The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-11-21

The Scriptures tell us to rejoice
with those who rejoice and weep will
those who weep. [ am trying to dc
1t, but it is an awfulo strain. When
meet Mckinley man I try to smile
but it is only sickly grin and is only
skin deep. They arc cprctty thick
around here now since the election
and 80 between mourning with the
Bryan men and rejoicing with the
Republicans my countcnance has lost
its normal and natural condition and
it il hard to tell whether am crying
or smiling We did not know that
there we're more .han dozen rcspcc-
table McKinleyites in the community
but it turns out that there were scores
Of them. Nearly all of the plutocrats
voted that way on the sound money
platform. They lend money and want
it paid back in geld. A good many
farmers who have some cotton on hand
were led to believe that it would go up
again to 10 or II cents if Mckinley
was elected, but it dropped Is points
the day after thc election. But it is
all over now and the wheels keep roll
ing on. Let them roll. The million
aires and plutocrats cant eat their
money or wear it out. 1t is obliged to
go back TO the toilcrs. the people, in
some way. The Standard Oil Com
pany declared dividend yesterday of
40 per cent, but Rockefeller don't
hoard it. lie gives away big slice
to education and utilizcs the rest.
What blessed thing it is, that man
cant take his money with him when
he dies. If he could 1 reckon We poor
folks would perish out in a genera
ton. After all it is not money that
brings happiness. a good living,
competency honestly earned, brings
far more happiness than riches. This
kind Of talk is 4 900 years old, but the
people don't believe it yet; everybody
wants money, a big pile Of money; |
would like it myself; I want usomc for
rainy day and some to give away,
but we are not in distress, and never
have been, though for some years Of
the war aud just after, We were on the
ragged edge.
Talk about prosperity. saw it last
week over in South Carolina. There
is nice little town over there called
Prosperity, but l didn't see it. l
went to the old town of Darlington. l
was there eighteen years ago 1t was
i gocd old town then, but it has re-
newed it's youth and taken on new
life and l hardly knew the place.
Cotton mills and oil mills and good
farming have done it. The cotton
crop of that County is 10000 bales
and tho tobacco crop was 100000
pounds and it brought half as much
money as the cotton crop. Fifteen
years ago there was not pound for sale
raised in the County. They didn't
know it would grow there. Now there
are three large warehouses, where it is
-auctioned off every day. l attended
the auctions and it was revelation to
me. The farmers wagons N.re un-
loading all around and their tobacco
was piled up neatly in long rows and
their names and the number Of pounds
written on a card and stuck in the split
end of little white pine stick and
that was stuck in the center Of the
pile. For an hour or two before the
auction begins the buyers frora Rich
mond and Winston and Durham and
Liverpool anu other markets went all
around and examined the quality of
every pie and took notes. The auc.
tioneer talked so fast could not un-
derstand him, but the buyers did. I
reckon there were two or three hun
dred piles in each warehouse, and the
auctioneer and the buyers went from
pile to pile and sold each one where it
was. I heard some knocked down as
low as 8 CT IS and some as high Us 81
cents. There is one curious rule
about tobacco auctions that do not ap-
ply to any other auction. The farm
cr can reject the highest bid and keep
his tobacco. If he and his boys have
resolved that their crop shall bring 20
cents a pound and it brings only 10 he
turns the card down and takes his to-
bacco home, or maybe hauls it around
to another warehouse, where the same
buyers find it next day and maybe bid
over 20 cents for it. This is one of
the tricks Of the trade. The differ