The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-07-06

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divinity, to be idolizcd and protected,
but is helpless and always in peril.
Cleveland was a king, but got check
mated and had to retire to private
life. The bishops on the chessboard
represent the church, which is great
power in the land-a moral power that
makes bus little noise and attacks
iniquity in high places and sweeps the
board diagonally from Maine TO Mexico.
The knights arc the politicians and
statesmen whose movements are right
oblique and left obliquc, overlapping
prcccdents and proprictics. They
have no straight lines nor i light angles,
but are always lodging around and
shifting their course to suit the chang
ing situation. They require great
deal Of watching, The castles are
these rich old fellows who carry the
money bags and buy the nation $
bonds and heap up their interest and
fight the income tax Bat after all it
is the little humble, unprctcnding
pawns that master the situation and
control the game. They move straight
forward and but step at a time, but
their phalanx is solid and ire
sistablc when marshallcd by master
hand They are the common people
the masses. The game Of Il nation
has no fixed movement. 1t is never
played twice alike. and its results are
unknown and uncertain until they
have transpircd Harrison was once
a king, but was chcckmatcd and now
there are none so poor as to do him
reverence.
Fate, chance, circumstances and
providence all take hand in this
game. What prophet or seer or
statesman could have forctold to us
the present unhappy condition Of our
country? :: How long will it last and
what will be the result? Is the war
drifting into war of conquest? Will
VIC have to take Cuba for pay and per
haps the Philippines and will we an
mex Hawaii and will the republican
party father all this Imperialism and
officer the new governments and per
pctuatc their power with patronage?
Or will Bryan and Cleveland coalesec
and combine against such dangerous
policy and demand the voice Of the
people upon it? 1 was delighted with
Mr. Cleveland's uttcrances on this
war business. 1. may be political
key note, but he is on Bryan's line
about acquiring territory and the
Monroe doctrine and he speaks boldly
and with no sign of "inocuous desuc
tude." He deplores the allurcments
Of war to our young men and declares
that even victories are demoralizing
to a nation and quotes from Generals
Grant and Sherman to prove it. A
leading paper says TINT these utter
ances from Bryan and Cleveland will
make the next presidential issue and
that the silver question will be ignored
in the national platform and that the
democrats north and south and east
and west will have great love feast
and sweep the country. AS old man
Baugh would say we will all know by
waiting and that is alli that We little
pawns can do.
wish that something would happen
to stop this shedding of blood-this
rich man 81 swar and poor mans fight,
for that is what it is. Mr.. Mckinley
says he is daily expecting great and
very bloody battle. Oh, the pain, the
agony, the horror Of bloody battle
with thcse' modern engines Of destruc-
tion. There .shave eight young men
gone from Sthis town and hundreds
more fzom the State and thousands
from the south-gone like they were
going to frolic. Already many of
them are dcmoralized aud have lost
all regard for the laws and all respect
for womankind. Tho good people of
Walker county are paralyzed with fear
Of the soldiers-our soldiers whom we
call our patriots. And so it was at
Griffin and at Tampa and the other
places.
There is enough trouble and grief
at home in times Of peace. Old father
Time keeps cutting our good people
down and strewing our homes with
tears. The other day he took from us
a good wife and mother without any
warning and now the light Of that
home has gone out. Nobody knows
the desolation Of that hearthstone
save the bereaved husband and the