The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-08-12
LET US BUILD UP MANNING.

In conversation few days ago with
Charleston capitalist, We felt much
complimented when we were told by
him that he had been reading the
NAMING TINES, and our constant ef-
forts to arouse the citizens to build
up and improve their property was
commendable in us, and the people
should appreciate our motives in their
behalf, by going to work to build up
the town.
This gentleman visits Manning oc-
casionally, and is so well pleased with
the town that he contemplates buying
property here, and perhaps move his
family here, and being one that has
been successful in business, he appre-
ciates our efforts to push the town
forward.
It is a fact beyond dispute that no
town can grow or prosper as long as
the owners Of property hold their
property as 'snot for sale" nor does it
require Solomon to know that it is
impossible for a town TO progress if
the citizens will not build, or start
some kind of industry by which in
d6cements can be held out to people
from abroad.
We cannot afford to depend on the
cotton alone, that is made by the sur
rounding country; we have been de-
pending on that one product long
enough, and find that we cannot keep
up with the procession of progress:
we must, therefore, seek something to
go along with the cotton; we must
push ahead, and put in operation
something that will be sure and per-
manens help. The canning factory
industry, which was suggested few
weeks ago, and received such a fair
support, should not be allowed to fall
through; it must be pressed forward,
and everybody that owns patch of
ground should be induced to take
stock, as it makes an opening for rev.
enue for people that are now depend
ing on getting few dollars in cash
in the fall season, and the balance Of
the year are in a measure penniless
and bowed down with the weight Of
debt, but with a canning factory here
in our midst, these people can raise
vegetables at different seasons Of the
year, sell them to the factory for the
cash, and thus enable themselves to
lift the weight OF debt from their over
burdened shoulders, and steer clear
from the shoals of ruin.
With the cash received from the
factory they will buy their farm sup
plies, and will be able to save
the large per centage they now are
forced to pay because they haven't
the money. Who buys on credit,
encourages system which makes a
good man pay the bad mans debts as
well as his own.
Manning wants more than can
ming factory, bat as we cannot get
everything at once, we must content
ourselves by getting one thing at a
time, and pushing whats in sight"
and if we Will go TO work with full
determination to improve the town,
we will have the canning factory, and
as soon as it is put il successful op-
Grafton, then wagon factory which
is now being seriously thought of by
some parties who bave discovered
that Manning is surrounded with ma
terial which can be procured at a
small cost, and offers every facility
for such an institution. These gen,
tlemen are convinced that better wag-
ons can be built right here, for less
money, than are manufactured at the
North and West, where our people
are sending for them, and who would
prefer purchasing at home, if the op-
portunity were offered.
With such industries the county,
as well as the town, would be benefit
ted, and there is no sensible reason
why Manning should not have these
industries; other towns have them,