The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-04-29

backs upon the old homestead, with
it's tender memories and hallowed as
sociations, to cast their lot among
strangers in our great unsympathetie
cities, where competition is keen and
pressing.
"They are leaving because the op'
portunities for intellectual, social
and financial well-being furnished by
the cities are better than can be had
in the country; because the educa-
tional facilities of the city are better
than those of the countrp; because
communication in cities is easier,
quicker and batter than it is in the
country; because they believe that
city life affords greater remuneration
for labor; and because country life is
thought to be monotonous, irksome
and ill-rewarded.
"Shal! we exert ourselves to check
this tendency or shall we stand by
and permit it to go on until our cities
have become crowded and our ural
communities deserted? To me the
deserted homestead presents the evi-
dence OF a tragedy, and is sufficient
incentive to arouse my utmost en-
thusiasm and effort in behalf Of the
betterment of rural conditions.
81 would commend to you the
beautiful lines Of Goldsmith in The
Deserted Village:
''Ill fares the land, to fastening ills a
prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men
decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, OF
may fade
A breath can make them, as breath
has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's
pride,
When once destroyed, can never be
supplied.
"Let US take look fifty years
hence-a short period in the life OF
nation, less than the span of a hui
man life-and see what is before US,
The population of the United States
during the last census period increas-
ed twenty-one per cent. If that in
crease continues-and there is no
reason why it will not continue-the
population of the United States in
1860 will be 3S,O00,0Q0, an increase
Of l59 per cent.
"Now let US sec In 1910 each
man, woman and child in this country
had available ninety-one pounds of
beef. If the ratio of decrease con-
tinues for fifty years as it has during
the past ten years, then each man,
woman and child j nthe country will
have available only sixty-one pounds
of beef,or decrease of thirty-taree
per cent.
"In 1910 the per capita supply OF
pork available was eighty-nine
pounds. If the decrease for the next
fifty years in pork production con-
tinues as great as it has been during
the last ten years, the available per
capita amount of pork at the end OF
fifty years will be thirty-four pounds
In like manner at the end OF fifty
years we shall have only three pounds
of mutton per capita.
"Yet gentlemen complain that We
carry in this appropriation bill few
hundred thousand dollars to encour-
age the people of the country to Grad
icate disease from meat-producine
animals and to encourage sections OF
this country that are not producing
beef and pork and mutton to go into
the production of these commodities.
Is it wise complaint? Is it a just
criticism?
Eve appropriate something like
100000 for the eradication of dis
ease from animals. listen! The loss
from animals diseases in this coun-
try, as estimated by the Agricultural
Department. annually amounts to
S212,S5O,000.
"Two hundred and twelve million
dollars year lost from diseases in
the mcat-producing animals OF this
country, and yet gentlemen complain
that the Committee on Agriculture is
ramming it's hands into the Treasury
up to the elbow, drawing out money
for the support Of the Department OF
Agriculture. 1t makes me weary:
You could afford. if you could
save that s212,O 100000 Of annual
loss, to spend S35, 100000 a year
building railroads in Alaska or your
4O,000,000 a year for your big
navy or your s94 ,o0o,o0 year for
your big army. Again saw it makes
me weary, because I feel that the
critics of this bill have never studies
the facts. or can not distinguish be-
tween an investment and an eXpen-
djture'
A member Of the House jumped to
l.s feet and received recognition.
Does not the gentleman believe that
in modern civilization we are work
ing at cross purposes" he asked.
For illustration. does not tile gentle
man know that in many large cities
we have booster clubs. whose bust
ness it is to invite people to come
from the country into town. and then
We have philosophers standing round
inviting them to go from the town to
the cOuntry?'
TIC Farmer to Defend the Nation.
Il think these people-the folks
VIC are trying to get the people from
the country to the countE--oH&ht to
70 put into an insane asylum. :. snap