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- 01 wo should el DuAd Moods - Observtokr o dted PoWi. * Cuba. To the Editor of The News and ourier: Per'mit me, throdgh your pa. pe, to commend in the most 'cordial Iay the excellent inaugural address of overnor Ansel. It bristles all through with practical, conservative common sense. There are three propositions in his address-the abolition of the state 'dispensary and substitution of local county optlunt the organization and establishment of a rura.l guard, and the recommendation touching public highways. All three of these recom mendations are especially timely and wise. In saying this L do not mean to- underrate the importance of other portions of the inaugural. If Gover Ansel's administration end in io abolition of the state dispensary and thereby put anl endl to the demorali zation ahd corruption which has at fended it from the very beginning of its establishment, he will deserve and receive the unqualified thanks of ev ery man and woman who have felt humiliated and disgusted -at having their state eagnged in the business of selling whiskey. - Mounted Police. During my service in Cuba, 1898 '99, I had an opportunity to observe the advantages of the rural guard. "Rurales," as they were called. Of course the conditions there were dif Iferent from the conditions in this country, but the effect would be the same in our rural districts. In Cuba the rurals were a part of the Spanish military establishment and ~were sel ected from among the best soldiers - they might be termed the elite-of the Spanish army. They were well mounted and armed and moved night and day in their respective beats. Nothing would contribute more to a sense of security in the country in this state than a well-organized, well equipped mounted police. Nothing would tend so much to suppress law lessness and bring the guilty to a prompt accounting before proper offi cers of the law, and nothing in my judgment would -tend more effectual ly to prevent lawlessness and crime. Take our case in Merriwether Town ship-a large township in the extreme twestern part of Edgefield county, bordering on the Savannar river, cut in-two by Big Steven's creek, a large affluent of the Savannah. Township Without Protection. There is but one law officer in the entire township, a magistrate, and he located from ten to twelve miles from many of us, and frequently inaccessi ble. What is jhe result? A crime is committed, serious or petty, under our eyes. Nobody has the right or power to make an arrest without a warrant, or being properly deputized, co'euently the criminal ecapel)s punishment, or what, is in itself .law lessness, people takc the law into their ow~n hands. Nowv, by wvay of illustration, if we had two or four mounted policemen for this township, one or two on duty at night, and one or two in the day time, moving constantly through dif ferent parts of their beats, you can Simagine what a deterrent it would be to criminals, and what a sense of se curity it would give to all the inhabi ta'nts. Thme policenian should he ap -point*ed by the magistrate of each rural magisterial district on his offi -eial responsibilty without recommen datioun from anybody, except such as he chooses to consult. He, the po -- licoman, should be invested with all the'powers of a policeman in a muni cipality and held to a strict accounta bility in the performance of his dut.y. He should be required to furnish his own mount and equipment and main tain his mount at his own expense, the county, township or state paying a stipulated price monthly for hire of the horse. - In addition to this lie should be paid a fair salary for his services. People Witing to Pay for Police. Of course, all this requires money, and it would devolve upon the legis lative department to provide the ways and means, either by appropria tion out of the state treasury, or by calling on each county or township to raise the necessary funds by taxa tion. Let me say in passing that the people of this county do not object to y4r uniform, jhst and reasonable ation, If they are the beneficiaries, f the receipts and -disbursements are oeatif accounted for, and the mon s not squaudered- and zpisappro td.My eokperiernee with "watch ~of the treasury Is that thefP * eO19yV~ bailLwick except their ~'4as to tljat quito *illing. that 6ottorn be krieeked out of the ryand poured Into their bail sapneary o-t 5quaideted. e two ajc thre.alid $h 'e and ~ ~I~in.dollart friquor fQ the -past, tef or twelve years. Th proits fmVAi these pruchasis mW 11e been enormous, but by the'tim it is.itfed through the hands of th founders of the dispensary, the arm of officeholderb, commissioners, boar of control, dispensers, rebaters, cot atables, laborers, amounts paid fo bottles, jugs, labels, barrels, kegi demurrage, breakage, ete, etc, a ver insignificant awoxvnt reaches the ta3 payers. If the one-fifth- of this enormo1 disbursement to buy . whiskey ha been appropriated for the benefit c common schools and the establisk ment and maintenance of a mounte rural police we would all have deri ed benefit and escaped the carnival c corruption that has brought so mue disgrace upon the state. However the may be, provision for a mounted p( lice for the country would compensat somewhat for the shortcomings of th dispensary administration. Abolis it, wipe it off the statute books an allow each county to settle th whiskey question for itself. National Aid for Road Building. Now, if I have not worn you ol with the foregoing, and taken up to much "of your valuable space," pai don a word on the road questioti First and foremost, I insist that cor gress has as clear a constitutiont power to appropriate money for th improvement of public highways 11 for the improvement of rivers an harbors. It is quite true that tli Federal Government has, I believi exclusive jurisdiction over harbot and navigable