The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, March 17, 1909, Image 1
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The Annexation Again.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
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articles in The Dispatch on the annexation
question, and with your permission
I will add something to what
has been said.
"I believe in discontent. I believe
in that discontent which makes a
man, if he is a farmer, strive to be
the best farmer in the country; I believe
in that discontent which makes
a man, if he is a doctor, strive to be
the leading doctor in his profession;
I believe in that discontent which
makes a man, if he is a merchant,
strive to be the leading merchant of
his town."
The above is an extract of a speech
of Hon. A. F. Lever which was deliv- j
ered at the closing of a school in the
Dutch Fork. If he stood at that place
today I think he would say: "I believe
in discontent when you live in
the poorest county in the State, but
why this discontent when, financially,
you are in the best?old Lexington?"
As the little word tax seems to create
more discontent among men than
any word of its size in our language, I
shall say something on taxation first.
"Taxes will be lower when the Fork
people go to Richland." Everybody
has heard that, I think, from some of
those who favor annexation. Turn
over one page and look on the other
side of Broad river. A Columbia
man (his name if you want it) said to
a strong advocate of annexation:
"Don't you know your taxes will be
higher if you annex to Richland?"
"T WOULD RATHER PAY MORE !
TAX and be near the court house,"
was his reply. A former Lexingtonian
who now lives in Richland and
represented that county in the legislature
last year, can give you some
facts in regard to taxes in Lexington
and Richland. Property across Broad
river is assessed at about double the
valuation of property in the Fork.
Is there a man who believes that
Richland board of assessors will leave
the valuation of property lower in the
annexed territory than property is
assessed across the river? The higher
the valuation of property the lower
the mills and vice versa.
The people of the Fork have been
tax-burdened, but a railioad tax is
the cause and not Lexington county.
The sheriff of Newberry county says
we derive much benefit from "our
road," but his people are paying tax
on an imaginary railroad through the
air, which may never be built. (Newberry
is the county some of the Fork
people think of joining, hoping to find
low taxes.
How were we led to believe that the
time had come for us to vote a railroad
tax? By leaders who knew (?) j
that the tax on each would be SO
SMALL that we would not feel it,
and the railroad would pay more tax
into the county than we paid out.
Here they caught us with the "tax
bait." Do you remember one of those
railroad orators from the Lower Fork
who said we could not have good
schools because we had no railroads t
Prof. D. B. Busby had gone to Leesville
where there was a good school
on a railroad; Prof. C. W. Welch had
gone to Texas; Prof. had
gone to Virginia, all because we had
no railroad and, therefore, no good
schools in the Fork. Here a leader
caught some with the "school bait."
We voted that railroad tax and have
not seen those fine schools spring up,
and now annexation leaders tell the
people of the Fork that they must go
to Richland to have good schools. Is
that the way to get good schools?
Wait till Richland gets ahead of us
and then get on the banks of Broad
river and look across at her schools
and decide to go over?
What is meant by the term, "better
schools?" If reference is made to
the buildings, they can be had by using
more money. If better teachers
is meant, they can be secured by offering
larger salaries, and if longer
terms make better schools, then that
calls for more money; so more money
makes better schools in Lexington as
well as in Richland. How many
farmers can .spare their children more
than six months in the year in the
school room? Suppose the Fork people
go to Richland and have nine
months schools who would get the
benefit of a nine months term? The
men who are able to send their children
the whole term. Most of the
schools in this county have more
money than they are using because
the children's help is needed on the
farm, this being true, how will the
Fork people be benefitted by going to
Richland? Did an annexation leader
tell the people of White Rock that
they would get a lot of money for
schools from the poll tax of all those
factory people if they would annex to
Richland? If a school trustee does
'not know that the poll tax of a district
goes to the school of that district,
I hope some one will inform
him before he makes another misleading
speech to the good people of
White Rock. I am slow to believe
that he does not know it.
Another argument the leaders of
annexation use is: We will have good
roads when we go to Richland. Have
they told the people that those roads
and bridges in Richland cost over
thirty-one thousand dollars last year
and thirty-five thousand has been appropriated
for this year? Have any
of the leaders informed the people
that it cost money to move dirt in
Richland just the' same as in the
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Dutch Fork? Bub a writer to The
State from the lower Fork, under the
non de plume of Fair Play, says nothing
is being done to improve the
roads of the Fork, while the sand
roads are being clayed around Lexington.
Is Fair Play aware of the fact
that a private citizen had a pair of
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muies ana a nana on me roaa eignteen
days hauling clay on that road
near Lexington? Does Fair Play
know that a private citizen above Lexington
rode till he secured three hundred
dollars for claying a road? Does
Fair Play know that the old Augusta
road above Lexington was clayed by
private citizens who received aid from
the county? Does Fair Play know
that five hundred dollars was raised
by subscription to clay the road from
Lexington to Red Bank?
"The hills have been high for man's
mounting,
The woods have been dense for his
axe,
The stars have been thick for his
counting,
The sands have been wide for his
tracks.
The sea has been deep for his diving,
The poles have been broad for his
sway,
But bravely he's proved by his striving.
That'Where there's a WILL there's
a way.'"
