The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-10
TOBACCO
MARKETING
Open Forum for Express
sions for or Against Co.
operative Marketing

Editor Manning Times:
In your issue of May 3rd, Mr.. G. r..
Sprott has an article under the cap
ton Tobacco Marketing. Open
Forum for Expressions for and
against Cooperative Marketing."
If the readers of this paper will
bear with me | think can show them
when l have finished this article
which / am about to write, that Mr..
G. r. Sprott does not believe in an
open forum. In the first place if he
did he would not hold with the views
that are set out in his one-sided un-
Democratic, autocratic, article writ
ten on cooperative marketing.
Now, my dearest Sprott, since the
smoke fire and birthstone has some
what cleared up in your columns in
The Manning Times, feel that l may
be safe in getting near enough to it
to answer the charges you have
brought against the Manning tobacco
market, and the business men of your
home town, in general.
Now, my dearest G. r., | am going
to handle you with gloves on so do
not be embarrassed when you start to
read this reply. I know that you
this wonderful, masterful, intellect
ual t?) article, under so-called open
forum. This master piece of Journal
ism would have graced the pages of
the Scimitar, Rip Saw, Chicago
Ledger, or Saturday Evening Blade.
My dear Sprott you have brought
a joint charge against your home
town, your home merchants, your
home bankers, and the Manning to-
bacco board Of trade. You have set
out certain charges in your indict-
ment, you have attempted to prose-
cute, to ridiculc, and to hold up the
business interests of the town Of
Manning before the public for the
sole reason Of trying to carry out a
onc-sidcd forum. / would ignore
this article altogether if it were
not for the fact that want to
show to the public what kind of
man you have developed in to. You
are willing to drive business from the
town Of Manning in order to crafty
your own selfish ends My dear
SprOtt, can not imagine a man so
narrow, SO stepped in Sclfshncss, so
unpatriotic. You claim to be Demo
crat, have always looked upon you
as such. Now want to ask you
how under the high Heaven can you
lay clam to. Democracy, when you arc
not willing to accept it's teachings,
viz: equal rights to all and special
privileges to none
Why my Dear Sprott, this is what
our ore-fathcrs fought for. Are
you 50 contemptibly narrow that you
expect everybody to conform to your
ideas?
The side | represent in this great
ISSUE have every right guaranteed
them under the Constitution Of the
Onitcd States that your side has.
Every question of great moment that
comes before a public has two sides
Your article that still has the scent
of sulphur on it would have every
non Cooperative believer tried in
attorney, and convicted without
counsel for the defendant.
My dear Sprott, if your ideas are
Democratic, then the late Kaiser of
Germany must have been a good
Democrat. The mspcakablc Hucrta
Of Mexico with his usurpcr proclivi-
ties must have also been one.
You have tried to picture to the
reading public in the sided
article you wrote that non cooperative
advocates should have any considcra-
ton; you have pictured the other Side
as being set Of iPnoramuscs; you
have pictured the neutral business
men in this town as being dlat0ry in
their duty towards you and the one
sided cause you and your licutcnants
are trying to foster and put over on
everybody in this County regardless
Of whether or not they are able to
see this question that is being dis
cusscd throughout the tobacco belts
Of the entire tobacco districts by both
sides in the light chat you do.
consideration as every thinking
man knows, but not from your
contcmptuously narrow viewpoint
You admit that you have only forty
percent Of the tobacco grown in
Clarendon County signed up. This |