The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, September 15, 1914, Page 2, Image 2
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BLEASE TALKS OF 1
SPECIAL SESSION
Governor Tells What He Thinks
Legislature Should Do.
TO SEND SHORT MESSAGE;
leaves for Portland. Me., to Attend
Meeting of National
Council Ked Men.
Columbia Special to Charleston
News and Courier. Sept. 11.?Governor
Blease left Columbia this afternoon
for Portland. Me., where he
goes to attend the National Council
of the Order of Red Men. In a half
jocular vein, but perhaps with more
or less serious intent, he suggested
that he was going to see his campaign
for the vice presidential nomination
started at Portland.
In pursuance of his suggestion thaf
he would have something further to
say by way of explanation of his
proclamation of the official and formal
call for the special session of the
general assembly. Governor Blease
had this statement prepared for the
press:
"1 stated to The News and Courier
correspondent last night, when I
gave him the proclamation calling
for an extra session of the lcgislatiisit
I ilid not have the oppor
tunity then to prepare'a statement of
my views in reference to the extra
session, but that I would give them
to him this morning. I did make a
few remarks to him, as he states,
among them that I was not inclined
to agree that a stay law of some kind
or form could not be legally enacted.
My reasons for calling the ex- l
tra session of the general assembly
nre clearly and fully set forth In the
proclamation. I shall, of course,
when the legislature is convened,
send them a short message, giving
to them such suggestions as I think
are proper, and then leave it with
them to enact such laws as they
deem wise.
"1 think, however, that one of the
very things that they should do
would be to appoint a non-factional
committee to confer with a similar
committee from the legislatures or
other cotton growing States as to
what is best to do in reference to the
cotton situation so as to get together
upon a proper and uniform law that
the benefit;- derived fram it will be
given to all of the cotton growing
people and approv.d by the Governors
of the cotton growing States.
"Now, individually. I am of the
opinion that they should pasA a law
protecting the poor people of the
State from being imposed upon by
the foreclosure of oither personal or
real estate mortgages during this
panic. I am satisfied that such a law
can oe passed as will meet every
constitutional requirement. Thoy
may not call it a stay law, but it most
assuredly can be termed a law for
the protection of the majority of the
citizens of the state.
"I also think that they should pass
a law to reduce the rate of interest
in this State and to make it a felony
punishable by a long term of imprisonment.
without the alternative of
a fine, for any yerson, association or
corporation to chsrge any monoy l>or- i
rower, either by discount or otherwise,
any greater rate of interest
than that fixed in the hill so as to
stop the usury, or you might properly
say robbery, of the man who is
compelled to hare a little money.
"I think they should also take up
and Rive their mosl careful and serious
consideration a State warehouse
system -either such a bill as
Mas introduced at the last session, or
such hill as will Rive the farmers
proper relief.
"And yet the most important of
nil matters to he considered as 1 see
it. is to make arrangements to finance
the State during the crisis,
without issuing executions against
the property of the individual citizen
who will not be able to meet his )
tax obligations this fall. The present
Admlnisstration borrowed ail
the money it wanted this year?suf
ficient amount to run it? at 3 1-2
per cent, in the face of all the cursing.
abuses and vilification and the
lies that have been told on the present
Governor, and with the bankers,
money interests, all fighting him and
trying to Hamper ms ?uuiiuinuHiuu
in order to cause his defeat. It certainly
would seem then that the incoming
administration, with a very,
very wealthy bank president at its
head, endorsed by all the money interests^
the state, including capital
ists, bankers, railroad officials, cotton
mill presidents and others, surely
should, if not much cheaper than
cheaply, if not much cheaper than
the retiring administration, and. in
view of this fact, I heartily favor the
extension of the time for the payment
of taxes in order to protect the
property of the poor and hfdpless.
"The people are the state and each
Individual, however poor .he may be,
is as laiich n part of his state as the
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wealthiest man in it, and should receive
the same protection from its t
laws; in my opinion, it is a great
deal better for the state as a whole j
to be in debt than it is for the indi- ,
vldual to have every little thing he
has forced upon the market and his!
