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AN ABSTRACT OF THE ADDRESS
DELIVERED BY HON. JAS. 31.
LIPSCO31B, 31ASTER OF THE
STATE GRANGE,
At the Fourteenth Annual Session, Held
in Charleston, S. C., on Febru
ary 3rd and 4th, 1886.
To you the representative legisla
tive body for the Order of Patrons of
Husbandry in this State, now assem
bled and sitting in annual session, to
devise and provide measures and
plans for its welfare and promotion,
it is my official duty to make such
suggestions as may be deemed proper
a for your consideration and "for the
good of the Order."
From the Annual Reports of the
Worthy Secretary and Worthy Trea
surer, you will get exact, detailed in
formation of the financial condition
and numerical strength of the Order
in this State. From the number of
new Granges organized, and dormant
ones reorgrized, it will be seen that
the Order is not retrograding or
weakening, or its prospect for the fu
ture discouraging. It is most aston
ishing that an association for which
some work has been done, to which
so little time devoted, and on which
so little money has been spent,
should have grown and prospered in
spite of the groundless antagonism
of most of the organized interests
and classes of the community and
country. It has been sustained by
its inherent and intrinsic principle
and vitality, with but little if any
fostering care, canvassing, labor or
pecuniary expenditure.
This benign Order should have
zealous care, diligent canvassing, and
* liberal expenditure. It is an Order
that, while pre-eminently caring for
and representing the interests of the
fa-mners as a class, conduces to, and
premotes the interests of all other
classes, and of the country generally.
Fairly and truly viewed, it conflicts
with none and antagonizes none.
Properly used, it harms no one, but
confers untold and immense benefits
upon all and every one. Many er
-roneous ideas prevail, creating false
impressions as to the objects and
>mission of this Order, bringing upon
it enmity and opposition, as aggres
~Sive and destructive, from sources it
sehould receive approval and cordial
support, as progressive and co-oper
stive.
It should be your duty to correct
chi erroneous impressions, remove
mch enmity and opposition, and se
assfr it approval and cordial sup
rt. To this much needed and de
fred end, allow me to most earnestly
d emphatically invoke your deep
tconsideration and most zealous
orts. This opens too wide a field
*he canvassed or discussed on such
occasion as this; and I can only
t it here and there without detailed
cussion, with such bare "-sugges
ns for the good of the Order". as
y form a b~asis, or ground-work
m which and upon which, you may
r mature deliberation and tho
ugh consideration, formulate and
~ild such measures and take such
tion as may seem to you wise and
cticable; promoting the true in
ests of the Order you represent
of the whole people. * *
1As to '-hat I shall say to you un
r the head of agriculture, I don't
k I can do better than adopt, as
of this address, the rep'ort made
Ne ational Grange:
This is pre-eminently an agricul
ral nation. Agriculture is the
eatest interest, creating the annual
alues, which when capitalized,~ is
wj',ah and supports all the other
3~" of the country,
er,,ce ov oad expanse of
. - ry to compute
v1 . existent prop
Is, buildings,
. reeus, factories
f : .implements,
cattle and stock, railroads, turnpikes
and shipping, government buildings
-Federal, State and county-churches
and school houses; add to all this the
billions of dollars covered up and in.
vested in bonds and stocks--National,
State, county, municipal and indi
vidual-and then think that all this
wonderiul mass of values is the ac
cumulation and capitalized profits
from agriculture.
"Glance again over the agricultu
ral records of this nation, and what
do we see and learn?
"In thirty years, from 1850 to 1880,
he crops increase: Wheat, from
100,488,944 bushels to 459,483,137
bushels; corn, from 592,071.104 to
1,754,591,676 bushels; and cotton,
from 2,469,093 to 6,539,021 bales.
The estimates for 1885 being:
wheat, 376,000,000 bushels; corn, 2,
)00,000,000 bushels; and cotton, 6,
)00.000 bales; these three alone ag
gregating in value $1,132,000,000.
