The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-08-21
WATSON'S PLAN
For the Farmers to Protect Their
Best Interests.
SAYS HE WILL help

S In the Fight and Urges National Pol
: icy for OrSanization-Says Far
mcrs Should Work Along Lines o
: the Old Farmers :llliancc-Think
the Movement VIII March Stcadil,
On.
At White Oak camp grounds, neal
Thomson, Ga, Hon. Thomas E. Wat
son was the guest of honor Of the
Farmers Union. He addressed ar
audience of some 1000 or 1900, in.
cluding people of five counties, Nc.
, Duftie, Lincoln, Wilkes, Columbia and
: Warren. They had me- under the
auspices Of the Farmers Education
al and Cooperative Union. =.
The burden of Mr.. Natson's ad-
dress was that the Farmers Union
must have national scope, nation
al creed national principles and q ma
tional purpose.
The Farmers Union is going to
declare the same principles and make
the same fight attempted by the old
Farmers .a-llance, and in that fight
am going to help" he said
He is convinced that the time has
come when this organization. embrac-
ing in its membership 100000 far
mers, cannot be held together by the
restricted plans and narrow purposes
which now prevail.
In beginning his address Mr.. Wat
son said:
In Memoirs of General Sam
Dale, who was one of the officers in
charge of the Indians that were be-
ing removed from Alabama and Geor-
gia, we are told in a most touching
way of the love those red men bore
this beautiful land.
General Dale relates that not only
the women and children heartbroken
with grief at having to give up their
homes, but that the warriors them
selves were utterly unnamed. Stoi-
cal braves who would have died un-
| der torture without groan broke
down and cried like children
when the United States soldiers came
to march them off to the West. Gen
eral Dale says that after the Indians
had been collected and started on
their long journey, they would re-
turn, each right, to their homes, to
see them once more. This was kept
up until the camp was pitched forty
miles away
In all the wide world the stars of
1881 looked down upon no sight
more pitiful than that Of these chill
dren of the forest, stealing out of
camp at night to walk back tweitv,
thirty and forty miles, to get one last
look at the humble cabins which had
been their homes.
But who need wonder that the
Indians loved this Southern land?
Where did the smile of God, on Gre
atoms morning, rest more radiantly
the green field and cloud-topped
mountains, of shadowy forest and
verdant valley, Of dimpled lake and
rushing river?
The red men loved it-loved it
with all their simple hearts.
They loved it we'll enough to
fight for it. They never gave it up
until every battlefield upon which
they could muster an army was red
with their blood.
But they lost their homes. never
theIess-why? Because in the subtler
combat of mind against mind they
were no match for the whites. The
pale face deceived his red brother.
when the Indians were the strongest,
and when at length the whites were
the stronger, the red men had to give
up their homes.
Brethren of the South! Will you
learn nothing from the past? Have
you no eyes to see what is going on?
Do you not realize that in the war of
wits you are losing ground? Will you
never understand that national poll
cies and laws can be so shaped as to
give all the advantage to one class. "r
one section? Is it impossible for you
to learn that special privilege always
lives at the expense Of the unprivi-
leged-is a deadly parasite that will
sap the live of the noblest tree?
Use your eyes. Look about you.
See things as they are. Where is the
bulk of the wealth Of the nation?
In that portion Of it which nature
did the least for-New England?
How did bleak, barren New England
come to be 50 rich? She made the
laws to suit herself. and these laws
took the prosperity Of the South and
West and gave it to the capitalists of
the East and North.
Who owns your railroads? The
North. Your mills? The North. Your
banks? The North. Ycnr mines? The
North There isn't a merchant, bank
er. miner manufacturer. farmer or
railroader in the South that doesn t
have to depend on the North for mon
ey. Yet the most Of that money was
made in the South and West. The
financial currents which flow West
and South from lew York, first flow
ed in New York from the South ana
West. Practically none of that wealth
was crealed in New York.
I ..Consider 'e laws which the
man, a1>,3t.e.,s Of the North have
made Tor themselves. These cari-
talists are protected from outside
competition: they monopolize the
home market: they form a trust &c
dictate output and price, and they
sell their goods abroad cheaper than
at home.
, ''What is the result?
They are making yearly a net
profit of $4,000. 900. 900, which is
5 two billions more than S per cent
upon the money invested.
Think of it. After allowing them
selves a clear income Of per cent
upon their investment, they compe!
? the consumer of manufactured goods
to WELD to them a yearly tribute ot
two thousand millions Of dollars.
Thus every man, woman anc
child in America is taxed about So:
per wear to give special privilege tc
the manufacturer. On every famil.
of FIVE, this is crushing burden o
1925 per year-and it is nothing
more than shameless, heartlesss con
c fiscation