The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-04-15

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The censIs returns from some .
the counties in this State showed en-
ly twelve bushels Of grain per capita.
1t would take that much to support !
one individual, leaving nothing upon
which to feed stock and with which |
to pay taxes
The salaries of many Of FOUR officers
ought to be reduced. Our Judges
are paid $500. The same officers in
Georgia are paid only $4,000 He
had always been of this opinion,
though many had differed with him,
but they had not succeeded in con-
vincing him.
Several were called upon but failed
to respond.
MIR. Holder said that not speaking
out was one thing that was the
matter with the farmers. If the far
mers would speak out the whole
world would have to keep psilcnt. The
Farmers Convention at Columbia
was q most important event, We
ought to send the best men to the
, convention. The talent Of the State
would be there. Every man must
a speak out. The time had como for
Y action, and every one should act, and
if the farmers acted together they
n would be heard, but if only few,
!, much would not be done.
n Mr.. j. Thomas Looper said the
8 subject was too great for him. But
8 he thought q comparison OF the tax
receipts of the former times with
those of the present would show that
there was n great wrong somewhere.
: The present number of officers
would show the same thing. On the
Dacusville side the people was In.
boring class, but they are getting
worse cnthralled every year They
are getting to be worse than any who
served before the war. We had toe
many laws.
Mr. Jere Looper said no would
like to say something and would ,lo
it, if the lawyers would go out They
intinidated all Of us. They ought
to so out as they were taking nc
part i'll the meeting. But no one
had yet come to the point. They
. were like the doctor book which de
= scribcd the disease, but said nothing
about the remedy. "What is the
remedy? Every body knows of the
disease. What is the remedy?
I, The remedy, fellow citizens, is, for
the farmers to rise up as one man
and be no longer intimidated by tho
~ lawyers! The lawyers have made al
the laws, and they have got them 81
~ mysteiied, nobody could tell wha
W. they arc"
'' Mr.. Loopcr's speech created SCI,
. sation and was delivered so rapid
~ that it was impossible to report it.
", w The committo appointed, then re
=" ported the following preamble anc
80 resolutions which were adopted
Whereas, call has been made fo
q convention Of farmers of the Stat
~ in Columbia on April Goth and w
believe that such convention can b
- made Of great practical advantag
- to our agricultural interests, there
, fore be it resolved:
- lst. That it is the sense Of thi
l. ne NJ that Pickens County shoul
80 be represented in soid convention.
, I'd. That III common with othc
:, avocations farmers have the right
-, and it is their duty, to get togothe
and not only discuss matters immt
90, diatcly pertaining to their spccia
-, calling, but to consider othor qucs
- tions more remotely bearing upol
+. them. in common with others as cit
o Zens Of this commonwealth.
~, Sd. That ~ all prosperity depend
- on the success of the farmer wo dep
. rccatc all attempts to thrust polite
into this movement.
- 4th. That by every personal eIor
.s and by q. demand Of our represen
tatives both in Convention and Log
- islature, we pay especial attention t
xa the workings of the State Agricult,
b. raj Department and also the Agr
cultural and Mechanical Society {
~ this State, to see that they do not g
- beyond their legitimate bounds an
= become the worst OF tyrants instea
- of tho cxpononts Of our interests