The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-05-28
THE TENANT FARMER
AND NEWSPAPER MEN
LoWndeS Browning Discusses Posi-.
ton Of Two Occapations-Re
Iation Not tie Same.
TO the Editor Of The State:

Your editorial OF thursday, tle 2Jtn,
headed, "No Class Antagonism Want
ed" was very enlightenlng in one re-
spect at least. You say Between the
newspaper publisher and the newspa-
/ per typesetter, the relationship shoGld
not be antagonistic They produce e
same articies-crops OF newspapers
! and sell ten in the same market y
THANK you very much for this informa-
tiou. DeIole reaQing this statement OF
yours, l had 10 idea that when YOU
finished your daily stunt, in compensa-
ton for your labor, you were handed
certain number OF copies oi The
State, and forthwith hied yourself TO
the street and disposed Of said copies
as rapidly as possible at cents per
copy; thus receiving remuneration for
the arduous labors Of the day in a
fixed percentage Of the output, each
other ernploye Of the paper likewise
receiving his pay in kind. Also the
railway employe has to go out and
drum up a certain amount of freight,
or number of passengers, and collect
for the same. l had not known that
such was the case, but if t-ey are
laboring on the same basis as tie
tenant farmer, these are the sources
from which they receive their remu-
neration, for the tenant farmer re-
ceives fixed percentage Of all the
crops he produces as pay for his Ia
Dor, and goes upon the market and
sells lis share, just as the land own
ing farmer sell his. Then tenant can,
and very frequently does, get advances
in money, or other necessary supplies,
upon his part of the prospective crops.
when the newspaper man wishes to
secure a loan, does he offer as security
fixed number of copies per day Of
| the paper upon which he is working?
l trust that the difference between
a tenant farmer and wage-earner
is made sufficiently clear by tie above,
and that you will see t1at in the great
questions of buying and selling, the
tenant farmer and the land owning
farmer stand On the same leTel, and
} that their interests are Identical, and
l hope that in the future, you will
say nothing, however inadvertently,
that might tend to array class against
class.
1 notice tat you say in your issue
Of L,.cnday, the 2+tl, in reply to Mr..
Dabbs, you did not start this discus
sion. You remind me of@the follow
ing incident. A bull had lorded it
,ovel MS ned Tor quite while; when
seeing a pedestrian crossing the pas
ture, with a loud believing, he made
for him. A lone tree was the only
means of escape; the man made for 1t,
but tie bull was pressing llim so close
Iy he had no time to climb to safety, so
round and round the tree went man
and bull. At last the man succeeded
in catching the bull by the tail. His
bullship was frightened by this and
tore off across the pasture, the man
clinging to his tail, and as opportunity
offered, would kick the bull, remark
ing, "Ol, yes, d-mn you, w'-o started
t1is thing anyway W-o did?
Indulge me for one other correc-
ton, and then I am done, for 1 recog-
nize my inability to debate with you,
especially in the paper over which you
preside. You offer me space to rip
the governor up the back seeming
to think this is my desire. have no
sucl thought, no such desire, but had
Ayou listened, as l did, to "A agoniz-
ing appeals for claw and order" IL
would make the goosefesh creep up
and down your spinal column to see
not only the law, but the constitution
set at naught. Not that the present
administration could or would do any
wrong. But in the future, we may
have, as we have had in the past,
less able, a less patriotic head. We
might at some future time have as our
chief executive one who sought to
perpetuate his power by the forma-
ton of political machine or ring,
and he might raise the salaries OF
every appointive Office in the State;
in justification pointing to our present
asylum superintendent salary. Not
that it would be justified, for is not
the present incumbent peculiarly fit
ted for the place? Was he not for
years secretary of the State board of
health, and does not passing out vac
virIc nac11-