Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 07, 1922, Page Page Three, Image 3
EVANS TALKS OUT
Former Governor Evans Sa>s Genera!
Assembly Didn't do Much,
STATE IS WASTING MUCH MONEY
Cotton Growing and Manufacturing
Always Will be Predominant Industries
He Says?Declares States Gov
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ernment nas cvoivea ww ?
reaucracy?Sees Need for Judicial
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Reform.
Replying to an inquiry from a Spar
tanburg newspaper man as to his views
1 on the political'conditions in the nation
and in thestaUv Former Governor
John Gary Evans has given out the
following statement, asking the question:
"Is it a condition that confronts
us. or is it a mere theory?"
"The South Carolina senate see'ms
to have regarded our crisis as a mere
theory and to have dismissed it as
such. As a matter of fact, it is a condition
that confronts us. The farmers
of our state are in a worse plight financially
than they have been in fifty
years. They. have seen their fields
ravuged by the boll weevil, the market
? for their cotton destroyed and their
ability to pay debts reduced to a minimum.
On top of this, the national
government under Republican rule has
decreased the money in circulation
? over $8 per capita and refuses in any
manner to restore our foreign market
for cotton and cotton goods.
"The money power is again in the
saddle and when such is the case, the
agriculturists, laborers and debt payers
are oppressed and made to suffer.
The Republicans have .got back to
"normalcy", the president remarked
and that means, for us, cheaper cotton,
less money, increased debts and decreased
ability to pay. The south and
west have got back to bankruptcy.
"What must we do? you ask me. We
must get back to tho weapons we used
thirty years ago. Our farmers must
be organized in every state in the union
and made to realize the importance
* of unity of purpose and action. We
must commence in the state and arrange
our, own house before we can
expect the aid of others. The conditions
in South Carolina have been
brought about by two co-operating
factors: (1) the boll weevil that seeks
to prevent us from raising cotton, and
(?) the Republican party ^hat prevents
us from selling it abroad. Of the two
evils, the Republican is the greater.
The people of Europe are naked and
suffering for the want of American
cotton clothes. Our cotton would be
bringing 50 cents a pound if the government
would restore the foreign
markets. .
Cotton Predominant.
"Every liiabvtfjat 'fives (n the'south
must realize that cotton growing and
cotton manufacturing 'will always be
the predominant industries of Qur
country. Our prosperity depends upon
the price of raw cotton and cotton
cloth. It Is silly to write one down a
demagogue who pleaxls for fair treatment
by the government of the farmer
upon whom we are all dependent. According
to statistics furnished by Governor
Cooper, the land owners are now
paying about 76 per cent of the taxes.
This burden cannot be. borne much
longer and unless relief is given, the |
fanners will soon become, as their
brethren in Europe, the most abject
slaves on the face of the earth. The
only way out is to impose a tax on
luxuries, credits,, incomes, stock and
other species of property that are now
escaping their Just proportion of the '
^ burden. The farmers must be relieved
and at once, before it is too late. The
kme of the people should not be taxed
unless absolutely necessary. The
policy of the true republic is to afford
every head of a family a homestead,
free and unencumbered. We want
American patriots, and not European j
peasants. The failure of the state senate
to pass the bills, taxing luxuries
and a proper income tax was inexcusable.
The tax system should bo re- j
formed so as to place the burden
equally upon all. There are hundreds
of men and women in the state who
are receiving salaries of from ?3,000
to $5,000 per annum and who pay no
taxes whatever except a poll tax. Is
this fair? The only way to reach them
is through the income tax and a tax
upon the luxuries which they consume.
I was much interested in readv
ir.g the report (1920) of the special
legislative committee on revenue and
taxation, written by Senator Marion.
It was a clear and forced presentation
of the defects of our tax system. The
recommendations for relief were sound
and yet the senate refused to adopt it
or to do anything to relieve the inequalities
therein set forth.
State Bureaucracy.
"Our state government has evolved
ir.to a bureaucracy. We have a multitude
of boards and commissions and
the whole system is wrong. It was re
sponsive to a fad that extended all
over the country, "Commission Form
of Clovernment." We must get back
to individual responsibility. It is better
to have one good man in charge
of an office and hold him responsible
for its conduct than to have a board of
six or eight with nobody responsible.
Take the railroad commission. We
started with one and have not got to
seven. Or.e good man could do the
worn just as enteiently as seven.
Have we degenerated to the extent of
the tailors in the son?:, "!t takes nine
1 tailors to make a man?" Does it take
six South Carolinians to make a railI'oati
commissioner? There are sixteen
and maybe more, boards and
i commissioners supported by tlie state
and numbers of them can be dispensed
with by combining: their duties with
other departments. These boards and
commissions have bred an army of of
Viscountess Wolseley. one of
the action of Lady Rbondda. are (
of the British Parliament. She Is
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ture with demands for increased salaries
and appropriations. They encourage
extravagance, form combinations
and make trades of pulls and influence
that make the rife of the legislator
miserable.
