The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-29
TIME AS A DOCTOR
ARP SAYS EHAT PATIENCE WILL
BRING GALITliINGS.
IL Beats A PoliticIan--Ha Barlow Man Declares
That Bottor Times Arc Now In Sight.
Atlanta Constitution.
"Watchman tell us of the nj,

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father time is good doctor" I
believe that he is about to cure tho
country Of hard times Certain it is
that mother politicians nor legisla-
Ition has done any good. Tho dis
case was not even diagnosed, but tho
patient is getting we'll. Neither
Cleveland nor anti tl-Clevoland nor
Mckinley nor tho tariff nor pcpu-
lism has had anything to do with it.
Time is tho medicine, and when
time cures a pationt he stays cured
Il good, long period. L had rhcuma-
tism several years and the doctors
worked on mo until they got tired
and quit, but old Doctor Time came
along, and after while the rhouma-
tism just quit me and went away of
its own accord. For six years wo
have all boon cussin' an fussin' and
discussin' about the disease that
afflicted the country. Every poll
tician had remedy, but somehow
the people have lost confidence in
our so called statemen and thoir
medicine won't stay on the stomach.
A first class politician can argue tho
leg off an iron pot or tho spots off
leopard. L heard Aleck Stophons
mako Il great speech away back in
the 40's and he proved that. tho dom
ocratic party was responsible for all
the calamities that hnd befallon tho
country for twenty years, even to
the high price of coffee and the low
price Of cotton and the yellow fever
in Savannah.
was ruminating about this DO
cause have been travelling around
good deal of late, and if the times
are not better, thon all signs deceive
me. Farming is claimed to bo the
foundation Of all prosperity-the
mudsills of the building if SO,
then know the times arc improving,
for the diligent farmer is prospering
everywhere in the sunny south out
side Of Hoods and cyclones. Tho
crops in South Carolina are we'll nd
vanced and promising. Harvest is
IL hana in north Georgia and Ton
nessee, and was never better. Ev-
erything tho farmer grows commands
a fair price, and everything he has to
buy is cheap. The price of wheat
, and corn and hay is better than it
was from 1880 to 1S0O--wheat is
$1.0O por bushol, hay at $1.OO Il
hundred, corn at so cents, sweet po-
tatoes at Is cents, irish potatoes at
60; chickens from Is to 20 cents and
wood at S1.5O cord. What is the
matter with tho farmer? Suppose
his cotton is down to 7 cents, he can
make money on it at that. A man
, at Union, S. c., told me he made last
year 800 bales on 800 acres, and
cleared $4,000. How is that? When
, I was young merchant cotton ave-
ragged about s cents pound; corn
40 cents brshol; wheat Is ccnts,
potatoes 25, wood $l.O0 q cord
Shifting and calico were l2a cents n
yard, sugar and coffee l2a cents n
pound. Iron was 5 cents, and stcol
Is cents and nails 8 cents Now all
these things except coffee are half
price, and all that tho farmer grows
for sale is 25 per cent highor, except
cotton. But still he is not happy.
, Up north, of course, it is differont,
!, for it takes all they make III six
months summer to support them the
, six winter months.
am sorry for those people, that
is FOR all tho clever ones, and wish
they could soil out to tho fanatics
and fools and come down here to
this blessed land. Their laboring
class who have no land and work
) about for wages say they arc not
coming, for they can get $25 a month
; up there and we pay our negroes on
ly $40. That's so. That's tho way
it is put down in the last consus.
But the census don't tell how the
farm lnborer up thore is wanted only
) three months and the other nine he
Jobs it around for little or nothing,
and it takes his last nickel to keep
from freezing to death. And the