TORRENS SYSTEM
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A BILL FOB ITS ENACTMENT BEFORE
THE HOUSE.
Synopsis of the Bill as Proposed by 1
Representative J. Archie Willis of ,
liAurrns. 1
A bill providing for the adoption i
of the Torrens system of land regis- i
' tration was introduced into the house I
Friday morning by J. Archie Wil- i
lis, member from Laurens county, i
and the following is a synopsis of (
the bill: i
A referee, who shall be appointed t
in each county, 6hall constitute 1
"courts of land registration, for the
purpose of the settlement, registra- 1
tion, transfer, and assurances of ti- ]
ties to lands within their respective <
jurisdiction ' The jurisdiction of s
the registration courts shall he the I
same as that over which the regis- i
trar of said county shall have juris- 1
diction as clerk of court. i
After the petition has been made <
to the court for a registered title, |
and the decree has been granted, a i
petition for a rehearing may be filed I
within one hundred and twenty days 1
after the granting of said degree. 1
It is provided in the bill to be 1
Introduced that the clerk of the 1
court of each county shall be the <
registrar of the land registration t
court. The "said registrars and their
deputies shall be authorized and re- ?
quired, under the direction of their <
respective courts, to issue process I
and to enter the decree of the court <
touching lands in their respective 1
counties or corporations, and to en- I
tor and issue certificates of title, as f
provided herein, whereby the seal t
of the court to such certificates and t
their duplicates . . . and generally 1
to perform such other acts and du- <
ties as the court may prescribe." f
The clerks of the court wnen an- l
pointed registrars of the land courts t
shall qualify and give bond for the J
faithful performance of their duties. >
Two or more lawyers of the coun- I
ty in which the court has jurisdic- (
tlon shall be appointed as examiners i
of titles, and these may also he appointed
referees In the cases filed.
It shall be their duty to search
the records and to investigate all g
iiicis stated In petitions for regis- 4
tered titles. t
Petitions for registration of any 1
land or lands may be made by the i
"person or persons claiming, singly I
or collectively, to own or to have i
the power of appointing or disposing t
of an c-state in fee simple in any 1
land, whether subject to liens or 1
not." <
The petition is filed under the i
provision of the bid in the regis- 1
trar's ofllce, after which the court (
shall cause notice of same to be sent '
to "all whom it may concern," same i
being sent by registered mail, and
certificates of these notices shall be 1
filed with the petition, and shall he 1
conclusive proof of service. Any i
persons having an Interest in or I
claim against the land for which the i
petition has been filed, may answer 1
th? petition before the final decree '
has been given. The court may have
the land In q iestion surveyel, if it l
thinks it necessary.
With the exception of executors <
and administrators who aro winding
up estates, if is left purely ontlonal
with all landowners as to whether
they shall have their land recistered
but it is believed by many that should
the bill pa?s and become a law, the
majority of land owners will want
their titles registered as soon as they
can have them registered.
The decrc of registration is final,
it quiets the title, and binds against
all the world, subject to appeal, as
provided by the hill.
When a tract of land has been
registered an original certificate is
kept in the office of the registrar,
and a duplicate certificate Is glve.i
the holder of the land registered.
The original and duplicate each show
all the incumbrances, if there are
any, against the land registered, and
any one may tell at any time the exact
condition of the title. All incumbrances
placed on the land after ,
registration must be recorded on
both the original and duplicate certificates
of title.
Under the provisions of the bill,
the land when once examined by
the examining attorneys and registered
in the court of land registra- 1
tlon shall be guaranteed to the holder
Of the title tlir? Stotn mo''1""
..it.nui fs me
guarantee. An assurance fund of
one-tenth of one per cent of the assessed
vahn of the land is paid in
to the registrar when the land is registered.
This amount is kept by the
registrar until turned over to the
State treasurer. It is held by the
State treasurer to pay off any loss
that may come to the State 6-om
guaranteeing the titles that are registered
in the courts provided for
that purpose. If at any time the
assurance fund is insufficient to satlsfy
any judgment certified against
it as aforesaid, the unpaid account
shall bear interest at the legal rate
and be paid in its order out of the
moneys coming into said fund.
Knts Poison Pills.
TMscoerlng hglf a dozen strychnine
pills that nad been left for a feer
patient, Pauline, the three-year-oid
daughter of George W. Young, of
Junlatij, Pa., ate them while ber
IJL mother M^as absent and ln*half an
houri^^^^dead.
