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.. C.. r.
Sprott has an article under the cap
tion Tobacco Marketing. Open
Forum for Expressions for and
against Cooperative Marketing"
If the readers of this paper will
bear with me l think can show them
when l have finished this article
which l 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 onc-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 III your columns in
The Manning Times, feel that I 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 C. 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
pulled yours off when you appened
this wonderful, masterful, intellect
ual (?) article, under so-called open
forum. This master piece of journal
ism would have graced the pages of
the Scmitar, Rip Saw, Chicago
Ledger, or Saturday Evening Blade.
My dear Sprott you have brought
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 ridicule, 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
One-sided forum. ! would ignore
this article altogether if it we're
not for the fact that | want to
show to the public what kind of a
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 man so
narrow, SO stepped in sclfishness, so
unpatriotic. You claim to be a Demo
crat, | have always looked upon you
as such; Now | want to ask you
how under the high Heaven can you
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not willing to accept its teachings,
viz: equal righ 10 all and special
privileges to none.
Why my Dear SprOtt, this is what
our fore fathers fought for. Are
you so 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
United States that your side has.
Every question of great moment that
comes before public has two sides.
Your article that still has the scent
of sulphur on it would have every
non Cooperative believer tried in
open court, prosecuted by the state
attorney, and convicted without
counsel for the defendant.
My dear Sprott, if your ideas are
Democratic, then the late Kaiser of
Democrat. The unspcakabc Hucrta
Of Mexico with his usurper proclivi-
ties must have also been one,
You have tried to picture to the
reading public in the one sided
article you wrote that non cooperative
advocates should have any considera- =
ton; you have pictured the other Side
as being set Of ignoramuscs you
have pictured the neutral business
men in this town as being dilatorv in
their duty towards you and the one
sided cause you and your lieutcnants
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 that you do
Each side is entitled to the fullest
consideration as every thinking
man knows, but not from youl
contcmptuously narrow viewpoint
You admit that you have only forty
percent Of the tobacco grown in
Clarendon County signed up. This