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Ld)UIS APPELT-'. Edit-or MA.NN ING. S. C., .JULY G;. 19'14 PUB1SHED EVERY WEDNESDAY SUBSCRU'TION RATES: one yvz ...................... . Six monthm ............................ T Foiul Inntflh'4............... s ADVERTIsl;NG RATES: One squa. one time. I1: esch sub q u- n : wertion. 50 cents. Obitaaric and Trit~utes' "f Repect charged for as r v advertisement Libcra1 contract- made !or three. Ix and twel w Communications mDt oc accompan by h real name and addre's. o? the wri1tcr noder :o r'wive attention. NO &*:.;municaion o: a pcrsonai character wi be published except a and-ment ene:dal b cso.c at )lj~nning ;L- S-c ond & 'aa macr. DELAYED JUSTICE WiLL CEATE CHAOS. The delays in meteing out jus tice to those convicted of crire is giving the people much con cern at this time. They are be coming restless under the recent efforts to baffie justice. The famous Jone's case has been the game for astute lawyers. who spring from one legal defence to another, to thwart justice being done. Of course, it is for the fees they get that they are thus en gaged; they sell their talents for a price, while the taxpayer is helpless, and must bear the brunt of the cost. It is true that every citizen, high or low, rich or poor, is en titled to the protection of the courts, but when the courts have considered their cause, and pas sed upon its merits, it does strike us that there should be a limit. In the Jones case, the de fendant was charged with the murder of his wife, a jury of his countrymen said he was guilty: an appeal was taken to the su preme court, and this court, after reviewing the case. affirm ed the verdict of the court be low, but the lawyers in the case sought another tack, and peti tioned a circuit judge to grant another trial upc.a what they pre tended,arter discovered evidence, this had the effect of delaying the execution of the law: the last judge appealed to found no grounds to grant a new trial. and so- decreed, neverthless, the lawyers have given notice of another appeal to the supreme court, which will have the effect of again continuing the delay. There is no telling how, or when this convicted wife-murderer will pay the penalty for the actroci ouis crime he was convicted of. There was committed in this county a foul murder about one and a half years ago, in which a young man in the bloom of his manhood was the victim, a jury heard the evidence and pro nounced the slayer guilty, this case was appealed to the su preme court, and that body aflir med the verdict below. In the meantime the execution of the court's sentence of death was de layed for over a year. The con victed man was brought mnto the court where he was origirnally convicted, but in this court his lawyer set up the plea of insanity, a jury was empaneled to hear the evidence, and it said the defendant was sane, again sen tence of death was .pronounced, and now comesanother harassing delay, the matter through the shrewdness of a lawyer, will stand in suspense until the ap peal is heard which will take probably six or more months: all the time the justice promised is a farce. When such a condition esists can it be wondered that those directly interested feel they are not being given the protection the law promises them? And. is it any wonder that people who have been outraged should lose faith in the promises of the law, become desperate and want to take the law into their own hands? There is such a thing as patience being overdone: when those who have had one of their loved ones snatched from them by the ruthless hand of murder, they havea right to demand of the courts, justice. Where is the blame to be placed for the mis carriages of justice whicn are con stantly being enacted in this State? Surely not with the juries, because when the juries do their duty, their work is upset by the astuteness of lawyers who are paid to take advantage of tech nicalities that justice may be thwarted. It is not with the court officers, they are helpiess, and can only carry out the mandates of the court. Then where is the blame for this state of affairs to be placed? In our opinion, the responsibility lies at the door of the lawmaking power, it is there where the laws are made, which give the openings and the op portunities for the legal techni calities that work such havoc in thwarting justice. In all of our lawmaking bodies there is a large percentage of the legal fraternity; these gentlemen are constantly framing new laws and amending old ones, until the kay members of the legislature can not keep pace with them. The fact is, the lawyei s themiselves do not understand their own made laws, because of their confused condition, hence the frequent appeals to the su preme court. at the expense of the taxpayers as a whole, and the individual interested. We would not dare to charge that lawyers go to the legisla ture to confuse the laws. for we have no authority to make such a charge, but we do say, with all of the lawyers in the gen eral assembly. and for years this profession has been strongly represented in the lcgielatnre and gettin more so. it is strange the laws of our State are in such a condition that they furnish so many opportunities for such contrary constructions be ing placed upon their interpreta tion. We have alwvays been taughttV believe the law is common sense. and that all laws should be simple, so simple that any man of ordinary intelligence can un