
Mr.. John Watson and Miss Ida Adkins,
all OF Anderson County. May they receive
all the blessings and enjoyment that they
anticipate, and live long and happy life.
lam ready to record any other marriages