The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-09-26
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
THE MAJOR REMARKS ON THE
isHOrNEss~ OF THE WEATHER.
Retrospsction, Politically and Otner.
wise, OF OLD Times.

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in an aged bosom. The republicans
are making 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 wall to
protect people against the assanlfs OF
passion a Id prejudice. All that is
very pretty to young man, but old
men have more memory and lees conf
dence. There was time, good long
time, when the court had the respect
and the reverence Of the nation, es-
pecially Of the south, when John Mar
shall and Roger B. yTauey, two south
ernerr, were the chief justices for
period of nearly sixty years, but soon
after fancy died partisan politics and
sectional prejudice crept into the court
and it is there yet. 1t has been only
twenty years since members OF that
court ruled Mr.. Tilden ont of the
presidency and seated Hayes, as clear
an act of legal fraud as was ever per-
petrated by the most interruptions
politicians. Law is said to be the
perfection OF human reason. Then
how is it that in such great questions
republican judges decide one way and
the democrats the other? It is right
melancholy to recall that ttupendous
farce-st ven democrats and eight re-
publicans all under oath to do justice
in this great question, and yet they
drew the party lines to man. That
Tilden was elo cted all parties now adj
nit and history has 30 recorded. de
was cheated out of the high Office by
three members OF that supreme court
This is the same CONT that decided the
income tax unconstitutional. Why l
wouldn't trust snch q court with any
case that involved great corporations
CT sectional questions. Ever since Joe
Bradley was a young man, and mp to
1870 he was president or director OF
two railroads and several great in
surance companies. He couldent tote
fair with them on one side and the
people on the other to save his life.
No, am like Mr.. Bryan. I've lost
confidence in the integrity of that
court. I will not say that its members
can be bought with money, but their
Wills are nodded by undue influence
and ought to be broken. That income
tax was q fair and just measure and
would have put into the treasury near
forty millions of dollars aud no doubt
saved the government from the dis
GRACE of that bond business,
But didn't start. to write on poll
tics. The weather is too hot to think
about anything that excites indigna
ton. We old chaps here in Carriers
vile have been going to school every
night for week, preparing for th'
deestrict skule thow that was to come
off. The ladies got it up and ther
levied on rs and put the Oldest mel
, and women in an infant class, and vi
! had to toe chalk mark and learn on
a b c on a blackboard, and be tsugh
| to sing 81 want to be an angel ant
, we had to speak o speech like we uset
to speak it away back in tho sos snt
, 40's. Some OF ne hadto walk up ant
be licked for our mischief, and We has
o recess and played many. many star
, with the girls and ! got kissed severa
] times and 90 forth. The nights wer,
hot. but we had fun, lots Of fun--oit
fashion ed, innocent funs Old people az
! never 90 happy ss when recalling tb'
memories of the old school days. Tha
is about as far back az We can go. ant
it is q big landmark in LIES history
8 Shakespeare tells Of the whining
schoolboy creeping unwillingly int
echool. That wss true picture some
times, but as general thing. We wer
!. glad to 20. Charles Lamb writes o
8 his joyful school days. It was o mos
!, delightful mixture. With mother t
q help us get our lessons and father I
j encourage and . teacher to praise q
. when we did we'll, the daily task va
). not hard, and then the surrounding
q the frolics, the recess, the dir
s ner bucket, the good time goin
k home in the evening, the prett
t branches we had. to cross, the red gu
e lies where we got chalk, the walnu
trees over in the field and the chestnr
It trees on the hill and then there wei
h persimmons and blackhaws and msy
l. pops not far away. We had townba
J. at noon. glorious old townball that h'
!. been debased and degraded into bas'
II ball. We used TO give good balls
p the batter and wanted him to hit it On
,. knock it mileif he could. Then thel
"a was our old fashioned Skinny that va
'e akin to the modern golf. It wss har
9 game and kept rs with bruised shin
x and bloody toes, and gradually Tell II
"a to state of inocuous desuetude.
ie And there were some spretty girls
d look on and admire, and We had OF
Il sweethearts and loved to stand b
!, them at the FHday evening spellinl
y, and sometimes Sentured to bold the
. hands on the sly, and would purpose
y misspell the word to let them &
- above. This was chivalry. pure ~
- = simple. Then came Saturday, . lon
!. - long. happy day. when We gather
30 chinquapins and chestnuts or went
he the mill and went in washing viii
le waiting for the grist. Sometimes ,
n. didn't wait for. the griss, but ran pol
races home and vent back in the aft<