The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-04-10
BILL ABP'S LETTER.
SOME REMARKS on THE PRES
ENr POLITICAL SITUATION.
William Says the United states Senate
should be Abolished.


same a. cotton; chickens were l2l
cents, eggs cents q dozen aud sweet
potatoes 20 cents a bushel; sugar and
coffee we're twelve podnds 20 the dol
lar. We called those few years hard
times and the negroes felt The pressure
too aud improyised q song with q cho-
rus Of "Hard Tires Come Again No
More" But gradually there came on
a change for the better and prices Of /
everything advanced just az cotton ad-
yanced. That is why cotton was called |
king. IL seemed to regulate every |
thing. And 90 We thought that these |
hard times would soon pass, but they |
show no sign. Nearly everything has |
come down TO hard times prices and the
consumers could live cheap enough If
they could get anything to do. There
is the rub.
The Irishman who came over here
complained that chickens we're 2 shil-
ings apiece and said he could get one
over in Ireland for q sixpenee. well,
why dident you stay over there and
buy them?" said the market man.
"Faith and begorra, couldent get the
sixpense," he replied. That is the con-
sumers' fix now. The necessaries Of
life are cheap enough The farmers
and producers claim that they are too
cheap. They want some kind Of tar
III that will make everything they have
to buy as cheap as dirt and raise the
price of what they have TO sell. An
Iriskman heard a Dutch butcher say
that the way TO make money "vas to
buy sheep (cheap) and sell deer dear y
He dident understand how that could
be done and asked a Scotchman, who
ruminated over it, and said it was
to buy mutton and sell it for
venison. But we can't do that
Our young men who are every year
swarming to the front are ready and
willing to work, but they can't get
work to do. No wonder that they
leave their homes and go west or to
Mexico and Brazil. was Illuminating
about advising some of them to 60 to
Central America and raise coffee.
. There must be money in that business.
|, For years and years l sold coffee at
twelve pounds to the dollar and don't
understand why it advanced to double
the old price and for years has main
tanned it. 1 was reading about the
island of Jamaica and found that for
thirty years the product averaged 25,-
600, 900 pounds a year, but when in
1843 England emancipated her slaves
there, the production dropped in ten
years time down to 5000, 900 pounds.
In fact, everything dropped away
down except rum and that still holds
its own.
wish that I was a great statesman
and could see through all this tangled
up business like the x rays penetrate
dark and hidden things and bring them
to the light remember when the
great national question before the peo-
pie was whether the government should
! make internal improvements or not.
NThe wings said it should and the dem
ocrats said no and the democrats car.
ried it. At the next election the par
ties changed sides and a system of in
ternal improvement began. Appro-
priations were made for rivers and
harbors and custom houses and post
offices and this policy has been estab
lished and gets wider and bigger as
the years roll on. Then again there
was the great question about declaring
war with Mexico and later on about an
nexing Texas and the presidential cleo
tions turned on these issues. Now VIZ
have got the tariff and the currency
and party lines are very much unset
tied. But as the preacher said: "Ever
this will pass away" Georgia is to bt
the forum Of the great discussion ant
the people are to be the judges. an
glad that it will be over so soon. LIE
4 the people hear and then make choice
ut is no new thing; it is old and tn,
people have been reading about it TO-
three years and almost everybody i
ready for the vote. like this way 0
the people having a voice in the choic
of o senator. Why not? What is tn
difference between a senator and rep
resentative? The old-tim theory wa
that the senators represented the state
and the representatives the people.
hundred years ago there was something
Il that, but there is nothing now.
y In my opinion the people shout,
elect the senators just like they do til
governor and all other offices. An,
the next best thing would be to abol
ish the senate. 1t was intended to b
an assembly of old men-counsellor
in wisdom, and who would protect th
rights Of the states, and a small stat
has as much power as large one. Blu
that is a thing of the past State
rights have gone into state of innoc
uous desuetude and money has NOR
to do with a senator's fitness than az
or wisdom. There is no good reaso
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