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

play our parts. The king is kind OF
divinity, to be idolized and protected,
but is helpless and always in peril.
Cleveland was king, but got check
mated and had to retire to private
life. The bishops on the chessboard
represent the church, which is q great
power in the land-a moral power that
makes but little noise and attacks
iniquity in high places and sweeps the
board diagonally from Maine to Mexico.
The knights are the politicians and
statesmen whose movements are right
oblique and left oblique, overlapping
precedents and proprieties. They
have no straight lines nor hight 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. But after all it
is the little humble, unpretendlng
pawns that master the situation and
control the game. They move straight
forward and but a step at a time, but
their phalanx is solid and ire
sistable when marshalled by master
hand. They are the common people
the masses. The game Of nation
has no fixed movement. 1t is never
played twice alike, and its results are
unknown and uncertain until they
have transpired. Harrison was once
king, but was checkmated 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 foretold to us
the present unhappy condition OF our
} country ?,s How long will it last and
what will be the result? Is the war
drifting into war Of conquest? Will
we 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-
petuate their power with patronage?
Or will Bryan and Cleveland coalesee
and combine against such dangerous
policy and demand the voice OF the
people upon it? / was delighted with
Mr.. Cleveland's utterances on this
war business. T. may be a 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 s'inocuous desue-
tude." he deplores the allurements
Of war to our young men and declares
that even victories are demoralizing
to nation and quotes from Generals
Grant and Sherman to prove it. A
leading paper says that 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 all; that we little
pawns can do.
I wish that something would happen
to stop this shedding Of blood-this
rich an's.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 these modern engines ef destruc-
ton. There Shave eight young men
gone from Ethis town and hundreds
more from the State and thousands
from the south-gone like they were
going to frolic. Already many Of
them are demoralized and have lost
all regard for the laws and all respect
for womankind. The 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
good wife and mother without any
warning and now the light of that
home has gone out. Nobody knows
the desolation of that hearthstone