streams, and cons( quently the right, and power to al propriate money for their improx< ment. As'matter of fact, the Federt Government has already expende over $400,000,000 for rivers and hai bors. I go a step further and say th congress has a much clearer rigli to appropriate (money for the in provement of' public highways tha for state agricultural colleges and e) perimental stations, etc. Amonglhe enumerated powers <1cc gated by the constitution to congres Atricle 1, Section 8, is the power ''t abolish postoffices and postroads. It would seem to be a fair implief tion. from the expressed power ''t establish'' that congress has the rigli to aid, at least, in mnaintining publi highways. There is not a publi highway in any state in the Unite States over which. the Federal Goi ernment may not send its mails c march its troops. In the early part of the last cot tury congress did appropriate mone for the construction and maiitenant, of a national turnpike from Mar: land west.ward and did expend, as now remember, about seven millior of dollars on the work. Mr. Calhou voted for the appropriation. Monroe Vetoed Bill. It was ultimately vetoed by Pres dent Monroe, and in that wvay dlefeal edl. In his celebjated message hi took the ground, among others, th& if the National Government enterec upon thme construction of tu rnpila or public highways in .the Unite States it would have to maintain an police them, and in doing so con' in conflict with the ''police powers of the states. This position, in the aspect of the question, was well tal en and would have been sufficienti itself to have defeated the appropr ation. Of course, President Monrc gave other reasons for his veto. As understand the present propositio1 it does not contemplate asking coi gress to appropriate money to be ii ed by the Nationl Government, I build highways in the states, on i own account, but that it shall ai tlic states, the states exercising coi trol over them. This is precisely wvhat, was donei 'the Morrill-Hatch ,bills. A certai sn was ailpppi ated annually fro: the proceeds of the sales of publ lands and placed in the hands of tl secretary of the interior, not to I paid out by him until' satisfied ti the states had complied with the ri quiremnents of the Fedleral statute a condition precedent to their recei' ing thme money. Thme states did epmply and the aj propriation has been regularly al portioned among them. If athis lej islation was constitutional, if the aj propriation for the improvement rivers~ and harbors, or for relief epidemics or other public calamitie or in aid of expositions, ete, ete, col gross may with equal propriety, bol on constitutional grounds and sout public policy, appropriate a lump su to be placed in the gustody of ti sooretary of the interior or the seer tary of commerce and labor, to 1 turned over by him, when the stat< have earned it, by confortning to su< requirements as congres'may see I to imnpose. . ffect Would be. Twofold. Th&effect of this, in my Judgmori would j e two-fold t First, to encou age the states in sef help and, se e ond, beiefit the greatest number oJ t people by the improvement of publi4 e roads. e Public highways are as much ar y teries of commerce as rivers and har d bors or as railroads or canals* Th( - improvement and betterment of high r ways comes nearer home to the greal i, mass of the American people thar y either of the foregoing. Just refleel for a moment how many hunreds ol millions of dollars Congress has ap a propriated, either by the eidrsemen1 d of the boards of subsided railroadi f and by donations of public lands. No body doubts in this day and genera d tion that such aid to railroads wai wire and proper, and in pursuanc f of a sound public policy. Nobod: h doubts that the appropriations foi t rivers and harbors was and is proper Nobody doubts that the appropria e tions for agricultural colleges and ex e perimental stations was and is ad Ii vantageous. And in ten years' tim d nobody would doubt the wisdom o! e congress in appropi-\ating annuall a reasonable lunp sun- to aid thi states in bettering the condition o t their roads, bridges and ferries. ''Tho 0 greatest good to the greatest num ber," the shiboleth of all real states men, would be accomplished. - -M. C. Butler. l Woodlawn, January 29. 0 s Rena!ssance of Art in Kansas. a A Topeka newspaper published ai e interview with an Eastern painte I who has done a number of portrail s commissions for a Topeka family. Thi New York Sun, which has somebod on the staff who likes to poke fun al Kansas, made the article, which wat I written in a somewhat crude mannei d by a reporter who evidently kncv more about the fistic than the othei fine arts, the subjuct of an editoria t in facetious vein on the ''Renais t sauce of Art in Kansas.'' Last weel the Art Union, of Newton, an organ i zation to foster local art interestf aud which doubtless expects withih a few .seasons to rival the Art. Leagi - of New York in influence, had it, first meeting, and the place of honoi 0 on the programmc was given this Sur editorial on the ''Renaissance of Ari in Kansas,'' which was taken iii al 0 seriousness and regarded as a wel t deserved recognition by the East ol C Western ''culture and refinement.'' d Wolnell, it is reported, are returnin to small wasits.' There are one or tw< r of our acquaintance who are goin to have trouble in getting back. 1-0 y Wood's Seeds '~ SeedChoice, Seed tHe*a. CI At Recleaned a stocks. We have thousands of bushels in stock, selected from the best crops grown in this country; all the best and most produective s kinds, d Burt, or 90-Day, (1 Black Tartarian, * i Swedish Select, Red Rust Proof, -White and Black Spring, Vir gina G:ayWinter, etc. Write eWODS HEW SEED 000K for 1907 tells all about Seed Oats and all Farm and Garden Seeds. Mailed , free on request. 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