ADVICE TO THE GIRLS.
How to Capture and Hold Men After
They Are Captured.
If I were a girl, says a writer In
in exchange, desirous of getting
married, I would not trouble about
my looks further than to keep neatly
ind becomingly dressed. But 1 should
?et resolutely to work to take an Interest
in men generally; study them
is one studies geology, botany, entomology,
or any other ology that appeals
to the taste, and I should seek
to become forgetful of self. So many
?irl8 spoil their chances by behaving
is If It were a man's duty to study
ihem. Of course, they may be the
interesting creatures they think
themselves to be, but their attitude
repels Investigation of their merits.
A girl Is never so charming as
when she has forgotten self and an
pears sincerely Interested In some
me else: sympathy is a valuable as?et.
and men like to be thought interesting.
Their lives and Individual
natures, not their hearts, should
Pe the direct objects of interest, and
nothing ought to be easier than to
iheck any signs of giddiness on the
part of the young man. at the outjet;
one should simply lessen the
force of her sympathetic Interest in
tilm. While studying the specimen,
he girl should expect nothing from
he man?not even candy. We know
that men have a hard time, these
lays; but women do not find the batle
of life a play-ground.
Instead, however, of mentioning
me's own struggles, the girl should
mcourage the specimens to show
heir ability to fight It out against all
>dds. If a girl wants to especially
ileaso her specimen, she should ask
'or his advice. Men have advice to
rive away, and they are always more
han willing to bestow it liberally on
heir wom?n friends. It pleases them
or a woman to depend on them,
>ven to show them her new gowns
ind hats and ask if they like them.
\ man likes his sweetheart to recoglize
the correctness of his taste and
udgment. So, if you wish to put
rour specimen in a good humor, ask
lis advice. It remains with you to 1
lo as you please with It, after it is
riven,
Bryan to Hoys.
In answer to a recent inquiry
ibout advising boys Mr. Hryan said
'there is no new advice to give boys,
ind there are no new boys to advise.
The boy is the same that he has been
ind he is not likely to change much
n the years to come. His impulses
ire the same that they were cenuries
ago; the dangers that con'ront
him confronted his father and
lis grandfather In their boyhood
lays. If * were suggesting a warnng
to boys I would not suggest a
setter one than that embodied in the
ext, "ine wages of sin Is death.'
rhat is the law, and It cannot be repealed.
"The honest, truthful. Industrious
joy will succeed In proportion to his
ntelligence, but no intelligence can
make up for lack of honesty, truthfulness
or Industry?especially Is it
Impossible to substitute anything for
honesty and truthfulness. Laziness
will limit one's accomplishments
whatever his other good qualities
may be, but he can outgrow laziness
just as he can outgrow lack of education
or intelligence, but It Is much
more difficult to outgrow a lack of
honesty or a lack of truthfulness.
"Possibly I ought to suggest that
patience is a virtue which should be
added to the ones already mentioned.
Impatience has led many young men
lo ruin; they have not been willing
to wait for a fortune to come through
legitimate accumulation, and through
their hasto to get rich they have
fallen. The hoy shouldd "learn to
labor and to wait." Character is
built slowly; but it can be lost In a
day. The farmer must wait from
seed time until the harvest, however
long it may seem, before he gathers
h!s crop, and so the boy must be willing
to plant in the springtime of life
for the harvest that he will gather
when he is grown."
NO TANKS OX MAW u iux
The Legislature I'rged to Take Action
in the flatter.
"Over a million acres of land In
this State escape taxation because
they are not shown on the tax duplicates
and can not be put there until
definitely located in some particular
tax district." Comptroller General
Jones will say in a vigorous report
to the General Assembly.
He will complain that persona
owning property in adjacent school
districts often return it all in that
district, having the lowest tax or
none and they in laying off schoo'
districts in some counties have been
' so gerrymandered as to create districts
of most absurd and inconvenient
shapes.'
Mr. Jones urges that "an accurate
survey of district line, road and water
would more than pay for Itself"
in l " - -
... t..?. iocmm iiitreabe tnai would
follow. No such survey has been
made since that of Mills, In 1 825.
I.ost in HoukIi Sen.
News has been received of the
drowning January .2 of James Kenneth
Haxley who was washed from
the deck of the battleship Virginia
in a rough sea. Haxley was a coxswain
aboard the Rhlp, was 21 yearn
old; and was a native of Heph2ihah,
Ga^ Hin body w*? not recovered.
