The leader., 1895-10-01
SAM JONES' LETTER
He Is Tnarkfsi That His voi's
and Pen Arc Untramniefed
rb,rns That An free Coinage OF snv~
Advocates Are Not Fcois-A Bright
{Jdtisok-Tb- Atlanta
Erposffios.
COPYRIGHT. 1895

There NAV be bigger worlds, and grand.,
or worlds. and better worries, anu
vorse worlds. but this is great worieh
There are many things to keep man
busv. some ID worry him and some 10
make him happy. Ia
After all, this world Is about as XIII"
| TO MS as we are to il. This world Is 50
good to let us say what we want 10 say
upon almost aiis question, and not one
| in ten will get mad with t's But now
and then we find a brother tearing MS
hair and all out of sorts about some
thing we have written or said. But
most of humanity take kindly to critr
eis,u Unless the thing hits them too
fair. have quit getting mad That
don't pay. / read many things aoou.
many people don't like. read many
things about myself that do IKE
Some other things written ABOUT my
| self don't make me shouting happy.
| Kut this world is so kindly to me in let
ting me say all | want to say without
| licking ne that think it would be the
height OF folly to chafe under criticisms
or get mad when a brother expiodes
elc ~ to me and few of the fragments
| hit me.
have been writing for the press Tor
a number Of years. My friends tell
me what I write reads so Inherently
10 what it sounds when | speak it.
| They saw they can laugh when L say
it, but they get mad when they read 1t
! from nv pen. After all, more men get
mad at me for the fun / have used,
wit or sarcasm, than for anything else
combined. Everything comes at me
funny side foremost. / can't help
laughing when two Irish widows get
together to condone with each other
over the loss of their husbands, ana
one SAYS to the other: And faith,
Bridget, what was the matter with
vour old man?" and Bridget replied:
81 dunno; he seemed to die for the
want of BIRTH" "Ah, faith" Iaid the
other widow, sit was just the opposite
with my old man. He had his BIRTH up
to the very last"
What. is the use in men going crazy
about anything? That there are many
wise and good men IN favor OF the FREQ
coinage of silver never have denied.
l will not deny facts But that there
IRE thousands clamoring for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver 10 to
who can't pillow a straight furrow, or
parse John runs fast" or can tell the
difference between insomnia and dip
sornania. | was after the crowd who
was crazy on free and unlimited COM
age. just as humanity has gone crazy
L. .,fy lar rirtlsa s1l hf rpa g.
ury, greenbacl1s; and just as women go
crazy on fads and fashions, boomers
and bcaux. My letter on crazes was
only adaptab BILE to the class who have
more beef than brains, more liabilities
than assets, more dogs than dollars
The balance of the wise, statesman
ike, brainy part of the silver advocates
hereby and hereon forever exempt
and diffcrentiats them.
am perfectly willing to any plan or
scheme that will better humanity and
bring prosperity to our country apd
prominence 10 our institutions. Men
who don't understand the subject, and
especially men who don't understand
each other, are in poor position to dis
eus, these great questions. l would
willingly champion anything and every
thing that would lessen the burden and
increase the earning capacity and pros
perity of the telling millions OF our
country. No man who travels over thi7
country as do and has heart within
him can be insensible to the condition
Of d great ma jority of the peop pie of ON
country. And yet it is fact that we
ere, as common people. to blame for
the state of things that obtains.
The word debt" is the hardest word
this side of death with which we have
M struggle. Men talk about this, be-
ing a debtor country and England a
creditor country. As long as this is
true England has US by the leg. 1 re-
member the days in the past when
was a debtor. / caDdidly confess did
not like my creditor. did not like to
meet him. The announcement OF his
funeral In the paper would not have
affected me so sadly as the death OK
any man would to-day. 1t is hard to
love a man devotedly whom you owe.
Let's settle our debts some way; then
let's grow Let's pay up and then let's
dictate the terms for all present and
future transactions. But the debtor
is in poor shape to dictate terms, and
always will be.
But things look better to-day than
they did year ago. We have got
more corn in America to-day than
America ever had before. believe
cotton viii go to ten cents a pound.
The south was never better equipped
for everything except debt paying. So
with the west. The east never found
it so hard to collect old debts. Wise
men are on both sides Of the single and
double standard questions. Wise men
differ on the tariff. Wise men differ
In theology. Wise men differ in every
thing. But they generally agree to
disagree. Fools get mad, drunken men
fight, and women quarrel sometimes.
| love to be at peace with my neigh
bors and all mankind, especially with
nv neighbors. And in reply to all
criticisms and castigations, which your
| Uncle Jones would have suffered II he
had not been too busy, have only this
to say: Gentlemen, If you can give II
| to me any harder than do to you,
pitch in. This is free country, and Il
there Is anything despise it is dull
| time.
Bv the way, our exposition opens N
Atlanta the 18th inst. It is going to be
q great slow. They arc coming from
| the east and the west. the north and