Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-08-14
.B. +. K.si on the situation.


Of man than the Farmers Move
mont," and LIDO not mean tho pre-
isent new tangled movement in par-.
ticslar; bit all farm; work in the
present, past and future, for the
farmers life is. a map of busy life.
It is astumpy road" ard he has
to "git up and git" .Six days
thou shalt labog" "what ever your
hands find to do, do with all your
might" "eat bread in sorrow all tho
dayssof your life" &c, 60, are oil
terms from "Holy Writ" denoting
activity. To be successful in agri-
culture / means brain and muscle,
skill and energy on our part and
trust to Providence to give tho s'in-
crease" for the seasons or that part
that we have no power to controls;
but at the same time, man is response
bic for the seasona6le part, for irri-
cation, unaer drainage and culture
go far towards bridging over "bad
seasons" 1t is a very evident fact
that to till the soil is the original
avocation of human industry, for
Adam and Eve were to ssdress the
garden" in their primitive purity,
and after the fall and the earth was
cursed with grass, briers and thistles,
then to be a farmer was still more
imperative duty. But because farm
life has the appearance of drudgity,
soiling the hands and rendering one
more brawny and rough in appear
ance, many are disposed to turn up
their nose at the laboring class, and
whether it is man or woman, they
are at least unworthy to be called
the farmers friend, and no one
knows the force of dissenting
frown, or the asserting smile as well
as the farmer, and a great many
boys and girls have been driven
from life of usefulness and success
to that of penury and misery, be-
cause farm life is degrading, and we
trust the Farmers Movement will
set things to right in the estimation
of the kid glove gentry and that the
world may be forced to know and
feel that the Farmers Movement is
a step in the right direction, and
that farmers can legislate and make
laws as well rs the club house pro-
fessionals, who, by cxtortion, live fat
and full on the hard earnings of tho
laboring class. Many of our officers
salaries arc too high and others are
supcrfluous and introduced during
Radical rule and arc maintained by
Democracy, and, l believe, there are
many hard working men that would
be willing to fill an office for tho
ovcrplus, giving a clear saving of
the official expenditures as now run,
and thereby help to reduce the taxes.
The writer has tax receipts that were
given by j. A. Doyle and ]. w. T..
Cary to my father in ante beliHn, days
for fifty cents. With the addition
of seventy acres of real estate and
n thousand or two dollars of per-
sonal effects, the writer pays now
from $50 to $40 tax on the same
property. We arc not we'll enough
posted to ferret out and lay the AK
at the root of the tree of this in
flatcd taxation, but we are in favor
of at least n portion of these trees
to be hewn down to an economical
consistency and before we leave this
subject, we would recommend to our
order, the Alliance, that we support
no man in his candidacy that will
not pledge himself to use every effort
in his power to repeal the homestead
and lien law.
aimed to have related a little
incident in my own experience in
regard to the force of others influ-
ence, which ! will now note. The
writer penned All article for the
CotRIER on oat culture some fifteen
or twenty years ago, calling on the
editor, Col. r. A. Thompson, to have
o typographical error corrected. In
the run of conversation he said he
was glad we had so written; that he
was trying to farm Il little. This
helped us in more ways than one.
We were struggling with many diff
culties and cking out a living with
out facilities or skill, but we consoled
ourselves that il a lawyer, with a
lucrative practice, could afford to
farm, couldl Again, in a few days
VIC called on Mr. j. r. Shelor,
deceased, to, buy some seed oats,
asking him tho adaptation of certain
varieties to certain soils, seasons, SO.
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