The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-06-30
and aid in shaping the policy.
E. I. STAcHuoUsE.
Little Rock, S. c., June 1G, 1856.
AN OPEN LETTER.
Hon. Bill JONES TO NosIs TlLLs1AS
From tie Palmetto Post.

venshun has gone nome, l take my
pen in hand to rite you few lines,
hopin' they may find you vel, &c.
Being a farmer myself, am glad to
say the Convenshun had a perty fair
run, only can't see what the thing
was for. Stirlin things up is right
good, but it seems like the farmers
had lots OF rcpresentashun in the Leg
islater and didn't know it. Them's
healthy farmers to make laws for the
people Amt one in 500 knows what's
on the :tStatoot Books and when the
Legislator rings the bell for the fellers
to come in, and the lawyers detalo the
farmers to shell peanuts for the hole
family, then people set Up and cuss
the lawyers. OF course, I am agin
the lawyers. Know EN- too well, but
the truth is, the farmers in the Leg
islater aint the right stripe You aint
goin' to shake off the lawyers with res
olushuns. Thay had EN- in Bible
days, and thay devird people jest as
bad then, but thay are holdin' on
still. One luvly ,nornin in the month
of June a thortful boy sat musin' by
the riverside, a fghtin' sand-hies and
fishin' for crabs. Suddenly like, says
be, hark, ,nethinhs I heard crab bite,
and SO he did; ':but Lindon Gor that
were the boys name) saw another
SITE for, reachin down to take him
in, says the crab, "the same to you,
and got him first, and such a hand
shakin'! Then the boy triel TIE other
hand, and found the crab or skedyule
time o1st mere. Then he fried to bite
the crab to make him retive from tie
firm, ana he let go and got the COY by
the nose. And the last state of that
boy was wurst than the first, and
that's just where the lawyers got the
farmers. Nine out OF ten farmers
would rather cover their land with
mortgages than pea vines, and the law
yers stand between them and the NOR
cages when they want to beat EN-,
so they can't go agin them lessin thay's
independent,
You remember the farmer when
he said: 'aly son John is such 4 dam
fool lie viii never be ft for nothin' but
farmer, aud my son Bill is such a
dam rascal he Will never be fttea for
nuthin' but lawyer" Well it seems
Ike the farmers and lawyers been
holdin their own and sometimes the
other fellers ever since. They make
a big racket about Joana manures be-
cause they get EN- on credit, and,
when the crop fails, get jury OF his
pears to say the stuff: want worth a
cuss. If a doctor gives man o sedlits
powder to take, and he drinks the
white paper and then the other one,
and when he gifts his breth back
the followin' week and cusses the doc
tors and their stuff like tarnashun, it
dosent follow that powders is a fail
ure. Don't know how to take EN-.
They say fat kitchen makes a lean
viii. Well there amt any lean wills
comm that way NOWADAYS A lean
law makes EN-, and you can as easy
find a flosopher's stone as fat kitch-
en-. Most OF farmers as buy Joana
manure on time let times the worth
of it waste and wash away off the farm
every year, and then set up to learn
the State economy. Sich men fool
around, so fsbin' down in the branch
for minners, 60 to riDctunls and stay
all night, and Saturday go to the
Nroads and jaw about politics and
crops, and bet on horses age, and go
through every horses mouth to see
how old he is. II somebody comes
along with gun, they all must pint
it and asa questions sich as: Wher
did ye buy It? Kin she Kill a squirt
of'n fence rail? jim Jones got one
Jest like it, only bar'l jest about one
eighth Of an inch longer. Got any
tobackcr? Gimme chew. One
thing about them fel!ers, they are lib
eral. Never think Of bcttin' lcssin a
million dollars tho they are OWN for
Joano, bacon and briches. I have
knowd sich men go to the Legislator
Jest because they bet straiter on a
horses age than the rest, and I have
knowd horses usen to the bisness,
when they see the community comm
around to open their mouths, do so
themselves Jest to save time; and yet,
when the crop fails, thay talk about
bad grass and the dam nigger," and
all sicb, while thay was dom nothin'
and the grass CROWN under their
feet. OF course the farmers was rep
resented and thay know it now. Why,
my dear feLer, there's waste in every
bisness, speshialy governments. Take
the single items Of babies. Millions
of EN- die every year, but nobody ever
says "the business is a failure, let's
try somethin' else" No, sir, they
keep a covin, and, if all lived, tie
world would be overstocked long ago.
To be shure, there IS great waste OF
babies, but they keep az comm:
A pretty good showin' them eAo-
fshio fellers made in Columbia, and
treated you all with sich a manners
as showed thay was o gentleman, ev-