Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, January 12, 1911, Image 4
The Fort Mill Times.
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FORT MILL. S. C.. JANUARY 12. 1911.
The Rising Tide of Lawlessness.
Ten thousand and more murders
in America in the last twelve
months! If that is not a record
to encourage abroad the belief
that this is a land of murderers,
a nation of criminals, one is at a
loss to know what would convey
such an impression. There never
has been a time since civilization
was established in the Western
Hemisphere when crime stalked
abroad in America as it does
today. Read any paper carrying
the news of the day and one is
confronted with accounts of murders,
suicides, embezzlements,
forgeries, robberies, criminal assaults,
scandals and all the other
misdeeds enumerated in the
catalogue of crime. Nor are the
renorts of the criminal haoDen
ings in the country carried in any
one paper sufficient to give an
adequate conception of the lawlessness
that is rampant over the
republic. The news of only the
most reprehensible crimes are
transmitted by the intelligence
agencies, yet the number of
crimes that the daily papers tell
of is simply appalling.
Observing South Carolina's contribution
to the nation's awful
criminal record one can but be
alarmed over the deplorable state
of affairs in this Commonwealth.
It is one of the leaders in crime.
Murder, for instance, is an almost
daily occurrence in this
State. Something must be done
to check this rising tide of lawlessness.
otherwise in a few years
no man's life will be safe in South
Carolina. The remedy? Law enforcement.
Once let it be known
of all men that the man who
wantonly destroys the life of his
fellowman will certainly, surely
arid truly pay the penalty for his
crime, and ere long murder will
wellnigh be a thing of the past in
South Carolina.
We often hear of inefficient
South Carolina jurors. There is
much in the complaint. In York
county, as in the other counties of
the State, men sit as jurors in
murder cases who are mentally
incapacitated to perform such
important, service; they are toe
easily moved to return improper
verdicts by the oratorical tlights
and sickly sentimentalism indulged
in for their consumption
by the lawyers for the defense.
This kind of man is not able to
think for himself; his thinking is
done by the lawyer who pathetically
tells of the previous
"good character" of thecrimina
and the humiliation that will fal
upon his "honored family" if ht
is hanged or sent to the peniten
tiary. And usually the trie!
works and the murderer goes
scot free. But the failure o:
law in South Carolina murdei
cases is not due entirely to th<
weak-minded juror. Not infre
nuentlv he observes that th<
courts are doing- little to promot<
the security of life in Soutl
Carolina and concludes that i
murder is considered lightly fcn
the judges why should he, ai
obscure citizen, attempt to arous<
the public against the crime
Some of our judges do not d<
their duty.
Same Old Talk.
"There is some talk," saysth
Horry Herald, "among the rani
and file of the national Demc
cratic party, mostly among th
'whips,' to drive William Jen
riings Bryan out of the party
He may or may not be a shrewi
diplomat, but this much is cei
tain, that on three separat
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occasions he was given his op- ]
portunity to make good and thrice <
he failed to do so; that three j
times the party was led to dis- \
astrous defeat under his leader- ]
ship, and now, for his own good <
and the good of the purty, he i
should be relegated to the rear i
both as a leader and ar. adviser."
The talk that our contemporary
hears of is the samf old talk that
the trusts, which do not select
their captains f? jm the ranks of
the enemy, h?.e indulged in for
| many ye^' It does not come
l fro**- "rank and file" of the
party; certainly not from the
"whips" among the rank and
file. That would be impossible.
A "whip" is a member of a legislative
assembly appointed unofficially
to enforce the discipline
and look after the interests of
his party. Therefore, there are
no "whips" in the "rank and
file."
Mr. Bryan is not a "shrewd
diplomat." Our contemporary
may dispel any doubt it entertains
on that score. He has
never been in the diplomatic service
of any country. A diplomat
is a representative of one sovereign
state at the capital or court
of another.
