The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-11-16
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
TIE MARCH OF PROGRESS BE-
WIEDERs EISI.
He Talks OF Many Interesting Things,
Among Them Silver and Gold.


Bills Wild West show. 1suppose there Eere
$4,000 people who did the same thing. That
much was free, and quite enough TOR me.
Somehow have lost rly appetite for cireuses
and other spectacular anusements. Inc time
was when 7 n=yer missed oue if could help III
bu: y II prefer to see things that provoke
thought instead Of smiles. The wonders OF the
exhibits in the exposition, the progress OF man
kind in the arts and sciences I'll the mind with
pleasant contemplation. When the telegraph
wires INST reached our town ne felt sure that
there MAS nothing else to invent or discover
that Ling more was needed. But 80 many
wonderful and useful things have piled up on
us since thai row re live IN state OF expect
sncy. What will come next?
When was G. boy We studied philosophy
which said that the load must be near tho
power, and there was picture OF horse Try
ing to pull q bag Of sand by rope that was
100 yards long-and he couldn't noTeit. NOW
We read that the power from tho electric plant
at Niagara is soon 10 pull all the boats On the
great Erie canal and the Thousands OF horses
and mules are 10 be discharged from thor mo.
notonous service. Mors than th!s-We read
that this sane power is soon to su7ercede OIL
other powers in loading and unloading the 7es-
sells in NV York harbor. II this power cao
reach N=w York from Niaeara, Why not reach
across the contineat2 HoT long before all our
railway trains will be moved by it? There 1s
sufficient wafer power right Eere near arters-
Vile to operate plant hat would move al the
wheels in Georgia. Tho children now at school
will live 10 laugh at tho simplicity and stupidi-
" If their fathers and erandfathers just as
NOW smile as the recollection Of The time when
my father keep. flint and steel and piece Of
punk in E little til box and would strike
spark and light candle when he wanted
igh: in the night. II is funny to think Of the
time when there we're no matches. what
wculA tl.,sc cigarette boys do without matche'?
Every Geclle brings cheaper methods and
more comforts. The old rule that Adam Smith
providence had wisely ordained that the labor
of c!!" man would easily support eight parsons,
meaning himself and wife and Elz children.
But lie wase.rt counting on Sc shoes for the
boys and $40 hats and balloon sleeves for the
girls and college education for both. The
labor OF the average man will not support eight
pc,svrs HOW, for Notwithstanding the Cheap
1"ss of things our wants are increasing ten
fold. Stephen Girarl said that the way to get
rich WAS to Llly nothing that you are not OBJ.
ligett to hare but wo reverse the maxim and
buy too many things ne are not obliged to
have.
While i'll tie exposition did want 10 buy q
lot Of those beautiful aluminium wares for my
wife. for she do love prett;' things and fine
tltings but didrnt have the money. I let her
look at IT, m and only bought her pepper
box. Scw tia: reminds me Of our trouble in
the SOUTH That aluminium clay is all about IN
our bills and is i,"irg mined ard shipped every
dav to P,ttsElrs and there it i. reduced and
manufactured ant! the products come back to
lis wi.h two frsights and big profits added.
lust 50 With Cir manganese and ochre and lunl-
ber ami hides hid most Of our cotton and wool.
iTe have got 70 manufacture our own materials
or VIC will never catch up. But we are making
good progress IN iron and cotton and maybe
the other plants will come along in time. /
learn that 50 PR cent Of that aluminium clay
is wasted and thrown away in the process Of re-
duction. Just think what a saving Of freight
there would be if ne could reduce the natal at
tho mines. We would soon be the richest peo-
pie on the earth # we could manufacture our
own materials. The labor is l.cre, but it IS
idle. Our boys aie willing, but they can's find
employment.
II is a>tcnshin. loT rapidly wealth increases
when labor is rewarded. Look at ruined
state like Georgia wss in 1866 and now see
what thirty years have done. Look at the e1-
position that has been planted with The money
from one city and is now the wonder Of tho
nation. Where does ali this money conlc from?
Verify, it locks like Aladdin's lamp has come
dcwn to us.-aNd YET almost everybody is com.
plaining Of hard times. I've been reading Jo-
sephus again and I don't understand how Solo
nrnn got all bis money, for David was at war
with somebody most I'll his life. Joeephus
ravs that silver was as plentiful in jerusalem
as the stones in the street. The temple VAS
Grerlail with gold and cost millions of dollars.
Uer0d s.nt a little present Of ten millions OF
.lra:hmae to Caesar. Hvrcanug sent ten thou
cand talents OF gold. The Pharaohs built the
pyramids rVr their own tombs, ard one Of these
ionk 10000 men thirty.seyen years to com.
liete l. anA it cost five hundred millions OF
dollars and is not worth a cent to anybody.
The Aztccs Of Mexico built some just as large.
The ruins of them are still there and historians
say they l.4d IDOLS on their tops that were thirty
feet high and made of solid gold. There is r
cathedral now IN the Cl'y OF Mexico that cost
:iA!y millions OF dollars.
What vast amount Of money has been
made from the .eginning down 10 the pres
cat time N, akind began early to hunt
for god. for Moses Gays in the sec.
rcl chapter Of Genesis that The gold Of
that and around Eden wos good, and reckon
old Id m dug for it and nodded it and inGlea
it in his pocket. He never wore fig leare4 lons
John EIiox, in his Geneva edition Of the Bible,
an cdi'ion tbns lasted fftg years and "as very
lrpu u, says that Adam and Eve, when theT
knew that they were naked. made f"r them
selves ';:,cccho5,' AMI 90. Of course. thy had
pockets to carry their money in. GA Mother
Exc wore brceches then, and her offspring. the
new woman, got her fashion ri 'ht straight from
tie garden Of Eden. Whist Till Dr.. Hawthorne
saT about that?
Blt silver came alonS in due time. Abraham
bought !lle cave Of Macpelah and paid 800 She
kela Of silver current moa"y with the merchant
i was not coined. for ho weighed it. reckon
it was granulated like VIC used 10 buy gold half
century ago. Ny father was p merchant,
and bought grca: deal Of fine gold from the
miners, ard most Of it was in goose qulls. Tho
quill VA trapsp aren't and had little wooden
stopper, and + good large one held about s10
worth. Josenhus SAYS that in his day gol'l and
silver were coined a:d S'am,oad. L. vas rough.
" dc,re reckon. for ! 1Ic coin that IS ,,6Q0
years I'D, and it haa J;'stautlne Oh one side
aud two Eoman lctoTs on the other: and II ls
rough lob. Aluminium would make Geautl-
ful COIN. and with The government stamp would
lm hqndicr coin than silver. for it is not half
30 heavy. Il is the stamp that fixes the value.
ir,n and copper were use'l by the Greeks ard
E0maus i:ISt as we lisc nickel now.
What rumpus this question Of currency has
ra;Scl and it came upon us this lime 20 sud
Zen and unexpected. Where all the gold is
dent know, or never sec any Of It. Nobody
but the bankers and the United States treasu1T
h:.vc any ilSC TOR II. or anything 70 10 Will II.
it travels back anl forth across the water in
hays aul boxes aud settles the balances Of
trade wth The banks and the merchant princes.
ana thai is what it is for, ] reckon. havrn't
seen bus one piece in two years, and that wssn't
m:no What good it is Going locked up in
vaults don't know, but reckon it il all right
Pope said whatever is is right, and so don't
worry. We still live and are ont o. jail. and
there is peace and harmony in the house.
hol land that is a bigger thing than gold or
silver.-BILL ARP, in Atlanta Constitution.