derstand them, but it does look to us. and we believe it so looks to the majority, that in this day and time.whether so designed or not. the laws are so constructed as to confuse intelligence. There should be a halt called sometime. It is with those who exercise the power of the ballot to con sider the present conditions: shal! we be forever burden ed with taxation to pro vide needless expense in main Lainin, our courts? This newspaper is no advocate of lynch law, but if conditions continue as they are at present. this State will, from one end of it to the other, have cause to rue its indifference. We say, the frequent delays of justice is en raging the people. and unless they can have contidence in our courts, a deplorable condition awaits alt of us. We know of as good and as true citizens as there are in the world, whc would risk their lives in the up holding of the law. but these even, are becoming disheartened at a condition where money to fee a lawyer will act as an ob stacle to justice. DISCUSS THE TAX PROBLE). It is with regret that we ti nd the daily newspapers giving sc little of the important parts of the speeches made by the State campaigners. They tell us thai Col. So. and So, after stating his position on "licker." made a splendid talk on taxation,schools good roads, etc. We regard the views of the candidates on taxation as so very im portant, the newspapers shouli let their readers know wha1 these views are. We know of nothing at this time of greater importance to the masses that the matter of taxation: all must concede that taxes are growing every year until it has reached the point where the owner of property is seriously concerned. The assessment of property is another matter for serious con sideration. Everybody knows that property is unequally as sessed. and if the owners of property make a fair return, the boards of equalization come on behind and reduce. There has been recommendations made time and again by the Comptrol ler General to the legislature lookmng towards remedying thE present conditions, but withou1 avail. The legislature is made up of men largely interested in the lands of the State. and while they are willing for the personal property which can be hidden 'o be taxed, they are very chary about the taxation of the visible property, whicu cannot be hid den. They just will not accept the recommendations of the Comptroller General whose busi ness it is to mrake a study of tax ation. One of our great troubles lies with our having the consti tutional three mills for school purposes to stand in the way, ii this can be removed, and it can only be removed by a vote of the people, then we believe the mat ter of taxation will be solved easily, but as long as we have the three mill tax fastened upor us as it is now, fair assessments will not be had, the result is tha1 a great deal of property goes upon the tax books not only far below its value, but very unequ ally assessed! making some men pay more than their just pro portion, and others escape their just proportiorn. The question arises, how can this condition be remedied? The gentlemen aspiring to the high~ State positions should enlighten the masses with their views on this subject, for in our opinion, it is a subject that will interest all of *us. Every one agrees with the general proposition that as assessments are unequal. that the common schools are needing our care, we all agree that good roads are a blessing. there is nc dispute on any of these ques tions. What the masses want enlightment upon, is how to get these things without a tax ation which nearly amounts to a confiscation? We believe the present sys tem of taking tax returns is in efficient. and through this sys tem there is lots of the property that does~ not finds its way to tne tax books. Now, how can a change be made which will get the prop erty on the books? At present, the auditor has the taking o1 returns imposed upon him,and he advertises his appointments, but the people do not go to meet him. they come to the court house, look over a former re turn, and regardless of increased values in the way of new build ings, arnd other property, they make about the same return. Now, if instead of the auditor receiving these returns, the law could be changed so as to make the township boards receive themr. with power to make re turns, and let them pass upon the valuation, we believe a more equitable assessment can, and will be had, for the reason. the members of the towvnshiip boards would know the conditions ex isting in their respective town ships, and they would be in posi tion to act intelligently. They would know if Mr. A has built a house on his place. which say, cost S,000, in the place of or.c which was worth %00~Y: they would know whether Mr. B has to had of hores or tn, they would know -hether or not Mr C's land would bring on the open market $50 per acre or $5. 