The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-13
THE ANDERSON RESOLUTIONS.

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Gated the cause of Charleston capital and
power in opposition to the interests of
the masses Of the citizens of South Caro-
lima, is up in that righteous Indignation,
which it can always assume at the short
est notice and in the most complacent
style, over the resolutions adopted by the
Anderson and Greenville farmers on
saleday upon the guano question. 1t
says:
There is one feature of the present dis
cussion which is discouraging, if not
alarming. In the Anderson Resolutions
the action of the Fertilizer Companies is
described as. "a public acrong, and bloso
aimed at the best interests of the Common
scealth;." :" and "the usonopolists ,0ho con-
spired to commit this aorong are enemies Of
the farming community" They are "a
monopoly a1hich seeks sey:aggrandizsmsnt
at the expense of the rights of Others" and
mast be "rooted out of eristencc." The
Greenville Resolutions treat the action
of the companies as can attempt, on the
part of greedy capitalists, to leuy increased
and uyust tribute upon the agricultural IN
terests Of the country" This is the work
of some professional politician. It reads
like the harangues on the Bond question,
and is an evidence of the depths to which
the politician will go to curry favor with
the dear people. There is not a farmer
in South Carolina who cannot see that
this talk abouta "public wrong" about
"monopolists," about conspiracy" and
the like is the barest balder-dash. The
manufacturers of Fertilizers ask for their
manufactures what they believe them to,
be worth. It is no crime. The crimi-.
nails are the mouthy politicians who draw
resolutions and make stump speeches,
and, knowing better, have not the poor
excuse of believing what they say. Such
phrases as those we have quoted from
the Anderson and Greenville Resolutions
are of piece with the common threat
that NO person shall be elected Chief
Justice of South Carolina, to succeed
Judge Willard, whc'is not in favor of re-
pudiating the disputed Consolidation
debt. It is too evident that South Caro-
lima has still many difficulties to over.
come. The State is wrested from the
hands of the Radicals, but Kearney and
B. F. Butler have their disciples here,
and it will take courage, wisdom and pa
tience to strip the borrowed plumage
from their backs, and exhibit them to
the people in their true guise, as enemies
of order, decency and peace.
This language of our contemporary is
by the facts of the case, so
Ear at least as the Anderson resolutions
are concerned, for the meeting was not
directed nor controlled by any professed
and the only resolutions which
we're offered were submitted by farmers,
,ne of whom lives ten miles from Ander-
ION and the other eighteen. The resolu-
ions which were adopted we're not
shown, SO far as we have been able to
earn, to any professional politician, nor
indeed to any member of the meeting,
until they were read and referred to the
committee on resolutions. On this COM
nittee, which was composed Of seventeen
the only townsmen were
Hon. W. G. Brown, of Belton, and Col.
E. NJ. Rucker, of Anderson, both of
whom are large planters, and have no
,ther interests than those connected with
agriculture. The President of the meet
ing and the Secretary were farmers. No
,ne else had any hand in framing the
resolutions passed so far as we know.
The resolutions of the Anderson far
ners no doubt CRATE harshly upon the
ears of our contemporary, which essays
TO become the champion of the monopo-,
lists, but it must be remembered that our
population have blunt way of calling
"a spade, a spade," or in other words,
they say what they mean, and do not
hesitate to use the proper words to con-
vey their ideas. The resolutions COM
nentsd upon by the INe,cs and Courier as
might have been more ten
lerly expressed, but nevertheless they do
not employ stronger language than the
farmers of the County believe the
sacts of the case fully warrant. The ac-
ion of the Guano manufacturers, in at
:empting to arbitrarily combine for the
purpose of raising the price of their man
lfactures to q higher sum than the legit-
innate rates which could be established
upon the great principles of supply and
demand, was "a public wrong" because
It sought by establishing a union of man
afacturers to produce a monopoly, the
avowed object of which was to make the
farmer pay more for his fertilizer than
,heyrcould do without creating monop-
,ly. It was "a blow aimed atthe best
interests OF the Commonwealth" because
it sought by undue combination to i'm
pose an arbitrary and exorbitant charge
upon the agriculture of the State, which
IS by far our most important industry,
ind whatever Is calculated to cripple this
industry is "a blow aimed at the best in
interests of the Commonwealth" "The
who conspired to commit
his wrong are enemies of the farming
community" because they sought to
oppress those engaged in agriculture to
an unjustiiiable degree to promote their
own interests, and it is not surprising
that meeting of agriculturalists should
pronounce them "a monopoly which
seeks self-aggrandizement at the expense
Of the rights of others," and that it should
be "rooted out of existence" The man
ufacturers who sought to create this mo-
nopoly have certain chartered rights
given them by the people of this State,