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Fort Mill Times. '
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FORT Mil.L. S. ('.. JANUARY r>. 19U.
Opportunity.
Master of human destinies am I.
Famo, love and fortune on my footsteps
wait.
Cities and fields 1 walk. I penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and, passing i
by
Hovel and mart and palace, soon *or
late
I knock unhidden once at every gate.
If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise before
I turn away. It is the hour of fate.
And they who follow me reach every
state <
Mortals desire and conquer every foe i
Save death, hut those who doubt or
hesitate ,
Condemned to failure, penury and woe.
Seek me in vain and uselessly im- '
plore. j
I answer not, and 1 return no more. ,
John J. Ingalls. ,'
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A York County Need.
While it was gratifying to
York county folk to learn from
the recent census returns for
South Carolina that in the matter
of population the county
ranks seventh among the 43
counties of the State, the figures
presented by the returns really
occasioned little surprise. York
people already knew that their
county was one of the foremost
of the State, that the increase in
population for the last decade
was substantial and that the figures
would show a gain of several
thousand. Not only in the
matter of population is the county
growing, but the intelligent
energy of her citizens is being
rewarded by increasing property
values. In every section of the
county the value of land is from
25 to 100 per cent, greater today
than it was a dozen years ago.
York is indeed one of South Carolina's
foremost counties, but in
one respect our people have not
shown the progress that is notice- i
able in several other counties of
the State, where within recent
years the people have put up
court houses in keeping with the
spirit of the times and the needs
of the day. In Sumter, in Dar- .
lington. in Laurens and in other |
counties of the State the old
court houses that were perhaps j
as good as the York court house j
have been replaced in the last
half dozen years with modern
court houses. Not one of these
counties needed a new court
house more than York needs one
today. The old building in Yorkville
has served its day and our
people should recognize the fact
and provide a new court house.
If every citizen of the county
could visit the old building and
observe the inadequate quarters
of only one of the county offices
? that of the treasurer within
two years York county would
have a new court house.
John C. Calhoun on the Tariff.
The greatest burden the mass
es or tnejAmencan people have
to bear, the high cost of living,
is due directly to the protective
tariff. It oppresses the many for
the benefit of the few and nullifies
the principle of popular government?equal
rights to all, special
privileges to none. Since the
formation of the Federal government
nearly a century and a half
ago the tariff has been a bone
of contention in the halls of Congress
between the two great political
parties of the day. Sixtyeight
years ago one of the strongest
expositions of the theory of
protection ever delivered in the
national house of representatives
was made by John C. Calhoun.
He foresaw, as could none of his
contemj>oraries, the tremendous
and ruinous greed which the system
would foster. On the tariff
as on other subjects which came ,
up for consideration in Congress ;
b- ' ' ' . .. \
during- b\r. Calhoun's service in
that body he was ever the champion
of the people and brought
to bear all his great powers of
reasoning in their behalf. In
view of the present-day interest'
throughout the country in the
tariff question and the probability
of relief being afforded the
masses by the incoming Democratic
Congress, the summing up
of the subject by the groat South
Carolinian in 1842 cannot fail of
interest. The same principles so
clearly pointed out by Mr. Calhoun
are involved today. Mr.
Calhoun said:
"On what ground do they ask
protection? Protection against
what? Against violence, oppression,
or fraud? If so. government
is bound to afford it. If it
comes within the sphere of its
l>owers, cost what it may, it is j
the object for which the govern-'
ment is instituted: and if it fails
in this, it fails in the highest
point of duty. No: it is against
neither violence, oppression, nor
fraud. There is no complaint of
being disturbed in property or
pursuits, or of being defrauded
out of the proceeds of industry.
Against what, then, is protection
asked? It is against low
prices. The manufacturers complain
that they cannot carry on
their pursuits at prices as low as
the present, and that unless they
can get higher they must give
up nianutactunng. The evil,
then, is low prices, and what]
they ask of government is to give
them higher; but how lo they
risk it to be done? Do they ask
government to compel those who
want to purchase to give them
higher? No; that would be a
hard task and not a little odious;
lillicult to be defended on the
principles of equity, justice, or
the constitution, or to be en-'
forced, if it could be. Do they
isk that a tax should be laid on ;
the rest of the community and'
the proceeds be divided among
them to make up for low prices?
