The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-09-02


cabins and hardly make enough to pay
their store account for clothes and
coffee. Now who's to blame for this
condition of affairs? We ourselves. lis
no use to be cursing any body but our
own selves. We are as a class the
biggest fools God ever made.
If other men by trust and confidence
in each other form combinations for
enriching themselves out OF US why IN
the name of common sense don't we
form combinations to keep them from
doing it?
The laws OF trade are as available
for US as them. The rigid rule of bust
ness must be observed by us as BY
them. There is not man amongst US
who would join a farmers combination
to get all he could for his cotton, then
what in the mischief is the use TO abuse
the other man for doing what you'd do
if YOU could. Besides l believe these
combinations are product OF natural
law and common sense. All TINS rou
about legislating against trust IS SICK
ening. You'll never touch them Win
law till YOU change the form OF our
government. A man has right to 40
as he pleases with his own so long as
he does not 90 contrary to the spirit OF
our democratic law.
How are you going to fight the TO-
bacco and oil mill trust? You can I
make them buy your goods, but you
can keep from giving them your to-
bacco and YOUR seed. What we need
is more brain and less muscle in our
business. Up at Clemson the other
dav | heard lectures on how to gro"
cotton, how to make more cotton, what
in the thunder do we want to make
more cotton for when we can't sell
what we do make to any profit. Besides
if we don't know how to make cotton
after 100 years OF experimenting at
home how are those fellows up there
going to teach US in few hours. we
know how to make it, what we want to
learn now is how to get somethlng 1or
it after we make 1t.
God intends each man to have an
equal show under His law and II ne
don't it's the mans own fault. You
NAV talk as YOU please about concealed
weapons but I believe that pistols are
an inspiration Of God. Time was when
a physical giant with out brain or
morals was master of men: but gun
powder has made fighting men equal,
the printing press makes learning men
equal. Steam and,~electriclty traVel,,
ing men and business men equal, and
combinatio will make opposing IN
.terests equal. We as farmers learning
from those who fleece, their method OF
fleeing may be able to fleece some TOO:
We clothe the world, feed the world
shoe the world and yet 60 hungry ana
barefoot and naked. Why: because
we haven't any sense and less man
hood.
Some one said on the street today
with sneer of his lip you can't or
ganize the farmer" and if the future IS
to be judged by the past he spake the
truth.
But there is no reason in this day OF
enlightenment why we should be the
burden bearers and not profit sharers
too. By organizing according TO Inc
rigid laws of business we will succeed.
They say the other men have the
money, and we can't stand against
money. Suppose the farmers OF this
country were to strike-not to sell one
OF our farm products for year or two.
There'd by more dead spectators.
Captains of Industry" and mill kings
than the buzzardS could eat. But IN
soberness and with determination
let US enter to win and sooner or later
the victory will be ours.
Do YOU propose to much longer stand
the robbine of the oil mills? I read in
your county newspaper a statement
and 1 suppose the editor knows what ne
was talking about, that the mills 40
not pay a Just price for seed, and &C
tually resort to robbery when they
sell meal. No farmer ought to sell his
seed for less than 40 cents bushel ana
that even is not as much as he should
Get compared with the enormous profits
thew ma ke. a friend Of mine told me
the other day that his mill made net
profit of 100 per cent. Do you remem-
Der when their was some agitation IN
the legislature about throttllng the
Y. C. G. trust how seed popped up N
price, and fertilizers tumbled down:
And don't you also remember as soon
as the legislature adjourned and the
danger was over how the price OF SEED
tumbled and meal and fertilizers shot
up. Yes, you remember it, OF course
YOU do. The newspaper statement l
referred to said that meal was sold at
the mill doors on basis OF free on
board Columbia, which means that you
90 to YOUR local mill. they add to your
meal freight from Columbia, which has
not been earned, hence, stolen from
YOU, and the same mill will ship meal
to Columbia and delivered it for the
price sold at the Columbia mill: Here
is a local mill imposing freight rate
on local consumers, and paying the
freight for the consumer abroad. The
home man pays to the home mill S24 a
ton. and the man abroad pays to the
same mill $40. Is this honest? Yet 1t
is the consequence OF the farmers own
foIlv and lack of manhood. The jing-
ling of the trust dollar is as tempting
to the farmer as string OF beads was
to the African savage.
Organize and stop this aggression.
Don't let the sneers and paid clacQuers
retard YOU from self preservation.
Show yourselves men and the world
will respect YOU and your calling, but
continue to submit and cringe, and you
will be serfs. 1t does not matter
whether the oppressor is a home man
or foreigner, you are oppressed, and
want you my fellow farmers, to assert
YOUR manhood and with organized IN
telligence, on business principles, with
out secrets, signs and dues, step for
ward and show to the world that you
two can demand justice.
Mr.. Smith speech was so well re-
ceived that several times when he
wanted 70 stop the crowd begged him
to continue.
During the speaking the secretaries
enrolled quite large membership,
and then it was decided to adjourn for
dinner, and reconvene in Institute hall
ats O'Clock.
At the school house the organization
was perfected. Hon. James E. Iindal
made speech full Of sound, wholesome
advice. Dr. Woods also spoke. The
chairman was instructed to appoint