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

money--this we could not get. / will
still sell the Planters Warehouse to
the Association If they can arrange
to pay for it. l can make other ar
rangements here for this season.
Now, My dear Sprott, quit your
kicking, it isn't my fault if you do
not get the job that doubtless has
been cGcI"I you here on the Cali
fornia Corporation Lawyer pie wagon.
| am perfectly willing that you shall
have slice. / can not for the life
of myself figure you out any other
way. | can not see where you are
actuated by patriotic, communicate
ing, town-loving, homc-loving proc
hold up your home town and local to-
bacco market to ridicule. You would
not give comparative figures and try
to show to the public that Manning
is the poorest tobacco market in
South Carolina, when you know full
we'll deep down in your heart that
this is not true. You know that the
seasons and quality of tobacco has
been bad here for the last three years,
and especially last year when we had
fifty days of rainy weather during the
curing season. The tobacco COM
panies give the same limits to all of
their respective buyers, and the price
paid is based upon quality, Sir; you
are attempting to break down the to-
bacco market here by methods that
arc just as unfair and unreasonable
as Bolshevikism itself. Your method
is to rule or ruin. You hold up
ncighboring towns and try to drive
the people away from Manning that
would come here to sell their products.
This will hurt the cotton market too.
My Dear Sprott, when l get to this
place l shall think Of what some one
has said of ancient Rome-all roads
lead to Rome. All roads lead to
Manning, and they run both ways.
Had you thought Of this?
My Dear Sprott, you should love
and respect your neighboring towns;
you should have due consideration for
your neighbors. But Manning should
come first, home has been first pro-
tected in all ages, the ancient cave
man had propensities of this kind.
"Brcathes there man with soul so
dead,
Who never to himself has said,
This is my own, my native land"
My Dear Sprott, you have given
figures showing variation in the
prices of tobacco between Lake City,
Kingstree, and Manning, it is we'll
known fact that the soil and method
of cultivation around Lake City and
Kingstree, is much more adapted to
tobacco culture than around Manning
| believe with the proper seasons
and proper methods in cultivation
that we can grow as good tobacco as
these other places. The Salem section
of this County is a section like unto
which Lake City is surrounded by
The growers are all old growers and
largely white farmers. could name
many farmers near Manning that are
experienced growers but they arc in
the minority.
Now, Dear Sprott, I will now give
you some figU1es in an other States
to prove my statement. North Caro-
lima varies according to the quality
of tobacco grown near the respective
1921 and % 3,279,256 pounds for an
average of $37.7O per hundre; Apex
fifteen or twenty miles away sold
1921 ,875 pounds for an average of
$34.10; Raleigh, headquarters for hot
air Comparatively, now, sold last sea-
son independently 2,772,020 for an
average Of $2224. These towns are
nearer each other than Mann
ing and the towns you mentioned sir;
Fuquay Springs averaged $14.46 |
more than Raleigh and yet the to-
bacco did not sell any better than it |
did in Raleigh--it was the quality and
not a steal like you claim Manning |
pulled off last season:
My Dear Sprott,, am now going
to give note of warning to the |
sixty per cent of independent tobacco
growers i'm Clarendon County, whom |
you and your followers think are out
laws and ignoramuses. You say that |
you are going to put on a sixty-day |
drive now right away. What do you |
take us for? Do you think we are |
cattle that should be driven with a
scourgc into something that will |
crafty your job-proclivity spleen? |
Or are we so ignorant that we need !
a guardian to lead US that has tried |
farming for a living; oil mill business,
fertilizer business, peanut agitator,
corn elevator man, and now you want |
to act the part of Moses and lead the |
dear people into pastures green
We ask you to show your crcdcn-