The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-11-24


have but to look at your tax commits
sion; your highway department; your
health department; your public school
system, to see that this is true. Only
4 few years ago l warned you against
compulsory education. You were led
i to it by fanatics. One of the re-
suits is being most seriously felt
right now.
To wit: The high cost of labor.
The white man could have kept his
children at home and helped him
gather his crop; or last spring when
it was so rainly, and he got so far be-
hind with his work, he could have
kept them home and relieved the
scarcity of labor; but the all powerful
and mighty truant officer stood with
his big stick and drove the children
into school. The result has been that
the negro has taken advantage of it
and given as his excuse as to why his
children can not work that he is
forced to send them to school. The
result has been that the cost Of labor
has gone sky high and the poor man
who has been unable 90 meet the de-
mand has been made to suffer where
he could have, h he been allowed to
40 so, relieved h...sclf temporarily by
the use Of his oI n children and sent
them to school when the rush was
over, and the children would have been
none the worse off for the change of
school time and both parents and
children would have been happier and
more contented financially and other
wise.
L warn you against the tendency to
legislate more favorably for the Cor
porations than for the masses of the
people, and especially the election Of
Corporation Officials as Judges to pass
upon great legal questions where the
interest of the individual or the pco-
pie conflicts with the interest Of the
Corporation.
l warn you against planting so
much cotton and advise that you cut
your crop at least SO per cent for
1921. In 1914 the extra session Of the
Legislature passed the Warehouse Bill
which has been so crippled by it's
enemies that it has not been allowed
to perform its full part and give the
relief that it would have given if prop
er legislation to perfect it had been
passed. That session also passed an
acreage law that Manning and his
henchmen FASTENED at the regular scS-
sion two months later to destroy PROV
ing by this and other acts of theirs
as told the people in the 1914 cam
paign that "Manning and his ranp
were enemies to the laboring people
Of South Carolina"
have been asked why is it that the
people have not confidence in the lead
ers of the Cotton Association, the I'M
port Company Manning is heading
and like concerns? We have but to
q
1j,; ditions and the question is at once an
SWcrcd.
The farmers must organize and
leave out the "Planters" who sit in
the Cities and let the other fellow do
the work, and take in the men who
actually work and producc-not the
Big - who consumes and produces
not but the working man. AS | said to
my friend Mr.. G.. E. Sawyer, "if YOU
can have meeting Of the Farmers
that is, men who are farmers and not
what the Big Is call planters, I be-
heVc something can be accomplished
and that what you suggest is q Splcn-
did foundation to build on and if such
a meeting is called, it will afford me
much pleasure to attend and assist in
any manner that | can, and to go any
where or do anything within my DOW
Ell to help. | have little confidence in
men who are working for selfish pun
poses and who are simply trying to
provide means by which to get rid of
their own cotton (Which was grown by
other pcople) at high price at a
later date possibly next spring, while
the poor farmer, the man who is in
debt, is forced to sell now.
in my opinion, what we need is re-
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spring for the rich planter and no
help for the farmer that is the man
who actually makes the crop) ut this
time"
Above i: all my friends attend to
your own business and quit trusting
IT to men who make their living from
salaries paid by corporations, from
drawing dividends from bank and
factory stock and other corporate in
tcreSt--hoW do you expect the man
who makes his big salary and big di-
vldendS and high rates Of interest on
his money from low price cotton and
high price goods to help you raise the
price Of cotton. It's folly, for truly
it is written, "for where your treasure
is, there will your heart be also"
l hope my friends that in these few
rambling remarks that have said
something to make you sit down and
think-think of your family; your
fellowmen; your county; your state;
your nation; yourself and your GOD
and think for yourself and stop letting
some "Rig - Office holder or corpora
tlon head think for you-think for
yourself and your own best interest
and act on your own brain and quit
following Strange gods" and those
whO continually call out aloud az an,