The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-02-22

has a population eff 10000, ,0OO-mostly
tools" l think they might let him stay
there uutil he finished his life's great
work and built tho Nicaragua canal.
| Oh the shame of 1t. ] wish that was
u little child and dldent know It, am
grieyed, too, because our Senator Bacon
has had fall and broken his ribs, for
We need his presence In the Senate,
and now while he Is down In bed some
more machine politicians are laying
plans to Oust him. tell you, my
friends, have no patience with machine
politics. LUok at Kentucky. S,e how
the State is torn and disgcaced aud l
say now that no gentleman or pa
triOt would have done it, Goebel
and Taylor and the whole concern
should have said Well, [ dident
know that my candidacy was going to
get up all this bitter and dangerous
fuss and make enmities that will
mover be healed, and so will withdraw
from the contest" l assert boldly that
q gentleman aud patriot would have
said that and done It, 1t Ia q mean,
contemptible, selfish ambition that has
produced all this trouble in that grand
old State and revived its ancient name
of the dark and bloody ground. | wish
that | was another little child and
dident know 1T. Hamlet said: "a
politician would circumvent Cod" So
[ reckon this kind Of corruption Is no
new thing. 1t goes back to the time
when Brutus killed Caesar. Yee, it
goes back to the time when Absalom
tried to circumvent his own father ami
depose him from the throne and Jacob
cheated Esau out OF his birthright.
Selfshness is the cardinal sin of man
kind-the trump card Of tho devil In
seducing us to his allegiance.
| There is another antidOte to melan-
choiy ; 1t IL work. and l long to go at
it. The winter has been long and hard
and | am impatient for tho time to
come when the flowers shall appear on
tho earth and the singing of birds
shall come aad the voice OF the turtle
be heard in the lands. l want to
straighten up things in the garden
and dress it off and see how many
fork up the ground and plant some
more seeds. | planted peas Il month
ago and they are coming up, sweet
violets are paeping out and | found q
solitary straw berry bloom. The elm
tree buds are swelling, the crows are
cawing In the tree tops and soon some
imprudent peach trees will be in bloom.
As the poet saith spring Is getting
ready to "uulock the flowers aud paint
the laughing earth" But there ia
some bad with every good thing. Ny
wife has just called my attention to
the neighbors' chickens that have
taken up in our garden and the neigh
bors' dogs that are roaming over our
lot and fighting in our back yard.
They are colOred mostly the owners,
l mean-and Pm going to declare war;
see II l don't. | hereby give warning
to all owners OF gallinaceous and
canine animals to keep them at home
or the race problem will break out In
these parts. They say they passed q
dog law and now they say it does not
60 into effect until May 1901, and never
If the grand juries don't indorse it.
The lawmakers were politicians and
wanted the negro vote and 80 they
showed the law onto the grand juries
1 see that the grand jury Of Gordon
County have already killed the law.
They like dogs and sausage-don't like
mutton.
beware of dogs" saith the scrip
ture. The las. Legislature was mis-
cradle abortion. II Carlyle were here
to write its history he would say
Tho last Georgia Legislature had
220 members-mostly fools. Again l
wish that l WAS a little child and
dtdent know anything about these
things. We all know too ruch any-
how, such as it ia. Too much about
the rascality and devilment that is
going on in the world. l believe l Will
quit reading the daily papers and read
only the weeklics and the magazines.
! The mind wants u rest. a hundred
years ago the poet said:
"".Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness
| Where rumor Of oppression and deceit
VI successful or unsuccessful war
| Might never reach me more"
Wonder what he would say now.
But there is another side to ull this
and I'll feel BITTER in the morning, for
II the children don't como to me, I'll
60 to them. BILL ARP.