The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-07-20

another question. Is it not fact that
Tor several years past you have been
blessed with wave of prosperity, and
cotton sold as high as 90 cents the
pound, and cotton seed something
like one hundred dollars the ton, and
live, stock just about as high, which
enabled you to lay up considerable
bankers, merchants and doctors, and
by so doing yourselves, with the as
slstance Of the banks and merchants
and doctors, will be able to "float"
over lew years of depression and not
sufferer. Well, no says Mr.. Dove, we
d!d not save up our wealth, as we
we're told that we would never have
any more tight times. That money
was too plentiful now, and we bought
fine automobiles, spent the summers
IN the mountains, and the winters in
the land Of "Tlcwers," and just spent
our money i'll riotious living, Just
about like the "prodigal son. and we
are now finding ourselves to be in
want. Well, says Mr.. Solomon, if
such is true you ara not prepared to
help yourselves, and you have left
those who would have been glad to
helped you so badly crippled that they
| perhaps are unable to help you. And
this being true, it is well that you
make up your minds to! t'cut close"
and work hard, and quit depending on
the other man to make your bread.
Well, now says Mr.. Dove to Mr.
Solomon, am indebted to my bank,
| merchant and doctor who must l pay,
as | have only enough money to pay
just about one of the accounts. Well
says Mr.. Solomon, let us size up the
situation. The banker and merchant
HpInnn RI :,l>
no doubt IVES quite an accommodation
to you, and should be paid. The doc
tor, gets up at the hour Of midnight
and goes to the patient to relieve suf-
ferng humanity. Now, as matter
of fact all should be paid, but mas
MUCH as you are unable to pay all in
full you should divide up the amount
and give each lis proportionate share
and no one will think the least hard
of you, and you will be dealing honest
~ with yourself and your fellowman,
and the sooner the world realizes this
the better world we are going to have
to live in.
Well, now says Mr.. Dove to Mr.
Solomon, want to ask you another
question, here is a stream of water
miles and miles long, and thousands
upon thousands of fish are in this
stream, and here comes a bunch of
men together and organizes "Sport-
ing, Club" lease this stream of water
and post it, aud charge a license to
catch fish in this water. Is this
| right? Well says Mr.. Solomon, so
far as the law Of our State is con-
ccrncd it may be right, but for about
two thousand years there has been no
scarcity Of fish, and until recent
years very few fishing streams had
| been posted, and it certainly does
| work a hardship on our poor people
at this present time. For instance
here is a college boy who has never
been fishing in his life and may never
go but one time, and even that time
may not catch single fish, yet he is
| required to pay something like 81 go;
then here is the poor cOlorcd man who
Is hungry and without money, and no
work to get at to make the money,
yet he must not go fishing without the
consent OF some agent or game ward
en-. We'll says Mr.. Solomon, let us
apply the golden rule, and do unto
| others as we would have others do
unto us, and if this rule is applied, we
are pretty sure all will have plenty of
fish, and that without buying licenses
or shooting dynamite, dragging nets,
setting traps, etc.
"Sii, says 4li. lIO"c 10 MI. SOlO-
mon, we have a lot of bad or rather
rude children in the age we are now
living in, why is this, and what is
the remedy? Well says Mr. Solomon
this is no doubt largely due to the
mothers and fathers, allowing their
children too much liberty in their
very youth; and it is high time that
a check should be put on these sweet
girls and boys, or sometime in the
future these same children as sweet
as they are today, might bring shame
to the old grayheaded mother and
rather You remember the good
book says ole that spareth the rod
hateth his son; but he that ovcth
him chasteneth him betimcs." And
1T also says "And yc fathers, provoke
not your children to wrath, but bring
them up in the nature and admonition
of the Lord" My, my, how far some
Of us are from these passages of
scripture, when the rod has never been
applied in some instances, and many
child does not know what Sunday
School and church is. Now, we can
apply both these passages Of scrip
ture and then have quite large ter
ritory to work in. We believe the cor
rect way to apply the rod is to take
the enid in room and tell him in a
Christian-spirited way what you are
applying the rod for, and be sweet
to them even though you are punish
ing them. | do not think children
should obey or love their parents
though fear, but through LOVE, and
we know if child is treated as to
the above they are going to love their