"An analysis would startingly
3how how little of this immense ac
Mumulated profits and wealth has re
mained with the agricultural pro
lucers, and how many billions of
lollars have gone to support and en
ich other classes and interests. It
ould also show how agriculture as
in art, science and pursuit has ad
ranced and progressed with rapid
ind gigantic strides.
"Think for a moment of the radi
:al changes in modes and implements
)f agriculture within the experience
)f your own generation, and it looks
lmost miraculous.
"From the foregoing, it would seem
Jat the problem of successful agri
ulture was solved, and the wealth of
he agricultural classes clearly as
ured. But is this so? No, alas!
hile agriculture as a science and a
vealth-creator has advanced, and is
;till advancing at electric speed, sup
)rting and enriching the govern
nent and aggregate people, still un
lisputed statistical records, facts and
,our own experience show with pain
'ul plainness that the strictly pure
griculturists are not, either as indi
riduals, or on the aggregate, growing
ich.
"They, of all classes, still remain
nore under Eden's curse, 'In the
weat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy
Ialy bread;' and being made to do
he extra sweating to provide bread
nd wealth and luxury for thousands
nA thousands who, during long lives
arn nothing, and do nothing, but
ppropriate, . and in riotous livin.g,
onsume the capitalized profits and
ealth squeezed from the sweating
races and 'horny hands' of the 'sons
)f toil.' An increase of production
d crops by increased toil and pro.
;ress in science, intelligence and
kill, will not change the status or
elieve the difficulty; for, as from
rear to year, from decade to decade,
e profits and values from agricultu
al operations are increased and mag
aified, in still greater ratio is the
roportion of the agriculturists de
reased in the distribution thereof.
Why is this so, and shall it continue?
[t would fill volumes to tell in mi
nte detail, the nuaierous causes that
sontribute to establish the foregoing
onditions. Fee bly formulated it is :
that by statute laws and operations
of governments-Federal1 State,
county and municipal; that by the
rules and customs of boards of trade
and commerce; by corporations and
syndicates; by associations and or
ders; and by numberless and divers
classes and interests; there has been
a long, determined, systematically
constructed and combined arrange
ment for each and all to estimatc
wht, and how much, of these agricul
tural profits and wealth they respec
tively needed, or desired; then re
morselessly and summarily to appro
priate the same, regardless of thn
equity or justice of the division; o
what would be left for the class tha
with anxious study and earnest labo.
produced it all.
Agriculture must be so uniloade
of these onerous burdens that nov
encumber it as to render it possibli
for those engaged in it to mak
money and acquire wealth. This cal
never be done till the agriculturist
who grow and produce the crops con
trol the first sales of the same, an<
have them made in their interest. I
cannot be till it is so arranged t<
take less wheat, corn, cotton au<
other agricultural products, or th
money they sell for, to maintain an;
supply the governments of variou
grades, the railroads, the manufa<
tories, the banks and all other inst
tutions and interests, both p)ubli
and private, and thus leave a largc
surplus as a support and dividendt
the agriculturist upon his labor an
capita].
"Agriculturists, to save themselve
and their interests, must be tI:
strnget and ruling class in the n:
tion, and strongly intrench and pro
tect themselves ngainst the weaken
ing encroachments that depress and
exhaust. and, sooner and later. ruin
those engaged in it.
"As it must supply the revenue, it
must coitrol its expenditure.
-No government can long retain
its power; no people its happiness
and comfort without a proFperous ag
riculture, and agriculture will not and
cannot prosper unless it pays, and
pays well those engaged in it.
"Here is the key note to the whole
situation. Let agriculture be the
source of profit and wealth, or rather
secure the profits and wealth right
fully belonging to the agriculturists
to them, and then no longer will be
heard the doleful voice of the moan
ing farmer depicting the misery of
his class; of th3 vain efforts to induce
thenm to join the organizations and
associations of their class; to induce
the children to follow the avocation
of the parents, instead of overcrowd
ing the professions and other avoca
tions, and flockibg in countless herds
to cities and towns. * *
"Unless you do this, agriculture
must continue to languish and de
cline-the avoidance and contempt
of the world-and you and your class
must for generations to come remain
the contemned serfs of any and all
who, seeing your supineness, simply
combine to use you.
