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W V/ XV THE PRES ABB WM. P. GREENE, Published Every Wednesc Entered as second-class mail 1 Wednesday, ANOTHER We have urged up as a reason why the bond issue at this tirr gaged in the greates which has destroyed lion dollars worth of which may, before il />/\V%4* ATI -ft -P4-TT live jjci ucxit. ui n-Li/j perty values in this ( impossible not only f per but for the peop] meet their demands es which will come t( Dr. J. A. Hayne of C Court House on the si ing us of the enormoi the English people. in England the peopl* upon every five dolk ty in the country. T1 is no time to assume : den the country and debts for purposes w of benefit. There is another r( beville county should selves with public de we have been advise know, that the boll ^ ress in its way towar< upon the Savannah along with McCormi will be among the firs stroyer of crops wher told that the boll wee it goes. It carries awa Simoon, the propert; people in this county government to reliev< even ordinary taxes visiting their commu relief from ordinar * 11 ?i when the boll weevil < come it will strike al few years. The people of this their only money cro from which they get i mules, to buy clothes taxes. If a man pro body else does likewi ing. No other crop s in this section as a n no longer raise cotto something else, but any one else know, w at least this part of t perimental state in t ' in that time the peop about hard times. A than $2.50, $5.00 or has no cotton to sel money he will find it taxes are raised fifty this bond issue is vot ??V?r\Ti7 in cmn+Vipr poll' Oliv ?? 111 Wiivviiv^ vv.? that extent greater, cept men who have n it They will suffer t tion of their propert: buy your property ar which is forced on tl the end will recoup willow vm-nq Q nnp Vir>rs< WU\7 X Ulio w ? whether he owns his be able to protect hii S AND BANNER EVILLE, S. C. | s/s/s/sAVNAVv/NVs/N/srv/NAv/^/s/sys^s/sysyN^s/N^N/s/s/N/sAvs/s/N/s/s^sys/s/s<s/s/s/Nrsrs I Editor [ lay by The Press and Banner Co. natter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. August 1, 1917 N/N/NAVS/^VN/S/N/N/N/S^/N/V^S/N/NVSAS^V/N/^N/S^V/N/S/N^S/N^N/S^N/N/N/N/N/NAS/N/N/S/-* REASON WHY on the readers of this paper people should not vote a le, the fact that we are ent war of all times, a war more than seventy-five bilproperty 'in Europe, and t is ended destroy twentyper cent, of the taxable projountry, thereby making it or the country itself topros-j le to prosper and be able to j and pay the inevitable loss-' ) them. A few nights ago j Columbia, spoke to us in the abject of the Red Cross, tell-; US taxes now ueing paiu u.y; [n his address he stated thatj 3 were paying a tax of SI.75 j irs worth of taxable proper-' lis should warn us that now! new obligations, nor to bur-1 the people with enormous hich may or may not prove, iason why the people in Ab-; go slow in burdening them-: bt. For the last year or two I d by those who claim to reevil is making great prog-1 i South Carolina. Situated River, Abbeville county, j ck and Edgefield counties, j st counties visited by this delit does come. And we are1 m\ cleans up everything asi ,y in a night, like an Eastern! y of the day before. The have heretofore asked the 3 them from the payment of j on account of hail storms! nity, but there will be noj y or extraordinary taxes; somes, because when it does1 1 alike, certainly within a country know that cotton is p so far. It is the only crop mrmpv+.n nav rights, to buv IT *~?/ ? 7 -- - f and shoes, and to pay high duces a crop of fruit everysp and it hrine-s him in noth 50 far has proven successful I loney crop. When we can n profitably we must turn to we do not know, nor does rhat it will be. For five years he country will be in an exhe matter of farming, and >le will find out something L man may not pay more $10.00 taxes, but when he 1 from which to raise the burdensome indeed. If these per cent, as they will be if ed as we have attempted to imn, the burdens will be to Everybody will suffer exloney, or the ability to raise emporarily in the depreciabut they will be enabled to id your neighbor's property, le market for debts, and in their losses. But the man! 3 farm or a two horse farm, j own land or rents, will not! nself in this way. He will \ / find his hands shackled With and a want of profitable emp lot is going to be a hard one comes, as we have been told. Those who have been procl for the two years are very qui< because they want the bonds \ the towns with each other, bu that the boll weevil is coming, to be ready for his coming is 1 cut out all unnecessary expen; taxes, and keep your money ii bond issue in Abbeville count; levied, as we have attempted benefit of a very few people. Now is the time to vote aga wait and to investigate. nilTIf IMM/i DA A INI DU1LU111U IW/AU, The attention of the reader* of this paper i E. C. Meschine, published in today's issue, call ties in the Act for issuing road bonds in this i matter last week incidentally, intending this more fully. The