The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-07-05


the 1G0,000,0C0 and gets nothing.
Yes, Georgia pays about S5,00O,00O
annually through the operations of
the tariff. I bought pocket knife
today for SO cents that I could have
bought in London for balf the money
Just think of it, my brethren, SG, ,000,-
0)O in Tariff taxes annually to sup
port million pensioners, one-tentb
of whom are entitled to it under the
! law and pire-teenths are frauds.
! This scandalous trust is backed by
the G. A. Rs, and they are backed
by the Republican party, and that
party is backed by the cohesive
power OF public plunder. If this
was all that Georgia paid we would
be happy, but our State has to pay
her part Of ss00,O00,ooO more than
it takes to run the national machine.
Altogether We pay not less than
$40, 100000 annually for the priv
ilege of remaining in the union
How is that for oppression? I tell
you, it takes a vast amount of patriot.
ism for q southern man to love his
government and fight for it. The
only way to be patriot is to shut
ones eyes and go it blind. It would
not do to think about our grievances,
for they interfere with our digestion.
Besides all these troubles there is
a long, dry drought upon US, and
our gardens have dried up and the
money has given cut, and the cook
is sick, and I have to hunt up kindling
wood and fire up the stove before
sun-up and 80 to market, and there
is picnic on hand tomorrow and
one of the little grand children got
hurt on the juggling board. It tore
the flesh from her ankle, and I al
most cried: and our dog and another
dog got to fighting right over an
other little one ard knocked her
down and scared her into fits, and I
couldn't run to her as fast as I
wanted to, for my corporosity inter-
feres with my alacrity. Besides all
this, the town is kept in commotion
about the jng business, and it has
got into the courts and into the
churches, and folks have taken sides
and friends are alienated, and man
don't dare to go town hardly for
fear of being drawn into it. "a soft
answer turneth away WRATH, but
they are not soft in these parts.
when a mans ways please the
Lord He naketh even his enemies to
be at peace with him, but his ways
don't seem to please tic Lord in
Cartersyille, for his enemies arc not
at peace with him. The great ques-
ton here is not about drinking or
selling whiskey, but is about the
right of man to order q bottle or O
Jug from Atlanta for his private use
or for medicinal purposes; and its
agitation and denunciation has made
as much talk as the magma charta,
and both sides declare they will take
it to the supreme court of the United
States O: North America and the
Philippines.
Thep, again, Hon. Pope Brown,
the jealous president of the State
Agricultural Society, says the State
will not prosper any more until the
negroes are sent away or colon!zed;
but if they won't 60, what is to be
done about it? He says that educa-
ton has ruined the negro as labor
or, but how is it to be stopped? The
rich fools at the north keep on dying
end leaving morey to negro schools,
and cur lawmakers keep on making
appropriations for them and taxing
US to educate them to oppose our
people and to take sides with our
political enemies, who are killing ne
groes in Indiana because they want
work.
And now the war party want ne
groes TO go to the PEllpplne5 ana
fight other negroes. That would be
a good deliverarce all round, but I
don't delieve they will go to any ex,
tent. The nigger is in the wood pile
and he is here to stay. Let him stay
as long as be behaves, and if they
won't behave and be good citizens
they will suffer in the flesh. Our
people are tired fool G with them,
and are desperately III earnest. l
reckon we can get up excursions and
take all the bad ones to Indiana and
drop them. They will go on an ex-
cursiOn.