The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-01-30

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.racy, ,and whenever champion of the
people has attempted TO show them their
rights. and advocated those rights, an
aristocratic okgarchy has bought him
with an Office, or failing in that, turned
loose the food gates of Misrepresentation
and :slander in order to destroy his inhu:
ence. s.,5..i.ai .s
I. The peculiar situation now existing in
the State, requiring the united efforts of
every true white man to preserve white
supremacy and our very civilization
even, has intensified and tended to make
permanent the conditions which existed
before the war. Fear of division
among us and consequent return of
negro rule has kept the people quiet and
they have submitted to many grievances
imposed by the ruling faction because
they dreaded to risk such division.
"a The farmers movement" has been
lhampered and retarded in its work by
this condition of the public mind, but
we have shown our fealty to race by
submitting to the edicts of the party
and ne intend as heretofore to make our
fight inside the party lines, feeling as.
sured that truth and justice must finally
prevail. The results of the agitation
thus far are altogether encouraging. =
Inch by inch and step by step true
.Democracy-the rule of the people-has
won its way. We have carried all the
outposts. Only two strongholds remain
to be taken, and with the issues fairly
made up and put plainly to the people we
have no fear Of the result. The House
of Representatives has been carried twice
and at last held after a desperate strug.
gle.
The advocates Of reform and economy
are no longer sneered at as "Three.for. q.
quarter ststeamen." They pass measures
of economy which four years ago would
have excited only derision, and with the
farmers movement to strengthen their
backbone have withstood the cajolery,
threats and impotent rage of the "riDg
bosses" The Senate is now the main
reliance of the enemies of retrenchment
and reform, who oppose giving the PEG.
pie their rights. Tbs Senate is the
stronghold Of "existing Institutions"
and the main dependence of those who
are antagonistic to sll progress As we
captured the House we can capture the
Senate but ne must control the Demo-
cratic State Convention before we can
hope to mako economy popular in Co.
;lumbia, or be assured of no more pocket
syetoes. The General Assembly is largely
influenced by the ideas and policy of the
State officers, and We must elect those
before ne can say the farmers movement
has accomplished its mission. Itis true
that ne have wrenched from the aristo-
cratic coterie who were educated at and
sought to mopopolize everything for the
South Carolina College, the right to
control the land scrip and Hatch fund
and part of the privilege tax on fer.
tilizers for one year, and We have $4O, 900
with which to commence building a sep
arate agricultural college where the
sons Of poor farmers can get q practical
education at small expense. But We
dare not relax our effort or rely upon
the loud profession of our opponents as
to their willingness now to build and
equip this agricultural school. Senator
McMaster, q trustee of the South Caro-.
lima College, gave voice to the sentiments
and wishes which are prevalent at the
University and Military Academy when
he hoped to see the internal Clemson
College sink out Of sight next year."
They all want to sink the internal
agricultural college out of sight, and if
its friends do not rally once more to its
support it will either be destroyed or
starved 80 that it cannot do the great
work it is expected to accomplish. All
the cry about ''existing institutions"
which must remain inyiolate shows that
the ring-the South Carolina University,
Citadel, Agricultural Bureau, Columbia
club, Greenfield building ring intend in
the future, as in the past, to get all they
can and keep all they get. These pets
of the aristocracy and its nurseries are
only. hoping that the people will again
sink into their accustomed apathy. The
University was given an increased ap-
and there is no thought of
it to Fort Hill, although the
land scrip fund which is sent there was
expressly donated for the purpose of
mechanical as we'll as agricultural edu.
cation, and so with the Experiment
Stations. The Hatch fund is given to
the Clemson College, but the stations
are left at Columbia and Spartauburg,
under the control of the South Carolina
College. Is it not plain that these
people intend to yield obedience to the
law only when they are made to do it ?
The Farmers Association demands that
the land scrip and Hatch funds and the
fertilizer tax shall be consolidated and
used for the building ard maintenance
of q first class industrial school, with
Stations attached for farm.
ers and mechanics. We hold that the
experimental work, the educational
work aud the inspection and an
alysis of fertilizers can all be more
and economically carried on
under one board, mostly at one place, and
much of it by the same corps of men
who teach. We have never and do not
now want any increase OF taxes to accom-
plish thess ends. But our opponents
having seized the opportunity afforded
by our agitation to double the income OF
the South Carolina College and call it q
and. in addition obtained the
Hatch fund of:s15,000, donated for Ex-
pertinent Stations. cry out: "Take your
Clemson Collegel We will give you
sos, 900 or $198,000 if you want it raised
by taxation, but don't touch existing
institutions" They have built with our
bricks, but say we must not take them;
but that re can builo i we make others.
Was there ever such impudence
They seized FIRST the land scrip fund.