The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-24
CUTTING DOWN SOME TREES
CAN'T FOOL HIS WIFE.
Bill Arp Says the Old Lady viii
Find Out When She Is Not Con


Bill Arp Says the Old Lady viii
Find Out When She is Not Con-
suited.
Mr.. Lincoln said, "You may fool
some of the people all the tlme-you
may fool all OF the people some OF the
time, but you can't fool all the people
all the time That's 80, I reckon, but
will add that man can't fool his
wifo at oil. She catches up with him
by instinct. My wife has been awav
to Rome and 80 l took advantage q Gi
hor absence and had two trees cIt
down. One was dying at tho TOP and
the other was crowding two other
trees and doing no good. But sho 10
utterly hostile to cutting down q treo
and 80 havo to do it while she ia
away. One OF them was cut down low
to the ground and after every chip and
twig was cleared up l had grass mt
over the place where tho tree was. I
was going to 40 the other the Same
way, but got sick and she came home
prematurely and there was the stumn
grinnlpg with It's fresh cut edges. I
was getttng better, but when | saw
her coming took horizontal attitude
on the couch and tried 10 look sick and
sad and melancholy. 1t was two duvs
before she noticed that stump and
when she called my attention to it I
told her that 1t was an old stump and
had been there for years. She never
said anything, but there was a doub bt.
ful expression on her tranquil coun-
tenance. Ii thore were no grandchil-
dren around here could get along,
but they let the cat out OF the bug
cvery time and l am the victim. II
don't remember ever seeing that STUMP
before, said she, but | persuaded her
that the late rains had colored it,
When she found me out, | assured
her that the treo was hollow and WINS
bound 10 die soon and that it's proxi
nifty to the other trees prevented thoir
expansion and that expansion was now
the policy Of the country. Yes"
said she, VI suppose re must cut do vn
the smaller trees so that the larger
ones can have moro room. We must
kill OIL the Filipinos for the same rca-
son. | wonder how many OF the po0r
creatures they havo killed. If our
people kill black brute down here.
they make an awful fuss about it, but
they are killing thousands because
they are defending their native land.
1t Is all very strange to me-"
| don't like some Of our Governors
late utterances. The daily pnper
prints in big lines that he said the
man or men who lynched negro were
10 guilty in the sight of God as the
negro hey lynchea. Surely he didn't
say that. The reporter must have
misquoted him again. 1t does not
sound like him. There is no such
theology in the books. If God had not
have pat mark upon Cain any BODY
might have slain him. Moses had to
provide cities Of refuge for those who
accio entaIly killed anybody, lest tn.
avengers Of blood should pursue and
Overtake and slay them. The avengers
Of blood were recognized factors in the
administration OF the law. What
would have been the punishment of
these black brutes in Moscs's time for
their Outrages we cannot imagine, for
with the Jews no such crimes were
known. and to this day no such crime
is known among them. AS race
mestic relations. Husbands are 10y al
and true and kind to their wives and
wives to their hush Ands children are
obedient to their parents and affection
ate TO one another. But here among
us are numerous people who seem
utterly devoid Of those family virtues
that are the safeguards of all good
government. Within the last thirty
years they have grown from childhood
to manhood and have become infinite
ly worse than their fathers and moth
ers were while in slavery. There are
more bastard negroes in and around
this city than those born in wedlOck.
They are not mulattoes, but they are
negroes Of full blood. The moral dc.
gencracy of the race Ia alarming. The
State cOnvicts and county convicts now
aggregate over four thousand and ali
Of them have come to maturity since
the close OF the civil war. The morals
OF these negroes geLs worse and worse
and their outrages upon white women
moro frequent and moro brutal. Our
people are shocked and whisper to one
anoth> r, who will be the next victim.
When the savage Indians burned the
homes and tomahawAed the women
and children our forefathers pursued
them by day and by night and had
thelr revenge. We have 3 people
among us many Of whom are wocse
than savages, and every man among us
who is loyal to his wife or mother or
sister or daughter Is an avenger of
blood and should never stop until the
brute is caught and slain. For such
there are no cities OF refuge and no
horns OF the altar for him to Law hold
OF. This is one crime that makes q
man an outlaw and the people have no
more fear OF provoking the vengeance
OF God than did Governor Gambler
when he was leading his brave men
against tho enemy and crying at tho
top OF his voice, "Shoot 'em, bows
Shoot 'em Kill the last rascal come
on, boys; Come on and follow me !"
he never thought Of giving them a
trial by jury nor of being guilty of
murder. Let governors proclaim in
their perfunctorc fashion--let preachers
and judges speak OK cathedra from the
pulpit and the bench, our people will
iynch orute as soon as they can catch
bim, and it is no sign OF lswlessness,
either. You cannot lind in any State
better citizenship than in Early
county, and my letters from friends
who live there defend them most
heartily from all their slanderers. If
you wish to hear the truth, lust sound
the common people the country peo-
pie, the work Ing people, who 1.-Two in
the peril OF these outra ges-the peo-