1 In other words, we believe the returns should be taken by the township boards instead of the nresent system. and too. we think the township boards should be maic up of good. sound busi ness men. men who know values and are fair. We should like to see this or some similar plan put into opera tion for one year to see how it will work, and in our opinion, it would result in getting upon the tax books a great deal of prop erty which is now escaping tax ation: it would equalize the values and it would reduce the levy. If something is not done to relieve the taxpayer from the growing burdens, we are afraid it will bring on another political revo lution with all of its attendant Jbitterness, for it is when the people are restless, and discon tented. the demagogue fans the prejudices into flame, and brings on a condition of strife and un happiness. Therefore, we say, our leading men should make a study of this problem, discuss it before the people that they may 'take it into their minds, and reason with it, and then. if not this time, perhaps some other time in the near future: some man will be gifted with the abil ity, and the wisdom, to rise up and lead us out of the wilder ness. "-HE WHO AGREES NOT WITH ME is VILL" According to the Lake City News, every man who favors local option is "a liquor man" and in an editorial it undertakes to make thq impression that the candidates for Governor who ad vocate local option are endeav oring to frighten the rest of the people of the State by arguing, if the State passes a State-wide law, the six wet counties will do something terrible. Our good friend knows better than this. for he is aware there are many strong Prohibitionists and tee totalers who are firm in their be lief that temperance will fare better under laws that have a good, strong, healthy senti ment behind them than if those laws were forced upon a people against their will, and the cause of temperance, the uplifting of the masses is one of the r --i arguments for temperance: this cause must be advanced gradu ally, and not with one blow. Grant that the legislature at its next session enacts a State wide law, and in the counties upon which it is forced upon become in different about the enforcement of the law, will our Lake City friend not admit the cause of temperane will be injured? Would it not be" far better to let those people who favor prohibi tion in the six counties work with their brethren, and by per suasion win them over to their Iway of thinking, by this means 'create a sentiment in favor of doing away with the sale of It is fol-de-rol to say these six counties are spewing their filth over thirty-seven counties in the State. The sale of liquor is practically local: those hiv ing in other counties do not have to go to the dispensary coun ties, they use the express ofices and get a better quality for less money. Let the News editor ask some of his Lake City friends to ascertain how much booze is shipped into that town by express, and then ask how much is gone after to Florence, and he will see that ninety-nine per cent gets into his town from without the State. So it will not do to say the county dispen saries in the wet counties "'are spewing their filth over thirty seven counties." The great trouble with some, they become extreme and do not stop to reason if they are not agreed with; they at once jump to the conclusion that those who fail to see things as they do are enemies. A Local Optionist is r-ot necessarily a liquor man, no more so than a Prohibitionist is a temperance man. There are many who voted for prohibition who buy and drink liquor, and1 there are many who favor local option who are total abstainers, hence we say, the Loca.1 Option ists are not al ways liquor men. But they sincerely believe more good can be accomplished by the laws as they now stand than to go otY on a tangent, which will probably be the case. becau'se there are extremists, and these are always dangerous as was. demonstrated recently in Ala bama, where the temperance cause was set back for years. IGrant, for ar-gumwent sake the Prohibitionists win their candi date for Governor and the legis-. lature was to let the local option law remain on the books as it is. would the Governor be able to help himself? And suppose a Local Option Governor is ele ted, does the News editor be lieve he would veto a prohibi tion Act? It really matters not who is elected Governor, lhe will carry out the laws enacted by the legislature and will vem' none unless he is convinced they are unconstitutional, and even then the legislatur-e can pass ohte hish vto, stress is that our friend is making the sam mistake as other extremists are making when he classes all Lo cal Option men as 'liquor men. andI when he attempts to mislead his hearers by imtigta theliqordrinkers from all over the State buy their stuff from the six wet counties, and, too, whei lie undertakes to class liquor selling and drinking with misdemeanors r-egarded as hein ous crimes. There is a great in,- liquor and stealing. and a I great difference between a man who sells liquor and one who murders. Liquor selling was made a misdemeanor by the law of the land to meet a demand, but theft and iurdir is an iiihi bition comnumanded by divine haw. They are altogether different. and cannot be treated the same. NO DICTATION WANTED. When the New York legisla ture declined to accept the dicta tion of Col. Roosevelt, it was only another demonstration of the futility of popular heroes undertaking to dictate to the people: they may get the ap-i plause, and the popular acclaim, and they may get the votes but when they undertake to use their popularity fo- others it is usu ally resented good and hard. In South Carolina its popular hero. Ben Tillman. can get the votes of the people for huimseif. but whenever he undertook to get votes for one of his friends he found himself nil. He discover ed the uselessness of attempting to dictate how the people should vote upon public questions as well as public