"Farmers, awake to the exigencies
of the situation, and sleep no more
till your task is finished and your
duty done."
Having become convinced that a
continuance of Summer Meetings
upon the present plan will not best
subserve and promote the objects and
iuterests of the Order and agricul
ture; I have obtained all the inform
ation I could as to the system and
plan of the State and inter-State pic
nic, held for the last twelve years at
Williais Grove, Penn., and will at
the proper time submit it for your
consideration, along with a short re
port of my five days' attendance there
last August, and the observations I
made cn it, and the impression it
made on me.
Starting twelve years ago as a lo
cal Pomona Grange picnic of three
hours duration, two speeches and a
basket dinner, it has grown to its
present mammoth dimensions of five
days duration, one hundred thousand
people attending, averaging twenty
thousand& per day~; corning from
twenty-five different States; densely
covering fifty odd acres with build
ings, machinery, stock and people,
all working with perfect system and
order; instituted, conducted and con
trolled entirely by farmers, striking
ly illustrating what intelligent com
bination, cordial co-operation and
zealous effort can accomplish, when
resorted to even by farmers.
In any sound agricultural policy
education should hold high rank and
be liberally provided for. Thbat edu
cation which will best train and make
proficient for intelligent, progressive
and successful agriculture, and con -
sequently efficient and useful citizen
ship.
This training or education cannot
be acquired in a short time or from
any one agency or institution. It
must start very early in life-in the
home, the house and the farm. There,
and there alone can the eye, the hand
and the head obtain economically,
purely and correctly the knowledge
and skill that is esse.ntial to the prac
tical farmer. No one institution un
der the name of school or college could
cover, within any reasonable time,
term. course. corriculumn or cost the
wide sphere and scope that is neces
sarv to bestow a complete agricultu
ral education.
-A complete agricultural education
includes almost all that is requisite
in each and every specific profession
or avocation, and but few things that
arc sp)ecifically taught and useful tc
the lawyer, doctor, merchant, engin
eer, architect, mechanic, chemist, ge
olagist, botanist, linguist or scientis1
but is. in almost an equal degree,
useful and advantageous to the ac
tive, inteligent, progressive and suc
cessful farmer. Instead of contract
ing the scope of agricultural educa
tion it should be expanded to the
fullest possible extent. I most hear
tily wish that there was a first clas:
aricultural college or institute il
this State, thoroughly organized am
and fully equipped, to confer upoi
its pupils all that it is possible fo
such an institution to bestow.
shall at all times gladly and cordiall,
support and advoce.te any feasibl
and practicable proposition or pla
that will fully attain this much d~
isired end, or make material althoug
partial progress towards it.
As your offBcer, I am e.c offcio
trustee of the State University, an
while I miust candidly say to you,
does not completely furnish such an
educational institution as would be n
best for the agricultural educational t
interests of the State; yet, in justice ri
to the trustees and faculty. it must ri
be admitted, that they have done all h1
that could be done for agricultural a
education in a literary university of
very limited means; and in whose or- si
ganization, agricultural education is ti
an annex only. Whenever the legis- a
lature can be induced to establish an a
educational institution, purely agri- b
cultural; turn over to it the Federal sl
land scrip educational fund, together ft
with that under the Cullen bill and t<
others, then supplement all this with
liberal appropriations out of the a!
