The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-10-17
ARP SAYS TT is HOT.
Ha Lives la a Lively village and
Should Know.
Us1 chaps Or C7rsersgino = Tho Major
GROWS Reminiscent and Writes IN
Retrospective Fashion Old
Time Politics.

Confidence is a plant Of slow growth
IN an aged bosom. The republicans nre
mailing much ado about something that
mr.. Bryan said about the supreme
COURT and even some Of the Georgia
lawyers criticised him severely and de-
Tended the court as the best bulwark Of
our liberties, and spoke Of it as the high
tribunal that stood like q wall to pro-
tect the people against the assaults OF
passion and prejudice. All that is very
pretty to a young man, but old men
have mere memory and less confidence.
There was a time, d good long time,
when that court had the respectand the
reverence Of the nation, especially Of
the south. when John Marshall ind
Roger B. fancy, two s~outherners, were
the chief Justices for a period Of nearly
so years; but o after fancy lied
partisan politics and sectional prcju-
dices crept into the court and it is there
set. II has been only 20 years since
members Of that court ruled Mr.. Tililen
out Of the presidency and seated Hayes,
as clear an act Of illegal fraud as was ever
perpetrated by The most unscrupulous
politicians. Law Is said to be the rer-
fection Of human Then how is
81 that IN such great questions repub-
Fican Judges decide n way and demo-
Gratis the other2 Tits right melancholy
to recall that ~stupendous farce-seven
democrats and eight republicans all un-
der oath to do Justice in this great ques-
ton, and yet they drew the party lines
to a man. That Tilden was elected all
parties now admit and history has so
recorded. He was cheated out of the
high office by three members Of that SUI
preme court. This is the same court
that decided that income tax to be I'M
constitutional. Why, l wouldn't trust
such q court with any case that involves
great corporations, or sectional ques-
lions. Ever since Joe Bradley was a
young man and up to 1870 he was pres
ident or director of two railroads and
several great insurance companies. He
couldn't tote fair with them on one side
and the people on the other to save. his
life. No, I am like Bryan. I've lost
confidence in the integrity of that
court. I win not say that its members
can be bought with money, but their
wills are nodded by undue infiuenceand
ought to be broken. That income tax
was a fair and just measure and would
have put into the treasury near SAC, O0o,-
ono and no doubt saved the government
from the disgrace of that bond business.
But / didn't start TO write on politics.
The weather is too hot to think about
nnything that excites Indignation. We
old chaps here in Gainesville have been
going to school every night for a week,
preparing fer the deestrict skule show
that was to come of. The ladies got
it up and then levied on us and put the
Oldest men and women in an infant
class, and we had to toe q chalk mark
md learn OUT q b c on a blackboard, and
be taught to sing II want to he an
angel" and we had to speak a speech
like we used to speak it away back in
the SOS and 40's. Some Of MS had to
walk up and be licked for our mischief,
and we had a recess and played many,
many stars with the girls and I got
Kissed several times ard so forth. The
nights were hot, but we had fun, lots of
fun-old-fashioned, innocent fun. Old
people r never so happy as when re-
calling the memories OF the old school
days. That is about as far back as we
can go, and it is a big landmark in life's
history. Shakespeare tells Of the whin-
Ing schoolboy creeping unwillingly
into school. That was q true picture
sometimes, but, as a general thing, we
were glad to go. Charles Lamb writes
of his joyful school days. 1t was a
most delightful mixture. With a moth
er to help us get our lessons and a ia
ther to encourage and a teacher to
praise us when we did well, the daily
task was not hard. and then the sur
roundings, the frolics, the recess, the
dinner bucket, the good time going
home in the evening, the pretty
branches we had to cross, the red gull
lies where we got chalk, the walnut
trees over in the field and the chestnut
trees on the hill, and then there were
p~ersilnmons and bIackhawks and may
pops not far away. We had townball
at noo1s glorious old towRhall that has
been debased and degraded into base-
ball. We used to give good balls to the
batter and wanted him to hit II and
&nock It'll NH e he could. Then there
sd shiny that was
II was a hard
Iaed shins
into
And there were SOM
look on and ADMIRE, and
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