Most Toe the Mark.
The result of the late election was
a commission to the Democratic party
from the people to give them relief
from the burdens of the tariff
bill recently enacted by the Republican
party. The Democratic party
must measure up to its opportunity
and give the people the relief demanded
or it will be relecated to
the rear permanently ae a minority
n-xr-tx' nxxA I V. ~ 1 - -.111
uiiu me |n;ui;io will UU III III lb~
sion Borne other party to carry out
their demands. Relief they are going
to have, and if the Democratic
party fails to carry out the great
commission entrusted to It by the
people It will be disastrously defeated
In the next election. The people
cannot be fooled any longer.
The Washington Star savs "there
Is a good deal of undisguised protection
sentiment among Southern
Democrats They talk it at home,
and openly vote it in Congress. The
debate on the Payne bill while on its
passage was very illuminating on
that point. Does The State recall
it? If not, it should turn to its
file of The Congressional Record for
that period. It nffords what Mr.
Greeley characterized as 'mighty interesting
reading.' Have the Southern
men changed their minds? There
is no authentic report that the leopards
have changed their spots."
In reply to the Star The State
says it "recallR vividly the attitude
of certain Democrats during the debate
on the Payne-Aldrlch bill, and
remembers the votes cast by about
forty of the unfaithful. Some of
them sold the main girder under
their party for a mess of "greens,"
without even getting bacon with it.
Rut we recall, too, that several of
those who bowed obsequiously and
expectantly before Joe Cannon's
throne have since suffered chastisement.
We believe the signs of popular
indignation at the Republican
failure to reform the tariff will not
be lost upon Democrats coming into
power.
"The States does not imagine the
politicians in Congress calling themselves
Democrats and hungering for
special privileges under the tariff for
their constituents are straightway
going to become real Democrats and
honestly work for the benefit of the
consumers instead of the few producers,
but it does believe the catastrophy
of party suicide will appear
so certain and imminent to the
party leaders if the party is unfaithful
to pledges and unworthy the faith
of them who have given it power,
that those in their ranks with the
sutler spirit will be forced to act as
Democrats or else branded before the
country as disloyal.
"In the days following the overwhelming
defeat of the Democratic
party in November, 1908. when many
Southern Democrats predicted the
death of th? party and were discussing
new allignments. The Times and
Democrat, along with The State and
other real Democratic newspapers
had and expressed absolute faith In
the recuperation and victory of Democracy.
The party had made a good
fight, it was right and deserved success.
It had a right to "come back."
And as The State says, when the other
party failed Democracy was given
victory by votes of Republican tariffreformers.
If it now fails to meet
its responsibilities on the tariff it will
be blasted. Nothing could restore it
to confidence.
Wo share in The State's belief
"that all the leaders understand that
this next test is a crisis, and that
aurh nnrtorttnnfUnor will .?
wvMiiuiug n in ail lit* II lUU
elastic backbones and force an alinrmcnt
on pnrty principles, gives us
faith that Democratic legislation on
the tariff will be Democratic. We
believe the necessity of exercising
party discipline to the extent of authoritatively
declaring there is no
such thing as a 'protection* Democrat,
will be recognized." Those socalled
Democrats whose interests
make them favor protection, should
go where they belong, in the Republican
party. The time has come when
there should be no more mixing of
the goats with the sheep. There has
been too much of that in the past
for the party's good.
Rruve Firemen.
Heroism is usually associated in
the public mind with battle fields, and
many inspiring are the records of
deeds of valor and of strusgle. Rut
in these days of peace we are continually
being reminded that there
are battles other than those in which
men are pitted against each other In
deadly combat. Probably among the
uiosi spectacular arc tnose In which
hardy, fearless and trained men wrestle
with the great fires which threaten
property and lives. Intent upon
their duty and with no selfish
thought of themselves these firemen
stand face to face with danger In
such batMe, and oftlmes us in the
every recent catastrophies In Chicago,
Philadelphia and other cities
prove, they f?o unfalteringly to their
death. Such heroism is an inspiration
to the performance of duty under
all circumstances and strengthens
faith In human nature.
Hold Posse at Hay.
Armed with revolvers and firing
scores of shots, two hoys, Charles
and Henry Roberts, 18 years old,
who escaped from the Tennessee industrial
schools on the Murfree^ooro
pike, held at bay a posse of moie
than 100 men yesterday afternoon.
After a miniature battle laV.lug a
1 good portion of the afternoon they
made good their escape.
SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. .
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Profit Made by the Penitentiary the
Past Year.
The State penitentiary in the fiscal
year turned into the State treasury
$70,000 in cash, representing the
profits of that year. The State penitentiary
was established as a prison
and for years was not even self-sustaining.
Today it is a producer of
revenue. Under former superintendents
its scope developed gradually,
and today It stands clear of debt and
has $76,000 in bank with which *o
start the year on a cash basis.
The total income of the lnstitu
tion last ye*r as shown in tho report!
of the superintendent, Capt. D. J. i
Griffith, was $137,2SS.16. The op-1
eratlng expenses were $75,805.07, ,
permanent improvements $8,447.19,1
leaving a net balance of $61,483.09, ;
to which is to be added the account
due for convict hire from responsible
persons, $6,500. The grand total
of profit for the year is therefore
$67,983.09, or within a few dollars
of $68,000.
When he was elected superintendent
12 years ago, Capt. Griffith re
ceived, as the cash assets of the institution.
$83, and along with this
was a floating indebtedness of several
thousand dollars, money due on
notes to the Carolina National bank.
Since that time?in addition to many
physical improvements made, in addition
to paying into the State treas- j
ury $160,000, in addition to paying
off all floating debts?the Institution
has ended the year with $7 6,000 cash
on hand with which to begin the operations
of ihis year on a cash basis.
Despite the destruction wrought by :
two freshets, each of which was al- |
most without precedent, Capt. C.rif- |
fith's administration has earned in 1
cash $23 6,000 and has made $125,000
in permanent improvements, approximately
$360,000, or $30,000
per annum.
Very Kind We Need.
In a personal letter to the editor
of The State Mr. Isaac Ridgeway, a
New Jersey farmer, writing from Florence
says:
I am a New Jersey man interested
in the boys' contest for growing
corn. On Saturday I went down
and saw the acre that produced
22 8 3-4 bushels of corn. I read
about this acre of corn in the Philadelphia
Record (reprinted from
The State) beforo I left home. I
did not believe it. I was born and
have lived in New Jersey all my
life and we in New Jersey feel we
are n little nearer heaven than
anywhere else on earth, but I carry
no jealousy in my heart and am
glad to have found an agricultural
State whose climate and soil far
surpass New Jersey. I own a fine i
farm in New Jersey but have never '
been able to grow 100 bushels of '
Corn on one acre. I wan* every !
on? of our 200,000 farmers In New
Jersey, and they are the most Industrious,
intelligent farmers in
the world, to know this 228 3-4
bushels of corn is a fact. If they ]
know it is true and also that there
are millions of acres of almost
idle land here, the thousands tha' '
are going from our State to the j
great Northwestern States every
year would turn and come this 1
way.
We are clad that Mr. Rldgeway
came to South Carolina and saw for
himself that 228 3-4 bushels of corn
was made on one acre of land as had
been published. We are glad that
he is going to tell the two hundred
thousand farmers of New Jersey that
it was a fact, and not a myth, as
he himself believed it was before be
came and 3aw for himself. We hope
he will he able to turn the thousands
who go each year from his State to
the great Northwestern States io this
direction. They will not only find
plenty of fine land, the best climate
in the world, plenty of good people,
and many other good things too
numerous to mention, but they will
find a good, hearty old Southern welcome
awaiting them when they
r> 1:- ?
uuulll V niuilllll U?t!llS mOIIsands
and thousands of those industrious,
intelligent farmers of New
Jersey which Mr. Ridgeway speaks
of, as citizens to help develop her
inexhaustible resources, and the authorities
should make some effort to
bring them here.
Firemen Fatally Injured.
One flr?man fatally injured, another
seriously injured and a property
loss estimated at $100,000 is
the result of a fire starting on the
fourth floor of the flve-stlry S. R.
Hudbard H irdware Company shortly
after noon Wednesday at Jacksonville,
Fla. J. H. Smith, the Inpured
fireman, was on top of a high
ladder with a line of hose when the
oil fumes rendered him unconscious.
Civil Service Exams.
Civil service examinations for the
departmental service will be held on
the following dates in South Carolina:
Anderson, March 15; Charleston.
April IS, January 24, March 8,
April 12; Columbia, April 20, January
24, March 8, April 12; Greenville,
April 25, March 8, April 12;
Spartanburg, January 24; Sumter,
January 24.
