Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-03
ARP ON PRESIDENT,
Says Mckinley Was Good and a
True Citizen.
lie KNOWS RO0SfVELT'S UNCLE.
Arp Went to School With Him, and
Thinks 1t Should Bring a Govern
ment Job.

! The public grief has assayei The
| shock that made the nation trembie
! has passed away. Editors and precn-
| ers have had their say and the wheels
| of government roll On in their es abb
| lished way. Not fer a day was there
any interruption to commerce or agri-
| culture. Party and p3rUls2ns s0ftened
| down and paid gard to the time-hOn
ored maxim, De martimus MI 81
bOnum Say nothing but good of the
dead. Even the yellow journals SOP
ped their cartoons and gave their read
erS a rest. But ODe extreme always
/ follows another and 50 idOlatry began
as soon as the president was aSsaS6.-
mated. He would have been Sainted if
sainting was revived. Now that he is
. dead he is everybody's president. But
time is a good leveer, and history is
beginning to be made. Mr.. Mckinley
was no demigod nor will he be written
down as a great statesman. He was
Christian gentleman-a better man
than his party-but was carried along
with it into an unjust war that viii
not bear the scrutiny of time. He had
to fall into line with the greed of com
merce, and the consequence is there
are thousands of widows and mothers
silently mourning for husbands ana
sons killed in battle or died in hospitals
in foreign land. There Is no lamenta~
ton over them.
But as Governor Oates said. what
are we going to do about it; nothing?
Some preachers say it is the will OF
God and the way to spread the gospel.
holt Il I a n
regard for the preacher who does. II
takes more faith than l have get to see
the hand Of God in any war for domin-
ion or the acquisition Of territory. For
more than a hundred years Ireland has
been held in vassalage against haI
will. So were the American colonies
held until our fathers rebei'e1. Napo-
leon coveted the earth and our govern
ment coveted Cuba and found a casu&
belli in pretence of feeding her starV-
ing people, but never fed them 1htn
our commercial greed crossed the
ocean to the Philippines and bought
them for a song with ten millions OF
negroes thrown III. England coEete1
South Africa and has already spent
millions Of money and rivers OF Dlo)I
in an effort to Subdue Tree people
and get possession OF their gold mln7!
I don't believe that any OF this is GOA
will. Greece and Rome and Carthage
and Napoleon all came to grief. Omen
ses must needs come, but woe unto
those by whom they come. | don be-
lieye that any war OF aggression Las
the favor of God. but sooner or lalef
the aggressOr will rep what he mas
sOwn John BrWOn was backed by
Henry Ward Beecher and other pf6acI-
ers who thought they saw the Will o.
God in an uprising Of the slaves again7t
their masters, no matter II 1t resulted
in murder and arson and Otner oat-
RACES too horrible to mention. lie VIZ
as much an anarchist as CZOlg05z, an
his Infamous scheme thousand times
more horrible; but last year they re-
moved his bones TO Connecticut ana
reinterred them with honors anu
monument. No, | am still the same
old rebel-unrecOnstr unTepIh-
tant. and | am inCredulous OF any real
or lasting harmOney between the nortn
and the south as long as the pension
grab goes on and gets blgge: every
wear and We have to pay third OF 1t
for being conquered. If peace and love
and harmony prevails, why ecu Us
forever? Why take cur hard earnings
to support the children and grandchHo-
rem of union soldiers, One-thlrd o.
whm were Hessians and hirellngS VINO
were fighting for $40 a month and "a
ti0ns with no thought Of PATRIOTISM
From that imported class. no dOun',
snranc these anarchists that breed as
cord and discomfort among our people
CzOlgOsz was no foreigner. He was
born in Detroit went to. school theE"'
learned his trade there. and his eldef
brother was a soldier in the union
army and he is just as much an Amer
lean citizen as 81 per cent. of the
population OF New York city-natlve-
horn but of foreign parents. Inc
seed Of anarchy was soWn long ago
and if is too late to drive it out by
any legislation. The assasSlnS OF Gus
presidents were all native born Amer
lean citizens. Indeed, 1t IS not sui
nrisfng that among 100000 Of PEG
rle there are to be found few men II
such abnormal nlnd as to glory Il
killing a president. AS Roosevelt
said. president must take his chan
ces. Uneasy lies the head that wears
a crown" Why that wretch should
wish to kill such & kiId-hearted and
unselfisn man as Mr.. Mckinley pass
eth comprehension. If he was jealous
of power or great wealth, why didn't
h pursue Morgan and Rockefeller or
Carnege?' On, the pity OF it. An u'I-
selfish. great hearted Christian gen
tleman. No wonder the women are
helping to build the Atlanta mOn|
ment for Mr.. Mckinley was a model
husband, true to his marriage vows
and ever thoughtful Of his loving wife.
Even in apprehension Of his fate ha
carried 100000 of life insurance, an
it was all for her-yes, all for her
whom he loved better than fame OF
wealth or power.
And now comes President Roosevelt,
the first President from Georgia
stock. like the start he has made
and | believe he will be as much the
pcsident as was Andrew Jackson Il
We had United States bank he would
close it and remove the deposits. Yes,
| know the stock from away back.
When | was a scho0lboy | visited Ros
we'll where the Kings and DunWOodvs
and BUll0chs and Pratts and Hands
all lived in elegant seCiusi0n. Dan
Elliott was one of my companions-a
mischievous, hlack-eyed youth of Is:
l went to school with him. He was
half-brother to our presidents mother.
Yes, [ know the stock and maybe !
can get some little office with good
pay and little understanding like
a sinecure or a sine qua non-sorne
thing that would suit my declining
years and let me down easy. l thin
| would like that, and the president
ought to give it to me because l went
to school with his half-uncle Dan or
his uncle half Dan. That's reason
enough.
But my time is up, for my wife says
she is going to take an evening nap
and | must loo, after the two lit.le