Should Bar Corporation Men.
"Corporations aro creatures of the
legislature under general laws. No
member of the general assembly,
while retained as attorney or agent of
any corporation, should be allowed a
seat in either house, otherwise the
creature becomes the creator and this
is contrary to nature and to our form
of government. The legislative is the
most important of our state government.
The governor and state officials
can do nothing without the hearty cooiK-ration
of the law-making body.
United action alone can bring prosperity
to the people. It is time to give
the women of the state representation
in the legislature. We can never reach
! the highest stage of civic virtue until
both sexes co-operate for the public
welfare. The women should hjiVc a
voice ""in making the rule that binds
her and hor property.
"The spirit of lawlessness that exists
in the state is, in my judgment, a
direct result of the World war. The
spiritual force of a people is always at
its lowest ebb at the conclusion of a
war. We should meet this by a strict
l enforcement of the laws. The prohibition
laws, especially, should be rigidly
enforced and the bootlegger driven
from the state. I am satisfied that
the happiness and prosperity of our
people will never be complete until the j
illicit traffic in liquors is destroyed.
"We have made excellent progress
in stamping out illiteracy and increasing
the length of the term of our common
schools. We are spending lots of
money, but, our people do not complain
so long as the results are satisfactory.
There is no state ill the union more
alive to the importance of the education
of the masses.*' We will not submit
to one step backward in this respect.
We must continue to advance
until every common school in the state
has a term of nine months and until |
every child is given the foundation lor j
a college education. Our system of ,
higher education is top heavy in pro- j
portion to our common schools. There i
are thirty, and more colleges for men !
and women in this state, exclusive of |
orphanages and reformatories and, j
while they are not all stato institu- j
tions, nevertheless, they are supported i
by the people and must be accounted
as parts of our educational system.
We cannot afford to close the door of
a single college so long as a reasonable
number of students attend them, but a
1 consolidation of a number of them
I might be wise from a standpoint of
! economy and efficoney. I/-1 us put out
no lights, but merge the dim ones into
one brilliant beacon to the glory of I
the state.
Too Many Lunatics.
"We are spending too much money ;
on lunatics and prisoners. There arc
too many of them in South Carolina. !
It should not be too easy to .yet into j
the hospital for the insane nor too easy
to yet out of the penitentiary. Hoth !
of these institutions should he nearly, j
if not entirely, self supportirg.
"We have materially enhanced the ]
value of the farms of the s late by the
j building of good roads. Next to edit- j
cation, this is most important. We
' cannot countenance any policy that |
! would retard the efforts of the state
! and counties to make available every
J dollar of rational aid to good roads,
| but we must go gradually and not disj
regard our ability to pay. It is easy
j 1o vote bonds but hard to pay the interest.
Need Judicial Reform.
"Our judicial system mails reforming.
We have fourteen circuit judges
and there is no iv ossity for but eight.
I There never was. The larger circuits
I are adopting county court:; which take
away over half the business of the
circuit .courts. We can, therefore, do
i away with six judge:*, six solicitors
i and six stenographers besides lengthy
| terms of court, saving the people
HOUSE OF LORDS.
the twenty peeresses who. through
entitled to seats in the upper bouse
one of the breeders ot the famous
irge sura.
thousands of dollars.
"These are only a few- of the reforms
we can accomplish. The time has
come when we must economize and cut
off all unnecessary offices and appropriations.
Our taxes on lands can and
must be reduced.
"Our young soldiers who fought in
France for the preservation of Democracy,
the uplifting of humanity and to
prevent Germany from absorbing and
enslaving the weaker nations of Europe,
will realize that the fruits of their
victory are but Sodom apples, if their
own fathers and kinsmen are reduced
to the level of European peasants.
Trie sordid interests in America who
deny us a market for our cotton, aided
by our own legislators who refuse to
lift the burdens from the shoulders
of our producers should be defeated.
Our veterans can be depended upon to
do their duty at all times The salvation
of the farmer means the prosperity
of every business in the state. We
are members of one economic and social
body absolutely interdependent,
nourished by tho .same blood from one
heart. It behooves all of us to get together
and meet this crisis like South
Carolinians.
"This is no time for sulking in the
camp or partisan feeling. We need
the hearty co-operation of every citi
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REGULAR CHURCH THIEF
Woman Says Dozens of Women Loot
Worshippers' Purses Unmolested.
Looting handbags of women worshippers
in fashionable churches is i
classed among the professional by I
the woman arrested in the Church of
St. Mary the Virgin, Friday, and denounced
by Magistrate Cobb in the
West Side Court as a "dangerous
criminal," who held her without bail
for examination on a charge of attempted
theft. .
