The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-05-03

uCnNlSil negroes. Dul w illdhc> uo SuE
gcslion for remedy.
An agitation Of this subject may
hrin- Il remedy if our lawmakers can
sec tie way, and to this end every
man who can dcvise Il plan should
I.n. it forward in the hope that this
blight may be removed from the rIt
suit of agriculture.
For a long while nave ia.i in my
mind a plan to pnrsu" agriculture
from country villages that is, for the
several plantations corncrlne together
to gather their homes at these corner,
and from there work the farms. This
i, a plan i'm which it would be hard To
get the people to work together on.
and it almost. if not entirely. makes
me III favor Of seeing some monopoly
turln. its attention to a land trust.
OF course We all oppose these trusts
in whatever shape they may come. but
| can tell you that agriculture must
be preserved, ami if it takes trusts to
do it. let it come. These trusts have
made a success out OF everything"
from oil to whskcy, from hair to
horns, from OK carts to palace sleep
crs, and unless some Of the blights to
agriculture are removed at once, we
had better pray that they come in and
make success Of farming have
almost dcspaircd Of the country peo
pic doing anything in the cooperative
way, and it will take this to make the
pursuit Of agriculture what it well de-
serves to be.
If YOU will 80 among country people
and ask their reasons for wishing to
get away from country life, one half
of them will tell you that it is because
of schools, the other half will tell you
it is because Of the loneliness and
danger that turks in the homes Of the
countrymen. These country villages
would solve both of these difficulties.
1t is foolish to boast Of your public
school system while children are afraid
to pass along the hedges and highways
to arrive at these schools. And it is
foolish to talk about country life being
what it should when women left at
their homes are in an eternal strain Of
anxiety when left alone. This is not
ovcrdrawn. The homes Of country
people are in lonely places, and there
is scarcely mother but what feels
uneasy when she and her children are
left alone at these homes, and if their
daughters 60 to these isolated school
houses, there is dread while they
are away. In this last great crime
even the presence Of the man was no
protection-they slew MIN like dog
and then debauchcd his helpless
family. A blight is upon us and it
must be stopped. The people in the
rural districts have right to remain
there, and all the negro blood in
America is not worth one days anx-
iety Of peaceful folks.
While ultimately the negroes going
will solve the matter, it is immediate
relief that is needed. Immediate"
that is the word, and plans to that
end are now in order. just give
little Of the attention you are lavish
ing upon the "poor Cubans' and the
heather at Manila to the people at
home here. You need not fret about
these brutes being lynched; they will
be burned and hanged and shot, but
this does not relieve the anxiety or
take the blight from agriculture.
Would police system for rural dis
tricts bring relief? If so, close the
public schools and spend that money
for policemen. In the old days Of
slavery we had system Of "paterroll-
ing the country, and we had no such
crimes as we are having now. A ne
gro lived then in horror of the 'pater-
roller, and he might be made to have
a horror for country police.
1t is all very we'll for men in high |
places to gush over the lynching of
these brutes, for these sort are never
exposed to these crimes. 1t is the
peaceful and humble farmers who live
in dread Of these brutes.
If the money spent in the prosecu-
tion of negroes was put to other uses
it would build good roads. good
bridges and equip the country in every
way needed in short time. 1t is
somewhat illustrated in the expense
Of keeping smallpox from spreading.
The negro seems to have mania for |
spreading such disease. With the
dreaded blisters all over their faces,
they will walk into crowds with per-
feet abandon, and they can no more be
kept from visiting each other where