The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-26
For the TINES.
Thoughts Of Baokwoods Farmer. 3,


Mr. EDIroR Please allsw me space IN
the TIMES to give your readers o few lines
from the bsckwoods. neither live In town
nor on the public highway, but back IN the
woods and hills, where scarcely ever see
candidate unless 60 to town or some public
gathering.
Our crops are only tolerably good Early
corn is good, but late planting is not much,
and is suffering for rain just now.
Cotton also is needing rain very badly,
and unless it rains soon The crop in this Sec
tion will be short, so there is not much to
encourage the farmers at the present time.
Politics are getting very hot, and are
likely to get hotter. Our campaign meet
ings are being held in the townships, and
hope will be void OF that bitterness and
uncalled for abu which characterized the
State campaign.
The people are divided and are likely to
remain so for years TO come. II is not
simply Tillman and Sheppard, but labor on
one side and money on the other, and the
question is, whether the people or the dollar
shall rule this great country of ours.
We would just here ask our friend why
there should be such division between
labor and money! Does not the owner Of
labor work with his hands to get the dollar;
and does not the owner of the dollar work
with his brains to employ labor? And
don't both work for the dollar after all ? God
knows VIC are as poor as any man who owns
only q one-horse farm, but we can't see
how tho dollar from onr subscribers rule us
more tnansthe labor of our employees in the
office. We can't do without either, and we
give as much for the dollar we receive, a,
we do for the labor we employ
If there was ever time in the history OF
our country whom true devoted statesmen
and patriots were needed it is now, we want
our best men 10 come to the front and dis
cuss the great issues which is being agtated
all over this broad land of ours. There is
something wrong, aud we need the best
brain to find out what that wrong is, and
influence all the people TO unite and GET
things right,
And such men would be insulled and
howlcd down by large class of our people. ]
What can we gain by the different parties
and factions meeting together upon the
stump to abuse each other? say nothing.
The laboring people Of this country think
their demands arc just and right, and the
other side think different, or act so. The
what is right; and this question will never
be settled until il is settled right, and
think we are just on the eve of one of the
greatest revolutions ever any country was
engaged in, and it behooves every patriot to
do oil he can to have it settled peaceably, by
ballots and not by bullets.
am sorry to see the people so divided
the towns generally on one sido and most
of the people in the country on the other
This ought not so to be ; but it seems that it
has always been the case, or at least it has
been the csse-for many years. 1 have often
heard Col. l. G. McK:ssiok tell how the pso-
pie OF the town Of Union treated him when
the people of the country elected him clerk
of court. If he told the truth, aud I have
no right to doubt it, they did not treat him
as gen,lemanly as they would q good slave
before The late war, and why was this 80
leave it for any reader to answer. But
what puzzles me most is the Col. is ON that
side of those who made fuu of him thirty OF
for.y years ago. l am glad he is not a
candidate for the House, as it would be bad
for him to be beaten in his o'd age, as he
surely would have boen, for the people will
vote Ior measures before men. Aud why is
this =? Simply because the people are being
tducated, and are. doing their own think
- u wnena R.purp