The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-07-17
row Man RejOices That
Striking Printers Failed,
HAS BOOKS IN PLENTY
Chandler Harris, "Uncle Rcmus, ,
+ Reviews Bllps Work and Gives
a Highly Complimentary Rec
ommeudation Thereof.

Longfellow said. "hn things come
round to them who wait" Emerson
said tre same thing IN substance be-
fore N2ngfellow Both got It from the
ProphsJ isaiah, who said, wait l say,
wait on the Lord, for though he tarry
lie will fuldll His promises" And
jeremiah said, Let a man hope and
quietly walt" We are all too impa.
uent and If we LOOK back we will be
surprised that we eau not recall tho
numerous things that disturbed our
peace through apprehension, but that
never happened We did not wait.
There is a good story about an old
Persian king who, on his deathbed,
sent for an old sheik, his lifelong
friend and counsello', and said, 81 am
about to die and am troubled about my
SON. who is to succeed me. He is
good-hearted, but thoughtless and inn
prudent You must look after him and
guide him. Can't you give him a max
i'm to live by and that he will never
forget" So the OLD sheik promised,
aHsYafter the old king was buried he
haSR long talk with the young man,
and gave him a maxim of FIVE short
words: Even this shall pass away"
If you suffer adversely, It will pass
If you have war and are defeated, vic
tory will come in time. If your peo-
pie suffer from famine or pestilence,
health and plenty will come again.
But you must wait.
was Eliminating about this, be-
CAUSE the printers have gone to work,
at lllst and my publisher has plenty
of books now. But the time is coming
when all this foolishness will have
to stop. | take an Australian paper,
and am interested IN what the new par.
lament is doing.
England has recently given that
8 great country a parliament Of their
yn, and they are making laws to
it, the people. One of the first was
grant to women the right of suf
No. Another was a vigorous dTas-
~ against strikes, and the law
IS completely driven labor organiza-
ions out of existence. Parliament
provided a substantial pension for the
families of those who had labored long
and faithfully. Railroads and man
ufacturers were taxed to pay part of
this pension, but parliament had to
|'.11Sh it all, and the new law pro-
Btr Mat any laborer who joins a
strikers organization shall be dropped
from the rolls, and 1t further provides
that if more than four persons meet
together to organize strike they shall
be arrested and imprisoned and tried
for crime. The law was far-reaching
and left no escape, end now peace ant
cCnt6nted labor prevails all over the
land land the price of their labor OF
railroads and other great works is fix
ed by law and is uniform. The trutf
is that this striking business, tina
drives others from work under NAL
treatment and intimidation, can no
stand the test Of time or reason. 1t i
close akin to anarchy.
But know that Mr.. Byrd writes m
he has plenty of my books on hand
wish you readers to know 1t and tina
single orders will be filed postpaid TO
S1.35, and ten copies will be sent b
express and charges paid for 81.
My old friend, Joel Chandler Harri
-"TTncIe Remus"-has kindly voluI
teered the following commentator.
- is splendid and I am proud Of it, 70
oI.lSse George Washington, Uncle Remu
lot tell a lie. l didn't know tina
gotten up such a good book III
Pad that in The Sunny Soutl
md now | hope it VIII be broadcaste
through The Constitution to the tho
sands of readers, for ] wish the mott
ers and children to have it.
&tJncIe Remus' Review.
JOEL chandler Harris wrote:
81 have lately been reading wit
great delight the new book by Bill Ar
and it is a very happy change fro
k6average current literature Of IL
cfNere has been no adequate n
81 is production in The Constit
~ Sunny South, and doubt
Mo Y zen Of their readers are awaI
of the fact that their fayorite writ,
has put in book form the cream of h
work. Bill Arp is 4 man to be envie
There is probably no other writer