The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-04-08
News and Courier, Mar. 30.j
WHO ARE OUR BEST PEOPLE?

Points for South Carolina. not Neglect.
ing TO Make a Slap at the SO.Called
AriSt0cratS.
COLUMBIA, Mar. 29.-Reference was
made in the News and Courier to-day
to some replies made by Secretary OF
State Tindal to some Northern visitors
who desired to be informed on certain
South Carolina institutions and ways
and means. The reason why Secre-
tary Tindal committed the questions
and replies to paper will be seen when
the paper has been read. It will be
noticed that Mr.. Tindal had to deal
with the mooted question, "Who are
the people?" It has always been un-
derstood that eve are the people, but
these Northern inquisitors go some
what further and desire to know what
is meant by "our best people.
Mr.. Tindal was asked for this cate
chism to-day and he furnished the fol-
lowing:
"AIr Secretary, is your State doing
anything for immigration ?"
"OMcially, not much. Some years
ago we made an effort to induce i'm
migrants here, but found that the
foreign labor could not compete with
the labor we have"
. care your people then opposed to
immigration?'
"Well, no. We favor getting peo-
pie here with either little or much
capital, but we do not believe the time
has come for importing white foreign
labor, though that time is not, perhaps,
very distant"
eve were impressed in some way,
by the census or otherwise, that your
white population was increasing from
some source. Is that so, and where
does it come hon?"
Gas population presses down upon
Virginia and North Carolina those
people move down here. We are re-
ceiving numbers Of people every year,
especially from North Carolina, who
make prosperous, energetic, and
worthy citizens"
'Do you think your people would
welcome colony Of English, Scotch,
or Germsrs, who could bring little
money with them?''
Certainly. They always have"
"But we are told you would not like
Northern people, though they were OF
the kind you speak of as desirable %
eyes, we would. Who told you
that?'
ga prominent official of North Car
olina told US the other day, as we were
on our way down here, that North
ern man who settles in South Carroll
ma is fool or sneak. He is not want
ed down there, and would not be tol-
Grated"
II am surprised to hear that of one
of our neighbors Perhaps he had
some immigration scheme Of his Own,
as many negroes have moved away
from North Carolina. The truth is
that some Northern adventures came
down here just after the war and took
advantage of our political condition
at the time. They were thoroughly
despised, and so were the natives here
who did the same thing. But North
ern people who come here and go in
to legitimate business are not so treat
ed at all. The general sentiment is
in favor of their coming"
"But would your people associate
with them ?"
Certainly, if they are worthy of it.
Their social position would depend
here upon what it is where they come
from"
'Do you think, Mr.. Secretary, that
if number of tolerably well-to-do
Northern farmers should come here
and buy land they could grow cotton
with their own labor? or must only
negroes be used to do that?'
'Our own white people grow it with
their own labor, and their wives and
children gather it, and I do not see
why your people could not, after they
had learned the business. Raising
cotton is oot like the farming they
are familiar with. Its more like the
cultivation of flowers, and, of course,
they must first learn it.
"How much cotton can be grown
upon an acre of land ?"
Il could not venture to say what
the possibilities of an acre may be-.
Three bales have been claimed, but it
is quite usual for good farmers to
make bale per acre"
"What do you call a bale ?"
Give hundred pounds Of Int, or
from fifteen to sixteen hundred
pounds in the seed"
"What can land be had for that
could be made to yield a bale from
one acre?"
almost any Of our high clay lands
or lands with clay subsoil can be made
to yield bale to the acre, and can be
bought at from SIS to $50 per acre
according to locality"
"About what expense of cultivation
and manure does it require to get a
bale per acre?'
From $1Stto $25. Skilful farmers
who do their own work ought to clear
from 500 to $50 upon each acre Of
cotton when the price is not below
9 l-2 cents per pound"
"What part of the State is best for
cotton ?"
II think the easeern part, above the
lower pine belt or seacoast region,