The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-08-23
ARP ON OLD TIM ES.
people Seemed TO Bo Better Long
Years Ago


Years Ago.
Tboupht moves swiftly those days
How eager wo are for news. TWO pa
pers u day and tho people gather al
tba mat Office waiting for them. And
whan f. comes It's all about war afar
otY and crime at homo. Murder, sui
cides, divorces, outrages by negroes,
lvnchings and tho Atlanta muddlo and
Kentucky murder thrown In as u sido
show. Some OF tho preachers arc TAX
inp a hand in the general moloo and
are raising racket In tho name OF tho
Lord How different IL all this from
the good old times when wo got the
mail only twice week ana were con-
tent to worship God on Sunday and
work on week days ana had time to
think and ponder and talk to our neigh-
bors. When two doctors were enough
for the community and they had but u
little shop full OF mcdicino and thoro
were no drugstOres and no patent
medicines, and lin Alexander and his
brother, Tom, and Glib Wright and
Adam Jones' and his brother, Frank,
and |, aud some other boys, who are
now dead, neyor were sick or took any
medicine except salts or castor oil for
green apple collie. What " glorious
fellow was Bryant Strickland, whose
hearty laugh could be heard across tho
town. He died not long ago and left
his hearty laugh with his boys. And
good old George Lester, who ran
against DR.. FELTON, for Congress. There
never was u botter boy, nor better
man, nor q better friend. loved him
and still remember how he and
searched over the potato patch TO find
some remains Of the stars that fell III
al, hns
the world, some things for the better.
some for the worse, and we must take
life and progress as we tind it. Pope
said Whatever is, is right but
old men and old women can't help
looking backward and rcgrcttiug that
some things have passed. away. OK
course, we rejoice In the many comforts
that Invention has brought to us, but
take 1t all In all, the average Of human
happiness remains about tho Same rs
it was sixty years ago. We had more
content then, more love and fewer
divorces and grass widows. Children
were more obedicnt to their parents
and there were no cigars or cigarettes
or Bull Durham tobacco or Coca Cola
or cocaine or hip pocket pistols. Every
town had one or two saloons where a.
fiddle WAS played Tor the old sOts, but
y
was not Il young man in our town who
ever took drink OF whisky, but nova
days young men consider it manly to
smoke and drink, and even some OF the
young women get drunk on the SLY and
vainly imagine that nobody knows it.
Our negro slaves were COntcntcd and
happy anu not an outrage was com
mitted from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande. Now there are , 900 OF them
IN the chaingapgs OF the Southern
States and 100 Of them are in Georgia.
Who IS responsible for al this, and
the iynching5 tina: still 20 on Mis-
taken philanthropy anu unm!=takcn
na!ignity. Il the South IA. been g.
alone we "ou.d have la tralla "u.
snc!pat.on La. c.L.ICy az *.@r
henry Gay Was IL a1TO-a:: d. /:
clay wings were pJ"@. Z :, : Sy-t.
ern States. .NOW We a.: taE : -.
back track anG are .rGO.Lg 49,;
enemies have GOne, anl T.. LOye ga.:..,
WIN follow North CacO.iua= .ea- a.,
that MIR. Hardwick ~. l!y t..
again At the next legi7 stature. wou.g
amend IL little, but In the man :,
r!ght. l would encourage the ncgroc.
70 Octter citizenship, both morally
and intellectually. The county com.
thlssloners or the grand Jury should be
authorized to examine and make a
selection OF certain moral, Industrious
negroes and give them tho right OF
suffrage. There are some in every
community that | would trust. There
are uoHen or more in Cartersvllle
ana every community has few. Thi
would create caste or u social condi
tion in the race that would have
good influence. would trust sue
men as Professor Council with an
political privilege, and there ar
others.
FRANK Carpenter is q great trAyclc
"a dlllgent student and great writer
ills Interesting to read from his pen tn
true condition OF the negro in tn
Philippines. How the negro captive
are bought and sold, and he was olrerc
four likely ones for $50 by a woma
who claimed to be Mohamneda
Christian. The boys average ten dol
lars and q good looking girl bring
from $l5 to go. This traffic has bco
going on for hundred years, but fo
the last half century has been dull
New England slave ships had to uui,
the business about that time fo1 tho
Brazll market WAS overstocked and
English vessels were watching toe
ciosely. According to history the las,
cargo was captured on the coast OF
Madagascar in l64S. 1t was q Yankee
craft and was fitted out in boston
That 10 why Chief Justice Stor,
charged the grand jury that " Bostor
mercnents were stepped to their eve
orows IN this Infamous business"
But this 10 all barred now nv IN.
statute OF Limitations. Professor 2oun
Gill believes it was ordained OF Goa 10
the good OF the negro, even thono h
was baptized In blood and inhumanitv
"Ohenses must needs come, but wo
unto them by whom they come"
But In some respects the South
making go2d progress. Our man,
factureg are increasing In every Stat
our agriculture iB improving and o.
fruit growing is advancing all alor
the line. The diffusion OF knowledl
IL spreading from the towns to ii
country hamlets and every body tax
and reads newspapers. Now II we CT
stop these negro trampB who wayl.
the highways and bywa vs. &c will ha
good quiet, pcaceable country al
can SIT under our own vines and shat
trees and worship God according
our own conscience. Mean nigge
are our greatest curse and there a
thODaanda ~ than for aa m ~ ~ ,,o