The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-08-08
ARE WE A NATION OF LIARS?
Bl!II ARP lS WORRIED OVER
THE MATTER.

| lht Southern COn1cuCrNry, Sandwich
Islands and Cubu are Unsettled
puCStiOnS-Stlvcr Coinage and the
Bicycle Craze.
1t takes Il long time for big things tC
settle down SO that wo may get the
| truth and the facts. was ruminating
about this in connection with tho great
battle Of Manlssus thut was fought
| thirty-four years ago last Sunday
This is one time that the day of the
week and tho day of the month CORES.
pond with the anniversary OF that bat
tic. Thirty-four years have passed
and this generation is Just beginning
TO understand what thc war was about
! Northern histories have hecn SO par
Lnl and oncsidcd that the young folks
have been surprised and asionishcd
that our people fought SO hard and SO
| long with so little to fight for. But
the truth is gradually dawning upon
| tho nation. Southern histories have
| been written and introduced into
Southern schools and our children urc
becoming our defenders. ! SEQ tLat
Mrs. Susan pcndlcton Lee, the gifted
dnughtrr OF General rcndlctOn, has
written Il history of the tuitcd States,
| and has without reserve told the story
Of the late civil war, and the United
Confederate Veterans, in their great
meeting 1T Houston, have as frarlcssly
| indOrscd it. In Il few years more the
South will be vindicated, but it takes
Il long time. Eighty years have passed
! since Napoleon figured in Europe and
even now historians differ widely about
events and motives concerning him.
| MarSnal Ncy was shot in 1873 Or he
died in North Carolina in 1919, nobody
knows which.
For several years we have been wait
| fn Va lw a N
Islands, but it has not yet been written
from II nor E-partisan standpoint. Con-
scrvativc people don't know what TO
! believe. The missionaries used to tell
Us mat the Sandwich islanders were
cannibals fifty years ago, but had all
| become Christians and had schools and
churches like we have. Later accounts
say THAI political schcmers and un-
pi incipicd scOundrcls from our country
ave pnndered that unhappy land and
l., dnccd those natives to beggars and
..rhjection. And now we read that an
other set are urminy vessels to drive
! the first set out under pretcnse OF help
| ing the native. wonder " 1T are the
, facts in the case?
And what about Cuba? Who knows?
The prevailing idea is that Spain is Il
tyri.nt and has got those Cubuns by
the throat and they want TO govern
themselves anu set up Il republican
form Of government like ours But ;
knowing man, who has been there
. told me that those Cubans were mosJl,
Gcgrocs Of the most degraded kind am
were not fit to govern themselves an,
all this rumpus was being raised by ;
iHw fiji iiiDuStcrlnG Americans. who wan
to capture the island and divide GU
the Offices and get rich OF tho sugar
plantations that the Spaniards are cul
tivating. There was IL big fuss raiseC
and lots OF sympathy extended about
an cdivcr whom the Spaniards had
confined in Moro castle, but Homer
Reed says he found out the other day
that the editor was a coul-black coon
who had been very scandalOus in his
! lptpHr. And SO the question comes up,
lis Cuba worth hotp!ug?'
David wrote, IL said in mine haste
ali mcn are liars, and the Old Scotch
| preacher took that fur his text and re-
marked: "Ah, David, David, if We had
lived till now We might have said it At
| your leisure, me mon.
Are we Il nation Of liars ? Read the
papers and say Who knows what to
nriIrvc? While | was la Florida the
other day read from The New York
Recorder an awful account about Ia
wares; being attacked by ruttlcsnakcs
| H,,d the people had to turn out with
guns and rocks and lhrush-pulcs and
! they nillcd over 400 in the streets one
| Sunday morning and in two days had
| killed over ~ Thousand and the people
were tcrror-strickcn. The article
went into many details and told about
Il woman who put her infant child in Il
tub while she was washing in another
/ tub, anil q big rattlCr got his head ovcl
the edge Of the tub and she had to kill
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Tavur1s man man ab, at it and he was
amnzod. Why said he, it is lie
ii lie without any foundation. Some
| lying reporter made it. up for II scnsil.
ton And not long after ] read that
there WIS yellow fever in Tampa and
the people were flying from tl,c city
| | was in Tampa that very day and
knew it was lie. OF course the pa.
per took it all back the next day and
said it was a mistake, but there is nc
telling the damage that such mistakes
do. II IL reporter who is running
around for news gets up a lie for u sen
sAtion he should DO turned OFF instan,
| ter.
And here is the silver question that
has been the subject of more exaggcr.
alton than will over bo forgiven in the
day Of judgmcnt-mor crminatior
aud SANDER and suppression Of the
truth. And nothing is yet settled
/ about it. Who knows what is b cst
| Wncn we sec such statesmen rs Nor
gan and Vest and Harris an Daniel
and George and Blackburn and Cri,l
ana Black and Mcl4aurin and a host OF
others on ono side and as many nOta
| bic men on the Ot"cr side, what right
has II common man TO jump up anC
swear that he knows all about it anC
That those who don't think with hin
arc fools. Bat reckon the next clcc
tion will settle it, and | wish it wa,
over, for the people are getting
mighty tired OF the whole business.
And there is another question thai
comes up periodically and has recently
come mp again. Does education lesser
crime? Some philanthr0pists arc get
ting concerned about tins, and wei
they may, for the statisticn Of ever,
State in the union establish tho fac
that education Of the kind the pupil:
are getting increases Crimc~-nOt 81 it
tie, DA1 iAutncnocly, and yet wc go .,
and on with il aud the clamOr com ;
, for more and more. Just look over TIN