The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-16
BILL ARP STUDIES HAz1NG
He Sees No Reason For It-West
Point Should be Abolished Un-
less Hazing is Stopped.

piiIi'SOI'hSsS uHoli II anu lIlOl IL reason
Tor 1t, but cannot. 1t il tho most
brutal and scnselcss thing that young
men calling themselves gentlemen were
ever guilty Of. The evidence already
submitted has shocked the nation, and
ii 1T cannot be stopped .hc nation is
ready right now TO abolish the mstilu-
ton. 1t is a disgrace to humanity.
But what concerns me is to find a
plausible reason for it--an excuse or a
paihatlOn. The ha2crs say that 1t is
to try young mans metal, his cOur-
age. That is false, of course, for il re-
qulrcs no metal or courage to stand
| guard over dead rat or march along
side turtle or tcrrapin. The whole
course of treatment is one of dcvilsh
cruelty and insanity. We are to d that
some of those hazcrs were considered
very good, klndhearted boys AT home
before they went to that unatic asy-
lum, and hence it must be that assOcia-
ton has dcrangcd them like ii did for
awhile at Yale and Harvard and other
Northern colleges.
a crowd of boys away off from home
influence will do what no one boy will
wish or dare to do at home or abroad.
| ! had dog once who was faithful and
kinda good watch dog and fond of
my children. | owned a flock of sheep
and he projected them, but when other
| dogs from the ncighbOrhO0d came after
him in the dead hour of night and
gave the sign he would 90 with them
two or three miles and hclp TO XIII a
score of sheep and be back at his post
on the piazza by daylight. | would
not believe il for a lone time. but the
ncighbors came and found wool in his
teeth and he had TO be killed. Ilcckon
that's what the matter with those good
boy hazers. They have got wool in
their teeth and TO my oplnon, they
| ought to be treated like the French
man did his dog. He wanted to break
him of sucking eggs, so he hung him
by the hind legs to a lil.b and let hlm
swing for a day or two. \ ncighbor
said: "Why don't YOU hang him by
the neck and let him choke 10 death ?"
No, sarc, he said, "mc hangs hecm
by de legs to gcvc hecm time TO tink
vat tam rascal he vas" Those haZcrs
ought TO be hung by their hind lces
until they had time to repent.
The catoloouc Of crucl and ri1,cn-
Ions ,binos flat ,hosr cov,rds intIir,
mon y freshman is fearful. some of
them are unfi; for nuhlicotion saw
:. towards - Lccousr !, is q movim ,hnt
crucl man is q coward If thnv
rcrllv wished to tcst = vonnm MANS
metal or COURAGE whv don,t ihcv shnt
him in a room and 90 in one nj y time
and fiuh, him fist AMI skull Tbcv orn
towards. that's all 'vbov woujdcnt
light phllippnc hand 10 hand. They
viii uraduaic towards ard smell ,hc
battle from arar. and lct The nrivotrs
do The Gohtm". They are or ,hc somc
breed as General Mics. who uut tbc
manacles on Jefferson Davis and tried
TO lie out of It. He won his spurs ip
Cuba by octtinu ON tom of . hill and
crvinu, 7" Beef. beef, beef He re-
minds me of Patrick Ucnry,s oreot
spcrch durino The first ,cvoIu,ion in
which he scarilicd man Cor crvino
beef, beef, beef, while the patriOts we're
fighting for indcpendcncc.
| have but little patience with the
modern West Pointer. General Ous
is a fair samrlc. He whipucd the
N.
Paw and promotion IS their sole ambl-
tion. They are stuck nm swell set
and would establish n military monarch
it they dared. | see that some fellow
is defending General George c. Thomas
and BLACK Jack - Logan IN a New
York papcr. Well, | know all about
them | have now in my posscssion a
letter written TO me bv Thomas i'm
which he denouuccs us all as traitors
and guilty Of treason, and says that
treason cmbodics ali the crimes in the
decaloguc. A dozen Of our Rome bows
and girls had improviscd a tablcau per
formancc in the city hall TO raise little
money TO pay for replacing pulpits and
pcws in the city churches. The sacri
lcgious vandals had Quilted the churches
and used the pcws for horse trouphs
and the churches for storage of corn
and oats. One of the scenes in the
tahlcau was a battlefield after the battle
and an old Confederate nap was lyinr
down on the floor. For this they were
all arrested and the play broken up.
AS | was then the mayor of the poor
little war-torn town | wrote a respect,
ful letter to Thomas asking for their
release and asserting that no disrcspcct
was intended. Ic condrSccndcd TO
release them, bu, scarilicd us and all
the South IN contcmptuous and con
tempublc language, and warned us
that Il rebel liag was the most odous
emblem of treason and must not be cX-
|