The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-05-30

me pap6Ib tCsi Ab SnAt tuetO arc ytt
over 300 conventions to be held this
year in these United States. Il looks
like public affairs, political, religious,
agricultural and financial are in very
unsettled condition. wish they
would settle something. There is the
Philippine war, the Porto Rico tangle,
the Cuban postal steal, tho negro pro-
blem, female suffrage and women's
hats in the churches. There is The
prohibition question, the Presbyte.
rian creed, the germ theory, the strikes
among the laborera, the trust monopo-
lies and who are TO be the running
mates for Bryan and Mckinley. Then
there are side shows of many kinds,
but nothing gets settled. Wien our
old cook got sick and my wife asked
her if rhe knew where We could get
another she said, HNome, I don't;
cooksis gettin' pow 'fdl scaoe. Better
git settled oman il you can find one
desc young, onscttled piggers ain t
no count sense freedom oum...' Looks
Ike there is nothing settled nowadays,
neither labor, nor cooks, nor women,
nor men, nor theories, nor great pub
lie questions. Well. one thing has
been settled at last and that is "the
Barbara Freetehie myth" The Boss
ton Transcript Of last Wednesday he's
three columns on the subject end gives
up and says this is q 6nality. Il pub
fishes a letter from General Henry
Kyd Douglass, of Stonewall Jackson's
staff, which disproves the whole ridic-
ulous story, and closes by saying, eve
men Of the south set no lirnit 60. the
poetic laudation of a woman, be she
old or young, ner are We disposed to
hold an admirer strictly responsible
for the accuracy OF his language, but
from the Potomac to che Rio Grande
the name Of onr Christian soldier,
Stonewall Jackson, is sacred. Lift
up your monuments to your own
heroes and heroines and You will hear
no word of protest from us, but do not
cast your clippings and spawlp on the
grave Of Stonewall Jackson But
that is only one thing settled. One
SANDER nailed and it has taken thirty
years to do that. We thought that
Ben Hill had nailed the Andersonville
slander in his great speech against
Blaine, but that bobs up every little
while and has to be nailed again. I
know o lady, and che 10 q lady in man
ners and morals, who really believes
that the federal prisoners at5 Ander.
sonville were gadeS TO Il atihk iais NOTED
lead when they begged Tor water. She
was told that thirty-iive years ago and
cant get over it.
We can't do anyshipg uieh zse.ss
people. They fought dis fron preju-
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