persons. Ben Till man undertook to elect John Gary Evans and the people in effect told him to mind his own business. He undertook to dic tate to them about liow they should vote on the matter of the State dispensary, and the peo pie practically let him know they had sense enough to man age their own affairs, and in everything of that kind Ben Tillman attempted in this State, he lost out, but when be wanted something for himself the masses were ready and willing to give him that. Just so is it with Col. Roosevelt, in our opinion, he is the most popular man in the United States today with the masses, but he cannot dictate to them how they shall vote or what they shall do; we have no doubt he can be elected governor of New York State, but wedoubt seriously if he can get a single measure through New York's legislature. The fact of it hav ing the Roosevelt brand is re sented by the members of that body, they rather resent the idea of being dictated to. STATE OF oHi0. CtTV OF T3.LDo. LrcAS CoUNTY. FxANK J. C2ruvxY makes oath that be i% the enior partner of the rarm of F. J. CiLzNEY & co.. doirg business in the city of Toledo. county and State aforesaid. andthat said Urm wIll pay the sum of ONE HUNfDRED DOLL.ARs for each and every cme of Catarrh that cannot be cure-d by the use of HALi'S CATARMI CUt. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and 'ubsc-ibed in my pre. ance. this 6th day of December. A. D. IA6. ...P.- A. w. GLEAsO.. SKAL Notary Public Hal:'% Catarri: Cure i.. taken internaily and act. directly on the blood and mucous surface-s of the system. send for teZstimonials, Iree. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. 0. sold by druggis'ts. 75c. Hairs Family Pills are the best. The Columbia State knew all along that Johnson would whip Jeffries, and is one of the "I told you so" class. The great prize fight between Jeffries, the white man, and Johnson, the negro, came off at Cl Reno. Nevada last Monday, and resulted in Johnson defeatirng Jefries in the fifteenth round. f So far as we are concerned it m would not matter if both of these pr toughs had killed each other-. P The prize light game is one that "i should not be allowed in a civili- in zed country. but when it is per- isi mitted, the authorities ought to be give the participaints the right to bammner each other to death. The only thing to be regreted in om a negro defeating a white maul ti in such a contest. is the effect it e will have upon the ignorant oc negro throughout the country, w it may cause these to beco me1 up- W pish and insolent and bring or., trouble between them and some le hot-headed white man. As for ca Jefries, we have no sympathy e~ whatever. I Chief Justice Melville W. Fmil- a., er of the United States Sunreme W court is dead. This distinguish ed b" jurist departed this life suddenly er at his summer home in Maine Ji Monday morning. The funeral en will take place in Chicago next Friday. Chief Justice Fuller was appointed by President G rover b Cleveland, and has served on the or supreme bench contmnuously for in twenty years. H1eew:~s 77 yea rs1Wi old when he died. The death of 11 the Chief Justice leaves another1e vacancy on the supreme bench Ial which President Taft will have to W fill. The ambition of President* Taft's life was to be the Chief .Jus- e' tice ot the United States Supr-eme M Cour-t, but he had to give that up t when he accepted the nomination I of his party for the presidency. ft It is up to him to appoint a new kr Chief of the highest court inl th laI land, and it is to be hoped the ap pointmehnt will be free from par- Ja tizanship. sh. ----- co The prevailing prices foi- food s stuffs should be an eye openler to at the peop~le of this country: there is 1n0 pr'osp~ct foi- corditions to th get any better. Th~e country is be becommng more densely populat. tu4 ed and the demand for food is be coming greater: the country is~ fast out growing the present sources for food supply. wvhich is C) largely the cause of the advanc ig prices, and unless the farm- 1 ers of this country are governed ed by the lesson of today, anda hereafter- raise thleir- own food ;b stuffs the high prices for their cotton product will avail them but little. Our farmers must give I more attention to the raising of corn. wheat and meat. No farmerl can profitably raise cotton with . his food stuffs boug'ht at prevail- " ing prices. foi- it is not only the food stuffs that are high. but : everything that goes to the mnak ing of cotton is extremely high, therefore it behooves .'verv farm er to make preparationls to mnake lis forod supply at home. et MiD4UEEIII CLEARANCE SALE Of lE CLOTHING. It's the time of the year when we always il ~'clean up our Spring and Summer Stock. We Sdo this simply by cutting prices so low that Sgood judgment forces you to buy. SHart-Schaffner & Marx $28 Suits, now $20. SHart-Schaiffner & Marx $25 Suits, now $17.50. Hart-Schaiffner & Marx $20 Suits, now $13.50. fliClearance Prices on all Clothing, Hats, Negligee Shirts and Underwear. All Goods Sold Strictly for Cash. SSale Commences Tuesday, July 5th, 1910 F 'HOCN E 166. - 8LJM~TEF S.C. nhePeachnTee Brer. Candidates' Cards. ~, leson Extension Work.- Art icl' - I II. Congress. ext to the San Jose Scale this is TI~vrw r.i~DNAZ Lenost destructive peach insect in t h. ~ ,ra.~n4l~fc. eState. Every fruit grower is fa-!,at'F~ knr-M'hlDrtn~& i iar with its work. 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