The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-06-04
BILL ARP'S LETTER
Barlow Man Rejoices That
Striking Printers Failed.
HAS BOOKS IN PLENTY
Joel Chandler Harris, "Uncle Renus, ;
Reviews Bills Work and Gives
Highly Complimentary Rec.
mmendation Thereof.

Longfellow said, "All things come
round to them who wait" Emerson
said the same thing III substance be-
fore Longfellow. Doth got it from the
Prophet Isaiah, who said, wait say,
wait on the Lord, for though he tarry
He will fulfill His promises" And
Jeremiah said, Let a man hope and
quietly wait" We are all too impa-
tent and if we look back we will be
surprised that we can not recall the
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 slleik, 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 i'm
prudent. You must look after him and
guide him. Can't ycu give him max
i'm to live by and that he will never
forget" So the OLD sheik promised,
and after the old king was buried he
had a 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.
Ii 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.
I was Illuminating about this, be-
cause the printers have gone to work,
at last, and my publisher has plenty
OF books now. But the time is coming
when all this foolishness will have
to stop. I take an Australian paper,
and am interested IN what the new par
lament is doing.
England has recently given that
great country a parliament Of their
own, and they are making laws to
suit the people. One of the first was
to grant to women the right of suf-
frage. Another was vigorous dras-
tic law against strikes, and the law
has completely driven labor organiza-
tons 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
approve it all, and the new law pro-
vides that any laborer who joins a
strikers organization shall be dropped
from the rolls, and it further provides
that Ii more than four persons meet
together to organize a strike they shall
be arrested and imprisoned and tried
for crime. The law was far-reaching
and left no escape, end now peace and
contented labor prevails all over the
land and the price of their labor on
railroads and other great works is fix
cd by law and Is uniform The truth
Is that this striking business, that
drives others from work under NAL
treatment and intimidation, can not
stand the test of time or reason. It is
close akin to anarchy.
But now that Mr.. Byrd writes me
he has plenty of my books on hand,
wish you readers to know it and that
single orders will be filed postpaid for
$1.35, and ten copies will be sent by
express and charges paid for $11.
My old friend, Joel Chandler Harris
-"Uncle Remus"-has kinHy volun-
fnnrnd h0 fo11nvxyiro 10
is splendid and I arn proud Of it, for
like George Washington, Uncle Remus
can not tell lie. | didn't know that
I had gotten UP such good book I'M
til I read that in The Sunny South,
and now l hope it VII be broadcasted
through The Constitution to the thou
sands of readers, for wish the moth
ers and children to have it.
Uncle Remus' Review.
Joel Chandler Harris wrote:
81 have lately becn reading with
great delight the new book by Bill Arp,
and it is very happy change from
the average current literature of the
day. There has been no adequate no.
tice of this production in The Constitu-
ton Or Sunny South and I doubt if
two dozen of their readers are aware
of the fact that their favorite writer
has put in book form the cream of his
work. Bill Arp is a man to be envied.
There is probably no other writer in
the land who is in such close touch
personally with his readers, or whose
individuality is SO well known to them.
This is not because he has thrust him
self forward, but rather the contrary.
In what he writes AS in what he has
written we have the interesting spec
tacle from week to week of a good
man giving the best of himself to the
large public he has made for himself
in the course of th:rty-odd years.
with very sim de style-he is a
very simple and sincere mana nat
ural flow of humor and complete alb
sence OF self-consciousness he writes
as we should expect to hear him talk.
There are pages and pages in his book
that are so simple and direct that they
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