The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-02-13

Arp Writes Of the Schools and Papers.
Atlanta Constitution.

ONSHtHHON.
| Pierce. DR.. Means, Longstrcct, Jesse
Mercer Eathan Crawford, DR.. Tucker,
Bishop Elliott and Bcckwith, Joseph
Stiles, DR.. Nixson, DR.. Goulding, and
such lawyers and statesmen as For
syth, Troup, the two Cobbs, jenkins,
T"nms, Stephens, johnson, Walter
Colquitt and Ben Hill There arc
twenty names given, aud many more
might be added, and it is lamcntablc
truth that their equals do not exist in
Georgia to-day. This decay of great
men is apparent in every Southern
State, and as for the North, there is
nothing there now but plutocracy who
buy their way into public Office and de-
fy trial or criticism. Ync struggle for
money is the curse Of the age. 1t
has smothcrcd the nobler aspirations
of our nature. "Gct money; get mon
ey honestly if thou canst, but at all
events get money!" is now the motto.
The common people want some, and
the plutocrats want more, The mass
cs OF the people arc on strain. lam
one of them, and l know how it is, for
have been on strain ever since the
war. 1t is buckle and tongue to keep
in hailing distance Of society. So
many OF our class have rich man
ways and poor mans purse that we
have TO hang on to the ragged edge of
gcntilty. There are SO many things
nowadays that We arc just obliged to
havc-things that did not exist in our
antcbcllum days. Our boys must go
to college to get smattcring Of books
and full text Of athletics. Our girls
must go to get polish and make college
friends and receive visits and return
visits after they graduate, and it takes
money for clothes aud money for rail
road fare, aud every now and then a
girl gets married and chooses her col
lcgc mates for her attendants, and
that takes more clothes and wedding
present, and SO forth, and so, fifth
aud sixth, and so on.
Oh, my country When will this
strain stop? There ought to be mis-
cr in every family, or rich old bach
clor uncle who carried big life insur-
ancc, AID would die just at the right
time and leave fortune to his impc-
cunious sisters or his nicccs! Why,
if had good bank account to draw
on, [ could write moro cheerful let
ter and take hopeful view of things
and keep calm and serene; but as it is,
| find myself lampooning those West
Point cadets, and want those ring
leadcrs-Barry, and Dockery, and Du-
val-handed down TO postcrity ms the
champion hazcrs, and their names
put in catalogue alongside Of the
duke Of Alva to illustrate human bru-
tality
But | didnt mean to say anything
hard about the Tech bows who have
been suspended. l have great hope
Tor that institution, and admiration
for the manner in which the boys re-
ccived their discipline. Nobody thinks
any less of thcm, for there vas moth
ing mean or cruel in their thoughtless
conduct, and every outside father sus-
tains Mr.. Lyman Hall and the faculty.
OF course their mothers are deeply
aggricved. They always are when
their sons are punished; that is ma.
tura! and beautiful trait in mother 8
character. She clings to her boys, re-
gardless of whether they are right or
wrong. : She is like tigrcss when
robbed Of her whelps. l have recciv-
ed several letters from the mothers Of
those boys, and they defend them
with earnest indignation. One of
them conclude with, "Now, I am the
mother of one of those boys you wrote
about: and if you wish to play Dioge-
nes, bring on your cane" But we
have made friends, for she is lady
and mother, and the poet says:
"A mother is q mother still,
The nOblest thing alive"
But | am not Diogcncs, and it was
not the mother, but the father that he
cancd, and | have not received line
from any Of them.
BILL ARP.
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