The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-10

do not believe, but taking you at your
own statement let's assume that this
is correct; what about the other sixty
per cent of the tobacco grown in Clar-
endon County? Now, my dear Sprott,
once again let me admonish you to
dispense with some of your autocratic
propenSltieS, open your eyes wide, do
not try to look from only one angle
in this matter, get the idea out of
your head that you are expecting a
job on the visionary Corporation Cali
fornla Lawyer pie wagon which l will
tell the public about directly. l just
want you to get this in your head
first-it is this: The Manning Tobacco
Market has been in operation for the
past twenty-siX years for the sale of
season as usual. r. D. Clark and my
self have promised the independent
tobacco growers to have a market for
them. We are going to carry out this
promise if we live. If we die we
hope that our administrators will
make some provision to this end.
Now, my dear Sprott, your charges
against the tobacco warchouscmen,
ETC.; are absolutely as false as hell
itself. The public that have sold
their tobacco with us for the last
twenty years knows this is one of the
most far-fetchcd statements ever
made against honest men. Every
honest man knows that the ware
houseman are not working against
the interest of his clients. Every
sensible man knows that man would
not work against his own business in
terests, even if he was dishonest
crook, as you picture him. The to-
bacco WarehouSencn are absolutely
in the same boat or channel with the
grower. If the growers do we'll the
warehousemen do well. Every to-
bacco grower knows this, My dear
Sprott, and you know it yourself. You
have been around tobacco sales now
for number of years. You know
positively that you have drawn a pic
ture that is misleading and unfair.
You do not seem to have any sense of
justice left.
You would have the reading public
believe that tobacco men hold secret
meetings of their respective boards of
trade for the purpose of concocting
schemes to chsel the farmer out of
his tobacco. You know this is false
and misleading.
Now, my Dear Sprott, what about
the records of the Cotton Seed
Crushcrs Association? What about
the tlllZcr association you have
bet id no doubt are now a member
or? Of course it goes without saying
that you always were actuated by
patriotic motives, it goes without re-
pcating that you looked we'll after
the dear farmers interests, did pu
not my Dearest Sprott? Did you ever
discuss what kind Of filler would be
best to put in your fertilizer? Did
you ever help to fix minimum price
to pay the dear hard working bony-
handed sons of toll back i'm good old
Clarendon County, when you were at
some mountain or sea shore resort,
for cotton seed?
Now, My dear Sprott, could con-
tinuc to ask questions along this
line but time and space will not per-
NIT. ] have asked some Of these qucs-
tions before; few years ago if you
Will recall in one of our newspaper
discussions.
Now, Mr.. Sprott, | must hurry this
article to a close, rs / can not ask
for too much space in The Manning
Times. ! wish / had time and space
to handle every phase of this question
under discussion. | wish to make it
clear to the Cooperative advocates
that | am perfectly willing that they
shall have Il square deal. / am per-
fcctly willing for them to have to-
bacco warehouse in Manning, I hope
that the Association buys one of the
warehouses here Sir. will state for
the benefit Of the public that Mr.. r.
Is. Terrell, with my consent, tried to
sell them the Planters Warehouse,
and the owner did likewise with
the Central Warehouse. We found
that we could not sell these ware
houses unless we expected bonds in
payment of the greater part Of the