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

States OF America stamped on the
money-this we could not get. I will
still sell the Planters Warehouse to
the Association if they can arrange
to pay for it, can make other ar
! rangements here for this season.
Now, Ny dear Sprott, quit your
kicking, it isn't my fault If you do
not get the job that doubtless has
been offered you here on the Cali
fornia Corporation Lawyer pie wagon.
| am perfectly willing that you shall
have slice. l can not for the life
of myself figure you out any other
way. can not see where you are
actuated by patriotic, communicative
ing, town-loving, homc-loving proc
livities. If you were you would not
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
well deep, down in your heart that
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 Bolshevil<ism itself. Your method
is to rule or ruin. You hold up
neighboring 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 Tomc 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.
"Breathes 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 a 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
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. l could name
many farmers near Manning that arc
experienced growers but they are in
the minority.
Now, Dear Sprott, | will now give
you some figures in an other States
to prove my statement. North Caro-
lima varies according to the quality
of tobacco grown near the respective
markets. Fuquay Springs sold year
1921 and % 3,279,256 pounds for an
average of $37.70 per hundre; Apex
fifteen or twenty miles away sold
1,321,875 pounds for an average Of
$34.10; Raleigh, headquarters for hot
air Comparatively, now, sold last sea-
son Independently 2,772,020 for an
dFcIdSc VI PEE.E4 lHcSc tOWHS are
situated 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 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 in Clarendon County, whom
you and your followers think arc 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
scourgc into something that will
gratii your job-proclivity spleen?
Or AZ sc so ignorant that we need
q guardian to lead us that has tried
farming for living; oil mill business,
fc. ..izcr business, peanut agitator,
corn elevator man, and now you want
to act the part of Moses and lead the
dear people into pastures green.
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