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

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6endish negroes, but he makes no sug'
gestion for remedy.
An agitation Of this subject may
bring a remedy if our lawmakers car
see the way, and to this end every
man , who can devise a plan shoulc
bring It forward in the hope that this
{ blight may be removed from the pur
suitof agriculture.
or a long while I have had in my
! mind plan to pursue agriculture
from country villages; that is, for The
several plantations cornering together
to Dto gather their homes at these corners n. :
and from there work the farms. This
iis 4 plan in which it would be hard tc
get. the people to work together on
and It almost, if nos entirely, makes
me il favor Of seeing some monopoly
turning its attention to land trust
8 of. course NE all oppose these trusts
/ IN whatever shape they may come, but
81 can tell you that agriculture must
be 5 preserved, and if it takes trusts to
Sd sdo 81 let il come. These trusts have
made q success out Of everything
from oil to whiskey, from hair to
horns, from OK carts to palace sleep
ss, ssers and unless some Of the blights to
agriculture are removed at once, we
had better pray that they come in and
make q success Of farming. ! have
almost despaired Of the country peo-
pie doing any thing in the cooperative
way ,sand it will take this to make the
pursuit Of agriculture what it we'll de-
serves to be.
you will Igo among country people
and ask their reasons for wishing to
get g, away: from country life, one half
offsthem will tell you that it is because
! soff schools, the other half will tell you
st is because of the loneliness and
danger that turks in the homes Of the
Scountrymen. oIuI These country villages
p,1ould sosye both Of these difficulties.
! sIt Isl foolish to boast Of your public
school system while children are afraid
I to pass along the hedges and highways
2to arrive at these schools. And it's
foolish totalk about country life being
swhat,it should when women left at
their homes are in an eternal strain OF
anxiety whea left alone. This is not
overdarawn. The homes Of country
people are in lonely places, and there
I is scarcely mother but what feels
uneasy when she and her children are
saeft alone at these homes, andsif their
daughters 60 to these isolated school
houses, there is a dread while they
are away. In this last great crime
even the presence Of the man was no
protection-they slew him like . dog
and then debauched his helpless
family. a blight is upon us and it
must be stopped. The people in the
rural districts haveta right to remain
there, and all the negro blood in
America is not worth one day $ anx-
ziety Of peaceful folks.
While ultimately the negroes going
will. solve the matter, tits immediate
relief that is needed. Immediate, :"
that is the word, and plans to chat
end are now in order. Just give q
little of the attention you are lavish
ing upon the 'spoor 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 q 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 me-
gro lived then in horror Of the sspater-
roller, : and he might be made to have
horror for country police.
It is all very well for men in high
places to gush over the lynching Of
these brutes, FOR these sort are never
exposed to these crimes. It 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