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

Editor Oramgebury Times:
hope wont tire Your forbcarin.
patience, or your readers. AS start
ed out in vindication Of my own
rights, and that Of the people on the
fence question, do not intcnd to
surrender or forfeit MY position. AS
long us any one advocates such II rad
zeal and ruinous principle as to pass
no fence system he may expect to
hear fl~m mn My platform is broad
cao"gh for all, and will be well repre-
scntcd when tested OH the fence ques
ton, and ! have q key note fer all op-
ponents $" Ak. Editor, [ beg leave
to handle Teoth pick, and put him in
some shape. A Tooth pick too thin,
or too blunt, or very ,ointcd, is of lit
tie service TO any one; aad thc frst
defcctil notice i'll Tooth pick is that
he is too thin; hc nisreprescnts our
worthy representative, DR.. Summers,
by asserting that he called on the far
mcrs to discuss tue no fence uWcstien
Now for Tooth picks benefit will re
fresh his memory, rs to what Dr.
Summers said and What the papers
said for h.n, at the same time TO let
Iooth i'Sc1l know that Watch is in
better condition thaa he imagiucs.
The call was for rcsl estate ownrrs to
discuss the question, rs hc thought
there would be an effort made this
fall by petitions to the General AS
sc'nbly to have the law passed Zoe the
greater part, if not for the entire Culln
ty. Thao was why flew off the hinges,
for considered it 4 ucstion that all
were equally Interested ia,
Scine are Silly enough to make our
fore fathers out us numbskulls and
idiots by saying they had old fogy
notions and carried IL stone in one end
Of their mill bags for balance. i'm
aginc the other end contained home
raised corn, and when they wanted
bacon and lard ! guess they found it
III their smoke houses, trce from he
merchants lien, and if our legislature
would turn l deaf ear to party and
iavoritlsm and give lis u wholesome
law that would apply TO all alike, re
quiring every farmer to keep his crop
under good fence, we would ttson
tnrn back to@tllc practice Of our; foYr
fathers, and, instead of depending on
the western market for our bacon and
corn, it would lie raised ut Ennc. |
cohtend that stock can be raised in
this country to advantage in many
respects and save money in the pock
cts Of tho farmer. For instance. vow
can have your lots well Uttered, Il lit
tie lime and salt 1T hand To scuttcr
over your litter and trampcd by your
hide bounl bound stock, rake and
pile every two months and rcp!cnisl,
your lots when needed an,l you would
have less fertilizers to pay for in the
fall, and occasionally you would have
fat beefto 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 rs well imagine locomotive
could run without lire aud water as
to bclicvc:I COW could fattcn on chew
ing OF her cud alone There has been
great deal said about raising stock
to advantage in pastures. Why is it
so? Because attention is given them
anu the rogucs can get their meat in
the woods with less risk OF detection.
But adopt the no-fcnce system anu
1t will exclude 80 many from pastures
that starvation will force many rogu,,s.
on us and the midnight prowlcr will
he rs familiar with your pastures as
you are, anil when yon realize that
you are raising stock for the rognes
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 Il faint idea q!
what bacon would be, ilthcrc were no
stock raised in tile state. The no
fence system would keep immigrants
back, and our labor would be confined
to, and monopolzc,l by the large real
estate owners. After they got as many
hands as they wanted, they would
cent the remainder or their lands to
the trash gang and hominy eaters.
| md the small farmers would have to
10 without labor, for tits human ma
cure for a man to invest his money in
The safest manner he can, and the
lands would he sought after as Il SAFE
investment and would be good until
>iol called upon the earth to give NJ
it's dead, and not until then would
they lose their titles. When immi-
grants start out for a country, it is