J wife and children turned out of ]
home; and, as the state has borrow- t
ed this year all the money she wants ,
at a Ya per ceui, inu 110 iuuitmiiihi
ran borrow money at all, or if so, for
not less than eight or ten per rent.,
therefore, it is better for all of the
individuals, AS ONE, called the
state, to borrow money to run the
government on until April 1st .at
3 per cent, or even at 5 per cent,
than to force the one individual citizen
to mortgage all he has to borrow
money a* eight or ten per cent
in order to pay his pro ixta share
of the running expense* of the government.
of which government he is
one. I have repeatedly called the attention
cf the legnir.'ur> to the fact
that extravagant appropi iatior.s
made extravagant levies, and if the
legislature had listened to me at it3
last session, and sustained all my
vetoes, the levy this year could have
been much less than it is, however, '
it is too late now to discuss that sit- j
nation. We must discuss the one '
that faces us. There is many a poor p
man who will not he able to pay his 1
taxes this fall?in fact, he v'll not s
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be able to pay ror what r.3 at: nlis
family have already necessarily had "
to consume in order to Bus?xi:i life, '
and will have a hard time to make 1
arrangements to continue to get the 'l
necessities of life under the present ''
financial panic; and it most assured-1'1
It would be unjust, unfair and ty- s
tl
rarnical for the whole tc say to the
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on ?. we will take your property and '
force It on the market and force your
wife and children out In the street l)
if you do not par your taxes by a 1
r^r'aln date, particularly when the
whole knows that It is in.possible for
the one, the individual, to make such
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arrangements, or If he does make it,.'
to do so by the payment of an exorbitant
profit to the money lender.
To illustrate?suppose a corporation a
Is composed of ten men and they owe n
$100,000?each being required to 1
pay In $10,000. If the corporation
could borrow the amount needed at 8
3 \<x per cent and no individual could
borrow his $10,000 for less than 10
per cent by mortgaging all he haci,
would it not be better for the corporation,
as a whole to borrow the j
$ 100,000 than for each individual to
be forced to borrow his $10,000?
Any one will answer 'Yes,' for the
individuals make the corporation.
Just so with the state. It is inn h
cheaper for the state, as a whole, to
borrow the amount needed to run the j
government than it is to force ?ach
Individual to pay an exorbitant rate 1
of interest by mortgaging all of his J1
property to pay his pro rata share; r
and, as with the corporation, the in- I
dividual makes the great corpora- v
tion?namely the state.
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"As 1 stated in my inaugural ad- t
dress, in 191 <>, which I repeat now
it Is far bettor to have a poor govern
ment and a wealthy people titan it j
is to have a wealthy government and ?,
a poor people. If our general as- c
sembly had listened to me then, and >
acted upon that presumption, which ^
is absolutely true, our people would p
not be as closely pinched as we are
In the present crisis; but the legfs- 11
lature, being overwhelmingly oppos- J'
ed to me, carried out its usual poll- ^
cies and showed to me world that v
anti-Rleaseism was the oppression of a
tlie poor, while Hleaseism was then J
as it is today, the refuge of the poor
and the oppressed." t
It will be noted that C5ove.*nor F
Blease places special stress upon the (
idea of a conference between a non ?
factional committee from the South
Carolina assembly and a similar committee
from other states. Ho thinks
this will accomplish more in ?ho way
of results than a conference of governors.
Tf the people of the state and the
general assembly want a stav law or
its equivalent. Governor Rlcaso
thinks It can he done.
Congratulations.
Philadelphia Record.
Sllicus?When Is the proper time
to congratulate a bride and groom?
Cynicus?After they have lived to'gether
for at least a year and are
still happy.
<'ivili/.ation's Advance.
Philadelphia Ledger.
"They don't burn yule logn any
more at Christmas, do they?"
"No, only money."
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T1IL LANCASTER NEW!
Men ami the Church.
Spartanburg Journal.
Some time back The Journal reprinted
from The Baptist Courier
ind commented upon a letter from
Joseph Norwood of Columbia, on
'Why So Few Men Attend Church."
[n this letter Mr. Norwood claimed
ihat the ministry had lost its influsuce.
R. B. Norria of Greenwood writes
to The Courier this week on Mr.