I venture the assertion that not one
road overseer out of ten in the Fork*
has worked the time the law requires
( and not one man out of fifty has insisted
that the law be carried out, yet
we hear enough about wanting good
roads to make a man sick. How are
we to get them when citizens do not
want to labor on public highways, nor
do a number of them want their mules
to work on the road? How are we to
get them when people object to the
cbaingang keeping so many mules and
so much machinery? How are we to
get them except by taxation, to which
they object again. A lot of people
are like some of the candidates, who
' sought high places, were last summer;
In favor of better schools, better roads,
better everything, but opposed to any
more taxation.
Another argument for an annexation
used by the citizens of the Lower
Fork is: They hope to get a free bridge
to Columbia. I do not censure them
for wanting a free bridge, but would
that free bridge benefit anybody much
except those near Columbia? Fair play
finds fault with the location Of the
steel bridge at Wyse's and I see where
he is right. One bridge can not meet
the demands of the traveling public,
but if we had had a supervisor with
better judgment, and not so much
4'back bone" of which he boasted on
the stand at Irmo last summer, the
bridge would have been built as nea1*
Lexington as was possible to get a
suitable place on the river to locate a
bridge, which would have acccomodated
more people than any place
that it could have been builfc.
But why argue about the steel bridge
to the annexation people who hope to
get rid of this tax when they go to
Richland. If annexation will cancel
the steel bridge debt, then I have been
misinformed. For the sake of argument
let us suppose that it would;
let us suppose that annexarion would
mean no more railroad tax. I hear
that some believe this?no tax
of any kind when the Fork people go
to Richland? I ask you as reasonable
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men would you feel that you had been
true wj your county, tiuo to jom
Dutch Fork friends, true to yourselves,
when you remember that your
ballots helped to elect a supervisor
who placed the bridge tax on us;
when you remember that your ballots
helped to place a railroad tax on the
Fork people, I say could you with a
clear conscience, sit on the other side
of a boundary line and look over at
your tax-burdened friends and say:
"Let the galled jades wince."
The citizens of the Lower Fork have
another reason for annexation. They
do their trading in Columbia, which
their fathers ana mine did, and the
people across Saluda do the same
thing. Business in Columbia is the
only thing the Fork people have in
common with Richland county.
Lexingtonians are an independent
people whose social and political
interest are identical and have been
for nearly two hundred years.
It does not take a prophet to see
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Columbia, y#c Fair Play seem9 not to
see it when he says: "The Fork is
the caudal appendage'' to the dog
when it comes to the benefits, but
nearly the whole dog when it comes
to paying taxes." Does he not know
that there i9 nothing to be gained by
moving "che dog" from Lexington
to Columbia, which means a bigger
dog; then cut off part of the caudal
appendage having a big dog with a
bob tail, which will be more easily
wagged? This mutilation of the
"caudal appeqdage" would be the
worse ever seen on a map, but I hope
never to see it.
The Dutch Fork of Lexington county
has an individuality of its own, but
tnis same territory as a part of Richland
county means nothing.
There is absolute indifference in
Columbia about annexaaion, for those
people know the past history of the
Dutch Fork and have no desire to
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I CLEANING
modeling my building, n
low prices on Buggies.
>big cut in Farm Implei
ributors Was $9.00 Now $7.00
Distributors Was $6.00 Now $4. J
Planters Was $16.00 Now $12.5
Planters Was $15.00 Now $10.0
Lsters Was $5.00 Now $4.00
Gutters Was $35.00 Now $25.00
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FEW PRICES ON SURRIES:
rrey ftubber Tire Was $165.00 N
rrey Steel Tire Was $125.00 No5
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Is every insect that crawls on m
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ours for Bargains
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rule to deposit all your cash and
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rM. M. CARTER, Asst. Cashier.
State Renews Lease
Of Salu&a Canal.
Messrs, G. A. Gnignard and L. I.
Guion have renewed there rental of the
oiabaiuda canal in Lexington county,
a few miles west of Colombia. An
arrangeement was made with the State
sinking fnnd commission fonr years
ago by which the water conld be rented
for a term of four years, provided a
certain amount of improvements were
made. The time expired a few days
ago and an annual fee of $200 was
again contracted with the State for
four years under the same conditions,
It is understood that land will be secured
near the canal and the power de
veloped by Mr. Guignard and his assistants.?The
State.
Wounded Wife's Heroic Deed.
Albany, Ga., March 13.?Desperately
wounded in an automobile accident 10
miles from here and almost blinded
by blood streaming from two long,
deep wounds in her scalp, Mrs J. T.
Donalds of Blakeiy, Ga., rushed her
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for medical treatment late this afternoon,
after lifting the car from his unconscious
from and repairing the
mechanism so the machine would make
the trip.
In the accident Mr. and Mrs, Donaldson
were hurled beneath the car,
but the woman managed to extricate
herself. She lifted the machine from
her husband by the use of a fence rail.
Has Put la Sky Light.
The Lexington Savings Bank has
ju9t put in a large sky light, which is
quite an improvement. The interior
is being freshly painted which adds
greatly to the appearance of this popular
institution.
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