The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-03-12
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
! BILL ARP !
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make more money than manufacture
ers and there are twice as many Of
them. A friend Of mine recently visited
large manufactory of sewing ma
chimes and the superintendent told
him that prime cost of f1rst-class ma
cines was $500 and they jobbed them
off at S13. The jobber sold them for
SIS to agents. The agents retail them
at s35, for he has to rent store room
and keep horse and wagon and make
repairs free and sell on installments
and sometimes has to take machine
back for non-payment When the orig
inal Bill Arp moved to Texas he took
his wife's machine with him and left
his note behind with $40 unpaid. Short
ly after that new agent was sent
here who was not acquainted with the
Arp family and he came out to my
house and wanted me ta pay the note.
had hard work to convince him that
I was another Arp. The note was sign
ed William Arp, his mark, and Cinde-
rella Arp, her mark. My wife was very
indignant that she should be suspected
of making her mark.
Well, now you see how much money
went to the middle men after the ma
chine left the factory-$22-twice as
much as it cost to make 1t. Just so 1t
is with thousands Of other things that
go through the hands of middle men.
| was Illuminating about this because
l received a report Of 500 copies OF my
new book that Mr.. Byrd had sold. The
book cost IS cents to electrotype and
print and bind it and l was to have
half the profits arising from the sale.
The price was SIPS postage paid, which
was II cents. Thirty copies had been
sold here at the book store for $3.50.
The book store kept rs per cent, or
1897. Mr. Byrd got $2813. The freight
and incidental expenses amount to 3
cents a copy. So the cost was SO CENTS
and it netted SO cents and my half of
The difference was 2k cents on copy.
The publisher and agent or middle men
get about ell there is in book. am
not complaining at anybody but my
self, for Mr.. Byrd told me that the
price would have to be $3.50 to make
anything, but / wasn't thinking about
charging so much and I wanted the
people to have 1t as cheap as possible.
But it can't go On this way. The pub
lication must stop or the price be
raised to s150 and II an agent won't
sell for 25 cents copy, he needn't sell
at ALL He runs no risk. He loses no
time. The books sell themselves on the
counter. But Mr.. Byrd can continue to
sell on mail orders for $l.25 and 10
cents more for postage. This will be
fair divide all around and give the
poor author about Is cents copy.
Senator Hoar's speech at Chicago is
before me. Nothing since the war has
SO cheered me and impressed me as
that beautiful speech. Why doesn't
every newspaper in the South copy 1t,
or that part of it that pays such
tribute to the Southern people. When
finished 1t would have hugged the old
man, II he had been near enough. Lis
ten-"My life politically has been a
life of constant strife with the leaders
of the Southern people, yet as / grow
older, | have learned not only to re-
scect and esteem them, but | love the
great qualities which belong to my
countrymen of the Southern States.
They are a noble race. We may well
take pattern from them in some OF the
virtues that give strength and glory TO
a free people. Their love OF home; their
chivalrous respect for woman-their
constancy which can abide by an opin-
ion or purpose through adversely and
prosperity and through years and gen.
erations. And there is another thing
covetousness, corruption and the low
temptation OF money has not yet found
any place in Southern politics.
My friends, we cannot afford to live
in a state of estrangement from peo-
pie who possess these qualities. They
are friends of ours, born Of our born
ing, flesh of our flesh, blood OF our
blood and if l have right to speak for
Massachusetts,, will say, 'Entreat me
not to leave thee or forsake thee, where
thou goest, l will go. Thy people shall
be my people, and thy God my God
This is only part of it. have plac-
ed it in my scrap book along with the
admirable editorial comment OF The
Constitution.
The senator spoke truly when he
said that corruption in national poll
tics had not yet reached the South. If
the case had been reversed our mem
bers would not have unseated Butler,
but with the northern members the
ends Justify the means. Yes, | remem-
be. from away back how the old man
fought US. My father was brought up
in his State and my mother In South
Carolina and when the Senator and
were In our early manhood 1--WE were
born | nthe same year, the war began
between those two States. Yes. more
than fifty years ago, and has been Bit
ter and unrelenting ever since. This Is
the first sign of returning sense OF
of Justice that has come from any great
man of the Old Bay state and we re-
joice that it has come from Senator
Hoar, the noblest Roman Of them all.
Its influence will reach from Chicago
to Boston and its generous sentiments
will thrill every breast in the South
land.
care nothing for Mr.. Roosevelt nor
his late letter am too old to be de-
ceived by woydy arasraphs. When ne
retracts his ISLANDERS on Jefferson
nov;c apd anoloyizeS TO his widow |