Norwood's letter. He says:
"In The Courier of July 20th,
Brother Joseph Norwood writes of
:lie reason why so few men attend
church' and makes the statement
that the ministry or our state has
woefully lost its Influence, if indeed
t ever possessed it. The- idea Dlaces
.he ministry In the pdsition of that
>f the Catholic priest, that is the
priest gives to the people spiritual or
noro knowledge, or withholds it
'rom them as it may^please himself,
ind our brother overlooks or fails to
ixpress or imply the 'doctrine of the
esponsihility of every individual
ieclple of our Lord Jesus Christ.
"I am not willing that all, if any
>f the blame for the 'woeful* condlions
in the churches, and in our poltics
be placed on the ministry. The
[renter part of the trouble is that v.e,
he laymen, fail to apply, and conerve
the truths of the gospel as deivered
to us, and allow it to go by
in heeded to a fearful waste. 1 beieve
the cause of this condition is
hat we fail to think about Christ
nd His code of righteousness. Men
o not go to church on Sunday mornug,
or evenings or to the Sunday
eliools or prayer meetings be >ause
bey are not thinking about the
taster, and if they go to these places
here they should worship God.
here is so little thought of Him that
hnv foil l?u *
no/ mil iu iiviv.li UlU npiril, <11111
ruths of the Gospel.
"Our ministry Is delivering to us
a South Carolina, and all over this
outheland of ours, every week a
liagara flow of Gospel truths, and we
he laymen, allow It to flow on to an
wful waste by our failure to conlect
our Chrlst-thoughta up to It, and
ransmlt It to the world through our
uslness, professional, political, and
oclal lives.
"The great need of the hour Is
hat men and women every where
ould be made to read, think, and
ealise the terrible things that
ome to people, and nations who
leareth, and heedeth not the voice
>f the prophets, and forget, thinking
lot c! God."
Mr. Norris' views are practically
ho same as ours.
Wisdom of Diversified ! arming.
londerson Gold Deaf.
There are many lessons to be
earned from the predicament wo
ihnll find ourselves is as a result of
he Kuropean turmoil. Dessons for
ill classes manufacturers, dealers,
lankers. planters?through the
t Hot nf thn vnooH/\na *?/-?
nention those upon whom fall the rcponsibilittes
and cares of our naional
.and state gvernments.
The press of the country will he
iisv from now on pointing out simie
f these things which, if learned and
iceded. will constitute a part of "the
ilver lining" of this so dark war
loud. This paper desires to speak
ust now about a matter that conems
first of all the planter, yet
fhich affects us all, for every other
usiness depends on the farmer
The farmers who have been in the
abit of making either cotton or toacco,
or hoth, practically their only
rop, or crops, need no one to tell
hem now that such a practice is not
>'ise. The exigencies of war will
.pprfse them of that fact. The farm
ournais have for years been trying
o persuade the tillers of the soli to
ilant diversified crops, urging th?m
o cultivate, so far as it is at all
iracticahle, ail they and their stock
i-ould consume. Some have taken
he advice, while many others have
lot. A number of our N'orth t'aroiria
farmers who have land that will
ir would produce almost anything,
nstead of cultivating a varietv of
rops, devote practically atl their
nergy to cotton or tobacco. Others
ittempt to lessen the hazard by growng
hoth of these crops. Rut that
s never safe, for no one can foresee
lie future and no one knowi at
ilanting time that by harvest time
:he bottom may drop out o* the
narkets and leave this kind of farmir
stranded. He may And himself
vith little to eat, less to feed hi?
itock on and no savings ahead. Then
ae la either forced to sell at a sacrl
flee price, or to borrow money at a
(ligh rate of Interest.
The better and safer way is tc
cultivate a variety of crops, raising
snouRh of the cereals and vegetables
Tor consumption in the farnllj
through the year and sufficient grab
?.nd provender for the stock. Ther
the rest of his t'me and energy maj
be spent on a money crop for th?
market.
But in this day when we have s<
large an industrial city and towi
population with so large a class de
pendent upon the trucker for vege
tables, fruits, etc., the energetic an<
resourceful farmer has the oppor
tunity of making many an extra do!
lar by bringing to market his oveplus
of truck and fruits. Nean;
everything can be sold today h
town, and the towns are becomini
so numerous that those who 1 iv<
remote from one or several of then
are becoming fewer and fewer.
One farmer raises his own bog
and cattle, corn and hay sufficlen
for all Ids uses, makes his own when
and about everything else he con
sutnes, having a little excess of al
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