The Banner-Democrat., 1898-06-18
bell Wallace and Colonel Trammell

| bell Wallace and Colonel Trammell
and Sam Barnett first took hold of it
there was lots OF work to do and it took
nearly all their time. But they built
up a system without having guide or
precedent. They established rules
and regulations and these have long
since been reconsidered and readjust-
ed, and are now generally accepted
and approved by the railroads and the
people. Now the commission has to
meet only once or twice month and
one competent man as chairman is all
that Is needed. Colonel Trammell,
from his long experience, could run
the whole business and this would save
s., 900 year, besides the secretary's
salary, which is another thousand. If
Colonel Trammell or his successor
needed any occasional help to decide
new questions he might call in the
comptroller general and the secretary
Of state, who would willingly serve
for nothing part of one day
in month. School Commits
sioner Glenn has that kind of help
on his board and it costs the state
nothing. Why can't we do that and
save leak of SIC, 900? Why not? /
tell you, my long suffering friends, the
government expenses have got to be
cut down in some way; not just lit
tie, but good deal. "Sine qua mons"
are bigger things now than sine-cures.
The people are poor. The preachers
tell us that hungry man can't get re-
ligion, and if he should he can't enjoy
it. If we don't stop the leaks
the whole dam business will
burst and wash away and the mill
can't grind at all. 1 remember well
when we had no pensions nor school
fund and the people got along pretty
we'll. The young men married the
young girls and left the widows for
the widowers. There was no such o
word as trousseau in the dictionary,
but if there were less clothes there
was more love and fewer divorces.
But we will talk about these things
later, when we get to the legislature.
I'm not going to vote for any man who
will not promise to cut down the taxes,
and we will talk about this pension
business when the veterans meet in
July. 1 was ruminating about that
day-the anniversary of the greatest
battle ever fought and the greatest
victory ever won by confederate sol.
diers. It was small affair compared
with Gettysburg and Shiloh and the
Wilderness, but its impression on the
country aud the soldiers was more
profound than any other. 1t was like
young mothers first child-none
that came after ever created SO great o
sensation. HOW ylvld are the scenes,
the rapid night march from Wine nes.
ter, the crossing the Shenandoah by
torchlight, wading up to the armpits
with guns and cartridges held up. ]
can see Jimmy Smith, the little drum
mer boy of the Eighth Georgia, and
little McKosker, bobbing up and down
over the deep places with water run.
ming into their mouths, while
taller soldiers behind them
held them steady. I hear the
shouts of Stonewall Jackson's men as
they came through the woods and
turned the tide to victory. see the
willow glade and the little branch
where DR.. Miller and his assistants
worked all night with their knives and
probes and bandages, and every little
while said, "next," like the BARRIERS to
their customers. I see the dead in
the pine thicket and the wounded
placed in the ambulances and hurried
to the Lewis house for hospital. ]
see the New York Zouaves in the field
near the old stone house on the pike.
How thick they laid upon the ground
how fat they seemed next morning
as the burial squads rolled them into
the shallow trenches. They had swoll-
en- in form and feature during the night
until their corpses filed thoir loose
clothes almost to bursting.
But when we all meet on the 21st we
will talk over the miGty past and re.
joice with those who rejoice and weep
with those who weep. A sea of tears
has already been shed, both north and
south, but still the chalices are not
empty nor the hearts of the veterans
scared over by the iron hand of time.
BILL ARP, in Atlanta Constitution.
Puoo;o hoe tho most ranid1v increas.