The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-01-03
Sam pcwberry Discusses the Situation

EDITORS INTELLIGENCER: We did not
intend to give you the news this wcok,
but as we arc going to runaway and
spend awhile in Georgia, wo concluded
to write SOU ethug, rs we will not be back
in some TINA.
We hnvo travelled over large portion
of the County and it does not look like
shard times" We have seen moro
handsome new dwellings that have just
been erected than ever before. If one
did not hear the cry of "hard times" at
every turn he could not tell but what
this County was in prosperous cOndi-
ton, and we believe it is by the way her
farmers are building barns and storage
houses. They are sowing more small
grain than usual. We believe they are
Sowing half of their land down. This
speaks for better times and more pro-
visions. When our farmers all catch the
grain fever like they have now you can
rest assured that the millennium is not
Tar of. There is but one party that is
going to help them out Of their dilemma
and that party is bard sense, elbow
grease, economy and good management.
The Alliance that suits me best OF all is
sunshine, rain and toll. It is tho little
big-headed man that sits around on a
stump till he wears out his trousers that
gets up, stretches himself and opens his
mouth so wide (that you can see the
price of cotton in Liverpool and hollers
with all his might "the government ID
expressing us,' when, in fact, he was
never recognized till this Alliance-Till-
man opulist-concern sprang into exist
ence. They are still hollering for free
silver. If the free coinage bill had passed
IL. ck; hn to-
the country was flooded with money how
could they get any of it, for they say they
haven't got anything to sell, aud know
the men who have the money arc not
going to part with 1t unless they get full
value for it. It does not make any diff
ference how much money there is in cir
culation, we can't get it unless we have
something to get it with. We might
possibly steal it, but there is the pene-
tentiary staring us in the face. So you
SEQ we could not get any that way. The
best thing for US TO do Is to stop so much
of this nonsense, and 90 to improving our
farms. II all these deadheads would 10
| to work and stop loafing all over the
County and mako something for them-
selves they would be better of. They
are the ones who are stirring up so much
strife. They think they know more than
anybody olse and are fit (abovo) every
body else to hold an Office. Watch the
oracle and see if the next President is not
Republican, when the leading Demo
cratic papers are harping on redeem The
pledges and arc keeping the minds Of
the people excited. We are gone sure
| enough. It is Republican Doodle that
keeps the Third Party machine going.
They know if the solid South is once
broken they can put the negro over us,
and our people have not enough sense to
| see it. Just think how would you like
to see your mothers, wives, sisters and
.sweethearts dragged up before a black
demon by some black filthy wench with
the charge: "This white woman inaultad
me and I want her punished for it,
We pray that our glorious South, sacred
to us and consecrated by the blood Of hel
dead martyrs, may never have such
calamity befall her. We need right now
such men as Perry, Hampton and Cal.
houn to steer us through this turbulent
time. What is all this fuss raised about
The greed for office is at the bottom Of Il
all-the little men trying to get on top
When I'VE think what state the country
is in my heart beeds at the thought o
the consequences. We breathe thai
prayer our Saviour uttered on the closs
iForgive them Father, for they know
rot hatthey do"
SAM DEwBERRY,