The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-10-02
Manninp's Market.

| Manning Is now q cotton market we
can feel safe in recommending to our
patrons. We have given this matter
our personal attention, and since agita-
ting the question we have seen evi-
dences of Improvement in the prices
we mean that the differences in price
here and other markets have been con-
siderably lessened. for instance, the
complaint has been that Manning was
from quarter to three quarters of a
cent below other near markets, but
now the average Offence has not reach
| ed over one-sixteenth, well this is GER
tainly very close, because there is a
difference in freight rates, and if our
business men can keep the market with
such little difference, we earnestly
urge our farmers to bring as much
cotton here as possible. The more cot
ton brought to market, the more room
will there be for buyers, and the more
buyers, the more active the cOmpetl-
tion, and the result will be that our
market will become of sufficient impOr-
tance that the railroad authorities will
lessen our freight rates to the ports. If
we had a sufficient quantity OF cotton
here, a compress could be built, and
this would be an inducement for more
buyers, but we should 60 to work to do
the best we can with what material we
have, and when our business men show
US that they are giving the people a
square deal, and that they are giving
as much for cotton as the freight con-
ditions will permit, then it is our duty
to encourage them by bringing the
product here.
The people can rest assured we will
always watch for their interests. We
have given clear proof of this; when
we believe the cotton and tobacco
market was not being operated as it
should be, we said so, and we will do
so again regardless of who is hurt there
by. If our business men want US to
aid them in inducing our farmers to
bring their cotton and tobacco here,
they must show the disposition they
are exhibiting now, then they can
count on our friendship. We want the
people who make the products on our
soil, get the full benefit of their labors,
for God knows, that when they get all
the markets afford, they get little
enough, not enough to keep them from
being ''hewers of wood and drawers of
water" It is hard enough for them
to have to pay tremendous profits on
what they buy to make the crop, and
those to whom they pay it must be
satisfied with that, they have no right
to expect to make profits on the cotton
after it is made, any more than they
would have on cash when it is offered
to pay debt. The farmer goes in
debt in the summer, he pays in the
fall with cotton, that is his cash, and
when our business men take the cotton
as so much cash, there will be no COM
plant from US, but whenever at any
time they get greedy and want a profit,
of from three to five dollars on the bale,
there will be a howl that will tingle
on their ears.
Treat the people whom you depend
on with justice, and they will only
gladly help you, they will feel a gen.
uine pride in building up their county
seat, they are intelligent enough to
know that if our county seat is built up
and is prospering, the same condition
will spread out into the fields and for
ests of the county. The people want
to come here, and if we can give them
a decent Market and the past few days
prove we can. then as matter of
practical business, aside from justice,
let US stretch every nerve towards
giving them what they want.