The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-11-14
emf nnon the other. and their business

dent upon the other, and their business
and interest in no manner whatever con-
ficts. One farmer never needs the surplus
stock, chickens. eggs, butter,
wood, or even grain and cotton of another
farmer, but tbs the town people, and
hands employed in and around mills, that
are his patrons Therefore the larger
number of customers there be. the greater
the demand for the products OF his l"no,
and the better the prices. On the other
hand, but for these farmers our factories
and merchants would have to close their
doors and the people would starve. Now
do YOU not see the folly in any antasonism
between classes so mutually dependent
upon one another, and whose lines OF ousl-
ness do not, in the slightest degree. come
in conflict? There is neither sense or reason
IN the country people entertaining hostility
toward the town people, or the residents OF
our towns antasonlziuS the denlZens OF the
rural sections. We can understand WHY
a greedy or envious merchant should
fight another merchant in tue same line OF
business that lie is engaged in, or a jealous
farmer falling ont with his relghOorlng
farmer because he sold to soue of his GUS
toners; but it is the height of folly for the
consumer and producer, or the seller and
the buyer to be at the dasger'S point. when
their lines of business, lead IN dlnmetrlcnl-
ly opposite directions.
It is only little handful Of office-holders
who fatten and prosper on politics. lne
great rank and file Of our voters are not IN
the slightest degree interested, except so faf
as to secure the enactment of laws looking
to their relicf and benefit. When Set OF
men once get in Office, they are gong 10
look out for self every time, and forget the
PROMISES they made the people when beg
ging their suffrage Take our own reform
party for example The rIllylng cry IN
1890 was that salaries were too hl2n, ana
should be reduced. Well, the Suileless
and confudng farmer desrosed the old
political o!igarchy, and elevated TO power
these reformers. Aud yet what DO We
find? Why, our reformers have nov been
in Office tor four long years, and to day are
drawing identically the same salaries as
were fixed when the farmer sold bale OF
cotton for 500, instead of S25, as he must
now do. And these officers are ethclen'
and honest men, too; but when fellow
must take q few hundred dollars out OF his
own pocket and restore it TO the taxpayers,
it is 'agin human nature, and too great
tax on ones patriotism. Ito self the
wavering balance shakes-'tis rarely right
adjusted" But when the next campaign
rolls around, the people are again worked
up to fever heat of political excitement,
and some new war-whoop sounded. line
voter, while laboring under political excite.
ment, forgets oil about those past and
violated promises, and feels that as ne Is
responsible for the existence OF the ruhne
dynasty, it is his patriotic dnty to uphold
and sustain it.
Well, so far rs the The Piedmont Head
light is concerned, We shall hereafter LEI
politicians and Office. holders paddle theli
own canoe, except to remind them OF the
pledges they made the people, and demand
their fulflment. We shall devote ou'
entire time and care ITO looking after the
well-being and happiness Of the toillng and
tax.payinc masses for the fellow who Il
drawing big salary is already content, and
can take care of himself
We shall devote the uext two years oi
our work in striving to bring about bet
ter feeling among ali classes of our people
and show them the folly of fraticldal con-
test. We shall do all that lies within ou'
power to build up and develop our section
and State, and direct the attention OF the
farmer into more profitable channels than
politics. Our Southern people are natural
" of an inflammable and excitable tempera
ment, aud it is easy to get them worked up
to white heat on some political issue. We
shall pour the oil of peace and unity upon
these troubled waters, but, at the same
time. carefully guard the well-belng OF oul
agricultural classes, and tell them every
thing that transpires, and point out the
dancers in their path. We have the grea,
money power of the world to fight IN 1895
and need every voter that we can command
We shall insist upon our state administra'
ton redeeming those pledges made the
people in 1890, and that Our public servants
give full value in return for the Eoney they
take from the taxpayers.
Henceforth we will have white primary
in South Carolina for the nomination OF al
state officers. and the people will be oul
supreme rulers. Factional politics must
then perish from the very face of the earth
for henceforth appeals must be made MOI
to class or to faction but to every man
every business, and every profession. we
will then have fuller freer ana lslFei
representation in our state government
And when these Anglo Saxon voters SPEAK
no man will dare appeal from the decision
that they make, for such an appeal would
be to align ones self with the negro
Let me have peace; let our people gel
together and pull together; and let the up,
building of our state be paramount 70 al
else.