The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-03-14
LOCAL NEW 8.
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
Squire Fcwell is Sitting on the Fence
Watching tho Procession.


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Squire Fcwell is Sitting on the Fence
Watching tho Procession.
Editors Intclhgcnccr: The printer or
myself left out very important part of
my formula for making corn, which was
this: After the corn gets four or five
leaves or blades on it, run around with
cultivator or side-harrow, and in about
week give it good hoeing and thin out
TO one stalk in the hill then ''in about
week plow out with short plow and
heel sweep" and so on.
thank Mr.. >"Observer" very kindly
for his words of approval and praise of
as we'll as for bis criticism Of, as you
might saw, my old fogy ideas about edu-
cation. Well, if am wrong in anything
I like to be told about it, SO that can get
right, or at least try to. I think it a NOR
al duty of all mankind to tell our neigh
bor his faults-that is, criticise his acts in
q friendly manner, instead Of running off
to some one else and talk about the way
he is doing, etc. That course seems to
me to be the most charitable. II am
wrong in nv assertion about children
"learning faster then than they do now,"
7 hope to be pardoned for the assertion,
but 30 far as such has come under my
immediate observation am inclined to
adhere to my told fogyism" yet, but will
be glad to know that it is only the excep-
ton and not the rule. If our school
teachers can shorten the road to COM
mon education they will save our people
thousands of dollars, to say nothing of
the weary in pondering over BOOKS Tor
months, Just to learn how to make others
understand our desires and thoughts, for
chat is all the use we have for language
among each other. So let the teachers
continue to shorten the distance to such
an end. :,
It is quite amusing to set how the ire
formers" are ranting and rearing in their
stirrups about what great things they
have done and about how they have
brought us up from political bondage to
free and untramelled liberty never be-
fore enioyed by any people in the world.
Well, that is news to me, for I had never
had any idea but what we had always
been free to speak our thoughts or to
even cast our vote as we pleased until
now, and I think yet that I will vote as
I please and not be dictated by secret
cancuses as to how or whom l shall vote,
Notwithstanding others may be and no
doubt have been. It is self-evident
fact that the only hope of the present
dominant party to continue IN power IS
to keep the fire OF STRIFE - conunaaily .ly
| burning, for on the least show OF the
chunks and Goals dying out and the de-
| luded farmer makes any show toward
thinking for himself, right then they be-
gin tanning the Goals and applying lit
| lie more "trash" to make 1t blaze, so as
to keep our people in continual antagon.
| lam to each other. Yes, Mr.. John Gary
Evans and Mr.. DR.. Sampson Pope, ct. al,
that is your only hope. So make good
use of It, for the time Is coming land 1t Is
not very far Off when people will
think for themselves. Then you may
count your time up. You can fool part
of the people all the time, and all of the
| people part of the time, but you can't
| fool all of the people all the time. Why,
| if the people In other States had nothing
but John Gary Evans speech at Abbe-
Vile to inform them as to how matters
stood in this State, they would think we
had always been in bondage, and that
the Tillman dynasty had released US
from the most atrocious serfdom that
had ever been endured by any civilizeq
people. Well, if am any freer than l
vas before don't feel it. I reckon am
like Squire Joseph Cox said to the negro
soon after the war. He chanced to meet
one coming from negro baptizing near
Cooley's Bridge, and, after passing few
words. the Squire said: "Well, you are
free now. are you2" "Yes, sah," said
he. SWELL" said the Squire, after paus-
ing a moment, "you smell like you
always did," So reckon I have about
the same smell and general appearance
that I had before, and you would haYe
never known that had been SET free if
Mr.. Evans had not told you. He goes
on to say in his speech that ninety.seven
per cent of the people favor the dispen-
sary law. Well, If that be the case,
ninety-three and three-fourLhs OF them
% ust live in some other part OF the State,
| for dou't think there is more than Six
and quarter per cent OF them ABOUT
here. But the funny part of the process
sion, as I can see from the corner OF the
fence which am sitting on, Is the way
they are ranting and tearing up the earth
about the Conservatives (when we are
not saving a word) seizing the reins OF
the government. We are just watching
the procession 20 by, and having lots OF
fun! as the boys say. Editor Williams
and I are occupying the same panel, the
only difference being he hasn't been on
the fence as much as I have, for didn't
get down and climb tree like he did
When Gov. Tillman got up to "view the
landscape o'er." We don't suppose we
will bo called upon to take charge OF the
State until 1t has been wrecked as Of yore.
Then, I suppose, we will let some Of our
best fiuanciers take hold and pay of the
State debt and build us up again. If no
one would suffer but these prodigasl po..
| liticsl aspirants for Office, it would not
amount to so much, but they are having
the dance and we have to help pay the
fiddler. If the people who have adhered
SO closely to Tilfman and his ring would
only stop to think, or would even read
ANYTHING but the Tillman organs, the
tide would soon turn. That is what Is
the trouble-they don't know, and thoy
don't want to know-the true intent an and
meaning of these ofice.seekers.: !. The ne
only way they will ever find it out is by
experience, and it does look to me that
! any sensible man has had enough OF that
| for the last four years.
SQUIRE FEwELL.