The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-09-05
MR.. MOONS MANIFESTO.
ae Favors Agricultural Colleees-The DIS
pensary. and Some Kind of Dog Law.
NotI Remarkable State Paper.
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pensary, and Some Kind of Dog Law.
NotW Remarkable State Paper
rSpeciaI to the News and Courier.l
NEwBERRY, August 30.-Mr. Frank
Moon, who announced last week thaI
he would be a candidate for Governor
at the November election, even II ne
did not get but one vote, was ID the
city Yesterday. He has been laboring
upon bis address to the people of SoRth
Carolina and the following is what he
has brought forth. It is not as strong
or az lively or as interesting as ex-
pected it would be when he asked me
last week to announce his candidacy,
though had no idea then what he In
tended to say to the voters of South
Carolina, for up to that time l never
had an idea that he contemplated max
ing the race. He says. however, that
he means business and is going to stay
in to the bitter end. Here is his maui
festo:
Mr.. MOONS ADDRESS.
To the Voters of South Carolina: AS
people expect the reason why when
one runs for Governor, I give mine. L
am outdone at the way in which per-.
sons calling themselves Reformers
have Out-Heroded the same Herod
whom have been fighting tooth and
nail for twenty years, trying to refarm
themselves to the highest bidder with
the most specious promises and least
fulilment The one satisfaction result
ing is to see number one kicked out In
to the cold, even though the kicker be-
no better. 1t seems likely to prove a
repetition of the fable of the fox, the
flies and the swallow. The new swarm
will take the last drop. They want the
earth.
I enter my protest in the form OF
putting up my carcass to be shot at
that is "cussed" at I have proved in
tue past my competency to tote more
"cussing" than anybody and still stand
alone. I consulted with no living man
about this move. I believed it the duty
of somebody. I can't mark out line
of action for other people; therefore,
I'm III myself. T am but little known,
but it is better thus than to be known
a scoundrel. Most persons in our town
know me, among them plenty Of enc
mics. / am willing to leave the teHing
of the truth to any or all Of them. |
am what is known in Persons 'saciety'
as a .high-kicker.' When they get too
bad, kick them out. am Reformer
in the sense of trying to get all the
good we can, and the supposition is
that under democratic form of gov
ernment everyone will be the same
way. The question then is, what is
best for us ali in the long run. I don't
kick at the measures of Reformers, So
called, so much as at their methods of
self-perpetuation.
AS to the questions Of the day:
Agricultural Colleges-I am in favor
of making these self-supporting, or as
nearly 80 as possible, and if scientific
farming is not a delusion we should
come very near to it. If IL is delu-
sion the sooner the bubble bursts the
better for all bands. I would have it
so that every poor child can by its labor
earn a sufhciency of wholesome, food
and comfortable clothing, and at the.
same time prosecute its studies. In
case of war the State furnishes guns,
rations and clothing. The nation pro-
perly educated I would hope to save
the expense of the gun, so that swords
might be turned to ploughs and spears
into pruning knives. No well educat-
ed man will deny that the ethics fthe
Christian religion would, if carried out,
be the best thing to live by in all the
world.
AS to the liquor question, I think the
dispensary, under government control
of that terrible moral explosive, alco-
hol, the best plan yet discovered. OF
course experience, under management
devoted to the highest good of the peo-
ple, will modify and improve the car
rying out of the law, and it will not be
on the line of money profit to the
State.
I have pei theory concerning dog
law, in which our Reformers have sore
ly disappointed me. Certainly they
will not allow that the subject is above
their comprehension, and if they claim
that it's beneath them I will boldly as
sert that it will take very little 'scrooch-
ingn for them to get dewn-to it.
NV idea Of the financial question
which is to-day agitating the country
is that inasmuch as the money of the
State, yours and mine, has been loaned
to the privileged class, virtually with
out interest for about thirty years, by
means of which they have been able
to put their feet upon the necSs of the
producing classes, they depositing
Government bonds as security; that
turn about being fair play, we, the
producers, by pledging land, and land
being certainly the most stable of all
commodities, should be entitled to at
least equal privileges from the Govern
ment, especially as the tiiler Of the soil
occupies the most important part in
the social system of any business what
ever.
And now I come to something far
more important than anything else,
because the. sum of all things must be
greater than any part of it can be-the
religion enunciated by Jesus. This is a
so-called Christian nation and quite a
large number of voters profess to-day
| to follow the teachings of this great
Exemplar. I am called by many
persons an iufdel, but say to you in
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