The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-04-20
For ths Times.
FOT IUt IIIHV
No Prosperity until Change.

SLEEPY HOLLOW, ). &.
Mr.. EDITOR Your correspondent, "More
Anon" has written very touching obituary
notice Of the Oranges, but before closing the
ceremonies beg leave 10 inscribe on the Tomb
stone, Grail Road Monopolies," call honor to
the Oranges which put the breaks
The Oranges certainly deserve the credit of
having discovered that Rail Road corpoi ations
were not legal, mOnopolics. But it should not
be lost :fgat ce tha. the snake has been scotched
bu, no; N,lcl, S-k.siI Road 'Hih,ss a,Aw are the
most dangerous It's itutions in the land, ami
with the immense means in their power they
may prove very mischicvous. Let our legsla-
tors to it that the interests Of tire Agrcutu-
rsts are protected. The prosperity of the
country depends upon the prosperity of that
class which produces the nccessarics of life
/. it Costs to grow article han ycu can get
for it in the market. something is radically
wrong. There can lie such thing pros
povty there. The duty of our legislators is to
analyze this subject and find out where the
| trouble is. -
II hal -.;.iAIAa,i.e, DAYS
| ago with n large Guano Factor lie was anxious
to ascertain my views in relation to the pros
perity of the Agricultural interests. l gave it
as my opinion that it worscNhan it was five
years ago. lie replied that he had been driven
to the conclusion, fran o very different
stand. point. AT fret he could sell all his Guano
for cash-..e could no, supply the demand Af
ter awhile the planter began to beg time; it was
| given--thcn the freight was complained Of
! that was arranged; then they could not pay in
cash, but wanici to pay in cctton, &c. In an,t
every year it evidently became more dilt,crli 10
| sell his Cuano and to make collections The
margin of profit mustbe very large 10 admit Of
| all these notifications, or the dution must be
| consideraIe-reckon it is the Shrinkaye which
covers all losses nova. days have heard mere
than one planter affirm that he hal always found
his Fertilizer bill the hardest to pay off, have
! he"Fl many, very g"n! planters too express
! doubts whether the country had been or could
be, i'll the end, benefited by the use of Guano or
| Commercial Fertilizers. People have got into
the habit Of using it however, and it will be no
easy III Utter t" give IL up. 1t il SO easy TO take
few sacks OF il to the field, and distribute tin
the rows. 1t is so hard to rake up litter, to
| clean up fence corners, scrapc up lots and COM
and distribute i, that few have the nerve or pa
tencc TO try it. TO talk about rest, rotation and
the Plowing in Of green crops, sounds so much
like nonsense and book farming that very few
persons can be induced to ,iirS of it ..Ihcrc
is whole in the hog trough. somewhere" 1t
| IS rs plain rs the nOsc on a man face that the
Agricultural interests is on decline. You hear
Of hari times in every branch ur business and
| everywhere, and such must be the case until the
farmers occupation is placed on better footing.
1t is at the bottom of all industries, and if the
foundation is insecure the whole fabric must bc
tottcring. Whether it be the all-cotton policy,
the long road to markets, with so,many toll-gatcs
by the way, the long credit and high profits and
interest, the Fertilizer bills, or freed labor, arc
all questions which ought nov to DC thoroughly
siited, and such remedies adopted as will afford
relief. HOrEFUL.