The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-03
~LAURErs, IS. G., Dec. ., 1895.

value OF the instrument prepared as the
chart OF our future liberties and civil
ization. The paper in It's completed
form must,be before us before It can be
coldly and critically judged. This is
however very clear; it was done in too
much haste; and there must necessarily
be great %crudeness. The courts will tie
ten years In defining its limitations,
and Inconsistencies and one Of the trou-
bles lies In the fact that by Tillman's
admission and incontrovertable evil
aliunde the court of construction
and last resort is extremely weak-far
weaker than the composition OF the
convention. No Supreme Court was
aver composed of such docile and fee
BILE material; lighter than the air we
breathe; more plastic and elastic than
SShe willow branch Of a days growth
We have this to say, however: the re-
formers in tho convention showed good
intentions whore they could and where
the lash was not numerically slashed
over their backs. Some of them be-
hayed like real, true men, anxious for
the welfare OF the State. The conserva-
lives as q rule were able and independ-
emit, having no hope OF popular reward.
Very few were conservatives, however,
many members 80 elected being pure
%ngoliticians, time servers, and looking
nN1ture. They should not be
- conservatives. Barker,
kkhans, Frazer, Sheppard,
U5||,Z 4|*PpX<|. Tohrofo~o ,.1l~
yseisshenas lakors; so
> the two Tillmans. That men of
Ehe cleVeEness OF Stanyarne Wilson,
pseliinger, Bob Aldritch, and w. d.
Eva should be set down as demago-
CUES we would not suggest, but the YER
dict Will be passed and it will be ire
vocable; we do not hint what it will be.
Patton, of Columbia, will, we trust, be
rewarded n recognized for his ability
ana honesty. He has the instinct of a
orue Carolinian-the instinct of liberty.
AS whole, the paper which they have
made 10 a code and not q constitution
proper. There is too much in it--too
/, maon legislation. It's provisions will
constantly check us, when we should
go Forward and when we should be
checked 1T will propel us. Posterity
however, may survive its restraints ant
rise above its limitations. Our tradi
lions, history, the story of the lives O.
Our good and great men may inspire the
coming generations far above thi,
crude piece of demagogic patchwork
and all be we'll for South Carolina. Blu,
let 1t be understood fairly and souarel,
that the future Carolinian must rise
far above the ideal citizen contempla
ted In the scope Of the paper moulded
oy the narrow-minded and dwarfet
specimens Of humanity--who made TO,
us the abortion of a fundamental Law
o to be called our constitution. Ano
all his we a in charity, az we can
not drop to the level of this work and
Language outside Of the Ingalls, school,
is inadequate. Time will tell; but let us
Z live In hope.
a former I.ancastrian writes an in
teresting letter to the Lancaster Re-
view In this State, which we wish we
had space to publish as a warning to
In this section of the cotton
belt. Among other things he a Y
that he would not be surprised II Texas
produces three or four million bales of
cotton in 1895, advising his old friends
and ~neighbors in this State to be sure
OF their hog and hominy. There is
enough corn in that State made this
year to last two years. Every incoming
srain from the East is loaded with emil
grants from the old States; the prairie
lands are fast converted into cotton
fields, and pastures are being pushed
to,.the West. These rich virgin
ttr1e lands require no expenditure
4 )fertiiizers for cotton and the time
q ut hand when competition with their
products wfllhe ruinous to the hill cot
ton farmers of the old States. 1t be-
= o then to be wise in time, and
careful to scatter broad cast small
grains and grasses, as very surely our
prosperity and independence lies in
the direction of producing sufficient
breadstuff, pork, poultry, and beef cat
Tie TO sustain our population. From
now until the middle of FEBRUARY is the
sowing season, and a word to the wise
\ fs sufficient. The writer whose text we
mment on states that farm ers at the
50 blowing of corn, SOW cotton seed
snet enough cotton with
pay the rent.
Richmond dispatch reads that the
|or,ocratic friends of the Rev. John Jas.
Fan. colored Of that city, urge that he
M made Chaplain of the House OF Re-
oresentatives In Congress, which con-
ganed on yesterday. Jasper is heter-
,dox as TO the planetary system, hold
no TO the theory that the 'sun do
hove according to his W vivid ver-
81 naoular. AS the house, however, is
overwhelmingly republican, the sug-
nSastion lie a snare and a delusion. 1t
soeAs without saying, nevertheless that
the planetary theory of the veteran
@entlerAan will compare %fayorably with
sSa financial and governmental theo-
"u,ss OF tho socallea democrats who
oan,nosed the last Congress and who
zad an xyall In turning the conn.