letter of Mr. Meschine adds In every city and town in South Carolina so has issued bonds for permanent improvement* been assessed against the ubutting property 1 I been taxed for only a part of the cost. This hi A man who owns property on Greenville stre ment in the value of his real estate when that who owns property on a street running parall not paved, secures no such enhancement in th cause the people generally will want to live 01 be willing to pay more rent for residences or suit that property on streets which are not pai less desirable. The man who owns no propert ally from the paving of streets. And it is for ting property holders are assessed for the dii their lands before the public is taxed for the ir the good streets. And this is right. Now the same rule should obtain, we submit v/e concede for the sake of argument that san roads and permanent roads, which we do not cc should pay for them? Manifestly the public w pay a portion of the cost by taxation, but the the whole cost by way of taxation than the pub for permanent streets in the city. Dr. Neuffer to make all the people in the county pay by ( of building the so-called good roads. He was Constitutional Amendment submitted to the p the city of Abbeville might assess abutting pri Abbeville for a portion of the expense of build abutting property holders in the city of Abbevil cost of building good streets or roads in the c abutting property holders not pay a portion o country districts? If it is fair in one place wl As a matter of fact we have heard a great building up along the 165 miles of new highu we have not heard from the other two thousar not being worked, except through the Piedm quoted last week to show that the roads in ot such bad condition that the United States Go' tinue a number of rural mail routes. .Does n that while the lands on the new roads are be desirable, and .while new houses are being bu and acres of lands lying on other roads not be less desirable, harder to rent, and much less < the bad roads? And let us come on home. It is proposed tc or two hundred miles of roads. These roads v bers of the Commission, whoever they may be in the matter. As human beings, when there ar equally desirable, they are going to take the r to the friends of the majority. What will be on these roads, if they prove permanent, will enhance in value, will be more sought after by mand and receive more rent for the lands, wh not reached will suffer because his lands are lei less sought after by renters, and will therefore Under these circumstances, we ask the peo] should pay for these roads? Should the peof value will be enhanced, should the people who reached, pay taxes to enhance the value of th< or should the people whose lands lie along th pay a good portion of the cost before the pub the people of this county and we tell them agi sought to be foisted on the people of this co campaign which has ever been pulled off in i people interested in enhancing the price of th< of the public when the public will reap only i we say that the people to be directly benefited pay for their advantage which will come to th if the bonds are voted. There is another consideration in this matt holders on each side of the proposed roads wo of the cost of the roads as far as they go throu still make fewe "little graves" if bad roads ma roadway and help twice as many people. By so doing we would enhance that much mi benefits of good roads, if they are good, nea ? ? .L- 1- ill the school* in more placet, lr me roans win make fewer "little graves" if bad roads make The present Act because it proposes to tax county on an equal basis to hoist the price of 1 is unequal in its operation, unjust and entire!; cent, of the people of Abbeville county should value of the property of ten per cent, of the p< are able to raise twelve hundred dollars to pull They should educate themselves on bearing the expect to receive and not expect the people \ benefitted, and those people who own no real < towards the enlargement of their fortunes. And because it is unequal and unjust, the the proposed bond issue, and tell the bond ad a proper bill passed, so that if the people at have found out whether sand clay roads are build roads, they may do so with fairness to to none. Every man who wants to treat faili vote against the issue of bonds now proposed debt, high taxes, >loyment, and his if the boll weevil i i \i aiming his coming j? cif An i-j- o -f- rriio rimoii t/l> V-/11 11/ CIill I'JLllO oted to connect up i p 1: they have told us a If he is, the way r to get out of debt, B ses, including high [ ri your pocket. The ? y spells high taxes, * to show, for the 1 a ,inst high taxes, to 1 s V ss called to t'.he letter of Mr. ing attention to the inequali- ^ county. W? referred to this week to diitcuss the matter 5 to the subject. ^ far as we have known which j a Dortion of the cost has . lolders, and the public has j I ? is been done for this reason: i et secures a great enha-ce- . street is paved, while a man ! el with