The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-09-09

coupons { from bonds and stocks
of the corporations they nave
invested in.
Nearly all of the prominent
Alliance leaders started out rep
resentine themselves to be f.
nancial bankrupts, and pleaded
to put them in position where
thew could use their ability to
alleviate the oppressed condition
of the people. Have they done
this? Or have they used their
positions to add more corpora
tons, and make the oppression
more burdensome? We mention
this merely to show. there is
good ground for the people to
be suspicious, when the effort is
made to organize the farmers
they have been 50 often deceived.
With the organization now
being attempted, if the right
start is made, there is no reason
to be deceived; go to work with
an intelligent determination,
without any mysteries or signs,
or dues, simply organize to act
upon business principles, do not
make any unjust demands, only
ask for fair compensation for
that which you have right to
-:sthe laborer is worthy OF
his hire" manage your instltu-
ton with the same intelligence
that bankers and merchants car
ry theirs on successfully-it is
simple, and all that is necessary.
If your local mill insists upon
making you pay an unearned
freight on your meal, send your
order to the other mill, and pay
the freight to the railroad which
has earned the freight; when
your local mill realizes that you
do not intend to submit to the
imposition, it will quickly cut of
that freight which it never was
entitled to, but as long as you
submit to the injustice, it will
continue adding to its Golfers
this ill-gotten gain, that in our
opinion is nothing short of rob-
berry. and when we say 'srob-
berry" we mean that it shall be
construed as all the word can
imply, because, when an insti-
tuition demands Of the local con-
sumer at the mill door, more
than it demands from the con-
sumer abroad sin order to meet
competition" it is nothing short
of robbing those at home, from
whom 1t seeks to secure the raw
material. This system can and
shall be broken up.
We have been watching the
situation closely, and we feel
competent to advise. hence, we
call attention to a significant
fact. When it was realized, the
farmers are no longer Indifferent
to the imposition imposed upon
them, an element appeared upon
the scene, ostensibly to encour-
age organization, but this ele.
ment would relegate the oil mill
trast. and make paramount the
tobacco trust. There is tobacco
trust, and its fangs are driven
deep into the energies of the peo-
pie; it is bat one of several of
the most damnable institutions
ever tolerated in a free country,
and would to God it could be
crushed at once, but every refec-
ting man must know it is impos-
sible to crush the tobacco trust
this year; the crop is on, the peo-
pie cannot use it, they must sell,
aud therefore the tobacco trust,
so far as our farmers are now con-
cerned, should not at this time
waste their efforts to makeltpara-
mount: measures to get relief
from that curse can be taken
later, at present we see no re-
lief to come from that source.
What is needed, is something
which will be effective this
season, and in all earnest
ness we tell you to make the to.
bacco'trust paramount now, will
be a wasted effort, bat you can,if
you will, knock the spots out of the
cotton seed oil trust this very
season. VIII you do it.: Then
hold your cotton seed, urge your
tenants to do the same, encour-
age those you have influence
With to refuse to sell their seed.
and the result will be, the mills
will pay at least 10 cents per
bushel for them. The mill man
agement may sneer at the propo-
SltlOn for While but WILL pay the
price when convinced that the
farmers are in earnest. When
YOU make the cotton seed trust
the paramount issue, you bring
to your aid all farmers and mer-
chants who do business with far
mers-all of our farmers plant
cotton, whereas all do not plant
tobacco, We want all manner Of
trusts resisted, and if the govern
ment was indeed a government
for the people, laws would be en-
acted and enforced to land the
manipulators of trusts in the
penitentiary, because they are
schemerslegalized by law to steal,
and to screen the stock-hold-