The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-08-14

war and kept on getting worse
and worse just like cur eonfeder.
ate money did. But we got along
huely with confederate money as long
as there was anything 70 trade on.
The higher the price OF things Che
more money there was 90 buy with
and q man iolt sorter rich with a big
roll OF ID IN his pocket, even II IL did
take 5000 20 buy apair oiootton carda.
In timeaof trouble the people have %
get used 10 things, you know, and coi-
fee made OF parched rye ot COOLERS
was better than no coffee. Ii Is all in
getting used 10 things, The war was
20 much worse than the currency that
We didn't complain about the kind OF
money. Town councils and corpora
tons and railroads and even individ-
uala issued their own shinplasters, and
everybody took them. Ihave a dozen
different kinds now aud look at them
once In a while. We old veterans can't
be scared to death about currency, and
all We want is enough of IL, whether It
be silver or gold or greenbacks.
But we do want something done to
revive our industries and put the
wheels In motion and increase the val
mes OF our land and our products.
We want our boys TO have something
% do NJ home and not have to 90 away
In search Of employment. We have
six boys and they are scattered from
New York 20 Mexico. There is an
other lamentable consequence 10 the
present distress. The marriage Of
young men and maidens have almost
ceased 10 be. A young man working
for $50 or $40 a month can't afford to
get married Parents will strain them
selves 10 give their boys a collegiate
education and when they get their
diplomas there is nothing for them TO
do. The girls who pra luate come
home refined and cultured and would
marry If they could select a mate, but
they can't, and so they just live along
in q state of innocuous desuetude.
There are at least twenty-five Of either
sex in this town who ought to mate
and marry, but they will not. When
1 was a young man there Was nc
trouble about marrying. Everybody
got married. ] could have married
three or four girls and my wife had
choice Of half dozen clever young
men. There was something for every
body to do.
Now we don't expect Mr.. Bryan Il
reform all the evils that have befaller
the country, but we do expect him t.
veto all the extravaganza of congress
The reform must begin right there
This last congress spent at least 5000,
000,0 900 more than was necessary, anC
it was spent on the log-rolling princi
pie Of ''you vote for my bill and III
vote for yours" Considering tn,
hardness of the times, these appropria
tiods we're outrageous We want Mr.
Bryan there to watch them and curl
them like Andrew Jackson did. Tha
he will be trizmphantly elected W
have no doubt. 1t is in the air. w
feel it and breathe it. My great re
greet is that I was not in Chicago Il
hear him and feel good all over an
have little hysteria myself and fee
: the turkey bumps rise Oh my spina
column and shed few tears Of delight
full emotion as I drank in the thrillin
eloquence OF the boy orator as the
call him. / wouldn't exchange hi1
today for all the old political hacks i
: the nation. read all that Barrett
and Adamson wrote to my family an
. all the extracts from the press, and
did us all good to realize that a goo
, and great man had suddenly arisen an
4 would redeem the nation from its dil
e tress and its corruption. Hurrah fo
4 Bryan of Nebraska. I've got touch {
I hysteria right now.-BmL ARP in A
9 lanta Constitution.