Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-10
"ALL's WELL THAT ENDS WELL"
Farmers, Mill Men, and Even the Trusts,
Have a Part In Our Civilization.

= Newry, February 9.-Editors
Courier: 1t may be that |, in the
language of my distinguished friend
at Fort Madison, think l have a
s'monopoly on the knowledge box"
If 80, he evidently has monopoly
on the kicking, and braying business
of Cconee. Since he has brayed
and kicked 30 much over name that
deem unnecessary to give here, as
in his own language he says the
people know it better than he
(Boggs.) But the latest report is that
after this distinguished being had
attempted to kick the cotton mill
and cotton seed oil men into atoms,
he is now directing his brays and
kicks at long range in the direction
of Chicago, against man that has
given this country more light, and
thus dispelled more darkness, than
any other. But we guess that
Chicago man will not be worried
much by his brays and kicks, for a
few weeks ago report was sent out
that this famous brayer and kicker
could stand no longer. Hence, from
this report, he must be down. In
that event, we would say to the
readers of The Courier Behold
this once mighty creature, one that
could defy the devil with such bats
as"whiskey, cotton, gambling saloons,
money" etc, now lying prostrated
from the effects of few logical hints
and clear-cut questions put by ga
little aptitude at Newry, who calls
himself B. S. Boggs," which logical
hints and questions seem to be un-
answerabe and so in eliminating that
they remain unanswered, and we
hear this once mighty creature ex-
claiming, 81 can't stand any longer"
Brother Cook, if you can't stand
up before my logic and good reason
ing and answer my questions like a
willing witness, we will, like mag
unanimous opponent over fallen one,
allow you to keep your seat, and try
to convince you that cotton mill
men. are not as bad men as you
seem to think they are.
First, Brother Cook, l am glad to
see that the principal point at issue
in the Boggs- Cook controversy is
about settled, which was yonr re-
mark, ''little old huts )" and you, like
a man, have admitted that when you
made the remark,r "little old buts,"
you were out of order. In settling
that point in our controversy others
have crept in to be considered.
Mr.. Cook, don't you know it is a
sweet consolation to your renters to
know that after they have been bound
up all the year by liens and mort
cages, and you, perhaps, have taken
one-half of all they have made as
rent, that those oppressive mill fel-
lows have prepared place for them,
where they can go and have good
houses to live in and have plenty of
something good to eat and wear
every day during the year, and at
the same time not be bound by liens
and mortgages, and the right, as free
born American people, to move
whenever they desire, and not for
felt one cent of what is going to them
for their labor? So, Mr.. Cook, it is
under these considerations and con-
ditions that you can't keep your
tenants with you. And, again, how in
the name of common sense do you
expect a man 70 stay with you and
pay you one-half of what he makes
and feed his family, when you say
men who have farms of their own
are being robbed of their just rights
by the "cotton mill and cotton seed
oil combines" to the extent that they
are "forced to 60 to the cotton mill
and there have their children work
like slaves?"
Again, you say the promoters OF
cotton mills have, or may, rob the
stockholding farmers of one-half o.
the money they have put in the mills
Now, please tell me one instance
of this kind in South Carolina
Show me a house about a cotton
mill in Oconee that has been built by
money thus obtained. So it is, Mr.
Cook, that jumping, kicking ant
braying are often INDUCED in by Ger
tain creatures because they thinl
they hear or see something, or whel
things do not go their way. No, Mr.
Cook, | don't expect the farmer
nor any one else to be satisfied, ever
under the most favorable circum
stances, for you well know that Co.
created Adam and Eve and PLACED
them in the Garden of Eden an,
surrounded them with every thinI
that would make them happy an
contented, but yet it seems they ha'
a longing or desire for somethin,
more. And as you and l and ever
other man are chips off the oil
block, how can it be possible for u
to be satisfied? Hence it is tina
you, Mr.. Cook, with your goo
houses and many broad acres of fel