The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-06-02
.li1nad Times" AGAIN.


4 member of the I. T. U. has taken it
rnon himself to answer Good Times" He
has occupied over column Of your valu-
able paper in contradictions but has not
offered a single idea in explanation. 1t
would take too mach space to review the
weakness of his rebuttalS; therefore, l will
only notice a few of his reasons and excuS-
him for the lack of practical knowledge, as
be saws he cannot 60 back as far as l can,
but has kept up by reading of the passing
events. He has the advantage Of me IN
that respect. as have no doubt he has
gone through college and has his diploma,
while had ONLY few months IN Web
ster's old blue-back spelling book and only
cot half way through that. He pitches in-
% the capitalist. In Gods name, what
would the country do without thelae tell
vou every body would Lave to so to work
as thev did in those good old times. l on
" intended to deal with our own sectlon,
but he refers to the North and East and
tells of the suffering of the laborers and the
oppression by the manufacturer. / know
something about them. am mysei
born South Carolinian. Sixty years ago
sent summer and have been often ID the
most Eastern States. On my first visit,
when there were few factories, you could
hire nice young lady Of good family to 90
the housework Tor large family, cooking,
washing and ironing, for one dollar Week
and her father could probably have bought
her employer. -Four times / have oeen
there since, when the same young laoles
were making from S6 to Sl2 dollars week
in factory. In those days they had no
I. T. T., nor anything OF the KIND. Inc
labor societies are the cause OF all the trou-
ble. Our Constitution says all men are
born equal. There was never a greater
falSehood put On paper ID point OF intel!l-
gence. God has given some more tnan
others, so as to provide means tor the IN
fortunate And those labor organizations,
led by politicians, are destroying the coun.
try. I saw in the News and Courier
where the flint glass workers OF PlttsoarS
Pa, had been on strike for tour years al
cost to them Of one million dollars ana
four years labor Who's to blame but
themselves and the leaders, who rob them
of their hard earnings? They induce them
TO chuck in their fifty cents or one dollar a
| week till they get a large fund, they them
selves living on it, and they then order q
strike. If they would put their h!ty cents
or dollar week IL home and Keep out OF
| those societies, they would soon become
| independent There is lot week but
what we read Of conventions OF some sort
or another, big excursions, centennlaIs ana
hundred Of other hUmbngs, OF which there
were none in those good old tunes.
times are not better, in Gods name. where
| do they get the money? Il. l. Y. says,
in those good old times everybody owned
their own land and all they made was their
own but now they we're ali moEtgaged up,
and they can't pay them. Why did they
mortgage them? have never heard OF any
law that required them to do 1t. Ihey cid
it to keep from work and make
show and attend their societies aud poilt-
cal meetings aud hollow for some tavoilte
politician, who, after election doesn know
them But they will never learn any bet
ter It's what can get, not what can
pay for the land. Law, phosphate, lie
insurance, lightning rod and sewing ma
chine agents and patent medicines Which
are killing more people than ali the plaques
the country is heir to; which are taxing all
the money from the South and throwing II
into one center aud now We are oeSSln ns
the capitalist to come among Us. We
should have kept it when we had It. tie
asks what young lady would leave a con-
Portable home and go into one-room Gao
in. the wives Of some of our wealthlust men
did it. He says they can get land by tax
lug it mp. True in some places, but not III
South Carolina, but there is now III Claren-
don thousands OF acres of Cnlmproved land
that can be bought for one dollar per acre
on anv time man wants at I per cent
interest. Any man could buy ten acres to
start on, but he would have TO work and
would have no time for big meetings and
excursions.
II. T. e." says he supposes Good
Times" is one of tie fortunate ones and has
a competency to live on. l regret to say
he was never more mistaken, he has no
one to blame but himself. Though left an
orphan when a, with mother and little
sister and not dollar, he now. at four
score years, is proud to know that they
took care Of themselves always havlng al!
the neceSsaries Of life and fought the battle
through and it is his own fault that he has
not half million. l never found any
difficulty in making money. The great art
is in saving it. / have one consolation, l
have had about as good times as one could
ask for. l have lived on & dirt floor. beat
nv meal in mortar, walked on BRUSSELS
carpet, rode in as dne a coach OF my own as
ANYBODY aud haze never grumbled at the
times, for they are of our own making.
Therefore we should not find fault with
them.
| Now, in conclusion. let me say to Il: T.
T." Give up your notions OF some high
ideas you may have about some high poll
teal Offices, and 60 to work and make
good honest living. By the way, -. I. I.
com plains tuat the clerks don't get enough
to live on. They got about all there IS IN
lit for ninety-seven out of every hundred.
Merchants get broke and l have never
heard of a single clerk failing. So II Is
better to be clerk than merchant.
I will again say to my frieud to quit
reading those sensational papers and Sivs
up those big rotlons aud 50 at something
he can master, as fear he IS like myself,
not born for any big or high seat.
COOP TINES.
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NO ,ror doth sofsNv rIl 10 hut he that hath