The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-05-28
LETTER FROM BILKINS.
The Burning Question of the Hour
The BandwagOn is LOaded-Re-
formers Abroad i'm the Land and
the World is Growing Better
Danger of OVERRIDING a Good
Thing.

Bilkinsville, N. c., May %, 1908.
Correspondence of The Caucasion-
Enterprise.
The prohibishun campane in these
diggins liz warmin' up. In fact, hit
liz erbout the warmest thing that
ever cum down the pike. Thar air
people who air prohibishunists now
who never were before. An sum ov
them can't hardly recognize them
selves. The reazon IL that hit liz awl
SO new an untried. Hit iz a game
they never played before. They air
'wurked up az mucff@az if they wuz
boys goin' ter a game ov baseball on
Easter Monday.
Ov course, you now an then meet
up with a man who liz goin' ter vote
the other way, and a few ov them
say they air not going to the polls.
But in this county, az well az in most
seckshuns of the State, most of the
men folks air pollytishuns, an they
air ready ter jump on the band
wagon, no matter which way hit IL
goin'. If they could figger that the
State liz goin' anty-prohibishun ter
the tune of sixty or seventy thousand
votes they would not all take the
stand they do. They would go the
| other way so fast that you couldn't
ketch up with them with pack ov
Greyhounds. If anybody disputes
| this, 1 kin give sattisticks that will
prove that / am correekt. They liz
awlways insinsrity in politicks, an
if any odds, hit crops up bigger in
an eleckshun whar a moral question
liz involved than in any other. Sum
people may not agree with me on
this. But jist keep your eyes peeled
an see if the old man il not givin'
you strate goods. 1 wuz not born
Yesterday.
I wuz talkin' with an ole feller up
here this week. He wanted ter know
how the eleckshun wuz going on
| the 26th. 1, ov course, counldn't
tell him. He sed he didn't care much
how it goes, fer he had bin down
with everything frum mumps tel
rheumatism, an he guessed he could
stand a case ov prohibishun about
az long az the next man. 81 hev bir
through the war an more than g
dozen presidential campanes, an
guess l kin stand erbout az much
prohibishun az any man ivin', an
if hit Gums ter the worst I'll die like
: a man."
l thought he wuz erbout rite. W.
won't till our time Gums nohow
what liz the use ov worrying ovel
/ hit? The pollytishuns air goin' Oh
| such rate that they air drivin' aw
the snakes out ov the State, anyhow
: ter go, too; so what's the difference
Yet, reform liz abroad in the land
= All ov them, includfn' Judge Priteh
= ard an James H. Pou air out preach
| in the guide ole perlitikal gospel
| an the world liz getting better fast
3 They hain't bin SO much exsitemen
l sinse the Sub-Treasury Skeem wen
: awl over the State relievin' distres
e lam givin' evrybody relief that hadn'
/ bin relieved. My private opinion /
f that if sumbody don't put the brake
q ON, the pollytishuns will be ready fe
: the millennium before the milleniuI
/ Gums erlong, an ov course tha
: would sorter complicate things. Nov
v you don't want to misunderstood me
e I am in favor oy awl sorts ov gud
v things. I'd like ter be better m,
t self, an I'd be glad ter see awl tn
l. balance ov mankind enjoyin' tn
= same crate blessin'. But the piT