Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg Court House [S.C.]) 1877-1881, 1881-06-30
THE FRNCH QUESTION.
Editor Oramaebur4 Times:

Editor Orangebury Times.
] hope wont tire your forbcarins
patience, or your readers. AS / start
eel out i'll vindication Of my own
rights, and that of the people on the
fence question, do not intcnd to
surrender or forfeit NY position AS
long as any one advocates such rad
zeal and fuinous principle as to pass
q no fence system, lie may expect to
hear tlrm nae Nj, plstform is broad
cao"gh for all, aud will be well repre-
scnted when tested OH the fence q,lcs
ton, and have q key note ter all op-
ponents 5" Ale. Editor, [ beg leave
to handle Teeth pick, and put him in
| some shape. A Tootl, pick too thin,
or too blunt, or very pointed, is of lit
tie service to any one; aad the first
defect l notice i'll Tooth pick is that
| he is too thin; hu misreprescnts our
worthy representative, DR.. Summers,
BY asserting that he called ON the far
mcrs to discuss tue no fence question
Now for Tooth picks benefit I will re
fresh his memory, as to what Dr.
Summers said and what the papers
said for ltim, at the same time TO let
Too,h s,tck know that Watch is iii
better condition than he iinagincs
The call was for rcal estate owners to
discuss the question, us he thought
there would be an effort made this
fall by petitions to the General AS
sc'nbl.y to have the law passed toe the
grentcr part, ifnot for tile entire Coun
N. T'hao was why | flew off the hinges,
i"ri considered it q question that all
were equally Interested ia,
Some are silly cuough to make our
fore fathers out as mumbskulls and
idiots by saying they had old togy
notions and carried Il stone in one end
Of their mill bags for balance. | i'm
agine the other end contained home
raised corn, and when they wanted
bacon and lard guess they found it
in their smoke houses, free from the
merchants lien, and il our legislature
would turn deaf ear to party and
favoritism and give usa wholesome
law that would apply to all alike, re
CURING every Warmer to kccp his crop
under Il good fence, we would thon
tnrn back tottle practice of onr forn
fathers, and, instead of depending on
| the western market for our bacon and
corn, it would he raised ut home. |
contend that stock can be raised in
his country to advantage in many
respects and save money in the pock
cts OF the farmer. For instance, vow
can have your lots well Uttered, a lit
lie lime and salt 1T hand to scuttcr
over your litter and trampcd hy your
hide bound bound stock, rake and
pile every two months and rcplcnisll
your lots when needed an,l you would
have less fertilizers to pay for in the
fall, and occasionally YOU would have
fat beef to kill, the hide of Which
would serve YOU wi h shoes. The
same attention paid to hogs would
furnish you with bacon enough for
your own use and some to spare.
Though stock needs attention. You
might as we'll imagine Il locomotive
could run without lire and water as
to believe - COW could fatten on chew
ing Of her cu,l alone There has been
great deal said about raising stock
to advantage in pastures. Why is it
SO? Because attention is given them
and the roSues can get their meat in
the woods with less risk OF detection.
But adopt the no-tcnce system am.
1t will exclude so many from pastures
! that starvation will force many royurs
on us and the midnight prowlcr will
he as familiar with your pastures as
you are, and when yon realize thai
you arc raising stock for the rog,lcs
you will abandon the idea OF raising
altogether, and just what YOU would
adopt your ncighbors would also,
and the price You have paid for hay
this year will give you II faint idea OF
what bacon would be, irthcrr were no
stock raised in the state. The no
Icncc system would keep immigrants
back, and our labor would be confined
to, and monopolizc,l Uy the large real
estate owners. After they got as many
hands rs they wanted, they would
rent tic remainder OF their lands to
the trash gang and hominy eaters.
md the small farmers would have tn
40 without labor, for it IS human ma
turc for Il man to invest his money in
the safest manner he can, and the
lands would be sought after as a safe
investment and would be good until
iol called upon the earth to give M
its dead, and not until then would
they lose their titles. When immi-
grants start out for q country, it is
with the hope of getting Il home.
Could they get one here? say nev-