The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-03-23


ekss~ TAN ON FERriLIzEns.-The legislature of
NORTH Cnroilnua at frsrcccn<sessio passed a,, act
to establish n Department Of Agriculture, Immi-
grafton and for the cncou ragcment of Sheep
lus5andry," the 9Th section of which requires
tax OF S1o0 for each separate brand or quality
Of Fertilizers offered for sale in that State.
The tax on Fertilizers is pretty high and will be
basis OF excuse for increasing their, price,
which is now altogether too high for profit to
the farmers. We shall see how the experiment
works in North Carolina before endorsing or
conIemninS the law, because, from our stand
point there are two views TO be taken Of the
use of mercantile Fertilizers: In the first place,
many have come to believe that they cannot make
cotton without them, and to such it has become
second nature to buy them but large L5fmbcr
oi Farmers will say that, all things considered,
they are like the Indians gun, "cost more than
they come to, but still continue to use them.
1t is expected to raise n revenue of from $50.
600, to 10000 from the tax. If tho t..xs~si xnt
the price so high as to compel the farmers to
abandon their use and force them to utilize the
fertilizing ingredients about their farms, which
they allow to go to waste, it will prove great
permanent blessing to all classes Of people in
North Carolina. Until something is done to
stop the drain of money from The Southern States
for Fertilizers, Corn, Bacon and other supplies
that can and should be raised upon the farm.
the farms Of the South will soon be. owned by
the manufacturers of Fertilizers and merchants s.
1t is fast coming to that now and none ar$to
b.amo for it but the farmers themselves, whokr-
pear determined to buy at exorbitant lien pricfs,
depending on high -priccl Fertilizers to give them
a crop, with the least labor possible to pay cut.
nSl. Amid the uncertainties BIZ which our
people are harussed and bedeviled we arc always
glad to show them any ray of hope for the fu-
ture that may appear in the political horizon
although we have but little filth in the stability
of Republican promises. If someYhTns dom
turn up to change President Hayes, Southern
policy the following may be taken with greater
degree of confidence than anything we have
read since his Inauguration, because it is definite
and unequivocal.
1T seems the Editor of the Charleston Neo.
and Courier has been to Washington, and amons
the things that he saw and heard .here he says
"a Democratic Senator who had read the In
angural Address, and had heard the kindly and
liberal declarations of the President, was never
thcless apprehensive that he might not have
understood correctly the purposes of tho Presi.
dent. lie, therefore, put to him this Question :
MIR. President; What is the residuum Of oil this!
Does H mean Hampton and NichoHs The.Pres-
dent, with earnestncss and emphasis, answered:
IL does This is given to the writer by the Sena-
tor who asked the pregnant question, and to
whom the momentous answer was addressed
The public can rely on it that the President said
this, and means this
That sounds well, but why don't he remove
the troops from the State House at Colp@bia q
That is safthsesgs'necessary now to fdksTS fhe
people of this State and establish a pesceable,
just and honorable government. 1t would not
take ten minutes to write the order, and in three
hours oil would be peace and joy throughout
South Carolina.
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