The woman's history is mysteriously
interesting. SJie was arraigned as
Catherine Fitzhtfgh. Her police record,
so far as known commenced in
Washington, in 1911, when she was arrested
for stealing in churches and
stores. She then gave her name as
Catherine Fennell, and was sent to a
sanitarium, classed as "mentally abnormal."
In 1913 she was arrested
here, under the name of "Mrs. Randolph
Fitzhugh," charged with stealing
$f?00 from a mesh bag belonging
to Miss Dorothy Fisk, in St. Leo's
church, on Last 2Sth street.
She .spent months in the Tombs
awaiting1 trial,, and was defended by
Creed M. Fulton, a Washington attorney,
assisted by prominent lawyers
of this city. At that time it was said
site had attempted, at the age of sixteen,
to murder her fiance with an
axe and had been kept ten years in an
insane asylum at Staunton, Va.
She was released in 1911. Her
father, mother and brother had gone
insane in the meantime, and she went
to Washington to live with a married
sister. There she eloped with a young
lawyer, who later deserted her. Her
sister declined, to receive het* back. A
son was born. The young mother
came to New York with her baby and
lived at the. Hotel Flanders. Occassional
remittances came to her fropi
the lawyer, then living in Chicago.
Utter these remittance# ceased. No
i record of Iter marriage had been found.
In 191 (5 she was again arrested, this
! time in St. Patrick's Cathedral, calling
I herself Catherine Northup.
When a. reporter for The World
i talked with her yesterday in the Jcf|
iVrson Alarket Women's Prison she
j wept at the mention of her little boy.
| Tbe child is now nine years old and
I slit* is thirty-seven.
"Why do they always arrest me?" j
| she queried. Dozens of women are
i following this same profession?if it
| is a profession?and nobody arrests
I them. I know one woman who does
j it all the time?taking things from
i purses?and she is never arrested. It
was never proved that I did it, either.
Just because I have been arrested be|
fore they are always ready to arrest
j me again."?New York Herald.
Conducted by Jas. D. Grist
Comfortably Located.
Eli Ball s Post of the American Legion
at Fort Mill, is now- comfortably
located, in its new club rooms in that
town and everything connected with
the post is moving aiong niceiy. wane |
nothing definite has been done about it
yet, it Is quite likely that a countywide
Armistice Day celebration will be
pulled in Port Mill next November under
the auspices of Eli Balles Post.
3,000 Members in S. C.
The South Carolina Department of
the American Legion at present has a
membership of about 3,000, according
to Morris C. Lumpkin, the department
commander. Qqite a number of posts
over the state have plans for membership
drives within the next few weeks.
The total Legion membership at the
end of last year was about 4,500 and
Commander Lumpkin has high hopes
that the end of the present year, which
comes in September, will show a considerable
Increase over last year's total.
Sharon Post Dragging.
Hope Byers Post No. 99 of the American
Legion at Sharon, is just dragging
along now, according to J. Clyde Plex- I
ion nnct mmmnndcr. wllO SUVS that GX- I
service men of that community are not |
joining the legion like they should. In j
fact so far only about eleven ex-service
men have paid their dues as members
of the legion. The post hopes to
put out a good baseball team this summer
and the commander and other officers
huve plaiiB for a number of post
activities.
Hickory Grove.
J. Herschell Hood, commander of
Hickory Grove Post, hopes that the
post will soon be in its own quarters.
The lcglonaires have their eye oh I
second story hall on Main street, and
they believe that they are soon going
to be in position to rent this hall and
equip it as a legion home.
The State Convention.
It is hoped that every post in York
county will send a full delegation to
the next convention of the South Carolina
department, which convention will
be held in Florenpe in September. Each
post is entitled to one delegate for every
twenty-five members or fraction
thereof. Since there are five posts in
York county, the largest number, by
the way of any county in the state,
York county should have quite a mue
army to move on Florence.
Let Them Know.
By the way, do you know an ex-service
man in your community who, in
your opinion, Is entitled to government
compensation because of wounds or injuries
incurred in line of service? If you
do tell the service officer of the American
Legion Post nearest you about it.
The duty of the service officer of each
post is to look after such cases and
they will be glad to do it.
Government Inedrance.
By the way, buddies, what about your
government insurance? Are you still
holding on to it, or have you allowed it
to lapse? If you have dropped it suppose
you talk it over with the insurance
officer of your post Government
insurance is the cheapest insurance going
for an ex-soldier?insurance that
he can hardly afford, to be without.
The veteran's bureau proposes to put
on a drive for the purpose of renewing
insurance in the near future, since
there are thousands and thousands of
ex-soldiers who have allowed theirs to
dron The American Lesion nost com
mander living nearest you will be glad
to give you all information relative to
government insurance.
