The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-08-10

ciftS$, Tor l!c certainly felt and knew
t3:;t IL nc agreed to tlc proposition
ol controversy, made III NV chul-
lenSc, uniter the rules thee men.
ttnnel, he would lac unable to rofuto
s''ch argument as we wa I'D produce
IN support OF our movements, ana
mo cover that Il discussion Of this
KIND, would be the means Of waking
our people mp, and causing them to
think for themselves, and a little
lar thinking would result in de-
clslon in favor of the action of the
tho Foastorville Club. Now my
dear f,iends, you may think L am
standing on Il false basis, but 1 ask
yon III tho pane OF c,mMo reason,
II MIR. G,tiilrd thinks we have dc.lt
with him unjustly or would restrict
his rights or the rights of his Dro :
1cssion. why does he not stand up
like brave man and defend what he
knows belongs to him, ana show to
our satisfaction as well as to the
! satisfaction Of all concerned, that
: VIC are unjust, unreasonable, unilir
i'll our demands, instead Of keeping
i'll the back grounds an;i falling to
glYc us II II nee to shIW whlt we
mean, or 10 convince by argument
any body tntt VIC arc hcrctics. If
Mr.. Giillard had been Il wise and
sagacous politician when these
resolutions were publshc;i, lo would
hlrc gone to every club in the coun-
! ty, anu advocated the endorsement
,, OF the broad ANA good principles
they contained, with as much rlo-
uucnce, as he put forth wncl. help
ing to reject the report OF the Bond
Con.n::ss ,on. which ask ID tn It tie
ST ITO b. exon erlt:: from tna pay
ment OF thousands Of dollars of in
! dcbtcdness Saalled upon us by
fraud mld corruption, and would not
have stopped here, but gone straight
20 the State Exccuclvr Committee
for the purpose OF getting u pl~hk
incorporated nl the state Dem )cia~
; cy, That would support tnc scnti-
! .ncrt o. these resolutions, YES he
woutd have worked fur it, as earn
es>iy as he voted .for the Phosphate
BIZ, winch | viii notice below. {
say nc wa ll if wise nave one these
Things, Tor tae re ,sOn tiAat our 1880
lu:iuns are SO h.'o,u AMI liberal, rs
to express IL willingness, that both
t!c t'N4 alive .i!l judicial I"par.-
mems 80 tno 8 3DvtGn. ,e opc. at
cl exclusively by tao l. wve.S th.
poo!' py0Sc|abed c',.$s wIi e lncv
only c'"l,n >. 'o..n., 81 hs 5io
right to CO. CD tle legislative
department., md this n.urn W. ,ne;n
to n.,V". ;>vitl some fD.ks lie down
hike "lck cats, ana wline out py,,-
scr ..,'|"n "Hl l,ars,c:t:jon, a:lj c,Il
tina alg@uirnt.
Now VIC are Ie,ly to lake up the
Phosphate Bill. [ viii for yol: H.
formation: give few flcts cJnnec5-
cI with tlis question, Tna B,il
WAS t!r weeks III ler leg 81 ,tlJn, o4,
tore It's L? Hcc,tcs We're apie t. get
it through, bat they, by the help Of
the lobby finally su"rea .ial, IN is
passage gave to il llttlc h,n linl Of
men, III tao shape of three or four
companies, ths exclusive ris 1t 10
M!lne AMI dig all the PAoapa tic
rock aud Phosphate deposits n1v
IN tn. .5tttc, tlls fo:mtug IL my
Dopoiy in the Phosphate r5c. cs IS
Of the State. A few capitalists by
this act becomes empowers to
control both the price Of digging
and the price Of selling THIS yala ,h!o
auxiliary to olr exhausted lands, IN
adding an Increase to to their pro-
duction. The first thing we notice,
within oao week alter tbs bill
becomes n law, Stock III one Of
these f..yorel companies rose seven
hundred pr. ca. above pr or in ota~
er words 500 worth of stock,
before the Bill pissed coul,l not be
bought Immediately after for less
than $500 and the stock in soma if
noS all the other companies went up
ut n wonder ful rate. The next we
! notice hundreds AMI thous,n Is of
men white and black arc thrown out
Of employment and the price roll-
iacl by laborcrs for digging these
rocks reduced from 81 to $3.50 on
tao ton, furthermore these labor
ers have t. deliver these rocks per
fectly clean Of dirt just at such
places as arc designated by the com
panics, and aro required to gi'e
$500 lbs. to the ton, this is clean
! swinalo to the State and l,borcrs
digging thcss rocks and deposits Of
mo ~ ~ f.