treasury, sufficient to establish and 11
support such an institution, to be ei
conducted and administered in con- t(
junction with the Agricultural De- w
partment, by a board of trustees com- s
posed of farmers, I shall hail its ad- p,
vent with joy ! But don't throw si
away your half loaf, till you are as- lo
sured of the whole one. * * * * p
If you decIde that you will have a a
policy that will undertake to influ- c:
ence the opinions and platforms of tI
political parties and the votes and4 tc
actions of Federal and State Legis- p
latures, then hasten to determine and p]
defme it so that it can be at once di
p, )mulgated and disseminated among C
the masses of the people. and be B
thoroughly digested and understood cl
before the usual biennial reorganiza- it
tion of political parties flor the coin- in
ing campaign. Prior to that you en ny
freely discuss any and all questions o
of political policy or economy. sub- p
sequently nothing can be entertained R
or advocated except such as are ap- fr
proved by your party platform and ol
conventions. So say now what you e:
think for the greatest interest of i
yourselves and the whole people. ri
The laws governing national banks a
and currency discriminate against
you in every way. Demand a change el
in this, and a law preventing sudden bi
reduction and contractions in the a
currency. There is more need of a el
law to prohibit national banks re- C1
ducing their issue below an estab- 0
lished minimum than from increas- d
ing it above a fixed maximum. It u
is- the sudden and arbitrary with- S<
drawal of money from circulation in a
the fall that depresses the market 1
value of your products while still in t;
your h..ds unsold, while later undue 14
expansion immensely enhances the s
profits of speculators and mnanufac- tl
turers.
Demand the repeal of the lien law,
and demand thke passage of a seven ri
per cent. usury law. tl
It is safe to say that the average L
rate at which goods are obtained e
under the lien law, is no less than i
fifty per cent. It is equally safe to ,
say that no farmer who does not buy y,
and sell, or in some other way sup- o
plement his farming operations, cana
pay safely more than seven per cent. r
for borrowed money. The only safe e
rule is to make your dollar before t
you spend it, and not to spend it be-i
fore you make it, and all attempts to
farm on fictitious credit under exist
ing laws must prove delusive andt
disastrous.
* * * *j *
I again most emphatically repeat,
it is not enough to merely asser-t our
principles. It is not enough for ust
to believe that -the first law of ne.ture(
is to protect ourselves," but to de
monstrate beyond the possibility of
doubt our determination and ab ility
to do it. Not at the expense of
other legitimate callings, hut we
should understand what relation our
avocation bears to the other avoca:
tions; what interests legitimate an:1
proper the one has in the other, arnd
the one owes the other and zealously
see to it that we are not carrying
burdens which are not ours by inter
est, or by right to bear. We owe
this to ourselves and our calling from
ce-y standpoint; but especially in
-view of the magnitude of the interest
in which~ we are engaged and the
disposition on the part of other in
terests to lay burdens upon if should
-we be zealous of our own interests
-and our own rights. *
-Patrons, this is the time not only
-to think deeply, but to act wisely.
Study well political 'economy. Study
-deeply and intelligently the relations
existing between our calling and the
general welfare, not forgetting what
we owe ourselves and posterity, and
having determined where we hu
stand, banishing all prejudice, prac
tically act out our honest convictions.
SI do not want to be an alarmist,
eor a croaker, but feel it my duty to
warn you that in the near future, if
not at the next session of your State
hLegislature, it will be seriously ad
vocated to remove taxation from all
avarieties of personal property, and
dconcentrate and impose it upon
Ltans* 4~ * * * *
It is seriously urgett to repeal al
iost all the State Law that now pro
acts the individual citizen from the
iinous extortions of public car
ers and leaves him to contend
opelessly with the power. influence,
nd monev of soulless :nonopolists.
It is seriously contemplated to de
.roy such institutions and associa
ons as have been established and
re being operated for the benefit of
riculture---their usefulness has
een already impaired, and most
;rangely these attacks are led and
Lvored by men claiming to be and
> represent farmers.
The farmers should have a policy
i to the public affairs of the State.
