St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-08-18
BILL ARP's LETTER.
Has Something to Say About Ma
tional and International Politics.
Believes Bryan VIII BE a. winner
The Chinese Muddie-sirs. Arp
Concerned About the Mis-
sionarfes.


*. Polk was nominated at Baltimore
/ for president the mail came to our
i little town three times a week by
/ stage. 1t brought the news in an
Augusta paper. My father was post
master, and when he tore off the
! wrapper to read the news to the
waiting people and gave the name of
Polk as the nominee my good old
Norwegian friend, Mic Omnberg,
threw his hat up and shouted: sHe
is de man-de best man. He will beat
Mr.. Clay out of his poots. Meester
Smit, yot did you say hees name wasp
That is faith-democrati faith. I
am just that way about Bryan, only
] know his name. "Clarnm ct yener-
able nomen." Was there ever a
| grander, purer statesman on the
| American continent? Was there ever
| partisan aspirant for the presidency
who stood SO far above all rivals that
no one presumed to question his right
| to the nomination and this notwith-
| standing his defeat in the last race?
What manner of man is he that with
Z
for four years stood preeminenk the
choice of the democracy af every
state? Without fear and without re-
| proach, his will has been and still
is the will Of the party. Sincerity,
earnestness and purity of character in
| private and in public life have en-
throned him in the hearts of the peo-
/ nj mn Fos4 "a.
| He will beat Mckinley out of his
poots. AS to his running mate, Sem
ator Tillman is right 1t doesn't make
any difference so he is democrat and
gentleman. Bryan doesn't need a.
helper. In horse talk, running mate
| is a teaser, an EXETER, a stimulator
put on the track to make the racer
go faster If possible. Bryan will get
as many votes in New York without
Hill as with him Hill and Croker
Iquarreled and each told the truth
| on the other. They are exquisite poll
ticians. Bryan is a statesman. There
are thousands of us who believe that
all these wars have been precipitated
for party purposes, and the blood of
our boys is crying from the ground.
Our southern people have lost faith
in the ability of the administration to
extricate the country from this noun
tain of trouble. We must have
change and that soon, or the noun
tain will get bigger. This at1minisfra-
tion began with war on III its heart,
for heretofore wars have been popu-
lar with the people and kept the war
party in power and gave the manu-
factnrers up north plenty to do.
What muss have they got in Cuba
and Porto Rico and the Philippines,
annexing a few more million negroes
to give US trouble and killing them
by the thousands without cause, and
raising a big rumpus If we lynch one
down here. And now we are about
to be involved in this war with China
"a war that no doubt was precipi-
tated because of our aggressions on
the Philippines and the English on the
Beers. China sees that the motto of
the Christian nations is: "Let those
take who have the power, and let
those keep who can
For so years England has forced Chi
ma to buy her opium, grown and made
in India for English merchants. until
the product now amounts to $50,000,-
600 a year. And now china is taking
her revenge. For many years past
Russia has been discussing the parti-
tien of China just as the partition OF
Poland was made and discussed for
( 4 4 s 4t a /. Il 1 +
Freedom shrieked
when Koscfusko fell, and Poland was
divided out among the powers
a China has, broodeds over all this and
the time came for d, terrible revenge
But what about our missionaries? Ny
wife, who is my running mate, is much
exercised about that, for she is a great
missionary woman and attends every
meeting and takes her money along.
+ told her not long ago that / didn't
have much faith in the conversion Of
the Chinese, for there are thousands
over here, right under the sound Of the
Sabbath bells, and not one ever at
tends church or has expressed any con-
sern about his soul. Lady Churchill
reported to her society that it had
spent G3oo, 900 in IL mon this In an effort
TO convert the Jews in Poland, and she
was satisfied they had converted one
perhaps two and she. advised an
abandonment Of the work. The reli-
eion Of the Chinese is as old as that#of
the Jews and sticks to them as close,
but still the missionaries do report q
nealthy progress and are refining and
reforming the children and doing much
charitable work among the poor.
That's all right, or it seemed 10 be SO,
but now it is all wrong. It makes any
people jealous for foreigners to come
In with new methods and begin to die
tate as tc their needs and manners and
religion. We wouldn't stand 1t week.
We can hardly stand the Mormons,
who pretend to be Christians.
But we are going to elect Bryan,
silver or no silver, for no is an honest
man and his wife Is his running mate,
a beautiful and impressive woman II
the picture Of her face is q true one.
we will all rejoice when they are domi-
ciled in the white house.
Then here's to Mr.. Bryan and Mrs.
Bryan and Miss Ruth, their pretty
school girl. and the little boy and the
baby. / want to see some children
playing In the white house yard. When
that good time comes am going to see
the family IL I'm alive and III walk
IL, xrffJ.n1lf Euaekirln IN not afraid