The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1913-04-18
Jonesville News Letter.

Jonesville, April 15th.-We have
had all sorts of weather during the
last week, and farmers have gotten a
good rest, and are anxious for the
fray.
The Confederate pensioners are
getting better, although the amount
for classes C. No. 2 and are small
it is 55cents more than last year.
Capt. r. w. Scott is about to lose
his eyesight from some disease in the
eyes, one eye is already gone. Capt.
Scott has been off to several special
lists but he got no relief, nor any en-
couragement about his eyes.
Revs. L. M. Rice and w. H. Ariail
filled their respective pulpits here
Sunday morning.
A few years ago I thought that
cotton mills were the thing for the
South and that no town could prosper
without a cotton mill; that to bring
the mills to the South right where
the cotton was raised was the best
thing that could come to us here in
the cotton States; but I have changed
my opinion and think quite differently
now; experience and observation have
caused me to change my way of
thinking and I believe the South
would be better off without any cot
ton mills. The mills and other cor
poration have discouraged and about
ruined the farm labor, and what labor
there is to be had upon the farms, I
mean the hired laborer, is so poor and
high that farmers can't afford to use
them. The correspondent from New
Hope In the Times last week tells us
about the poor unreliable labor in his
neighborhood and the high price and
short hours and his experience is that
of the whole country and its prob
lem for our people to solve Every
hired farm hand in the hearing of q
factory whistle, and they can be
heard all over the country, stops
work at the first breath of the whis-
tie and from now on till fall the sun
is about two hours high in the morn
ing when the whistle blows to 90 to
work, and about two hours high in the
evening when the whistles blow to
quit work; and this kind of farm
work won't do when farmers are, be-
hind, or when the grass is growing
and about to get ahead of the cotton
and corn. If all the mill hands in the
South were on the farms our country
could make all our own bread and
meat and stock feed and then make
about twelve to fourteen million bales
of cotton and let the Yankees and the
European countries manufacture our
cotton and our people could get be
ter prices for theit cotton and t
high cost of living thAt Roai,
SO much ,abodt ev6n}d be averted, i
cause we would be independent and
not obliged to buy at high prices,
western corn, flour and bacon, and
other high priced living. 1 know a
few farmers that make all their corn,
flour, meat, milk, butter, chickens,
eggs and molasses at home and have
some to sell. So the high cost of liv-
ing doesn't hurt these farmers and
and if all our farmers were in this
living would be easy and
cheap. If dry goods that are made
of cotton went we could put our
cotton up to compete with it as we
would be able to hold our cotton and
get big prices for it, especially if we
had it to do in self defence. I heard
a negro say few years ago that
times was just as good as he wanted
that the white folks were all gone to
the factories and left the negro to do
the farm work, and that he could get
all the good land he wanted and Just
have a good time, and there is truth
in what he said.
Telephone.