The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, April 05, 1920, Image 4
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Published Tri-Weekly
Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Telephone No. 10.
Entered as second-class matter at
post office in Abbeville, S. C. I
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Monday, April 5, 1920.
. VOTING BONDS
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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,
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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!
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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
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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
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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 |
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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
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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
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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
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