The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-04-09

About Trusxs-Sonse Remarks
About Raiiroad RAs@s--Poaiaiesan
Are Going Too Far.
Correspondence Of The Caucasian
Bilkinsvflie. y. c.. April 7th.
You newspaper men op at Ra
leigh seem ter be sortsr gwappin' an
tradin' Ground I'LL I don't know ex
hard ter keep up With the psrces.
sion nowadays anyway.
But I am one ov the sort that ali
wiliin' ter keep peggin' erway. hil
or miss. When I Amt fiat on the
ground. down an out" n the fiterS
say. am apt ter be studyin' whar
ter git In the next blow. or how hil
liz goin' ter hurt IL the other feiler
happens ter land first No mates
how we plan things. his seems tha,
our plans do not anyways wurk ou,
rite. Thar air sum things we don,
seem able ter manage no way we
kin fix hit We air nothin' but poor
weak wurms ev the dust at best. an
so far az this wurld liz consarned, we
air here terday an gone termorrow.
Terday a man may be a giant in
strength an sense, termorrow a lab
berin' idiot weak. totterin' shad-
der: or worse still, he may be in the
hands ov the undertaken. an / hev
awlways noticed that when a man
falls into the hands ov an undertak.
er who understands hiz buziness. hfz
career on this earth iz apt ter end
purity quick.
/ see that Senator Johnson, ov Al
ALBANIA. liz firin' into the fruit trust.
So they IL a fruit trust. too. The
more they tawk an legislate erginst
trusts the more trusts we hev. hit
seems. That liz curious. Accordin'
ter the reckord, IL my friend Billy
Bryan wuz erleckted Preserdent
they would soon be erbout six hun
dred more trusts operatin' in the
country, fer hit seems that the more
they tawk erbout them an the more
laws they pass, the greater the num-
| ber ov trusts.
That IL one thing We haint got at
Bilkinsville. A trust couldn't stay
here more than two days after we
| would find hit runnin'. But Bilkins-
vile liz not the whole country.
/ see that the papers say that the
railroads air cuttin down the rates
fer parties ov ten or more people
travelin' tergether on one ticket
That will be awl rite IL a man hez
ten or more people In hiz family an
he will take them awl erlong every
time he goes on trip. But we
folks with small families will hev
ter turn an twist a guide deal ter
git much ov a reduckshuR In that
plan.
| But layin' jokes aside, this perliti-
cal railrode buziness IL goin' too far
| Our farmers want guide prices fer
their crops. an they deserve hit. The
merchants want a large trade an
they want guide profits, an they de-
serve hit. The factories an the pee
pie who keep the masheenery goin
want sumpthin' fer their wurk The
docktors, lawyers an teachers want
sumpthin' fer their wurk, an they
air entitled ter hit. Then why put
In our time legislatin' ergin the
railrodes an the people who air en-
ployed on them? Give them a livin
| chance. The country will never be
real prosperous ergin until the pee.
pie git more conservative, an until
they insist that the politicians be
more conservative.
I see by the papers that Congress
haz bin .doin' lot ov wurk lately
More than $4,000 bills an resolu
tions hev bin introduced in the two
Houses siuse the present session
opened. That liz big reckord. Blu
will hit ermount ter anythin?
hope so.
i But sum ov them bills will nevel
pass an sum ov them may be ov (
kind that should not pass. Hit IL ,
CRATE pity that Congress don't pas
more guide bills an not pass 81
many. They tawk an tawk an 81
| awl sorts ov bills through. If the,
} would reduce the number an i'm
: prove the quality maybe we coul,
increase the wages ov the member
an give them holiday every Satur
day. fer know they air over-worke
readin' complaints from their friend
at home an frum the kickers VIII
air not their friends.
If we could git Congress ter hol
special sesshun at Bilkinsville al
the members would listen at Betsy
they'd git erlong awl rite. She tell
I me what the whole truble with tn
country IL, an I'd be glad fer tn
members ov Congress ter git b
strate.
I hear that Mr. John D. Rockefe
9 ler il stayin' at a mineral spring
Virginia He orter drink keroser
|, oil fer hiz health. That IL what su
ov our Bilkinsville people use II
u sore throat, coughs, colds, an sic
like But that IL the way with IL
Il wurld. We hev ter burn the med
sine that Mr. Rockefeller sells, a
y he takes the money an goes OF t
u the springs fer guide time an bur
y the money.
:" But that liz the way with Il
=, :, wurld: sum air rich an happy a
do not seem ter deserve hit an OF
ers air poor an miserable. an
far az We kin see, they orter b
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