The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-10-29
GIVE THE FARMER A CHANCE.
They Should at Least be Given an Evon
Start with 1Ionopolies.

They Should at Least be Given an Evo
Start with Monopolies.
Mr.. Augustus R. Wright, Of Georgia
writes as follows in the Southern Cul
tiyator and Dixie Farmer. There is
great deal of force in what Mr.. Wrlgh
says, and, sooner or later the evils com
planned of must be remedied or there
will be revolution. That this govern
ment is now run in the interest Of tht
gigantic monopolies scattered through
out the land, not only to the detriment
of the farmer, but to every man In il
who has to labor for his bread, ne
thoughtful man will deny. The farm
ers can remedy the evil if they viii
arise in their power, north, cast. west
and south, and see to it that no man
goes to Congress who is in favor Of
these monopolies. Here is what Mr
Wright says:
1t is false assertion that the farm
ers say, mo man shall hold Office ex-
! cept farmers"-"false as hell!' Dema-
gogues, sly usurers, who desire to keep
| up the present system, all Glars, who
shall have their portions with hypo-
critics and unbelieYers," say it-nobody
else.
Farmers say, and their true friends
say, no man shall hereafter hold Office
Gf they can help it, who does not pay
more respect to their rights and the
rights OF the working classes than has
been paid TO them since the war.
They say that monopolies created by
the power of the money class through
the government, has manlfestly gotten
all of their honest toll and other labor
ers, in the last quarter Of century.
That, while they are not starving, as
they are in Europe, yet they have few
comforts and fewer luxuries; that while
they ought to have surplus, their
lands are almost universally mortgaged
to bondholding usurers at ruinous rates
Of interest; that while statistics show
the profits of labor do not exceed three
per cent, they pay from eight to twenty
to keep of the officers of the law.
They say-their brother laborers
say-"this thing shall have an end; that
death is preferable to the degraded life
capital proposes labor" Labor does
not force the issue, capital forces it.
Let it come, and God grant victory to
the right
The farmers would not ask loans
from the government if the govern
ment was not engaged in the business
of lending, and has been for more than
quarter Of century, without in
terest. And to whom does it lend? 10
the rich only. Hear, on heaven, give
ear, oh earth ?" To the rich only. And
what for? TO lend to the working
classes at rates of interest the devil
would blush to own. Money never
bushes. 1t wants more. The farmers
want to borrow money to pay their
debts. These rich fellows want it to
shave with Oh! but these rich fellows
can secure their debts by depositing
their bonds with the government.
The working classes have not got any
bonds. True, but what gives credit to
the bonds? Who pays the interest on
the bonds? Who pays the bonds them
selves finally? Do not the sons of toll?
Government lends to the rich class to
lend again. Why not lend to the work
ing class to pay their debts-yes, to
save from the hammer their home
steads, around which cluster all the
noble emotions of wife and children
and home. Are bonds more secure at
nearly whole value, than homesteads
at half value?
1t is nonsense to talk about the
greater security of the bonds. Why
not loan on real estate, and why not
give to its owners the right to bank
alsoo No man living can give reason
except that it would cheaper the rate
of interest and stop the enormous
profits of this oppressive and detestable
monopoly, which has already pretty
well absorbed the wealth OF the whole
country.
The government not only lends to the
rich only, but it e1empts their property
(the bonds) from taxation. Bonds
create no wealth; lands are the founda-
tion of all wealth. Bonds in their in
terest quality, weigh like lead upon the
whole people. II Ifanything ought to be
exempt from taxation it is land en-
gagged in productive industry. Give
farmers, as a class, the same rights
which are given to bondholding bank
ers, and, instead of mourning and want
and woe, our beloved land from Maine
to Louisiana, and from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, would surpass Eden III
plenty, beauty and glory.
God has given 70 US beautiful
world, and to the Americans the love
liest OF all lands, and the freest Of all
governments.
Covetousness, controlling govern
ment, if not arrested, will make it, as
it has in Europe, the charnel house of
misery and the graveyard of labor.
More anon (when the true Democracy
gets out its candidates. of the question
to whom to lend money and who should
make the whiskey ? if any is made, and
on bounties to beet roots, and sugar
cane, and pensions to second widows
OF soldiers who fought, bled and died
to save the country"
Hydrophobia Not Fatal.
TRENTON, n. j., Oct. 22.-Medical ex-
perts are interested in the case of Mrs.
William a. MaxSon, who, a week ago,