3r, in other words, do they ask
for a bounty? No; that would
pe rather too open, oppressive. 1
mil indefensible. How, then, do
hey ask it to be done? By puting
down competition;- by the
mposition of taxes on the part'
if others, so as to give them the;
exclusion of the market, or at
east a decided advantage over
ithers, and thereby enable them
.<) sell at higher prices. Stripped
>f all disguise, this is their rejuest,
and this they call protection.
Call it tribute, levy, exacion,
monopoly, plunder; or, if
,hese be too harsh, call it charity,
issistanoe, aid anything rather
ban protection, with which it
las not a feature in common." ,
An aggressive business policy
in the part of Fort Mill business
men, reaching out for everything
within reach, encouraging
ill would-be comers, expending
nnnpv lvVipn a foi*>
j .. . w i? tun I VlHI H IS)
reasonably certain, would seem
:o be one way to help the town.
\ town is what its people make
t. It may slowiy grow by the
ittle accretions that accidentaly
fall within its influence, or it
:an be pushed into vigorous and
rapid growth by the aggressive
activity of its business element.
tl.
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Mr. Roystei
Manufacturer o
above other cor
idea Twenty-se
to-day; the resi
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two suits a season, possibly 11
varies from season to season,
time and a poor one the secon
if you bought "ALCO SYSTE
by experts in a large modern
pervision given tlicni renders
ment to be produced. That ii
suit here, you will want ano
complete assortment of the m
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E. W. KIMBRE
Happy New Year
I o the friends and
patrons who have
made 1910a Very
prosperous year for
us, we wish to extend
sincere thanks.
We wish for you a
New Year of happiness
and prosperity.
Ft. Mill Drug Co.
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ROYSTKK <;UAN<) CO>1 PA
FACTORIES AND SALES OFFICES.
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You get a good suit the first
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M" Clothes. Thev are made
factory and the personal suit
impossible for a poor gar5
why, if you buy an "ALCO"
ther next time. We have a
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State of South Carolina, County of t
York Court of Common Picas. (
J. M. Merritt ?*t al against Lutie
Hass.
In obedience to a decree for partition
in the above stated rase, I will expose
to public sale, before the door of the
Savings Hank of Fort Mill, on Saturday,
January 7th, 1911, between 11 a.
m. and 2 p. in., the real estate described
as follows: ;
"All of that piece or lot of land in I
the town of Fort Mill, State and county
aforesaid, situate on White street,
in the northeast corner of the lands
formerly owned by H. 1). Springs and
adjoining lands of S. E. White, near
the Fort Mill Manufacturing company;
beginning at a stone on White street,
S. E. White's corner, and runs South
61 West 210 feet with S. E. White's
line to a stone, thence South 40 East
150 feet to a stake, thence North 52 1-2
East 242 feet to a stone on White '
street, thence North 44.120 feet with
said White street to the beginning;
containing three-fourths (3-4) of an
acre, more or less." 1
1 Terms: Cash, purchaser to pay for
I papers.
J. A. TATE. I
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December 19. 1910.
FOR SALE Pine v.- >od, on stump,
at 50c and $1 per i oni, according to j
quality. Also a quantity of wood free
for clearing land. OS KARHF.P
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I We desire to extend our J ^
very best wishes for
Happy Hew Year
jj to al! of our numerous pa- |
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trons and friends yv ho have , , ^
I favored us with meir busi- !'
ness, making it possible for
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trade in the history of our
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\A Happy and Prosper- f I
jj ous New Year I ?
n To all our customers and the public in general. ^
We wish to thank all of you who have patron a
ized us during the year just closing and also jk
0 to express our desire for a continuance of
0 your trade.
n Our motto is: "Give our customers entire
^ satisfaction and treat all alike."
jj JONES, The Grocer. |
Mules and Horses
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Wc have just received our first shipment )
)f Tennessee Mules and Horses. They are (
lie good kind and now is the time to huy,
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Everyone guaranteed to be as represented
or your money refunded. See these beore
you buy; it will pay you.
Mills & Young Company.
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