The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-08-06
NO. "a

war and kept on getting worse
and worse just like our confeder-
ate money did. But We got along
finely with confederate money as long
as thero was anything to trade on.
The higher the price of things the
more money there was to buy with
and u man felt sortcr rich with big
roll OF it in his pocket, even if it did
take $500 to buy apair of cotton cards.
In times of trouble the people have to
get used to things. you know, and cof-
fee mado of parched rye or goobers
was better than no coffee. 1t is all in
getting used to things. The war was
so much worse than the currency that
wo didn't complain about the kind of
money. Town councils and corpora
tions and railroads and even jndivid-
uals issued their own shinplasters, and
everybody took them. | have dozen
different kinds now and look at them
once in while. Ws old veterans can't
be scared to death about currency and
all We want is enough OF 1t, 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
lcs; OF onr land and our products.
We sant cur boys to have something
& DO at homo and no! have to go AWAY
in search of employment. We have
six boys and they are scattered from
New York to Mexico. There is an
other lamentable consequence to tho
present distress. The marriage of
young men and maidens have almost
ceased to be. A young man working
for $50 or $40 month can't afford to
get married. Parents will strain ,hem-
selves to give their boys q collegiate
education and when they get their
diplomas there is nothing for them to
do. The girls who graduate como
home refined and culturel and would
marry if they could select mate, but
they can't, and SO they just live along
in 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
l was a young man there was no
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 to
reform all the evils that have befallen
the country, but we do expect him to
veto all the extravaganza of congress.
The reform must begiL. right there.
This last congress spent at least $780,
600, 900 more than was necessary, and
it was spent on the log-rolling princi-
pie of ''you vote for my bill and I'll
vote for yours. Considering the
hardness of the times, these sppropria-
tiods were outrageous. We want Mr..
Bryan there to watch them and curb
them like Andrew Jackson did. That
he will be triumphantly elected we
have no doubt. 1t is in the air. We
feel it and breathe it. My great re-
gret is that was not in Chicago to
hear him and feel good all over and
have little hysteria myself and feel
the turkey bumps rise OIL my spinal
column and shed a few tears of delight
full emotion as drank in the thrilling
eloquence of the boy orator as they
call him. I wouldn't exchange him
: today for all the old political hacks. in
the nation. I read all that Barrett
l and Adamson wrote to my family an6
L. all the extracts from the press, and i
7 did us all good to realize that goot
. and great man had suddenly arisen an(
4 would redeem the nation from it's dis
Q tress and its corruption. Hurrah fo1
4 Bryan of Nebraska. I've got touch o
I hysteria right now.-B1LL ARP in At
g lanta Constitution.