Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-05-30
EVERYTHING IS UNSETTLED.
Arp Says all the World is Badly
Dissatisfied.
TROUBLES ARE ALWAYS PLENTY
Bill Voted for Seven Men In the Pri-
mary and Only Two of Them Were
Elected.

~ P'pS'S zen us tnat there are vet
over 800 conventions to be held this
year in these United States. 1t looks
Ike public affairs. political. religious.
agricultural and financial are in a very
unsettled condition. | wish they would
settle something There is the Philin-
pine war. the Porto Rice tangle the
cuban postal steal. the negro problem.
lemhle suffrage and womeC'S hats in
the churches. There is the prohibition
question. the Presbyterian creed. the
germ theory the strikes among the la
Dorers. the trust monopolies and who
are 10 be the running mates for Bryan
ma MchlnleN. 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 knew
Where we could get another she said,
Nome. don't. cooks is gittin' now
ful scace. Better git a settled oman
II Won can find one-dese young. onset
Tied niggers ain't no count since free
iom cum Looks like there is notn-
ing settled nowadays neither labor
nor cooks. nor women, nor men. nor
theories. nor great public questions
well. one thing has been settled at last
ana that is the Barbara Freetchie
myth The Boston Transcript of last
w ednesday has three columns on the
subject and gives up and says this is 4
hnality. 1t publishes n letter from Gen
erai Henry Kyd Douglass OF Stonewal
Jacksons staff. which disproves the
whole ridiculous story and closes by
saying. I'VE men of the South set no
limit to the-poetic laudation of a wo-
man. be she old or young. nor are We
disposed to hold an admirer strictly
responsible for the accuracy OF his lam
guage. but from the Potomac to tho
Rio Grande the name of our Christian
soldier. StOnewall Jackson, is sacred
LIT 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 spawls on the
grave of StOnewall Jackson" But
that is only one thing settled. One
slander nailed and it has taken thirty
years to do that. We thought that
Ben Hin had nailed the Andersonvile
slander in his great speech against
Blaine, but that bobs up every little
while and has tn be nailed again.
know lady. and she is a lady in man
ners ana morals. who really believes
that the federal prisoners at Anderson
Vile We're made 10 drink melted lead
when they begged for water. She was
told that thirty-fiye years ago and cant
get over il.
We can't do anything with those
people. They fought us from prejudice
and have since been spending millions
of money or the negro from prejudice
Every black scoundrel who has been
lynched down south was the victim of
their false teachings and will continue
to be-thank the good Lord for his
mercies. Ten years ago | wrote my
first philippe against the brutes and
advocated summary vengeance and !
stand by it and rejoice whenever Il
lynchinG occurs for an outrage against
detenseleSs woman.lf there is anything
worse than lynching I'm for that Let
the North how! If they want to. the
procession Will proceed all the same
The farce at Montgomery settled moth
ing. The negro is here TO stay and he
mas got 10 behave himself as a good
citizen or take The consequences. The
South needs him and if his presence
Keeps away the hordes of foreigners
that Europe is anxious to get rid of. il
IS blessing. What is the matter with
the negro? | don't know of a race
conflict in this region except in the
large cities. which are a pestilence TO
good morals. truth and the industv OF
the race arc improving in the rural
districts where the white race is i'm the
majority. 4 few months ago there
was d call from Mississippi for negro
labor and about hundred went from
this neighborhood and very soon they
were missed and the farmers began to
make fuss about it, but there was no
Pegleg Williams concerned i'm it and
nobody to get mad with. One of NV
neighbors who had often declared that
ne wished they were all out Of the
country got mad about this sudden ex-
odus. and said he couldent hire man
TO break up his garden We are hard
to please and lay too much blame on
the negro | read about a young
preacher who Just spread himself abus
ing the other denominations and he
was told that it wOuldent do. for the
members were all mixed ~ by mar
riage and he was giving great offense
What shall I do?" he asked. Il am
obliged to abuse somebody or the peo-
pie want come out to hear me" His
friend replied. We'll then you had bet
ter pitch into the Jews They have
got no friends ard arc not kin to any
body but themselves Just so we
blame the negro with the sins and cor
rupt methods OF the politician. the pol-
itician who buys his vote with money
or whiskey The smart man WHO buysis
worse than the ignorant negro who
sells mis- vote. When StepAen A Doug
lass ran against Lincoln for Congress
he tried % degrade him in n public
speech by saying that the first time he
ever saw his opponent he was keeping
q saloon in a onc-horse town. Yes"
replied Lincoln. II remember that.
was on one side OF the counter and YOU