; should be simple, fair, true, hon
st, and just; doing injustice or wrong
>none, and claiming or asking only
hat is right and proper for them
lves. The starting point of that
>licy should be to insist upon the
mplification and cheapening of the
.ws of the State. Let them be so
lain and simple that the citizens of
merage education and intelligence
in understand and safely construe
em. Let the cost be so reduced as
place them within the reach of the
>or man. Now our law is so com
ex that even the Supreme Court
ides upon its construction-the
ircuit Judges are at sea, and the
ar has as many constructions as
ients may need and pay for. And
s enormous cost precludes the poor
an from its benefits or protection.
rually making the law a privilege
the rich instead of a right of the
wr. In a Democratic State and
epublic. law and justice should be
e( to all, "without money and with
it price." But, to the contrary,
tLch Congress and each LegYislature
creases the tyrannical power of the
ch and helpless slavery of the poor.
4- - W :11k, *
Brothers, it is always painful and
nbarrassing to any man of sensi
lity, to discuss his claims to merit
good record. I hope you will ex
ise my presuming upon our long,
ose and cordial association in this
rder, and your oft repeated evi
ences of respect and hoi.or conferred
pon me, to make a very few per
)nal remarks. Born and reared in
family that, though numerous,
ever had, until the present genera
on, a professional member; I, fol
)wing the bent of my breeding; have
ent my life, and, until the last
iree years, gained my entire sup
ort as a farmer. Before the war I
ras a life-member of your State Ag
cultural Society and chairman of
ie committee on agriculture in your
.egislature. Since the war, I was
lected by y ou in 1874 lecturer, and
1876 Master; serving, as you know,
ithout a salary or pay. For three
ears I was chairman of committee
agriculture in the State Senate,
nd a life-..ember of your State Ag
icultural Society. This is my re
ord as a representative of agricul
re, and all I have officially done is
n print. On your estimate of me
.nd this record, I propose to stand,
ithout condescending to notice, in
he papers or otherwise, the unjust
md basely false insinuations, wheth
r emanating from wild fanaticism,
enseless blather-skiting, or menda
~ios malice. In 1878 the Legislu
ire made the Master of the State
grange ex officio a member of the
state Board of Agriculture, and in
184 a trustee of the State University.
In 1882, I was elected by the peo
le and as a Democrat, Secretary of
tat; the many and very diverse|
lutes acrolved upon this latter oflice
[ hav tried to discharge zealously,
althflIy, and~ honestly, and this I
eieve my bitterest enemies admit.
Vor this service I receive the same
ay that was given to my predeces
sor without comp)laint by any one,
ud will doubtless, be given to my
successor.
There is no connection whatever,
between the office of Secretary of
State and that of Master of the State
Grange; and underhanded attempts
to falsely confound the two to my
detriment cannot be considered fair,
truthful or honest.
But, friends, enough, and too much
of this. Whenever charges are pre
ferred against me to you, you will
try them and a true verdict give.
Till then, I shall continue the even
tenor of my way with silent disregard
for all maligners.
"In comfortable circumstances"
two lovers occupying one arm-chair.
Diamonds are always regarded as
vulgar by persons of refined tastes
and limited means.
The office should seek the man, it
is true, but as a general thing it
doesnt. Indeed, it doesnt have to.
The r.ma saves it the trouble.
Columbl:Cs Opportunity.
With the railroad tide sweeping on
all around us, it is not as we will,
but as we must. Let us look at the
ailroad situation all around us. Let
us berin with Charleston. Whilst
the old city seems asleep, there is
somebody moving on the board for
ier, and we are glad .o see it, for it
is not a comfortable thing to see the
ild city die like a rat in a corner.