Greenville, which is s e value of his propisrty, bei the paved streets, and will i a i these streets, with the ren j I red will go down and become y obtains no benefit financi- . b the reasons stat?d that ib-'V1 ect benefits which come to ^ icidental benefit coming from : \ , in '-:he building of roads. If: d clay roads will prove good , incede as matter of fact, who hich travels the roads should : public ahould no more pay ilic should pay the whole cost / was putting through the bill s taxation, the WHOLE COST y at the same time having a ieople of the State whereby p in I'Ko rtf : c ling permanent streets. If the t le should psiy a p ortion of the :ity of Abbeville why should t f the cost an the county, or s ly is it not fair in the other? v deal about Greenville county Ii ray built in that county, but id miles of highway which is a ont, from which paper we p her sections were getting in s vernment in about l:o discon- v ot every sensible man know ' o ing built up and made more 3 ilt cn this 165 miles, acres sing so worked, are becoming p :asily reached on account of c > build one hundred and fifty, /ill be built to suit the mem-jp i; they have supreme power! d "e two routes to a given point oute which is most satisfying the result? The lands lying 0 become more desirable, will renters, the owners will deiile the man whose lands are is desirable, harder to reach, sell for less. lie of Abbeville county who * >le who own no lands whose ' own lands which will not be ' s lands olr ? very few people, c e roadwayu and adjoining it v tlic is taxed? W?t have told a tin that it great inequality is unty by the highest priced * Abbeville county. There are * sir real estate at the expense ' i portion of the benefits, and ^ I should pay and are able to c em from th? supposed roads, * t er. If the abutting property ' uld pay twenty-five per cent. * gh the Inr.ds of such owners, 1 ke "morti little graves." are property which bring the rer to more people,, build up build up the uchooU, and i "more Kittle ifri.Toi." all tbe people of Abbeville v the land of a very (Pew people a f discriminatory. Ninety per j not be taxed to tmhanee the p eople, when this l:en per cent. off a campaign of education, t I burdens of the Ibenefits they r rhose property is not to be \ sstate, to contribute one mite r F people :>hould vote against vocates to go back and have t the pro per time, when they 1 permanent or noi, aesire ?.u all and with special benefits f ry with h t neighbor should > c FOR THE Ml The Medium says that the editor of Tl erest in the plant on a basis of $5,000, >4,000, a press for about $1,500, and a nd the plant is still returned at the sami nd that this accounts for the big levies a A half truth is worse than an out-and iJoboc'y knows better than the editor of iround the office of this paper as much ilant of The Press and Banner at the tii nade up of two printing presses, which n it were several tons of old metal, whit nd which we sold and turned into other nachinery for the folder in our office, an he plant which was there when the editi a it, is two job presses worth about $2 ibout $125. Yet the editor of The Mediu ieve that we have added five thousand do till the same machinery we first had. Being unable to answer the argument ^ith arguments, the editor of The Mediui or. We will not decline to meet him on hi Medium came to Abbeville some years s Medium which had been the support of amily for a number of years. He paid i_ _l. i. ?L x _c tc nnn .... IOC& iu iiic aiuuuui ui fuyuvu, wuivu nc hen bought a new press and a new linol atter, according to our information. He ie paid $4,000, and which he capitalized ,f $1,000. The edtior has been going around fron ag the people what a great institution T ion it has, etc., but in all these years he ingle cent in the way of dividends, keep He undertakes to tell the people that 1 plant worth $5,000, and in two and oi 110,000. If he ha* done as well as the hat he had better explain to the tax au e returned for at least as much as the p /e have doubled our plant in two and c 'Tedium must have doubled his several ti: 7hy then return it at $1,000. "People who live in glass houses should AN INQUIRY AI The Medium asks in its last Friday's is Abbeville for paved streets and are not i o-called good roads. We are glad The M ire will reply to it. We would not vote for a bond issue in iresent time, nor until after the war. Wi teer clear of obligations of this kind un he war is known. We would vote for paved streets in Abfc ecause we believe that they are necest hown that they are PERMANENT IN TJ ?ill live as long as the bonds. Sand cla east we do not believe it has been so shi We favor at the proper time a bond it ct under which these bonds will be vot roperty abuts on these streets, and wh hall pay for the direct benefit he receiM fhich does not get paved streets is taxed ble and fair. We regard the present 'A< ame rate for the benefit of a very few leople who are to get the big benefit fr< iroportion to their property than a