Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, January 26, 1911, Image 4
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FORT MIL.I.. S. C.. JANUARY 26. 1911.
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Use the Veto, Governor. ]
Probably no better opportunity j
will be presented Governor Blease ]
during his term of office to do <
the people of South Carolina a ]
real service than to exercise his i
veto power in connection with 1
certain items which are apt to t
appear in the appropriation bills
of the General Assembly. For a '
number of years such a thing as (
calling a halt to the extravagance , (
of the General Assembly through s
the agency of the veto of the (
governor seems to have been for- ,
gotten or was not used because y
of the fear of offending the law- j
makers of the State. Many use- {
less offices have been created by .
the General Assembly during the : (
last decade, some apparently for j
no better reason than to estab- {
lish comfortable berths for politi- ,
cal favorites. Of course the \
upkeep of these offices has been
met by increased taxation or by (]
depriving other branches of the (
government of funds which could ,
have been used to great profit, i j
Not only have useless and ex- pensive
offices been created by j
the General Assembly, but a mat- .
cur ui niucu inure importance <
which the governor may well .:
afford to consider with the view ;
of checking by the power vested
in him under the constitution is
the extravagant appropriations
for the State-aided colleges.
By and large the people of
South Carolina are poor. To hundreds
of thousands of citizens of
the State the payment of a quarter
score dollars of taxation is a
hardship. It should therefore be
the function of government to rereturn
to these thousands in beneficial
ways as nearly as |>ossible
the money they pay in taxation.
But it isn't done, hasn't been done ;
for years. Every year we see
thousands of dollars spent upon
the State-aided colleges while the
public schools are allowed to rock
along as best they may receiving
far less cansideration than
the welfare of t he Commonwealth
demands. Our educational system
is being builded from the top
downward instead of from the
base upward.
Some weeks ago Prof. W. II.
Hand. State superintendent of
high schools, remarked that
nearly if not quite all the South
Carolina colleges were doing high
school work. It is fair to assume
that Prof. Hand included two or
three of the State-aided colleges
at least, for he has no connection
with the denominational institutions
for higher learning and
would hardly have gone out of
his way to criticise them. Assuming
that Prof. Hand was
certain of his ground in making
the statement, he wittingly or
unwittingly admitted that the
General Assembly appropriates
money for the State-aided colleges
to which they are not entitled.
The money with which
the high school work of the State
colleges is maintained should go
to the public schools, so that
some benefit therefrom could be
derived by the small taxpayer.
Protection Unconatitutional ?
Whatever the popular estimate
of Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia,
as a politician, he is one
of the country's most vigorous
thinkers and eliminating the petty
controversies ? controversies
discreditable to a man dressed
up mentally as he is?in which
he too frequently becomes involved
over a more or less trifling
matter of party policy, his conclusions
are sound and well worth
the public ear. Mr. Watson is
also a first-class lawyer. There
fore when he expresses the opinion
that Congress has not the
right to tax imports for any purpose
save the national revenue,
that it is unconstitutional to tax
Dne class of citizens at the expense
of al) the others, there
are many who will believe he
knows what he is talking about.
In a communication to a Northern
newspaper, Mr. Watson says
that it has been a mystery to
him why the supreme court of
tne united states nas never oeen
asked to pass upon the constitutionality
of the protective principle.
"The only constitutional
warrant for tariff duties," says
Mr. Watson, "is the need of
national revenue. Congress has
no legal right to collect custom
house duties for any other purpose."
Mr. Watson adds that if
the Tariff Reform league does
not attack the "infernal system"
in the courts along the lines he
points out he intends to uo it himself.
Strength to his arm. If
he is successful in the assault
jpon the citadel of greed, he will
ae one of the greatest benefactors
America has ever known.
The proposition to repair the
)ld court house at a cost of $4,000 j
>r $5,000 strikes this paper as a
step in the direction of false
jconomy. What York county
iceds is a new court house, a
wilding in which the county
ecords will be safe and the
!ounty officers provided with
idequate quarters. Repairing an
>ld building is like resoling a
)air of wornout shoes, then apilying
to them a coat of dressing
ind trying to fool yourself into
he belief that you have a pair of
shoes as good as new. You may
"ool the casual observer, but you
lon't fool yourseif. One thing
vhich seems to be a certainty is
hat if the people of western
ifork do not successfully press
Par M now miiift limicu 1-fnol- IJ 111
ind not Yorkville will be the
county seat of York county in a
few years.
One of the best recommendations
in the inaugural of Governor
Rlease is that the General
Assembly pass a law prohibiting
the sale of toy pistols and guns.
In the opinion of the governor
many of the homicides of the day
can be traced to the desire for
firearms created in the minds of
the youth of the State while playing
with toys of this character.
The General Assembly would do
well to adopt the recommendations
of the governor on the subject
and to incorporate in the
law the further recommendation
that no child under 1(> years of
age he allowed to own or have in
his possession any gun or pistol
whatsoever. Had such a law
been passed years ago many
valuable lives would have been
saved to the State.
Since West Virginia has elected
to the United States senate a man
in Anrlu llf'o nornn/l Viic? rioiltr
bread by doing the hardest kind
of manual labor, perhaps it is not
too much for country editors who
have political ambition to hope
for a place on the town council.
Old Reliable Hi
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Busies, Surries, IIarne.v
glad to have you call and see
B. D. S
Phone 28
Persuasion never persuades the <
linthinkino- roannninnr '
will not divert the anger of the unreasoning.
The Tennessee Legislature
played smash Monday by
electing Luke Lea, a half-baked '
Democrat, to the United States
senate instead of a straightout
party man. The election of Lea,
who, by the way, ought to spell i
his name right, is the result of a
coalition of so called prohibition
Democrats and Republicans.
