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Established 1844. The Press and Banner *vv,??!n0 q r. *iuuc?uitj v. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. I Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 Monday, April 5, 1920. . VOTING BONDS ?i U? ront W C. ine cavairy num u* Shaw was a little hoarse Saturday. On that account the voters could not hear it and be warned, even around Lowndesville, that they were needed at the polls, and at AntreVille it was not heard at all. Irishmen were all at home telling jokes, or somewhere else. The consequence is that the bond issue was carried. It was carried by a majority of about sixty votes in a vote of less than six hundred?less than twenty five per cent, of the qualified electors. Had there beea a fall expression of their views by the voters the result would probably have oeen different, but there wasn't, and the vote, barring irregularities and legal objections, means the issuing of the bonds for the building of the top-soiled roads, Most bond issues carry anyway. They carry because those - people who are interested in issuing bonds always go to' the polls and vote, while generally those opposed are indifferent, or at least do not take the same trouble as the proponents to express their will in such matters. I was a favorable time too for those who wanted to put through the bond issue. People are voting bonds, and legislatures are voting taxes, for any and all purposes. Experienced legislators tell us that there is no trouble in getting through any kind of a bill, t which carries an appropriation. The people have money and they are spending it. Therefore, the time was propitious. While only about twenty-five per cent, of the qualified electors went to the%polls and voted, it will be noticed, however, that the bonds received a small majority in every larce tax-Daving: community except at Calhoun Falls. At Abbeville, Due West, Donalds, and in the prosperous rural community at Antreville, the people voted for the bonds. It is ^ well that the people who are to do the paying are in favor of the as-J sumption of the large indebtedness.) At least they may not lay the blame hereafter on their neighbors. The vote showed another thing which was not unexpected and that( was that the people in the rural com-, munities have changed their minds, Al- XX * : l.LX.J ? on i.ne mazier 01 maeoteuness 101^ road improvement. At Gilliam's Gin( House, the vote was ten to four in : favor of the bond issue; at Antre- ' ville the vote was seventy-six to ten : in favor of the bond issue. At Lown- ' desville, where there is a large country vote, the vote was practically a i stand-off. Only at Central did thej people register violgnt protest 1 against the bonds. On the other hand, it seems thatj the people at Abbeville have also! J - xi I viuurgeu uitru minus, iiutny ui uiein ^ at least. When the other election was 1 h&d the vote was about two to one.'] More than two' hundred people, |most of them living in the city of Abbeville, went to the polls and ^ voted for that bond issue. At this i election only ninety votes were ca?<" ( in favor of the bpnds, while ,sixty-^ two were cast agiinst the proposed^ issue. A good many people whoj voted for bonds! before evidently voted the other way at this time, while a great many people who were supporters of the'movement before either were against it this time, or j were so indifferent as not to ex-i press their wishes in the matter While the bonds carried in the city, ^ therefore, in this election, the re- c ... tu.t il : 1- A < bums anuvy mat. uie precmcis ^OUl-1 side of Abbeville are responsible forr the majority in favor of the bonds,|* and the bond issue cannot be looked |c on as something for which the peo]pe at the county seat are to be held |( responsible. % We have not changed our mind p about the wisdom of the action g which has now been taken. Time 1 S only can show whether the misgiv- | ings of this paper, and of nearly | one-half of the voters who expressed | themselves, were well-founded. If | the roads do not prove a profitable | investment, the people who voted ? against the bond issue will not be re'i | sponsible. Those who voted the j bonds, and those who acquiesced by j not voting for in law they consent j to the result) will be responsible for j results. That the roads will prove greatly j beneficial to the county and to j every section of it must now be the j wi?h of every person who has a real j interest in the welfare of the peoi pie of the county. To the making of success in the enterprise every patriotic citizen is bound to lend his efforts1 and help. And just here, we Jsay, as we have repeatedly said, that iwhether the roads are a good or| j I bad investment in themselves, they ; will prove worse than no investment j if they are not kept up once they are j built. The people of the county have undertaken a great business venture. They are about to construct a large edifice, so to speak. They must not now count the cost of its up- j keep when it is completed. It will be j worse than folly to refuse to levy a j i tax sufficient to keep these roads j in proper shape when they are com- I pleted. Every person with knowledge j jftf the top-soil roads say that they j must be constantly worked and j cared for or the result will be disastrous. The county authorities and j especially the delegation in the ! General Assembly must keep this in mind and give the proper authorities suf^icent funds to keep the roads in proper repair at all times, else the money expended will prove 'an enormous loss. Let us all hope {that such will not in the end prove jto be the case. DELAWARE DEFEATS EQUAL SUFFRAGE IN VOTE TODAY Dover, Del., April 1,?Ratifycation of : the equal suffrage amendment was defeated in the lotoer house of the legislature today. The vote was 23 to 9. Members who voted for the amendment change for the purpose of ate removing to reconsider^ The vote as finally announced was 26 to 5. ISPARTANBURG ^GAIN IS TIED UP BY A , \ STREET CAR STRIKE I Spartanburg, S. C. April 1.?This I | | city's street car system was com- | pletely tied up this morning by a | strike of the union motormen and | conductors employed by the South g Carolina Light, Railways and Power ? Company. No car left the barns, | despite the fact that about 25 per | cent of the employees are non- | union men. The union men in walk-1 1 ing out this morning, declared the j 3 street car company had discrimin*- '| ted against members of the organi- S zation, in violation of their contract ? with the company. In addition, the j men demand a slight increase in M ?= wages and a permanent board off = .rbitrition. No settlement was in g sight this afternoon. E LAN A WORLD WIDE DEMONSTRATION ON THE FIRST OF MAY j Paris, April 1.?Organization of a | world wide May 1 demonstration in {j the form of a general 24 hour |j 5trike*will be undertaken by the na- m lES itonal confederated committee of M abor as the result of resolutions m passed at its meeting here today. J This movement will be urged in ac- ( cord with the syndicalist interna- g tional for the purpose of showing M the solidarity Of socialists. 5 FXVOR FRENCH 'MANDATE | Constantinople, Marcn 27.?Jtteso- gg lutions favoring a French mandate S )ver Lebanon were adopted by the Laennob etaoin hrdlu hrdlu thththh j| Lebanon legislative council on B Vlarch 22, according to advices re- g :eived here. The council appointed fj i commission to draft a constitution, H = md adopted as its banner the m French flag, with a cedtr tree in the M entre of the white stripe. |T Si S a ? I ^3 ICoprrieht H Good ap a A SMART, | making progress Good appears means good ensi selection. 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