The defeat of the Democratic
! party in the three campaigns,
1896, 1900 and 1908, in which
| Mr. Bryan was the presidential
I nominee was not due to his
leadership. All this talk of Mr.
| Bryan having led the party to
' disastrous defeat is veriest buncombe.
In neither of the three
campaigns in which Mr. Bryan j
I wns thp narfv 1 nnniil liic
leadership have been improved j
upon. We tried another leader, |
in 11K)4?a good man, against!
whom nothing could he said
with what success? Our party1
was mashed as flat and as full of
holes as a porous plaster. In 181X5 j
Mr. Bryan made the most brilliant
campaign in the country's
; history and came within 19,43(5
j votes of election. When Mr. ;
Bryan is driven out of the Democratic
party for no other reason
than to satisfy the black-flag j
trusts and quasi respectable commercial
buccaneers he will be ac-1
j companied by several million j
j voters. , I
Not often, but once in a while, |
there drifts into The Times office
the irresponsible, counterfeit
I complaint that in publishing the
news of the community this paper
discriminates against people who,
are engaged in certain vocations. |
| The complaint is not harmful,
however, and would be passed
over without notice but for the
opportunity the repetition of it
jifTmvls; fr??* n rpmiivL- n?- twn
paper has heretofore thought to
| make. In publishing the news of
Fort Mill The Times undertakes
, ?not without a measure of success,
it is pleased to believe?
'! to be absolutely fair to everyone;
i it has no friends to reward by
1 parading their names before the
t public to the exclusion of matters
) of more interest to its readers,
* i and it has no enemies to punish
;! by keeping their names out of
. j its columns when they should be
there. The columns of this paper
are not closed against any rei
! spectable ci^zen of the com*
munity; but in Fort Mill, as in
. every other community, there
* are citizens of relatively more
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\ 1 Sixteer
< j of Faithfi
- in For the last 16 years w
* m the leading grocery stores
, ^ It has always been our ai
i ^ our customers, this being
3 f success.
^ ? We want all of you wh
during the year 1910 to g
yf be benefited as those whi
'jL the past 16 years,
k & "We please those who <
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prominence than their neighbors.
Consequently, there is more
interest in news items about the ,
former than there is about the 1
latter. Some newspapers conseiye
it to be their duty to publish j
the things of most interest to ]
the greatest number of people.
The Rock Hill Herald says the <
ljck is tenure may accept me uivi- j
tation of President Johnson and ;
spend the 19th instant at Winthrop
college. If the invitation
has reached the Legislature,
there is absolutely no doubt of :
its acceptance. It is as certain j
as death and taxes, because
there are a lot of rube members <
of the Legislature who will welcome
the opportunity to get a I;
free ride and a good dinner at
the expense of the taxpayers and
most of the other members are 1
too indifferent to the interests |
of the people they were elected i
to represent to protest against
the subsidy. There is absolutely
nothing gained by such junketing
trips of the Legislature to
the State-aided colleges and it is
high time the waste of the people's
money thus incurred were
cut out.
"Jayville Junction"
at Graded School Auditorium
8 o'clock p. m.
Tuesday, Jan'y 17.
(Management Miss Dovie Harris)
Admission 25c; children 15c.
Annual Meeting.
Claim* Against York County Must be
Presented by Monday, January 30.
Yorkville, S. C. January 5, 1911.
Notice is hereby given that the annual
meeting of tin* County Board of
Commissioners will he held in th" office
of said board in Yorkville on Wednesday,
February 1, 1911, at 10 o'clock
a. m.
All persons having past due claims
against York county are hereby notified
to present the same to the clerk of
this board on or before Monday, Janu- j
ary 30, 1911.
All claims against the county must
be itemized and sworn to in an affidavit '
setting forth they ure just and true,
due and owing; that the labor or ser- !
vices were actually rendered, or the I
supplies actually furnished, and that no ;
part of the account has been paid by I
it isu'i ill n t t\r nltini-ivicii
Claims not presented during the year \
in which they originated, or during the
year following, are forever barred.
