The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-03-14
THE FARMER FEEDE?H ALL.
What GOV. Northern Thinks of the Futu.,
ofthe Farm.

ne fSfMEH FEECE! r. ALL.
What Gov. Northern Thinks of the Futu,
ofthe Farm.
The following article, from the pc
of Governor Northern, Of Georgia, cor
tains a great deal Of hard sense:
Every man, woman and child il
America are dependent, absolutely de
pendent, upon the success of the farm
from it We receive our bread, meat
fruit, maintenance and clothing. From
the standpoint Of self support, there
fore, as well as the standpoint of bus
mess interest and general development
it behooYes every citizen to see tina
farmlngls remuneEatiVe, and to alt
with all proper effort to this end. What
ever tends to build up the rural inter
ests, to make farming attractive anG
profitable, is public necessary, anC
therefore an unavoidable, individual
and general duty. AS every artisan
tradesman, professional man, mechanic
business man, and indeed every ciaes
and individual citizen mus receive
their living from the soil, the whole
universe of people should be concerned
about the future of the farm.
1t is true that the farmers at the
South are leaving the farms and NOV
ing to the city? If SD, whatever the
cause, or however attractive the In
ducement, it behooYes every man ic
the city to do what he can to turn the
tide and maintain, in content and pros
perlty, the integrity Of the country,
because by the products of the county
the bushes growth of the city must be
measured, and by it food crops the in
habitants of the city must be MAINTAIN
ed and fed.
l repeat, here is question that de-
mands the active interest of al our
people. # it be true that our farmers
are heavily in debt from no fault of
their own, let US bestir ourselves to do
something to release them from such
undue obligations. If it be true that
the farmers are Durdened with mort
cages that label every grain Of corn
with care aud tag every bale Of cotton
with discomfort and despair, let every
man Of US, considering this question as
a grieyabce practice ally his own, sset to
work to remove such conditions as
threaten the general well being Of Tie
entire population of the State. If the
environments in the country are so
very Objectionable, from any cause, as
to produce universal discomfort, no pat
riotlc, good citiz sn will decline to in,
terest himself in any and ill legitimate
effort, tc remedy these conditions as a
public evil, and standing menace to
universal society.
Accepting these statements to be
true, no individual com unity or Gov
ernment can afford to place an undue
burden upon farmer. He is in no
sense the servant of the community or
the State, but he is the man to whom
al! others should do obeisanee, and to
whose honorable calling, both in its
pursuit and its results al
men, everywhere. should pay the
very highest respect. In the very best
sense, the farmer is the master of the
situation. and the people must come to
know him as In more senses than one,
the prominent factor in events.
More than ever before the people
have come to understand this fact.
For years the farmer has been put at
great disadvantage. He has carried
burdens he did not make, toiled
under conditions be did ncti2Tite. a
pitiless people who have lived upoa
the products of his tot1l have now
come to realize that the farmer will 10
longer be "the heWer of wood and the
drawer of water for other men" and
that he has arisen in his self assertion
to demand equality of rights as among
all the people Of the nation.
The promise now is that his demands
will be respected; the OBSTACLES to his
success will be removed; the Govern
ment taxes upon his purchases will be
reduced; markets will be opened up for
his products that will insure remuner-
ative returns for his labor. When
these wrongs by the Government are
righted, the ex penses will be reduced
and incomes necessarily enlarged. More
intelligence will be put into our agr1-
culture, as more profit will come from
it's products. The country will grow
by the increase of its population and
the consequent doubling up Of its
wealth. The growth Of our cities will
be assured, as it will rest upon the
solid strength of our fields. To this
end every patriot should lnteress him.
self in the future of the farm.
To those who have not met II per-
sonai contact the hindrances on the
farm, it has been a matter Of wonder
that farmers cannot be induced to
change their methods and grow food
crops instead Of money products.
When it is UNDERSTOOD that farmers
must live like other people, not upon
bread alone" and also remembered
that the misfortunes of war put them
one year behind in accounts, it is then
to be seen that the taxes by Gcyen-
ment and the per cents, for credit have
made it dire necessity to grow money
crops to meet the exorbitaht demands
made npon the farmers to live.
For past few years, while deserving
the flesh, farmers have lived upon the
bone," and in these dire straits they
have 80 reduced expenses as that II the
burdens of taxes are removed from
them, they will be, for the hr5t time
since the war, in normal condition,
and general prosperity will be as5ur-
ed. All we need now is the restora-
ton to original conditions by the Coy
ernment, then to be left alone to work
out our own destiny in the gladness OF
the sunshine and the sweetness OF
the showers under devine benedictlons
The future of the farm is full OF hope
From Far on England.
COLUMBIA, S. c.. March 4.-Yester.
day Governor Tillman received the fol.
loving letter IN regard to the dispensary
law from the bishop Of Chester, writing
from the palace of leicester, Chester, Eng
land, under date of February 20th last.
It speaks for itself: