The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-10-23
"Slab's" Nominations.
Editor The Manning Times:


but it's busy time with US farmers.
We farmers is as busy as a bee in a
bucket of tar trying to get together
what little crop we have made, and
I'm telling you sir, its a short horse
this year shor's you born. 1t looks like
it oughten't to be much trouble to
gether little short crop, but [ believe
it's more trouble to gether a little
crop than big one. 1t looks like ''B"
is the only one of your correspondents
that remains faithful. Go it ''B'', we
glory in your spunk, love to hear from
you. It is so nice to read the sayings
and doings of the people in different
parts of the county. We could all be
a heap of help and satisfaction tc one
another, if we could hear from one
another every week or so, and hear
what's a going on all around. One big
trouble with US one gallus farmers, IS
that we amt interested enough IN what
our brother farmers and the rest OF the
country is doing. 1t reminds me OF
an old mule He just tucks his head
down and VOWS I'm a going to pull
this here load or bust the hame-string'.
When you strike feller like that, he
is most sure to be one-sided and selfish.
He JUS; gets into the old ruts that his
dadv before him was in, and thinks
that's good enough. The stars forbid
that l or any body else should ever
disparage the ways and the days OF our
fathers. When can we, especially the
older ones, ever forget the days when
our fathers was at the helm: when we
had somebody to look up to and depend
on. All. those happy days can never
return, but this IS fast age. There's
fast doings all around, every where.
The trains run faster. In fact there
didn't use to be any train. We can
make a trip now in one hour that use
to take all day. But it amt no use to
90 to enumeration the fast doins. Every
thing is fast. About the only thing
that amt got any faster is Tightening.
And I don't believe any of the smart
elk will ever improve on that. People
are faster and quicker because they
live faster. What l was hitting at is
that it's fast age and the fellow that
STAYS in the old ruts entirely, will
shorely get left in the race that we are
all running. And Mr.. Editor, I've
been thinkin on another subject that
I reckon some people will think Is
mighty fast. But as said before if a
fellow these times don't eat fast, work
fast, and think fast he won't get his
share. This subject that I'm thinkin
on is one that some body has already
done lot of powerful fast thinking on.
They've been a thinkin heap too fast
for US farmers. What I'm talking
bout is the tax they make US pay for
the priveledge of planting and making
tobacco. l don't believe they make US
pay for planting it, but they just as
we'll do that as to tax US for selling it,
cause if we didn't make it we would
hardly sell it. Now one and all, we
don't want to be unreasonable, for
''there's reason in all things" But
we do claim that the warehouse men
charge an unreasonable price for
handling our tobacco, aud it seems like
there amt any law to help US along
that line. 1t does seem like among so
many big law makers as we have got.
there ought to be a few among the
number that had backbone enough to
look capital in the face and say 1--WE
propose to pass law for the benefit OF
the tobacco farmers Of South Carolina"
Mr. Editor, l believe you have got pluck
enough to do it. Try it, for the sake
of your one gallus cousins. There was
something said about it once, but for
some cause, presumably, unknown to
the farmer, it was showed under. we
believe that one Of the very happiest
hits that the town of Manning could
make not for the farmers alone, but for
the business interest of the whole
town would be to rent one of the ware
houses there next season, and buy to-
bacco, free of all charges. That may
sound visionary. one-sided or anything
else if you please, but l tell you Mr..
Editor, if such a move was made, the
immence amount of tobacco sold there,
and the tremendous volume of trade
thrown to the merchants would be
surprising to the natives. But we
won't ask that much. But we do lay
this propersition fairly and squarly and
honestly before the merchants of Man
ming. Next season, rent one OF the
warehouses there, hire a competant
manager and other necessary hands to
manage the business properly and
make your warehouse charges just
enough to pay actual and necessary eX-
penses and just as sure as you are
living critter, when it becomes nolsed
abroad that Manning has big lot OF