What does the Eutawville Road
mean for a new and important con
iection for Charleston ? With this
road at Eloree in Orangeburg Coun
y, it taps a most fruitful country,
itherto without any railroad facili
ies. At this point the new road, as
measured on the State map. i.s fif
een miles from lie Congaree. cross
ng between Fort Motte and King
-ille, and just twenty miles from a
lirect connection with the Camden
branch at Wateree Junction. From
the Wateree Junction to the forty
>ne mile station is exactly fifty
miles drawing through a splendid
:ountry. From' the Congaree trestle
o the forty-one mile station is forty.
seven miles. From Wateree Junc
ion by the present route via King
-ille and Orangeburg to the forty
ne mile station is sixty-eight and a
alf miles. Here, then, would
be a saving of eighteen and a
alf miles to Camden and a
good country opened up the whole
way. But from the forty-one mile
station by the present route to
Congaree, it is 6GN miles; the new
route is 47 miles, showing about 14
miles saved without a stick of trestle
to build. But at Camden by this
valuahe connection, Charleston sits
ready to make connection with the
Monroe, N. C., route, or the Shelby,
route pointing for Camden. If it be
omes the interest of Kershaw and
Lancaster County-as it undoubtedly
will be-to go to Monroe, N. C., as
that line may swing on through
Chester and Abbeville to Atlanta, we
see the new Charleston Camden line
is ready to strike for Monroe, 50
miles distant, with the counties of
Kershaw and Lancaster behind the
link. Iere, then, we find a new
Charleston line tapping the Robin.
son system at Monoe, all to the ad
vantage of the North Carolina-Vir
inia system, and very greatly to the
advantage of Charleston. ' But this
line would pass twenty-five miles
ast of Columbia.
Charleston has another string to
er bow, and one looking to taking
he wind out of the sails of the Col
umbia, Newberry and Laurens char
er. This scheme is a road running
from Orangeburg to Gilbert Hollow,
ointing directly ior Prosperity and
ewberry. The road will undoubt
dly be built. Orangeburg very
properly takes a great interest in it.
The Lexington townships are fully
alive Li, ltz importance to them. The
South Carolin1a Railroad engineers
surveyed the road for the part.s at
interest and it is generally under
stood that the road is going to he
pressed right through.
Should we fail to stand up to the
Lexington Fork, Prosperity, New
berry and Laurens people in the
Columbia, Newb)erry and Laurens
charter, the Gilbert IHollow line will
immediately hold out proposals to
the Prosperity and the Newberry
people and press right on for Lau
rens. T1hat is the meaning of the
Gilbert Hollow connecton through
and through. Here is another Char.
leston line, then, threatening Colum
bia twenty miles West of her. So
far as the Chester-Abb2ville link is
concerned, we see another air line
road sweeping across the State fifty
miles north of us. The Register
pointed out two years ago the feast
bilty of this Abbeville-Atlanta route
Trhere is much in it for the localities
interested, and we cant blame peo
pIe for looking after their own in
terests, even though it should cut th
dirt from under our feet. We har
got to take care of our ourselves, o~
nobody will do it for us.
Again, Greenville is pressing for
route to the sea by her new narrov
gauge road, and is already at wor
upon it. All the roads that hav
been undertaken in the State thu
far have gone through to completion
with the exception r the Spartan
burg and Asheville road, which i
now being pressed to completion.
Augusta is putting out anothe
narrow gauge feeler for Carolin:
trade, p)assing through Edgefid t<
s~berry and on. We see, then. oi
1stry hand how it is that everythini
ilooking to sapping the trade tha
we must (depend upon for an exisi
ence.
Fortunately for us, we have got
charter covering all that was in th
Carolina Midland, if we will onl
make the most of it. But Charlesto
is pushing from Orange Iurg to Gilbert
Hollow to take the whole scheme out
of our hands if we balk in the furrow.
This Gilbert Hollow route is the
very route by which Maor Courte
nay proposed to llan: Co um1bia two
years ago.
But we have got the Lexington
Fork and Prosperity and Newberry
and Laurens people on our side.
We have got a ch-rt.: that will
carry us within twc-niy miles of
Franklin. Tennesse., riahtk t!rough
the Fork. Prosperity. Newberry C.
II., Laurens C. II.. Pie ol.t. EaIey.