Fourth of July.
How about a Fourth of July celebration
somewhere in York county under
American Legion auspices? It would
be a good thing to do and it is time
that some action was started if anything
is to be done. Which of the
towns of the county would like to have
a big Fourth of July celebration under
legion auspices? '
? A government of groups, by
groups and for groups.
WILD WEST AUTHOR A <
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anyhow, B. M. Bower, whose stories i
country you have read, Is Mrs. R. E.
photograph of her. She has just be<
Mining Corporation of Nevada,
IN THE TOES OF CHANCE
Secretary of Cotton Association Says
Old Order Has Passed
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A FULL CROP NO LONGER POSSIBLE
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Inflated Debt Incurred in the Production
of the Crop# of 1920 and 1921
Has Completed the Disaster?Labor
is Leaving the Farms and Outlook
for Consumer is Dark.
Houston, Texas, April 1.?In my trip
throughout the entire cotton belt, I
And that the farmers are unable to
meet their obligations, are compelled
to reduce their standard of living, and
to strip their communities of the
things that make them attractive,
causing stagnation in both town and
country. The farm population shows
a mdrked decrease, especially during
the last two years, and the young
people, especially, are leaving the farms
and taking up their residences in the
cities and towns. Negro labor is
showing an alarming decrease in the
agricultural sections, seeking employ
meni in inner mius.
I do not think it will be exaggerating
to state that there are thousands
of vacant farms throughout the cotton
producing section of America due to
these conditions, which are the outgrowth
of ait unsound agricultural
policy which has been pursued for the
last fifty years. After tine War Between
the States, when the negro was
set free, he and his white masters were
immediately required to enter into a
struggle for an existence in competition
with each other by the production
of cheap products, especially cotton.
The old system has broken down.
The debacle in prices of farm products
since 1920 has wrecked the worn-out
shack. The Southi is either in a death
struggle or on the eve of ft new birth,
and I am convinced that the latter is
me case. We are on the eve of a new,
more prosperous and greajter South.
In conferences with leading business
men, bankers, merchants and farmers
throughout the entire South, I find
mat peopje are irunKing aa never ueforc.
The statement was made to- me
over and over that the old order of
things Is passing- away; that'it has
served its day and generation. People
tell on all sides: "We need white immigration;
we can never continue under
the old order.. It has caused both
the negro and white man to pay a
fearful penalty."
feven were scientific methods discovered
today for eradicating the boll weevil,
it would be impossible for the South
to produce a full cotton crop. The assets
neCessary for the production of
cotton have been depleted to a greater
extent within the last two years than J
in any similar period during the last
half century. The South, 111^ thq.other
agricultural sections of America, is
loaded with a tremendous inflated debt
incurred for the production of the
crops of 1920 and 1921, and t^ls burden
alone means the certainty of a
short production and a complete
change. Two billion, three hundred
million dollars is a stupendous - sum,
and this Is what the South lost, based
upon the cost of production of the last
two cotton crops. It is in proportion to
the twelve billions of dollars lost by
the agricultural producers of America
based upon the cost of producing the
last two crops and the selling price.
The remedy to these conditions is to
change this old worn-out haphazard
system. The i>eople of the South realize
they cannot continue same and that'
they must place agriculture upon a
hope and market by accident. Diversified
agriculture is a certainty. The
producers must secure a price for their
products on a level which will enable
them to receive cost of production plus
a rpfisonahle nrofit. The fact that the
agricultural producers df Americh and
the various lines of Industry that extended
credit for the production of the
crops of 1920 and 19^1 are in the same
predicament as the people of the
South, means the absolute certainty
that these conditions are going to be
changed for the better, and no section
will show a greater change for the
better than the South.
For the present year, even with ideal
seasons, we are facing the certainty of
a small cotton crop. With adverse
seasons common sense plainly dictates
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the certainty of a record-breaking
short crop. The law of cause and effect
can have no other effect.
The world has been sick. Some
months ago it stepped from its sickbed.
It has passed through its convalescent
stage. The world will have an
abnormal appetite for food and clothing.
Prom whence will these supplies
come? "While the world was sick sup
piles exceeded demand. Now that the ]
world is returning to health and vigor
demand will exceed supplies, which i
will niean famine supplies, famine j
prices and the consumer will pay the. i
penalty. Harvie Jordan. (
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tame rabbits as food. Rabbit sausage ]
was a. staple of the Teuton table In i
war time and Germans explain Its i
present unpopularity by sdying they
had too much ot it in that "hunger
period." ,
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Whole tralnloads of the little animals
were distributed from l9Tf to the
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Many families tasted no other rdeat i
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rabbit houses on the roofs of buildings,
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