The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-05-31
THERE'S NOTHING SETTLED.
TROUBLE IS ALWAYS ON HAND


biIl Arp Says the Whole World IL Dis.
satisned-He Voted tor Seven Mon
In the Primary ana Only Two Were
Elected.
The papers tell us that there are vet
over 30O conventions to be held this
year In these United States. 1t looks
ike public affairs, political, religious,
agricultural and financial are IN a verw
uDsettled condition. | wish they would
settle something. There Ia the Philip.
pine war, the Porto Rico tangle, the
Cuban postal steal, the negro problem,
female suffrage and wOmen's hats in
the churches. There is tho prohibition
question, the Presbyterian creed, tho
germ theory, the strikes among the
laoorers, the trust m0nopolies and who
are to be the running mates for Brygp
and Mckinley. Then there are side
shows OF many kinds, but nothing gets
settled. When our old cook got sick
and my wife asked her If she know
where we could get another she said
Nome, | don't cooks Is gittin' DOW
full scace. Better git u settled oman II
you can find one-dese young, onsettled
niggers ain't no count sense freedom
cum." Looks like there Is nothing SET
led nowadays, neither labor, nor cooks,
nor women, nor mon, nor theories, nor
great public questions. Vol, one thing
h ~ been settled at last and that 10 "the
Barbara Frictchic myth" The Boston
Trauscr ipt OF las; Wednesday has three
columns on tho subject and gives up
and says this is u tinality. IT publishes
a letter from General Henry kyu
Douglass, OF Stonewall Jacksou's stall,
which disproves the whole ridiculous
,l<,. l>,,
OF the South set 30 limit to the poetic
lauaation OF d woman, be she o!d or
young, nor are we disposed to hold an
admirer strictly responsi bic for the ac.
curacy Of his language, b 1T from the
Potomac TO the Rio Grando the name
OF our Christian soldier, StUnewal.
Jacks0 is sacred. Lift up your munu.
mcnts to your own heroes and hcruincs
AID you will hear no word Of protest I
from us, but DO not cast your clippings
ard spaw!s on The grave Of Stonnwall
J1ckson." But tnut is only one thing
settled. One slaudcr nailed and it has
taken thirty years to do that. We
Thought that Ben Hill had nailed the
AnuersOnviilc slender in his great
speech against Blaine, but that bubs
up every little while anG hes to b2
nailed again. | know "a lady, and she
really believes tina. the Federal prison
ers at Andersonvilc wore made To
drink melted lead when they begged
for water. She WAS told that thirty five
years ago ana cant get over over it.
We cant do anything with those pco
pie. They fought uo frOrn Pre- juui icu
aud have since been spending millions
OF money on tho negro from pre- jull ice
Every black scCundrol who has been
lynChcd down South WAS the victim OF
their false teachings and will continue
to he-thank the good Lord for His
mercies. Ten years ago wrote nv
first philippe against the brutes anl
advocated a summary vengeance and
stand by it and rejoice whenever q
ynching occurs for an outrage upon
du;cnsclcsS woman. Ii there is any.
thing worse than lynching Pm ful
that Let the North howl if they wan,
| to; the procession will proceed all the
same.
The farce at Montgomery settled
nothing. The negro is here to sta,
and he has got to behave himself as 4
good citizen or take the CONSEQUENCES
| The South needs him and Il his pres
ence keeps away the horde Of foreign
ers that Europe is anxious to get rio
Of, 1t is a blessing. What is the matter
"!th the negro? | don't know o! 3
| race conflict in this region except ii
the large cities, which are pestiiencc
| TO good morals; truth and Lhc industr,
OF the race Is improving in the ruru
districts, where the white race is in
the majority. A few months ago there
was call from Mississippi for negro
| labor and abo 1T u hundred went from
this neigh oOrhOod and very soon the,
were missed and our farmers began /,
| make luss about 1t, but there was nj
pcglcg Williams concerned in It and
NOBODY to get MAD with. Ole OF m,
nelghbors who had Cften declared tn a,
he wished they were all out of the
country got mad about this sudden cx,
| odus, and said he couldn't hire q mar
to break up his garden
We arc hard to please and Law to,
much blame on the negro | read
about young preacher who lust
spread himself abusing the other de
nominations and he was told that i,
wouldcnt do for the members were al
mixed up by marriage and he WAS Civ.
Ing great otfense. "What shall do?'
he asked. ;" am obliged to abuse
somebody or the people wont come out
to hear me-" His friend replied, "Well
then you had better pitch into the
Jews. They have got no friends and
are not kin to anybody but themselves y
Just 80, we blame the negro with the
sins and corrupt methods Of the politi-
clan, the politician who buys his vote
with money or whiskey. The smart
man who buys Is worse ttan the ignor-
ant negro who sells his vote. When
Stephen a. Douglass ran against Lin
coin for Congress he tried to degrade
him In public speech by saying that
the lirst time he ever saw his opponent
he was keeping a saloon In one horse
town. Yes" replied Lincoln, I" | re.
ember that. was on one side of the
counter and you were on the other. [
was selling and you were drinking"
That is about the parallel betwe cen the
politician and the neg,o.
do not feel satisfied with the sweep
Ing exclusion "f the present viii pri-
mary law. | know a dozen negroes in
this town who are morally, Intelligent.
ly and indus trially qualified to vote and
l know two dozen white meh who are
not. 1t seems TO me wo might have u
commission to select deserving negroes
&nd place their names on tho rcgistra
tion list. This would stimulate Others
to good behavior. II would have