In differing with others, even when
we know we are right, courtesy and
regard for their feelings ought always
to be shown. Too often the
sensibilities of others are hurt by
i rudeness or violence of speech.
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LETTER TO
MER
If a rake-off In a liquor deal Is I
grafting the State's money, what Is 1
the man doing who Is false-swearing !
about the amount of tax he Is due
the State?
We often become awe-stricken 1
over corporation of foreign graft, but '
have to be lambasted Into paying
any attention to our big army of '
nome-made grarters?tax-dodgerB? j '
at our own door.
If it is a flagrant violation of law 1
for the genial whiskey-drummer and
dispensary men to fail to turn in just 1
revenue and profits to the 6tate, is it
not also a crime of the same class
for our genial friends in other oc- '
cupatlons to fall to turn in to the t
state every dollar of taxes he Is due
the State according to law?
We farmers are prone to point to !
corporations and the business world 1
as the great harbingers of grafters. !
but the plain truth is no man or class
of men can point the finger of scorn
at any other class and say thief! .(
grafter!
The farmer has the same kind of 1
human nature in his make-up that J
everybody else has. All the farmer
has to do to rid himself of this con- 1
ceit, let him take a peep at a fewpages
of his county Auditor's hook
and blush with shame at the black
sheep there are within his own flock. '
Why, bless you, not long since a
farmer was looking over his county
Auditor's hooks after another matter
and uncovered the tax returns of an- 1
other farmer who is worth more than '
one hundred thousand dollars, who '
returned his property at le-s than 1
five thousand dollars! ''
This well-to-do farmer pays less
than one hundred dollars tax while !
another farmer near by, who does '
not own one-fourth as much proper- 1
ty. pays two hundred and twenty dollars
tax. And, worse still, this well- '
to-do-tax-dodging farmer's son Is on
the County Hoard of Equalization, '
while yet another son is the county
clerk. Now, this may not be a con- '
splracy, to have one son holding
down the County Hoard of Equalization
and books that contain certain
records of the securities of his father,
but at the same time we are
forced to say that if this upiy state
of affairs is not a conspiracy, that it
is at least an allfired convenient accident
or coincident to protect taxdodgers..
Many of us know of cases where
some unfortunate who owns nothing
taxable save his head and heels fpnll
and road) has heen chased for miles
over the country and finally run
down and In for from $8 to $12 costs
and the employer is compelled to
put up the cash for his unfortunate
laborer or tenant or his man goes to
the chaingang. while another wellto-do
tax-dodger is just as lawfully
due the State anywhere from $50 to
$100, but is allowed to forswear and
go free. Another case is the "homebuilder"
(the slogan for the safety
of the State and nation) who pays
one-third on his purchase for a home
and borrows the balance and after
years of tolling, under the burden of
high Interest, taxes and family expenses
is closed out at last to satisfy
the money-lender's claim, which is
lawful, but the holder of these ironclad
securities had not paid a dollar
taxes on these notes and mortca?es
during the whole time this "home 1
pay tax. too. while the law says hotb <
terest and taxes. i
Ask this money-lender why he does
not pay the taxes on his securities
and he will have the gall to say a 1
whole heap about double-taxing, to i
compel the farmer to pay fax on borrowed
money and the money-lender i
pay tax..too, which the law says both
shall pay tax.
I am Informed by a reliable source
that we have in our State a corporation
that has more than one and a
half millions cash in Its business that
Is paying tax on only ninety-five
thousand, for the reason that one of
the head officials of this corporation
is on the Hoard of Assessors and no
doubt the State has all sizes of this
kind of graft in all Its counties.
Are the tax laws of the State made
for the plain, honest people to go by
and tho unscrupulous cunning to
evade? Why is it that tho County
Auditors do not go down into this
I thing and place all-the property on
the tax hooks, as the law requires
them to do?
I There are a few among them that
( have the "?and" to go Into the lair
j of the lions that guard the voters,
, that drive the nails down In the shin\
gins that cover their heads! Do these
. floundering officers of the law think
| more about their salaries than they
rlo about the Rood of the people or
the oath they take? Why don't the
Hoards of Equalization do their duty
and place all taxable property upon
the books upon an equal basis?
Is It a fact that many of them are
tarred with the same stick along
with the common tax-dodgers and
Something Unusual.
One of the worst of English railroad
accidents happened in that
country a Week or two ago resulting
in the loss of about thirty lives. The
singular thing about it Is the fact
that the railroad company voluntarily
assumed responsibility for the accident.
