The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-11-06
EVERY WEDNESDAY
WE NEED A HEALTHY SENTIMENT.

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Nobody will ever know just
how the Columbia street car
strike was settled, but it was set
tied and business was resumed
in time to handle the traffic for.
the fair, now we are inclined to
believe that the company yield:
ed to the demands of the strikers
who whetted their appetites for a
new field to operate the hold mp
game. Charleston is to have a
big demonstration this month,
and it would not surprise US in
the least for the organizer, who
it is said went to that city to get
the motormen in line. to time his
hold up to be launched on the
eve of the opening Of the cele-
bratiop, it is the way of these
people who are going over the
country spreading discomfort
among honest men, they: treat
industry the same as the oanois
treats railroads.&c. the point OF
the pistol they require railroads
to give up entrusted treasure ana
lives, and industry is made TO
Weld to unreasonable demands
at a. time when the public de-
mands service regardless OF con-
ditions.
This condition must get worse
unless the reading masses take
a hand in defence of those who
develope the country. How IS it
to be done? The public servant
is to be given to. understand
that be is to discountenance the
antagonism between capital and
labor, and that he who under:
takes to agitate doctrines which
are calculated to bring on condl-
tions of unrest and discomfort,
among those who earn their
bread by the sweat of their face
are menace to progress, to both
the man who tolls and the man
who furnishes the labor. There
is a law upon our statute books
which forbids the enticing away
of labor. What caused this law
to be enacted? Was it because
the white people of this State
we're SO anxious to have the black
man as neighbors. or was it be-
canse the permitting of this sys-
tenn of carrying labor to other
States had the effect Of demoral-
izing the labor at home, and be-
cause of this effect the people
demanded of their law makers
to devise a means to stop this
evil, with the result, that the
greater part of the system OF
having the farms robbed OF labor
in a night has been checked.
Why cannot the law take cogniz-
ance of the conditions that so re
Gently gave our people much
concern, and enact laws that will
give those engaged in industrial
development encouraging protec-
ton?
There is not a community in
the State that is not anxious to
have a railroad or a cotton mill
or some other kind of utility or
industry for it's development, it
wants the railroad to move easl-
" the products of the farm, it
wants the cotton mill to take the
raw product from the fields to.
manufacture, the nearer the con-
veniences the better facility for
increased prices Of the raw pro.
duct, and the close proximity OF
these institutions enchances the
value of property, therefore it is
to the interest of the people at
large to frown down any and all
agencies which have for their
purpose the embarrassment Of in
dustrial activities. If public SEN
timent would come out good and
strong against the agltators of
dissension among the laboring
people.and those people be made
to see they are but the dupes OF
a crafty set of creatures who are
fatting upon the misery they
produce, the time would not be
long before laws would be enact
ed which will be a protection
to labor as well as capital, and
both would be the happier there
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