Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-02-22
No BARK ON LEMIIt|00NHS.
COOK KNOCKED IT ALL OFF IN HIS FIRST
LETTER TOO BUSY TO WRITE AND
THE CONTROVERSY CLOSES HERE
The Dogs Beat Lemons to tho PersImmon
Tree and Deyoured His Breakfast

words in roply to Mr.. Morgan. Wo
don't think wo claimed that Mr.. Nor
gan said he could mako sovon balcs OF
cotton to tho acre. We know that he
only claimed that it was possible, and
wo claimed that it was not possible, and
wo still say 80. Mr.. Morgan said that
ho had soon fold of tho Jackson limb
less cotton which mado an average of
throe bales por aero and it was fourteen
feet high. Wo simply asked him if cot
ton that grow fourteen foot high would
mako thrco bales por aero, how high
would it havo to grow to mako soven
bales to the aero, the amount that ho
claimed for it. We romombcr that some
of tho little school uhiidron worked tho
sum for us and their answer was that
htr. Morsan's cotton would have to grow
about thirty feet high to mako sovon
bales por acre. Wo thon suggested a lot
of stop ladders or hook and ladder
company to carry Mr.. Morgan up into
the uppor regions to pick his cotton.
Now, Mr.. Morgan, do you think this
was bulldozing, or was it common scnscF
"Ono boil to tho stalk or ono bale to ten
acrcs!' Wo still think that if tho pco-
pic could not mako but ono balo to ten
acres that it would DO bottcr for thom
than to mako seven bales to ono acre.
Wo would then got about Is cents per
pound, and if VIC made scvcn bales to
tho acre it would be about two cents Il
pound less than the cost of production.
Wo doubi if there is any country well
enough adapted to cotton raising to
make seven bales to tho aero
Now, Mr.. Morgan, wo havo reports
from tho Georgia Experimental Station
that tho notorious Jackson limblcss cot
ton, which you were about to go into
spasms ovor last year, has descended
from first to twenty-third place in . list
of twenty-five varieties, tested last year
at the Georgia Experiment Station.
Now, Mr.. Morgan, do you think we
were bulldozing tho people when we
were advising them not to buy tho seed
Of this twentythird grade cotton at from
two to tive dollars per bushcl? We told
tho people that it was n fraud whilo you
were trying to mako them believe il
would make seven bales to tho acre.
We were trying to keep the farmers from
boing swindled by this fraud, while you
wore trying to mislcad them. Do you
call this bulldozing and divcrting tho
minds Of tho people, or was it common
sense?
Mr.Morgan says:"rhc employers should
1,p 1o1 nf
preference over the negro" Mr.. Morgan
should not have said that. | am afraid
he won't get any more congratulations
from the Afro Americans.
Speaking of those poor boys rs tramps
and vagabonds. This is a misroproscn-
taton. We said in our letter week
ago that there was n class Of poor men
in our country who had no property at
all who arc as fine, honest, Christian
gentlemen as VIC have in tho State, and
when we speak Of vagabonds and trampS
we don't touch this class Of people at all.
Now, if Mr.. Morgan is a gentleman {and
we have no right to say that he is no) he
should get up into this class, where he
rightly belongs, and not be hanging
away down there among the vagabonds.
lIc is not adapted to that place any more
than tho jackson limbless cotton is to
our county. Come up, Mr.. Morgan,
where you belong, and the chips from
our broad-axe won't fall on you. a gen.
tlcman is very much out of place among
lot of vagabonds, trying to defend
them. Itd0cs not matter whether class
of people arc rich or poor if they arc
truthful and honest; one is Just rs good
as the other. We know this by expert
cncc. AS we were raised in n pole cabin,
therefore we think Il poor, honest man is
as good as anybody.
Mr.. Morgan says he thinks "a pentc-
costal feast might be best for me in my
old days. | expect the right kind OF
ono would bc good for both of us. But
if he thinks we are an intidcl he is badly
mistaken. We arc not even an unbc-
lever. We know that true and undctilcd
religion is essential to the salvation of
the world, but we think an honest man
out Of the church is better than hyDo-
crite in the church.
Mr.. Morgan objects to the language VIC
used to gentlemen. We did not use any
rough language to gentlemen. 1t was
tho vagahonds and tramps We were talk
ing about.
Mr.. Morgan says: "In a controversy
with DIR. Johns We were advocating .hc
Same principles that wC arc now fight
ing TAi9 IS another one Of your blum
ucrs, Mr. Morgan. No one thinks that
but You. If VIC remember well at that
time we woro after Il few old tax dodgers
who wcrO not returning their property
at its true valuation, and by that means
were not paying their pro rata share of
tho taxes OF course any sensible man
would know that this would cause the
good honest people who had returned
their property right to pay too much
taxes. We were trying 10 get every man
to pay his pro rata share, so rs taxes
would be lower. Hence y0u see, Mr..
Nj organ, that VIC were fighting high taxes
then Just as we are now. YOu need not
think We have fallen from grace. We
have never had it.
MIR. Morgan says: "rherc is principle
that seems to exist in the minds Of some
people that man who does not 0Yn
property has not the same right to vote
on any issue that might come up" Now,
Mr.. Morgan, we happened to be on re,
cord IN this matter A few years ago
when the Tilman party was advocating
constitutional convention at cost to
our state from 100000 to 500, 600, lust
simply to disfranchisc a few negroes and
poor white people, wo did not only use
all the power and influence that we had
and vote against it, but wo wrote several
columns in THE COURIER against il.
Now, Mr.. Morgan, you can't deceive the
You ask us not to divert tho minds of
the people. Now take IL dose Of your
own medicine, if You please.
Now, MIR. Morgan, we may have talked
Il little too rough to you in our first let
ter, on account that we thought you got
into tho controversy by mcddling, when
we were only replying to Ned Todd.
l'ut we talk plain and write just like we
talk. If we have hurt your feelings we