The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-09-02

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The suggestion that experiments.
stations under the directions Of Glenn
son College be established in each
county, made by Mr.. ". Med. Green
of Lee county in a letter to the News
and Courier, has much to recommend
it, and i the plan could be put into
practical and successful operation the
farmers Of the State would derive great
beneft from it. Clemson College
would not be crippled by diverting q
portion Of It's very large income to
the support Of the proposed experiment
tai farms, and the public would be
baneftsad. We have doubts OF the
success OF the plan, however. Some
wears AGO several such stations were
established under the direction of the
agricultural department. Of the South
Carolina College. but we're abandoned
within a few years, without having
ACCOMPLISHED the purpose for which
they were established. It may be that
was the management that was at
fault, and that the plan suggested BY
Mr. Green would prove success. At
any rate it is worth trial
There viii be no more races fors the
America s cup for some years to come,
for Is is very expensive as well as
4 hopeless undertaking to send chal-
longer across the ocean. Sir Thomas
Lspton, who can well afford the ex-
pense, has made q plucky contest, and
Ii IS natural to conclude that if he
could rot win, no one can.
These good road meetings are doubt
less excellent affairs and may be pro-
ductive Of good results in the way OF
better road building. but If We read
the signs Alright they will also develop
not few candidates for Office. Unless
all signs fail, She good roads movement
going Tho way bIazed out By the
farmer movement. Any sort OF move
ment answers the purpose OF ambi-
sious and adroit Office seekers, if it
viii serve to gain for them the ear
and confidence of the voters. Watch
the good roads movement. We believe.
the Developments IN next summers
campaign viii be interesting.
The effort now being made in the
courts Of New Jersey to hold the OH
.esrs and directors Of a trollery line re-
ssponsibIe for the killing Of nine school
children at Newark in February last
viii be watched with interest. The
men under Indictment for manslaugh-
ter are among the most prominent in
the country, one Of the number being.
j. cassess, president Ct the Penn
syl,Tania railsoad The trial is regard
f.d
ed as & test case, and If the response
soilsty can be axed upon the officers Of
1he, company. even though they escape
severe sishment, the results viii be
far reashing
Ii IS to be hoped that the effort to
establish anpshsr diispensary IN Sums
sar viii neM sbe abandoned for good
and all, slss PEOPLE of this city and
township having declared themselves
So decidedly opposed il They have
placed themselves on record to the
effect that one dispensary is all that
Sumter needs, OF that they want. The.
matter ofs location is another question
entirely, and if the merchants OF
North Main street, who were the most
active movers in the effort to have
second dispensary established. still
want a dispensary near them they are
not debarred from working to secure
the removal Of the present dispensary
when the lease OF the buiiding now
occupied by the elisppensary expires.
The location is matter Of entire in
difference to the general public, and
50, far as we are concerned, those who
want il near their places of business
are welcome to have it. The further
OF it is, with its attendant crowd of
3nafsrs. the better we like it. We have
had several years experience with the
dispensary next door to Us ana we
want it no more
If the cotton bulls stay in the ring
long enough to keep the price OF cot
ton up TO twelve cents until the farm
ers can sell their crop, it will be use
less to attempt to convince the South
that Brown, Of New Orleans, is an
enemy of the cotton growers.
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