The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-04-19
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
Receives Letters from all Parts Of the
Union.
4tlanta Constitution.
Union.

Now there is another trust just con-
summated. Mr.. Vanderbilt and Miss
Fair have put their millions together
and somebody is going to suffer by it.
; This thing is all wrong. Rich people
J ought not to marry Itch people, but |
don't see how we can stop it. There
are prettier girls than Miss Fair and
handsomer men than Mr.. Vanderbilt,
butmoney loves money and that set
tied it. That pretty little nursery
story about Cinderella marrying a
prince is as dead as Hector. But |
don't see how we can prevent these
trusts and combinations and great ac-5
cumulations without a heavy income
tax and "a inheritance tax. Even
then the millionaires would hide out
sof it or lie outof it. They would
dodge the revenue men just like the.
moonshiiners do: We see that Van
derbilt is lodging them now in New
Y York,ands Governor Roosevelt is:after
Sthemsin alspecial message. It looks
ike We poorafolks will just have to
submit it-and thanx the Lord that we
are !, 8, out ,j of Jail and that it is as we'll
w7ith3us IS what it is. They cant
form any & trust on air and water and
our gardens and home raised chickens
and eggs and potatoes. We had as.
paragus for dinner to-day and will
have strawberries in 8 week or two.
There are many good things not yet in
any combine. suggested to Mr..
Beaer the other day that I was in
favor Of 4 church trust in every small
town, for L wanted to hear him and
all'the preachers preach and was afraid
J: to leave my own little church for fear
Of giving offense to our preacher. !
5 think it would be good idea for the
preachers to rotate and preach in the
different churches, and we would make.
a combine of the salaries and divide
it out pro rata. Dcctrinal sermons
have about played out, anyhow, and
8 excepting baptism BY immersion there
is very little difference in the essen.
tial princip pies of the Christian demon.
nations. We all want to idolize
somebody and ] had Just as leave
.idolize four preachers as one.
Some Of the preachers arc disturbed
about what wrote about the 400 in
New York, and wantme to retract and
explain, and 7 am pleased to learn
from tie New York Christian Advo-
cate that the Associated Press dis
patch that I quoted from was much
exaggerated and distorted. Enough
is adplitted, however, 20 show that
Rev Cadman is skeptic on the sub
ject Of miracles and drew conclusions
from his own argument that the editor
says lie cannot accept and that Mr..
Cadman says he does not himself ac-
cept. Thatis funny; the editor says
these preachers often give tnmultuous
applause to meritorious pape but
would refuse to indurse or approve the
paper. That isfunny. too. and is an
admission that Mr.. Cadman's argu-
ment against miracles was meritorious.
But enough Of this. The northern
Methodist church can take care OF
itself. The editor says he has re-:
ceiyed from two to twenty letters from
& each Of fourteen different States ask
ing If that press dispatch spoke the
truth.
And / have received many, and
among them are two who irdorse Cad
man and the 400, and oneifrom Nor
mon elder who asserts tnat the purest
Of all Christian faith is to be. found
only in the Mormon church, and he
sends me some tracts and begs me to
read them. The letters I have re-
ceived are+no doubt sincere, and they
are written in polite and scholarly
language, and gave me no ground for
offense.
Many men Of many minds there are
in this world andit becomes us all to
be tolerant. Error thrives on lntoler-
ance and persecution.
And here is an editor from Virginia
who complains to the Constitution,
and takes exception to my saying ::
$50 far as / am concernedI feel as it
I was nothing and less than nothing
in the scale of existence, for know
not whence i came nor where am
going And he asks impertlnently
if 4 have become an agnostic, and
says my utterances are astounding.
There are some smart people who are
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