The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-06

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pose. This Convention ought TO also
take into consideration all matters of
legislation affecting our agricultural in
terest and make such recommendations
10 the Legislature about the same as they
may deem proper. This board of agri.
culture should consist of ten, five elected
annually. They should have the power
to elect their own executive officer or
secretary. whose duties would correspond
with those of the present commissioner,
and their duties would be the same rs
the law imposes on our present board,
while, in addition, they would have con-
troll of the agricultural college and ex-
perimental station, and should, by
means of farmers Institutes" &C.,
build up and keep alive the several
county societies and farmers clubs.
7th. That in order to obtain the nee
essary funds to sustain the agricultural
college, after the State shall have given
enough to buy the farm and erect the
necessary buildings, we recommend that
the privilege tax on sale of fertilizers be
doubled. The board would then get an
income of over $50 900 per year, and this,
with the $500 from the land scrip fund,
would, we think, be enough to support
the college, inspect the fertilizers, and
hold farmers institutes, without addition
al taxation, except small indirect tax
on guanos which farmers will willingly
pay to be guaranteed against fraud.
Sth. That the inspection of fertilizers
is now defective and unsatisfactory, and
no adequate punishment for frauds pro.
vided We, therefore, urged such addi-
tional legislation as will secure the need
ed protection without imposing unneces.
sary restraint upon the manufacture and
sale of fertilizers. Cotton seed meal,
whether sold as stock food or as lertili-
ger, should be inspected and adultera-
tion punished. Stock owners will not
mind the additional charge to be sure of
wholesome and pure article.
9th. That the Citadel Academy, rs a
military school, be abolished, and that so
much of the money now appropriated
to its use as may be eneeded shall be given
to the South Carolina College at Colum-
bia, 80 as 10 make it a first-class institu-
tion for the training of young men for
the professions aud literature. A small
tuition fee should be charged those en-.
tering there, but tic trustees should be
allowed to admit those unable to pay free
of charge.
10th. That the State owes it to her
daughters to provide an institution for
their liberal and practical education a
school where they can be taught not only
to adorn drawing room, but he fitted to
perform the duties of life and become
b.ead-winners if need be-. A common
wealth which does not train its future
mothers can never hope to achieve any
high place in the civilization of to-day,
and both justice and wisdom demand
that our girls should have an equal
chance with our boys. We recommend
that such school be opened at the Cita-
del in place of the military institution
now in operation there, and that it be
literally supported by the State. We
appeal to the women of South Carolina
who feel the deficiencies of their own
training, and have seen the utter help
lessness of their sisters when left to their
own resources, to aid in establishing an
industrial college for females in our
State like that of Columbus, Miss. If
they cannot secure that prohibition
which would Danish alcohol, they can
help Danish that prohibition, ignorance,
which now bars their sex in this State
from all occupations except sewing,
teaching and working in cotton factories.
11th. That committee of seven, one
from each Congressional district, be ap-
pointed by the Chair, who will draft the
memorial mentioned in these resolutions,
and forward the same at once to our rep
resentatives at Washington and that
the said committee shall prepare bills,
and have the same introduced in the next
General Assembly, carrying out the spirit
aud purpose of these resolutions. Fur.
thermore, that said committee shall 60
to Columbia when the Legislature meets
and make such presentation Of facts and
arguments as will help secure their pas
sage.
These resolutions were adopted with
out amendment, though stubborn fight
was made on several of them. Governor
Thompson by invitation of the Couven.
ton, appeared and made short appro
pirate address, which was received with
rounds Of applause.
When the Governor had ceased speak.
ing and the applause which greeted his
remarks had subsided, and before he had
left the stage, Farmer Tillman arose in
his scat and said that he desired to stamp
out lie. Gentlemen on the floor, and
some inventive journalists, had charged
him with having, in some of his letters
published in the Neus and Courier, &C.
cused the State officials of robbery and
corruption. He had made no such accu-
sation. He thought that the action of
the last Legislature, in refusing to pass
the census bill, bore out the accusation
of misrule. Applause. AS to robbery,
the lien law was the most damnable sys.
tenn of robbery ever perpetrated upon
people. Applause. Year after year
the farmers have paid millions for fertil.
izers. The last analyses showed that 35
per cent. of the fertilizers analyzed were
below the guarantees, yet the Legislature
had not done anything to protect the
farmers. When you understand that for
every per cent. of available phosphoric
acid that the fertilizers lost you lose
$4,000. Amt that robbery? [Ap-
plause.
In the afternoon session resolution,
offered by DR.. 0. P. Hawthorne of Abbe.
Vile, favoring the nomination of all
State officers and Congressman by pri-
mary election was adopted. Also,
resolution from Mr.. Stackhouse, from
Marion, recommending to the farmers,
and all others in the State who favor
a closer economy in the State government,
to elect State officers and members of
the Legislature pledged TO reduce the
expenses of the government to the lowest
point consistent with efficiency.
A resolution declaring that the farm.
ers' troubles come from extravagance,
improvidence and Incidence was laid on
the table. The failure of the last Legis-
lature to take the census was condemned.
Resolutions citing at length the abuses
existing in the assessment Of property for
taxation, asking Of the Legislature pro-
visions for uniform assessments OF real
and personal property, and for the resto-
ration of forfeited lands to the tax lists,
urging a general study of the question,
and the recommendation for tax officers
of only such men as are qualified and
reliable. were unanimously adopted.