The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-04-25
BILL ARP's LETTER.

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 I verify believe the
patient is getting we'll. They have
fooled US with bread pills and sweet
ened water and fed US on hope and
promises until the reaction has come,
and now we don't care darn whether
they do anything or not. AS Cobe says,
"It's all optionary with me-" Business
Is resuuipg its natural channels. The
wheels of industry are turning. Re-
trenchment and reform at home have
effected more than silver bills or tariff
legislation. Adversely has taught US
all . lesson, and now another good
crop will set the country all right. The
people have been fooled with the idea
that Congress could give relief. The
average American citizen is simple
minded, credulous creature.
He knows no more about this silver
question than I do, and I don't know
whether know anything ornot. How
should know, when my teachers all
differ so widely, and one man tells me
one thing and another says it's not go?
It is amusing to read the interviews
with representative 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 states
man and some say he is fool and
some say he is knave, and has sold
out to the goldbugs and will make
enough by this veto to retire as
millionaire. was up at Sanford the
other day and man told me conhden-
tiaily that another man told him that
he had just come from Washington
and it was norated there that Grover
went a-fshing at Egg harbor and get
on a bender and throw'd some of the
eggs at his friends. I don't believe that
do you? But about politics-my
opinion is that the people attach too
much importance TO them.
There are men around Clear Water
talking politics while their wives are at
home sewing for living and support
ing the family. That is the way every
where. The lazy, discontented men are
lying around waiting for relief while
the pale-faced wife is doing all the
work. The love of Office seems to be q
passion with a large class Of people.
They brood over itand scheme for it
and banker after it. It does look Ike
a great man who is worthy ofhigh Office
would naturally be retiring and modest,
and not be everlastingly setting up his
claims-his claims-his services to the
party.
The wild rush for the succession be
fors Senator Colquitt was buried was
disgraceful. It was like some OF them
Atlanta lawyers who hear of a railroad
wreck and rush wildly there and
importune the injured man for 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-ehey are
facts, and it is sign of falling from
grace when the people allow such
things to be done without rebuke-
without scorn and contempt.
There are men in every State who,
like old Bob Lee in the army, are above
the spirit of detraction. Such man I
thought was General Evans, and that
is why I wanted him for governor, and
am sorry that be ever agreed 70 take
the stump and be hawked at by the
politicians. There was no necessity fcr
it. Every little Jack-a-nape who is
sidewiping around to get the .ortko-
graphy Of little office will jump up
apd down and say Pm for this, or
Pm for that, wheni If he would go to
work he could earn more honest
money than he will ever get waiting
for Office.
But the issue is upon the country.
The old parties will be torn asunder
and new alignments made, and maybe
that will break up the solid South and
that almost solid North, and bring
about new era like there was in the
parties when wings aud Democrats
divided the people. There are thou
sands of good Democrats down South
who favor protective tariff, and they
will turn to a party that will give it.
There is bound to be new deal of the
cards-a new move on the check board.
The old issues have been brushed up
and worked over until they are thread
bare. Mr.. Cleveland may be right, but
he is not with the party certainly not
with the party in Georgia, for our peo-
pie say they want more silver and an
income tax and 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 silver be
needs, tax or no tax, tariff or no tariff,
ard be won't have to borrow money
from State banks or any other banks.
The Almighty Father may af1ict him,
but nobody else. It makes me sad to
think how He has afflicted thousands
by the late wintry blasts that have
destroyed the fruit and thecrops, but we
can't help that by legislation.
BILL ARP.