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Mr. Blease on the Bond Issue. We are asked: If the rich people and those who owni the property are wling to pay taxes to L-ive the poor man roads. why l 'ont the poor miian accept t.hem and vote for them? I answer, Who is the rici man Prom whom does he ,et hi supp ? To whom doeS he sell 1i oud(? 'Who buys the cloth nad b ly rl ton mills? Who pays the interet that makes the bank dividends? Who biys t.he meal. hulls. ete.. that make; dividenIs for our oil mills? Who buys the go.ds that make the profits fur the merehant? Who is it that makes the rich man who is so gener ous to the poor? Who pays for the telephones that make the company rich ? It all may pass from the rich man to the treasurer in payment for taxes to pay bonds, etc, but who puts it in the rich man's hand and pocket that he may have it to pay? The produ.er. Who is he ? That poor man that the big rich folks are so willing to build roads for. Ye,t the fellow that buys the goods and borrows the money is the man at last who pays the entire amount. You poor farmers that the town folks want to pay so much taxes to build roads for to travel on, stay at home one year and don't patronize these rich folks; don't buy goods; don't pay interest; don't buy cotton goods, etc.; and then see who gets hurt the worst. Ah, that is all bosh, we are all one people, and should work to gether, pull together and help each other in every way possible; know no sectionalism, no country, no town, no poor and no rich, but be one people, doing whatever is best for the whole and not for any one section or party. Get together, and all put their shoul ders to the wheel of progress, and push it to the winning post or smash every spoke in it. Stop this holler ing the rich town folks want to pay for bonds to help the poor country folks, because it was the country folks that made you rich. and if you did give them part of it back you would possibly be only following out the divine injunction, for the country folks have been giving you for lo these many years. The bond act is very defective, in that it makes no provision to keep up these good roads after we get them. When the $300,000 is all spent to get them and the people are paying that tax, who is then going to keep these good roads in repair and in WHY THE INNERPLA I8 A .SUPERIDI This remarkable rnot only to those wi but also to the exj Even the most accci play, at their very b 100 pieces. Witt however, any one ci 000 selections, Thi cian lar gely to incre. toire, and to do preli the music rolls on played in the ordir more, it is restful t monotonv of hand INNER-PLAYER wa Everything kn oleT Biilla J V. WALLAC i rder t preen I t them In I e t - ting back in the same fix that they are in now? They say these good roads will in -rcase the value of the lands out in the c"ulit1 and make them brin m 10re nmer: vs. and theref,)re make taxes sill higie. (ii the landlord when Ilie produetiveniess of tile sil will not he increased ne particle and11( his land will nIt vield him o1ne stalk of cit ton or -orn more tilan it dik be fore ille value inereased so Inch. You say. yes but he can sell it for more. Well. if he sells it where is he going to live? What is he and his family to do? Oh, I forgot he can move in to town, buy an automobile and ride around on the good roads that his tax built. A home is worth so much to a man as his home, and its increase in value makes it no more valuable to him as a home, except possibly that he gets the credit of becoming a larger tax payer. If taxes go up, who pays more rail road fare? Who pays more for the telephone ? If cotton goes up, whose goods in 'rease in price? If store rent increases, who pays the increase? If clerk hire advances. who pays the advance? If goods get higher, who pays the higher price ? If money gets scarce and the rate of interest goes up, who pays it? Who feeds the whole blank business -bosses, employes and all? Does not the merchant and banker make their profit just the same? Does not the fellow who borrows the money buy the goods, pay the ad vance price and the higher rate of in terest? Who feeds and clothes the mer chant and the banker and their fami lies? How many banks in this county, and how many people work in them; what size families have those people who pay their salaries- and keep the entire crowd going? The man who transacts business with them, and if they make the dividends tnd give part of it to good roads they are only giving it back to those from whom it came; so it 's no use to get mad and use words about the bonds that you cannot or ivould not use in the pres ence of your Sunday school class. Let 's all keep cool, bonds or no bonds; KINGSBURY TER PIANO i INSTRUMENT. instrument appeals io are not pianists, erienced musician. nplished pianist can e t usually less than the Inner-Player, n choose from 15, s enables the music se his or her reper inary practice with compositions to be ary way. Further o change from the playing to the easy Ly. own in Music. E_ Manager. [liar188t1ll8.1. ,wI a1 : , di. usl: iit L a ioni ately and don t use bad words. They say that the big cotton mills who play so much taxes are represent on the omm('0111111isSion? Iho put tiem here ? I id t!he mills do it ? Did thle operative do it ? Why were they PtT there ? Will they accomplish the purpose? r say, No. Ha PreideIt wright a life job? I hope so. IIas President Summer a life job? I hope so. If both or either should some dav be idefeated for president, who would then represent the big mills on this board of com missioners? Is the Glenn-Lowry, the Bell Tele phone, the oil mills, the telegraph and the rail roads represented on the commission? No, they have not got so many people working for them who can vote; hence they are not needed. Well, we will see if all who wo-rk in the mills vote for bonds. They have always voted as they pleased, and have up to this time not allowed any man or set of men to dictate whom they should vote for; and on the 31st day of this month they will again vote as they please-as free men, regard less of what any other man says or does. They have always voted for the best interest of the town and county, and for the best men when candidates are in the field. In conclusion, I beg all of those who are opposed to bonds to go to the polls and vote. If you say, well I don't feel very well today and there will be enough without me, and- an other says, well, the weather is kind er bad, and I don't think I will go, besides. we will win anyhow, and an other says, well, I have got to do so and so and don't believe I will go to vote--there will be just enough of you stay at home~to let the other fel low win -So I beg you to make no exeuse. Every one counts; so go and vote, and your majority will be so pronounced that it will be a. long time before another effort is made to E X Weduc Leave Ti Laurens..................._........7.' Clinton .......................... 7. God ville...................... 7. Kin ards.................-.- 7. Gary ..............................7. Jalapa................ -............ 8. Newberry ...._............... 8. Prosperity -...-...................8. R E TUR NING, day, August 1 Sth train up to and -il 6:00 a. m. Friday, At t A Trip on the Ocean, RI Round on the Carouse J. F. LIV!NGSTO Columbia, S. me "irty year jobs-. fa salaries, pl U y ipS, hil fai ilnterest oll yoUlr: 111me1y, and automobile ,roads for eourting parties in this county, no naiter who is your enator. Go and VOLe no 1 n Am unii 31-1. 1909. If you (11111 VPt a14lll luis . keep it to 1 0) r self. fr 6 ou Will t no 1ijuy)athV for failin- to lo vour dutv as a citi Zeln of Your il1l V. I bid y, oIod luck , g)md healti and sueee.. As ever. Cole L. Blease. Those who do their work as well as they can; who make mistakes but have the courage to admit it and start over again; who mind their bus iness and thus give you a chance to mind yours; who hold mere respecta bility in small esteem, and throw no fits of righteous indignation when a woman stumbles; who stand by their friends through brimstone and -high water, and spend the cheer and happi ness like prodigals; who get charity and kindness on the schedule and use them right along-they are the wire less girls and boys who radiate love, beget goodness and touch hands with t'he infinite.-Lee Willenborg. What He Meant. "Your novels will not endure, said the critic. "I know it,'' said the author. "They are not literature,'" said the critie. ?Correct,'' said the author. "Well, then, what do you mean by them'" 'IMoney," said the author. "Wait er, fetch me a porterhouse steak.'' Atlanta Constitution. 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