Pickens C. II., to the Norlwe*ern
corner of the State. on t Airtct
route to Franklin, N. C.. the
strategic point for the Nor: we an
Southwest connections. i
of the way from the bo_nd of the
Keowee. three miles above the mouth
of the Big Estatoe. to Franklin. sona
thirty-two miles. is river course r: -
ning directly on an air line for
Franklin.
From Columbia to the North
western corner where the course of
the Chatanooga leads up to the Sugar
Town branch to the Tennessee
just 137 miles. Thence to Frank
lin twenty-three miles. There is no
reason why this distance should be
increased to 10 per cent-. for practica.
route. The rou.e from Columbia to
Franklin 176 miles. At Franklin
we would be sixty-two miles by air
line from Knoxville, and eighty-three
from Cleveland, Tennessee. Follow
ing the bend of the Tennessee by the
Maryville route to Knoxville, we have
some ninety-five miles to Knoxville.
But by taking a more direct route from
Franklin to Charleston, N. C.. and on
to the head waters of the Little
River, we f15d a route of seventv five
miles. From Franklin to Clevek, nd.
Tennessee, by the iawassee and
its Northern branch, the practical
route would be possibly one hundred
miles, The people of Bradley and
Polk Countics of Tennessee, and of
Cherokee, Graham and Clay, in the
Northwestern corner of North Caro
lina, are already alive to this Cleve
land connection.
With the road finished to Frank
lin, there could be little doubt that
the counties of Knox anrBlount in
Tennessee, and Swain and Macon in
North Carolina, with a present popu
lation between them of 76,000, and
an assessed property valuation of
$11,000,000, coul, in county and in
dividual subscriptions. raise 8500,
000. Now, from Columbia to Frank
lin, we see ti at everything hinges on
Richland county. This county has
no debt, andl if we propoose to la)
hold of this matter in earnest we
should put our shoulder to; the collar
at once and lead off wit b a 6 per
cent. county subscription on our
assessed valuation of t;.;UJ,000.
This would raise $3G0.000. To this
should be added 840,000 individual
subscription. We should t1:us s:ep
in the arena with $400,000.
Tho~~ Fork, in township and indi
vidual subscriptions, should give
$100000; Newberry, $130,000; Lau
rens, $150,000; the four interested
townships in Greenville and Ander
son, $40,000, and Pickens. $G0,000I.
This foots up, including individual
subscriptions. $900,000 to an assessed
valuation of $20.000,000 in the coun
ties and townships interested. This
would give, for the 175 miles to
Franklin, $3,173 per mile. It is con
idently believed that SS,000 per
mile will build, iron and equip the
road, thus showing a shortage of
$500,000, and should the people of
the rest of the route between Frank
in and Knoxville do their share in
subscribing S500,003. there would
possibly be s500,000' ~shortage o
that part of the route, in the i:ands
of a large corporation the ro~ad couild
evidentic~ carry that much of mort
gage debUt. if it was worth building
-at all. So far as we, in South Caro
lina, are concerned, if we put up the
.money to carry the road to Franklin,
there is no trouble about getting
powerful corporation to take up the
scheme and carry it to Knoxville, s'
that we will have a South Caro ina
truk line from Knoxville to the0 sea
under one management. If the peo
ple of Columbia and Richland sec
things as we do they must sec
that this is the biggest thing.
ever offered Combia. andl throuzl
her to Richland county. Seize this
opportunity, and v:e no lon;rer occu
pr a second-han'i peition. but stan(
boldly out as one .f the most impor
taut centres of the trade in the wholc
South. This of itself wi make imn
meiate use of our great water powei
and assure Colk.nia's :rture for all
time.
~But we must move, we must no1
haggle. We 'must take. the lead ir
this thing not to wat for othe-rs t<
do it. W e must act now o take:
back set, and take it for ali time
Let our people saiy whan they will do
and sa it quickly before th oppor
tunity is gone.j
A Prontale intustry.
