The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-29

. the past, 10 get all tHcy C@u auo Aee1
they get. These pets of the aristocra
and its nurseries are only hoping that t
people will again sink into their accu
toned apathy. The University W
given an increased appropriation, al
there is 40 thought of transferring 1t
Fort Hill, although the land scrlp fur
which is sent there was expressly dona
ed for the purpose of mechanical as We
IS agricultural education, and SO vii
the experimental stations. The Hatt
fund is given 10 the Clemson ColleS
but the stations are left at Columbia an
Spsrtsnburg, under the control OF II
South Carolina College. Is it not plal
that these people intend to ylel
obedience to the law only when they 81
made to do it? The Farmers Assocl'
ton demands that the laud scrip an
| Hatchfundsand the fertilizer tax shall fir!
be consolidated and used for the builo
and maintenance OF a class lndustrl;
school, with Experiment Station
attached, Tor farmers and mechanics
We hold that the experimental work
the educational work and the iuspecslo
and analysis OF fertilizers can all be NOR
efficiently and economically carried o.
under one board, mostly at one place
and much of it by the same corps OF me-
who teach. We have never and do 40
now want any increase of taxes to &C
complish these ends. But our opponent
having seized the opportunity afforded
Ly our agitation to double the income o
the South Carolina College and call 1t
university, and in addition obtained tht
Hatch fluid of $4,000, donated for Es
pertinent Stations, cry out: "Take ouI
Clemson College! We will give yor
sos, ,OG0 or $19S, 900 if you want it raised
by taxation, but don't touch existing in.
ssitutions." They have built with oul
bricks, but say we must not take them,
but that We can build if we make others.
Was there ever such impudencea
TEE poINGs OF TIE RING.
They seized first the land scrip fund.
Then they misappropriated the Hatch
fund. They increased the taxes S65, 900
a year to equip and maintain the DIFF
fereut departments of the grand uuiVer
SHY. They voted $50, 900 in one lump
without even division to rebuild, re-
pair and equip the Citadel Academy, and
then say to ta2paying farmers: Leav e
our existing Institutions alone. Let the
agricultural bureau with its board-who
are our chosen sons, every man OF them
belonging to or aspiring to belong to our
aristocratic ring let this bureau waste
$4,000 year more-leave our Expert.
ment Stations st Darlington, Columbia
and Spartanburg alone. We expect to
control votes with them and they must
not be touched. Put your hands in your
pockets and pay for your Clemson College
if you will bave it, and we will vote the
taxes.
An analysis of the vote In the House aud
Senate which defeated she consolidation
of ali our agricultural work shows that
the board and Department Of Agriculture
are sustained by the fertilizer manufac-
turers, the phosphate miners and the
University and Citadel. If a farmer
voted for it's continuance It is because he
felt that the South Carolina University
would lose something by its abolition.
The support of the fertilizer companies
is easy to understand This bureau has
been their best friend. Year after year
we have been told by Commissioner
Butler that the guanos inspected were
below the guarantees, but nobody has
been punished. In fact there is no ade-
euate punishment for selling fraudulent
guanos in this State The bill prepared
by the committee of the Farmers Asso-
citation fo- the reorganization of the
Board ofAgriculture would have secured
our farmers against swindling fertilizer
dealers, but it was amended to death By
the lawyers in the Senate, who are at:or-
neys for the phosphate miners and fer
tilizer companies; and the men who were
elected on the board over the nominees
of the farmers convention were chosen
not because they are more loyal to the
agricultural interests, or better fitted for
the position, but because they are friends
of the University and belong or are sub
seryient to our aristocracy-"so called"
and the phosphate miners are too well
with the system of collecting
the State royalty to permit change if
they can help it. How wonderfully per-
feet orsefective is this system is shown
BY the fact that during the ten years
under the same officials not single in
dictment has been brought against any
one for attempting to swindle the State
out of its dues. No wonder Chaarleseonr
is in love with the Agricultural Bureau
and cannot bear to see that ''e1isting
institution" disturbed.
The recent proposal to sell the States
interest in the phosphate beds is fortu-
nate, because thereby, the attention of
taxpayers is attracted to this most i'm
portanr matter. The Farmers Associa-
tion proposed in 1886 to increase the
royalty as means OF lowering taxes,
and We believe this can be safely done
to the extent of 100000.
A legislative committee was appointed
to 'investigate" and report on the sub
iect. This was only done to give time
waiting ten months until the market had
been manipulated. etc. This committee
proceeded to show how well it had been
chosen ''not to do it." There was no
honest effort made to get at the real
facts as to the profits of the business and
it's ability to stand an increase of roy
atty; and after it had bsen "winsd and
dined," and brought into a suitable
frame of mind that committee came to
Columbia and actually proposed TO give
the six largest companies monopoly for
less annual rental than the State was
then receiving. Only one Senator, to
whom all honor is due, dissented from
this outrageous proposal What was the
result: Of course the General Assembly
did not act favorably upon it, but al
thought of an increase of royalty was also
abandoned, and this was whatthe corpo
ration attorneys, who were there in the
interest of their clients and not OF thell
| constituents, had been working for
''The goose that lays the golden egg
was not killed-''e1isting institutions