It seems almost like a miracle
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?ARUNIONISTS
the rest keep mum for fear of being
called a "common knocker"? So far
us placing all property on the tax zA
books upon equal basis at its market V
value is concerned, the County Audi- ^
tor's ollice is a farce and the Board
of Equalization is a huge joke.
It is a stupendous fact that every
one who places his property on the
tax books at current or customary
rates helps to pay the graft or rakeoff
held back by tax-dodgers, which
fact should enlist the active co-operation
of all law-abiding citizens,
with Comptroller General Jones in
his commendable crusade for tax
equalization.
Publishing all tax returns In county
papers every four years at re-assessment
of renl estate is the one fell
sweep that would attract the interest
and aid of the nonnlo Ir.
? i |..v Ml oawa unviiship
of the State. This publicity Is
the gatllng pun or homb-shell that
would drive every hider out in tho
open where the populace can inspect
the returns and see to it that no one
shall pass muster without a clean
record. For the same reason that
we require publishing of expenditures
of the people's money, that we may
ree just where it goes, we should also
know who is not turning in all the
just tax money due the county and
Estate.
The drag-net that would catch all
the sharks that jump over and dive
under the first of January as the
late for property on hand. Instead
if naming one day, the law should
take an average of several months
for a basis of money on deposit or in
iny business.
A tax inquisitor for each Congressional
district having the right to
examine all public and corporation
records and the power to summon
witnesses to testify us to taxable
property as well as the right to convene
County Hoards of Equalization
to suit the itinerary of his rounds,
would also he the one limb of the
law that might be made to bring in
[i revenue of ten or more dollars
for every dollar snont on his work
an either of the plans of a salary or
percentage pay. Some think that
these tax Inquisitors should be reliiired
to change districts in their
rounds after the plan of the circuit
judges.
Our law makers should keep the
Tact In mind that these tax-dodgers,
ire cunning masters in this art and
unless a master in the art of tax finder
is sent after them, the efTort will- .
je futile. -4
These tax inquisitors should not he
floundering politlelans or weaklings
if the thirty cent calibre, but should
tie a selection from among the ablest
lien We hfivo nnH nnld ??
I ? ** ? " IISIJ' l"lheir
work?mon of spine, discretion
ind diplomacy, that know the law
more than kith or kin. or friend or
roe.
We have been moralizing over this:t\
dodging graft about long enough,
t is time onr representatives go for
hose "parasites upon the body pol- ?jl:;
tir" with gloves off, and provide a.
mire plan to tighten the screws down ~
upon all tax-dodgers alike. We have
sent a Lyon out after the liquorgrafters
that fetched in the gamem
l we now want a gang of Bengal
tigers, that can see to go after th&
wily tax-dodgers. Something must
be done to relieve the strain upon tho
consciences of our good people who
are in the habit of sitting in the"amen
corners" of churches singing J
psalms on Sunday and going before- "
the County Auditor on Monday ano
swearing 'hat the value of their cow
is $S when they know they could
get $40 or $a0 for her. or their land
is worth $6 per acre when they know
that other lands by them are selling
from $40 to $100 per acre; or they
h^ve no other property, stocks, notes,
mortgages, cash or any other property
to their credit not listed in their
returns and spend six months afterwards
trvlng to r??ll<>vn tlir? olral*
upon their conscience by saying "they
all do it" or trying to make themselves
believe that false swearing is
diplomacy nr some other left-handed
thing with no harm In it.
Most any man who has the pluck
to say that plain people do the double
tax paying while the cunning rich
do the stunts in tax-dodging Is sure
to l>e style 1 as a demagogue and now
is the tine for each and every representative
to be called upon to stand
up and be counted as to whether a
dollar be a dollar whether it be In
the hands of the rich or poor man
or In Iron clad securities, or In the
active producing world, Olve all a
chance to say whether or not they go
to Columbia to eet something for the
"interest they represent" that other
people don t pet. Is there an honest
man In all South Carolina who
thinks or believes that other people
should pay taxes on his dollars?
J. C. Strlblinp, , {
Pendleton. S. C. J
Farmers' Union Bureau.
that any larpe corporation or trust
should take the blame to itself, lit)
ually, it is the other way and tty j
best legal talent is employed an
every subterfuge resorted to In t '
effort to show that an accident is t
fan 11 of others, an act of divine pr<
Idence, or something else, and tj
the corporation is as innocent as
Infant child.
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