The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-30

State Of Kansas is the most complete and
statement of the cause. This
is so far from being applicable to the farm
ers Of South Carolina and of the other
Southern States that it may be we'll TO reflect
Very seriously before we give to the proposed
measure our support.
As am now serving rs your Representa-
tive in Congress my last term, it seems to
me that am in q position to deal with YOU
in Split Of the utmost frankness, and al
together free from any possible charge Of
demagogy in saying, that regard the farm
ing interests Of the country as embracing
its very bone and sinew- the maipstay and
support Of the Government itself These in
terests are suffering from o:erprodnction and
for the want Of adequate IlcanS to transport
the tremendous surplus of products to mar
kets beyond our own borders.
THE WEST HAS GROWN TOO FAST.
On account Of cheap and fertile lands in
the West and Northwest, the vast tide of
immigration that has steadily flowed tLither
for the last twenty-five years, the bulky ma
ture of their products and their remoteness
from the markets of the East and Of the
world, the prices realized have not been le-
munerative. Besides, the cost of living and
of production has been greatly increased by
an unjust, unnecessary, and oppressive
system Of tariff taxation, resulting in a wide
spread and almost universal network OF farm
mortgages, given to secure money advanced
BY Eastern caritalistS The census of the
present year, if correctly taken, will be, in
this regard, an appalling disclosure to the
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good provision ctop in the South, with
which We were blessed last year, to bring
about the catastrophe and along with it this
demand for relief to them (not to uS) which
has found expression in the proposed sub
treasury bill.
I do not believe that this picture is over
drawn or exaggerated. You may ask, how
is it with ourselves? Many would doubt
less answer, bad enough. In my travels
over the district last summer did not find
single farmer who attended to his bust
ness half as we'll as he could have done that
was not prospecting.
NO USE FOR THE PROPOSED WAREHOUSES;.
To come directly to the point: Supposed
Government ware house should be erected
in your county, what would you or your
neighbors put in it? Cotton bales are well
nigh the only considerable surplus products
of your farms. Nobody eats cotton 1T is too
bulky to steal without almost certain and
speedy detection of the thief; and if you
have no convenient place for storing it dur
ing the time it is held before marketing, a
few poles laid upon the ground and tenn
porary shed of loose planks will suffice for
protecting it from the weather. It is not so
with the Western farmers products, which
must be carefully housed and kept under
lock and key. Besides, what is the effect OF
withholding these different crops from the
market? From 1861 to 1865 the world, by
some means or other, managed to get on
without our cotton crops. In such years as
we had from 1883 TO 1889, if the corn, bacon
and -four that we required had been in
Government ware houses, cornered by law,
as this bill proposes to DO, ours instead of
theirs would have been the land Of mort
cages; the contest, as You must See, is an
unequal one, and the odds are all against
us. You can get on, for time at least, with
worn and patched clothing, but lean and
empty larder who can long withstand?
THE SOUTH BETTER OFF THAN THE WEST.
As bad as some may deem our condition,
it ought to afford them some relief to con-
trast it with that Of others. Take the State
of Iowa. for instance. I have already al
luded, incidentally, TO corn burning Kan
sas It appears from the agricultural sta
tistics of Iowa for last year that the average
WELD Of corn, which is their main crop, was
so bushels per acre, and the price at the crib
20 cents per bushel-gross yield in money
by the acre Sc. You can by proper care and
bring up any acre upon your farm,
duce bale Of cotton. 200 pounds IN the
seed, which yields 80 bushels of cotton seed,
the market price OF which during the past
season was 20 cents per bushel, the exact
equivalent in value of the Iowa farmers 80
bushels of corn. Besides You have 400
pounds of lint worth 10 cents per pound,
against which to charge up the expenses OF
production, and if it should take $40 for
that purpose, (Which you know is not the
fact You would at least Eave Sc, the pro-
ceeds of the sale of seed, as clear profit.
During my travels over the district last
summer had the pleasure ofattendlng sew
eral of the Farmers Alliance meetings.
felt deep interest in them, heartily approx
ing every effort of the country to better their
condition. Like Ill the rest Of mankind
they, too, make mistakes ventared III a
modest way to point out some of these. The
burden of their efforts seemed to be how and
where to buy the cheapest. That told them
was very well, but it is not the main thing.
There is never much trouble to buy, if one
has the money with which to buy. 1t IS
vastly more important to have something to
sell.
DO NOT BORROW MONEY.
And so it is with one of the features Of
this sub-treasury scheme which is so well
calculated to catch gudgeons by holding
out the offer Of lending money at 4 cheap
rate of interest. 1t matters not what the