All persons authorized to administer
oaths are required to probate claims J
apainst the county free of charge.
By order of the board.
T. W. BOYD.
Supervisor.
ANNIE I.. WALLACE,
Clerk. l-12-3t
Happy New Year
7 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.
J. R. HA1LE. Vwp.
I Years |
II Service. ?
e have conducted one of in
\ in the town of Fort Mill, in
m to act honestly with all in
the prime reason for our
o have not traded with us
^ivc us your patronage and ?
3 have patronized us for
jannot please themselves." S
The Grocer. 3
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Town Treasurer's Report.
Following is the report of the Treaplrer
of the town of Fort Mill. S. C..
for the year ending December 31, 1910:
RECEIPTS.
Balance from 1909.. $ 3.75
Police department. .. 707.75
License tax 233.50
Street tax 755.00
Property tax . _ 820.25
Money borrowed. __ 497.33
Cement bills collected 134.23
Cemetery lots sold . 72.00
Dor tax 47.00
rown hall rent. 24.30
Total $3,345.11
DISBURSEMENTS.
Police departiaent $646.25
Electric lights . 623.20
Streets and sidewalks 489.29
Cemetery work 143.50
Mayor's salary . 150.00
Clerk's salary.. . 125.00
Borrowed money paid ... 500.00
Advertising contract 50.00
Sanitary department .. . _ 24.75
TrimminR park hedRe 6.50
ManaRers of elections ... 9.00
ReRisterinR electors 5.00
Expense tax returns 5.00
Bond for treasurer .. 5.00
License taxeB refunded 35.00
Street tax refunded 30.00
Fine returned . ... 5.00
Attorney's fees 10.00
Interest on notes. ... 6.15
Accounts: McElhaney & Co.,
$25.25; Fort Mill Times, $'..55;
W. B. Hoke. $10.43; R. M.
Hood, $1.00; Niagara Stamping
Co., $4.65; R. F. Grier,
$3.60; E. W. Kimbrell Co.,
$1.97; Pound-Moore Co., $9.00;
Mills & Young Co., $5.95; V.
B. Casey, $4.00, B. F. Massey,
$5.00; A. A. Young,
Young, $2.45 79.75
Insurance on town hall 10.25
Drayage and postage . 2.75
Total . $2,966.39
Cash on hand ... 378.72
Total $1,345.11
J. L. SPRATT,
Treasurer.
Trespass Notice.
No hunting, fishing or trespassing of
any kind by persons or live stock is allowed
on the Watson place.
JIM A. BARBER, Agt.
12-29-2t
Old newspapers for sale at The
Times office.
I Old Reliable hi
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Buggies, Surries, Harnes
glad to have you call and see
B. D. SI
Phone 28
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Mr. Royst
Manufacturer
above other c<
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big car load of "Our !
Leaf" Flour that we re
ago was bought just befc
are able to quote you at
Have you tried a sack of
it good though! The 1
everybody all the time.
Harne
Just received a new st
liess, Wagon Harness
Blankets, Riding Bridle
Lap Robes, Driving Oh
and the like.
Good old Country Sausage, \
Best Cane Syrup on the mar
E. W. Kim
Blank Liens, Mortgages,
Etc., for sale by The
litchell?Monarch
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racin?m wis. ;
is, Rubber Tires, Farming implements
our line.
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22 S. College St.
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of Fertilizers who would
onsiderations. This was
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suit has been that it r<
pply the demand for Roysl
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FACTORIES AND SALES OFFICES.
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The price of Flour
her every day. The
Best" and "Silver
ceived a few days
>re the rise and we
the same old price.
"Our Best" ? Isn't
Flour that pleases
>ss.
ock of Buggy Har- / 4
>, Saddles, Saddle f
s, Horse Blankets, (
>ves, Horse Combs j
2 pounds for 35 cts.
ket at 50c and 60c.
brell Co.
Notes, Bills of Sale,
Times.
of the Road {
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