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

Mr.. Eprron Please allow me space 10
the TINES to give your readers q few lines
from the backwoods. l neither live in town
nor on the public highway, but back in the
woods aud hills, where scarcely ever see
candidate "r'e.s eo ~ ;v"S s,t"e puoi'o
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 il rains soon The crop in this sec
ton 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 ef.mraign meet
ings are being held in the townships, and |
hope will be void OF that bitterpess and
uucalled for abu Q which characterized the
State campaign.
The people are divided and are likely to
remain SO for years TO come. 1t is not
simply Tlllman 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.
I'VE would just here ask our friend why
there should be such a 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 he dollar after ali God
knows We are as poor as any man who owns
| only q one-horse farm, bat we cant see
how the dollar from onr subscribers rule us
more tnan: the labor of our employees in the
office. We can't do without either, and we
| give as much for the dollar we receive, as
we do for the labor we employ
If there was ever q 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 agitated
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 gct
things right
And such men would be insulted and
howlcd down by large class of our people. ]
What can we gain by the different parties
and factions meeting together upon the
stun? to abuse each other? | say nothing
The laboring people Of this country think
their demands are just and right, and the
other side think different, or act so. The
labcring people do not want anything but
what is right; and this question will never
be settled until it 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 all 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 side 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, OF at least it ba,
been the case for many years. l have often
heard C1l. l. &. McE:ssiok tell how the peo-
pie Of the town Of Union treated him when
the people of tho country elected him clerk
of court. If lie told the truth, and l have
no right 70 doubt il. they did not treat him
as gcnllemanly IS they would q good slave
before the late war, and why was this 30
! leave it Tor any reader to answer. But
what puzzles me most is the Col. is ON that
side Of those who made fuu CT him thirty OF
for,y years ago. | am glad he is not a
candidate for the House, as it would be bad
for him to be beaten in his Cd 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
,udcaied, ana are doing ther own think.
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