man me of the so-called good roads. We sa; he benefit of a favored few, and we opp There are othcV reasons which we hai resent proposed bond issue, but these [istinguish dirt roads v.rder an unjust ier a just law. Having fully answered, we ask The Mi >f a sidewalk on Greenville street. A NEW RICF After trying out the paid booster and he neonle into voting three hundred th< his county in this, the most critical day :aving imported speakers from the outs iur own questions, the bond issue advo< /hat they should have done last summer ill?they are now having reference to h< Mr. J. Allen Smith, the prince of banl tome of good roads advocates, we notic ubject at Antreville towards the end ol ic might tell the farmers in that prosp< Abbeville propose to lower the interest ra ause it will not be lowered until Mr. S he opinion that the farmers of Abbevi hey can grow on eight per cent discount kifr. Smith proposes to lower the rate to his trip would be the occasion to adTertii nay hear of it. Six per cent, interest will be a live que Ve warn you now. / A WORD TO THE This spring when everybody in Abbevi vhen everybody wanted to plant one, th< ome tons of cast iron pipe at the highe Vnderson got busy in laying it between ;lant. A citizen of Abbeville has told us that o whom he was paying seventy-five ceu neals; that immediately this work com vages of this negro to one dollar and tl tecessary in order to get the gardener 1 ler day with board. This illustrates what will take place ii ractors get to working on the roads, if I lired out of the fields of the farmers of s scarcer than in years and the laborers armera cannot afford to hire the crops v ill be not only a shortage of food crops :otton, with which to raise money for th< EDIUM. ie Press and Banner bought an inKa? bought a linotype for around folding machine for around $300 e figures as before these purchase* >f taxes in this county. l-out misstatement of the facts, the Medium, because he has been as any other individual, that thcj ne we went into the company was we traded for the new one* that) :h were used in hand composition machinery, that we traded other id that the only machinery now in ?r of this paper bought an interest 00 and a cutting machine worth m attempts to make the people bef % liars to the plant, and that we hare 1 of this paper on the bond issue m attempts the role of tax inquisis own ground. The editor of The igo and purchased The Abbevillo' General Hemphill and his large $4,000 for the plant. He issued presume was put in the plant. He :ype, paying about $3,700 for the returns his plant today for which at $6,000. at the magnificent sum i place to place in this county tellhe Medium is, and what a circulahas not paid to his stock-holders a ing the accumulations in the plant, the editor of this paper has taken le-half years had made it worth editor of this paper; we suggest: thorities why his plant should, not ilant of The Press and Banner. If >ne-half years, the editor of The mes since he has been in Abbeville. . not throw stones." "iSWERED. sue why we favor a bond issue in in favor of the bond issue for thp ' edium asked us that question, and , Abbeville for paved streets at the e believe it the part of wisdom Jo itil the status of the country after teville, at the proper time, however, lary, and because experience has HEIR NATURE, AT LEAST they iy roads are not so permanent, at own.' ' isue for paved streets because the ed provides that the man Wboser tose property is thereby enhanced, res in this way before the public . We regard such an Act as equit:t which taxes all the people at the as unjust and inequitable. The >m the bond issue pay no more in who owns property ten miles from y that is taxing all the people for iose it. re already given for opposing the are some reasons which readily :t from paved streets in a city unedium why it opposes the opening IMOND. finding that he could not indue* susand dollars worth of bonds on of the last fifty years, and after ide, as if we are unable to soIto :ates have at last come down to; ; if bonds were to be discussed at fnUnl1. cers in the city of Abbeville, the e, is to deliver a speech on thet ? this week. While he is doing so irons section when the bankers at ite on money in the banks hure, bemith says so, we fear. We are of lie county can haul all the crops t money on the present roads. If six per cent, for the next crop,' le the fact, so that all the farmers istion in South Carolina next year. . KAKMC.lt 3. lie was planting a war garden, or ? City Council of Abbeville bought ist price ever, and Superintendent some portion* of the water-worlu he had an old man in his garden, its per day, and giving him two menced, Mr. Anderson raised the lirty-five cents per day, making it back to raise wages to one dollar i this county when the road conthe bonds are voted. Men vrill be this county at a time when labo4 will be paid such wages that the raised, with the result that there in this county, but a shortage of ? payment of debts and high taxes.