The daily papers which could
find noththing more elevating
and interesting to fill the columns
of space which they have been
devoting to the trial of the
Schenck poisoning case in Wheeling,
W. Va., were hard pressed
for news. The country probably
would be better off if both he and
she Schenck were sent to the
penitentiary for life.
OUT CAME A MOUSE
One day in the month of Janu- '
ary a country editor sat in his ;
office in great perplexity to write I
something his brethren of the
press had not already written
concerning a current event of ,
more or less importance. Steen
times he had looked at the ' 'copy"
paper before him and had many i
times taken up his lead pencil <
and as often laid it down, not (
knowing what to write, lie could }j
think no new thought to put toT]
the paper. Assuredly if there 11
was any nascent thing to he <
written of the event someone else <
would have to do the writing. Unmistakably
the country editor <
was in great distress otherwise ]
he would not have oeen found, i
with his elbow on the desk, his 1
cheek resting in h:s hand, his |
tongue so dry that a match could I
be struck on it. the while gazing!
in a dazed sort of way at a gaudy
Another St
Mules ant
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we nave just received a n<
| souri Mules and Horses, the It
ever had. Come and buy yoi
until spring you certainly wil
best posted stockmen of the \
mules will be higher in the sp
and get your mules before the
Mills & Youi
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racine" wis. ^
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our line.
PRINGS & CON
22 S. College St. .
calendar hanging on the wall a
few feet away. An intelligent
friend entering the office and not5
i.1 _ l*i ?
nig euuor s posture inquired
what harassed him. The friend
n hearing the editor's tale of
distress broke into laughter so
loud that a hungry mule passing
by mistook the hilarity for a call
to his semi-occasional allowance
of crab-grass hay and brayed a
not ungrateful answer, as was
his wont?the which so angered
the burr-head driver that
he allowed three sticks of the
60 cent load of pine wood he
had just sold for 80 cents to :
roll off the wagon. "I now'
see," said the friend, "that
though we have been much
together for many years I have
been in error since I have
known you. I have mistaken I
you for a sensible man, but now
you convince me that you are as
far from it as Cook and Peary j
were from the North Pole. Is it
possible that such a small thing i
should have such power to confound
yon! By my faith, this is
not incapacity; it is sheer idleness,
and if you would be conconvinced
what I say is as true
as the needle to the pole the
fakers never found attend my
words. But set it down as the
first chapter of my discourse
that there is no new thing under
the sun. You have wasted much
valuable time, if 1 mistake not,
trying to evolve something new
lo say over a commonplace occurrence.
You can't doit; neither .
can I. .So we shall dismiss the
idea and consider the event: A
mountain was once greatly ag'i-;
tated. l.oud groans and noises
were heard; and crowds of people j
came from all parts to sop what
was the matter. While they
were assembled in anxious expectation
of some terrible calami i
ty, out came a mouse."
The highest price paid for cotton
on the Fort Mill market
yesterday was 14.50 cents.
lipment of
1 Horses
;w shipment of choice Mis>est
to select from we have
ir mules now. If you wait
il pay more for them. The'
Vest te!! us that the prices of
ring than ever before. Come
; prices advance.
ng Company.
h of the Road
nts, Fertilizers. We will be
1PANY, I
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Did You Ever
See Such Prices?
Skirts.
$4.00 Skirts for $2.50"^
$5.00 Skirts for 3.25
$5.50 Skirts for 3.75
$6.00 Skirts for. 4.50 ^
tQ no
yu.uu Kjrvil 13 I Or . 6.50
Cloaks.
Just a few long cloaks left.
$10 Cloaks, latest styles and patterns $ 4.00
$4.75 Cloaks, " " " " 3.25
Children's curly Bear Skin Cloaks, light blue, white,
red and apricot 1.75
$15 Coat suits (just a few) at 11.00
$14 " " " " " " .... 11.00
Gingham.
French Mercerized Gingham, fancy plaids, at 25c per yard.
45 pieces pretty plaid and striped Gingham, the kind that
does not fade, at __ 10c
Specials for This Week
Infant's 25c Silk Caps at.. 20c
50c " n " 42c
75c " " " 60c
See our Remnant Counter of Outings, Percales, Calicoes.
Cheviots, Wool Goods and Gingham.
E. W. Kimbrell Co.
"The Place Where Quality Counts."
MENU.
BREAKFAST
Oranges, Bananas, Wheat Hearts, Puffed Wheat.
Puffed Rice, Oat Flakes, Cream of Wheat,
Steak, Pork, Sausage,
King Mackerel and Hominy, Fried Oysters, Lye Hominy,.
Cakes, Maple Syrup, Coffee, Cocoa, Tea.
DINNER
Soup, Rice, Potatoes (Sweet or Irish), Peas,
Turnips, Cabbage, Sauer Kraut,
Roast (Pork or beef). Macaroni and Cheese, Spaghette.
Peeled Apricots,
Cherries, Sliced Pineapple, Mince Meat Pie.
SUPPER
Stewed Oysters, Chicken Salad,
Olive Relish, Peanut Sandwich, Olive Tips, Ham,
Ice Cream with Marasquin Cherries, Cake,
Salted Almonds.
A. O. JONES. The Grocer.
"Rnrif HII I "
| BU^GmS.
If you want the host buggy on the market
buy a fcfcltock Hill and you will have it.
Farm Wagons.
( ^11/1. <111/] i ll'i l - ll/ \ / w ? ?? * I I ^ -1- ' 1
\/m - iiiiu ? nwinnav in <111 till* (iiTiorciit
sizes and of the best makes manufactured,
such as Studchakcr, Carver, Nissen and %
Thornhill. See us if you need a wagon.
Mills & Young Co.
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