The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1898-01-25

8 and Is now the acknowledged mis're
n OF the Pacific ocean. But we can be;
q them all in brag and buster an
: Jingoism. We are very like the ave
, age young man who lives on his father
/, reputation. We go back century c
l SO and bank on the ConstitutiCn an
the Wasp in the days of Paul Jone
and Decatur. Those were gloriou
victories, but we were fighting on III
defensive then, and our great leaders
ooth on land and sea, were SoutherI
men-Paul Jones was from Virgins
ana Decatur was from Maryland, an,
ola John Adams dident like either O
them.
But almost everything that concern
Congress now is political iobbery-ant
the pension frauds will 20 on. The,
grow bigger ard bigger as the years
roll on. The fifty thousand pension
lawyers up north must be kept fat, ant
they are organized and know how tC
control Congressman. Ten dollars
from each one will place half a million
IN Washington and that will purchase
hfty votes at $4,000 vote. Thew defy
commissioners Evans and all his efforts
TO purge the rolls will be in vain.
Wickedness in high places still pre-
Valls, and the wonder is that the nation
survives its corruption. heard some
| preachers discussing it on the railroad
! and one said the wickedness was so
great 1T was wonder that the Lord
dident destroy the capital and all the
great cities. But an old Irish preacher
said ~ No, sir; no sir the Lord
wouldent have destroyed Sodom if
there had been ten good men there,
ana L am sure there are at least lifty
Atlanta a,l,
Washington and New York"
No, sir, the cities are safe for some
time to come, but it is well enough to
keep your eye on a place in the coun-
try. In 1911 Thomas II. Benton made
a great speech in the United States
senate In which he opposed the grant
OF $4,000 to President Uarrison's
widow and said {: "a new page has
been opened in the book of our expen-
ditnres and this new departure taken
which leads to the bottCnless gulf of
pen,and gratuities." Verify he spoke
like a prophet, for So, OOO 100000 have
already been paid and there are now on
tne rolls nearly million pensioners
ana commissioner Evans finds 200, 900
additional pending applications. Good
gracious, how we did fight. John G,
Calhoun said in one of his speeches
"A power has risen up in the gover.-
ment that Is greater than the people.
~ consists of many interests com bined
in one mass and held together by the
cohesive power of public plunder."
50 all this stealage is no new thing
and 1T wouldent matter very much il
1T concerned the North only, but we
down South have to pay big part of
IL ana get nothing back. The won Ter
Is That we have been able to live. But
our comfort is the Lord loveth whom
He chasteneth. We are getting a.ong
pretty well and our people are in
better spirits than they were two or
three years ago. They spent lot of
money Christmas, and that's a good |
sign They tell anecdotes aid laugh
more and have move little parties. We
were at one last night-my wife and |,
ana there was no sign OF poverty or
aestress no 'possum and taters; no
politics.. Sixteen of us sat around the |
festive board and commemorated the |
thirty.eighth marriage anniversary of
Major Calhoun and his wife, two good |
people, a good father and mother, a
good husband and wife, good friends |
ana neighbors, and we were waited on
by their children-good children, who
nave never brought shame or grief to
their parents. That is the biggest
anu DesI tnlng L know Of Ard we
had wit and anecdote and conundrums
all mixed up with oyster soup and
turkey and "eat ceteras." ! asked
Judge Akin what kin he was to his
sisters husbands mother inlaw and
he gave it up in despair. heard that
he pondered over it all the way home
and away in the night cried out
" Eureka Eurekaw Then Mayor Gil
bert put the seventeen.elephan pro-
blem at me and | got tangled up and
then asked him how ground squirrel
dug his hole in the ground without
leaving any dirt around the top and it
scared him, but his wife came to his
relief and answered it, Men haven't
got very much of that kind of sense
and ] always depend upon my wife. |
don't like to strain my mind.
BILL ARP