A correspoident of the Wilming
ton Star give some f:gures as to the
pronlts in fruit canning. He shows
that the small outlay of $500 will
grive a respectable start in the busi
ness. A partnership can easiTy be
formed w'th a skilled person who
will set his work against the money
invested and await sales. Even be- -
fore sales many commission mer
chants stand ready to advance ready
MAoney, enough to operate the facto
ris. The profits are very great.
There ia a constant demand for the
goods. ad another _dvantage is that
tyv will a ways keep fresh and pure.
S eld over from one year to
aTher will nt spoil and there is no
js s in this way. The work is easy
andl suited to delic:,te persons and
femAu!es. It is simple and no long
years of training are reqaired.
South Carolina is well suited to
the business. We have the climate
for an abundance of fruit, and cheap
labor is at hand. There is certainly
more money in it than in cotton at
present prices. Suppose we take
the canning of corn as an example
as there is always a demand for it
and there would be no trouble in
buvinz at our own doors. Say we
could make ten bushels to the acre,
and, counting waste and loss, we
could can twenty-five quarts to each
bushel or 250 quarts to the acre.
Five dollars wnuld cover the cost of
raisinz the corn and ten dollars the
cost of getting it to market. We
would have twenty dozen cans at
$1.25 per dozen, as it now sells' at
wholesale, which would give $25, or
a clear profit of $10 for the acre or
$1.00 per bushel. In the calculation
it will be observed that we estimate
the cost at the highest -figure and
make a large allowance for waste and
loss. The cans of corn now on se
do not hold a quart by any means.
They weigh about 1- pounds while
there are 56 pounds of shelled corn to
the bushel. So we have inade due
allowance.
Corn is not the only product in
which there is a large rofit-.
garden vegetables and all fruits and
berries can be counted. Neither
need the factories be idle in winter
for beef and meats of all kinds cbuld
be bad, on which the profits are even
greater.
In New Jersey and Delaware the
business is so remunerative that
nearly every farmer gives it attention.
They buy cans, already prepared, at -
wholesale. and travelling tinners
malke the rounds when engaged and
every household realizes a big profit
from what we waste.
To get material no outlay of cash
would be required but could be paid
for in toll. It will prove a paying
indtustry to any one who undertakes -
it in time. We have agitated it
many years but could g'et no farmer
whiose ambition extends cnly to a
tag on a sack of guano to give heed
to our word s.-Abhbeville Medium.
. A Farmer Splkm.
meeting last Monday, was called
to appoint delegates to the Farmers'
State Convention, to meet in Colum
bia to perfect a farmers' organiza
tion.
'The object of which organization
is to perfect, and advance the farm
ers' interests. The character or kind
of protection that we will likely re
ceive from this organization will de
pend on the character of the organi- -
zation itself.
If it is allowed to be made a polit
ical machine, then we do not want it,
because we do not need it. The Dem
>cratic party is good enough for us
andI we have it already to hand.
ILet this farmers' State organiza
tion secure for its btnefit, the very
best talent available, and let this
talent be so used as to lead, direct
and, consolidate our forces.
When this is accomplished then we
will be ready to consider any subject
that may present itself and we are
not ready until this is accomplished.
IOur d~anger lies in allowing our
selves, to l)e drawn into politics.
Let our delegates be on their guard
and let them give their attention
Iwholly to perfecting the farmers' or
.ani zation.- B. in Carolina Spartan.
Noter1Men who Wrote and Fiddled.
We dont know that we ever had in
this country a great sailor who fid
dled. But we have one who.writes nov
els. History will record that Admi
ral Porter's naval work was as good as
his literary work was bad. Jefferson
w.as an. excellent fiddler. It was re
corded of him that it was by the ex
cellence of his fiddling that he won
his wife from two formidable rivals.
But he was, in reality, a many-sided
man; there were few branches of
knowledge with which he had not
some acquaintance. The great Conde
1wrote very fair poetry, and Julius
-Cimsar, as everybody knows, thought
he was greater as an orator than as a
soldier,' though his speeches were
eally poor stunlT