The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-02
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titled to protection and redress, equal 10
the small % FISHERMAN. Interested Sa-
F MAMMALIAN" says. "The next session Of the
4 legislature viii be asked TO remedy the
. evil so long existing" etc. He would seek,
I through legislative enactment, 10 deprive
I Of its lawful privileges, a new and strug-
Cling Industry, giving employment to five
E times as many people as are engaged in
the small raw business and yet in no wise
interfering with them ia the legitimate
pursuit Of their calling. II the small oys-
terman has grievances, let meas a fellow
worker wage worker. in the industry
advise him 10 seek the source Of his wrongs
+ elsewhere.
Let us see to what extent the small
oystermans business has suffered. Dur
ing the past TWO seasons transportation
records show more raw oysters have been
shipped from Savannah than any two
previous seasons since God has allowed
them 20 exist in these waters for the
benefit Of man and interested Savan-
nathan And the raw business has grown
so that the few small anti-monopolistic
raw dealers have been supplemented by
Few small dealers from Baltimore. The
average real small oysterman, with many
other vagaries, is migratory, and if he
fails 10 put In his expected appearance
has been gobbled into the insatiate NAV
Of the awful Oemler oyster octopus.
AS matter Of fact. I would state there
are from forty 10 fifty small boats haul
ing oysters to the Oemler cannery, three
fOurths Of which have been hauling to
the raw men.
These men bring the bunch or wild oy-
ster from the natural beds and find II
profitable. There are also oystermen who
have their cultivated beds, and are paid
50 cents per bushel for their stock.
offer matters of fact, not fancy.
l am In position to know whereof I
speak. As may have been conjectured
am an employee of the Oemler cannery.
am not the Baron" but an humble ser
vitor. And just here let it be under
stood that in the matter of this letter l
am literally "toting my own skillet"
lie who makes a thrust at my honest
means Of livelihood makes grab for my
bread, and the bread of more than 400
others many Of whose names appear upon
the weekly pay roll which figures, in the
aggregate, L have before mel have Sc
lected mean average-S945. Sixty-five
per cent Of this goes almost directly to
savannah, while the remaining, say one
third, stands indirectly, in a contributive
way, TO Savannahs interest
Close this mill tomorrow. How many
of these half a thousand people will lin
terested Savannahians' employ?
II is not my province here to question
the gentleman's sincerity, nor dispute his
right 70 express has mature convictions.
Neither do / but exercise my own pre-
rogauve when l say his utterances have
the smack of sefshness. AS to the re-
peal of ia. oyster law as It now stands.
there need be no fear. / would not inn
pute to the gentlemen, who Will represent
Chatham county In the next session Of the
legislature, the folly Of an act so biased
ana prejudicial to the interests of the
people.
The people conhde in the wisdom and
integrity Of their representatives..
As well legislate 10 destroy the farm
ers' fences, bid pllferers enter and despou
him of his crop; reaping where they have
not sown. No, the south is not yet ripe
for Henry-Georgistic dogma.
our country, Mr. Editor, is afflicted
with a class of malcontents on whose
part there is a disposition to oppose any
magnanimous effort tending to the gen.
eral commonweal.
1t is from the ranks Of these that are
drawn the numbers which go to swell
the cohorts of agitators, engaged in dis
seminatlng fallacious doctrines; arraying
labor and capital in the lines Of unceasing
antagonism.
But the intelligent working man Is be-
coming more to reason for himself, and
win not so readily accept as facts the
supppositous theories of visionary
prophets.
As a rule. those who clamor most for
the righting of wrongs have no wrongs TO
right. Let the poor working man alone.
He will work out his own destiny At least
you do not help his cause by using him as
a cats-paw to rake out your chestnuts.
Let him do his own howlng-and. God
knows he howls enough, goaded by an in
cessant sick en- Tige; yer aint't or 'frald
no EN-"
Finally. I would suggest this query.
Did It ever occur TO Interested Savan-
nathan" that there was anything mon
opolistic' in the oyster business in Savan-
nah previous to the advent of these new
hedged awful "barons, creatures OF
phantasmaic nightmare, or disordered
liver?
In conclusion allow me to add-with an
apology for incroaching upon your time
this letter is written at no ones sugges-
ton or dictation. 1 am grinding my own
AMY bread knife, as it were. 1 do
not desire to hold amy ones nose to the
grind stone, nor am 1 being paid to mani
pulate the Crank.