Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, August 25, 1921, Image 2
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THE FORT MILL TIMES
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THURSDAY. AUG. 25, 1921.
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The announcement n few tlavs
ago of former Governor HI ease
that lie will he a candidate for
governor next year unless a
younger man of recognized nliililv
enters the race to advocate
his ideas of economy in the eonduel
of I lie Slate government
nway have been surprising to
many, following the statement
ai.rthuied lo ilie former governor
at Kilhert a few weeks ago. in
which In* was quoted as saying
iliat he had no idea of offering
for the office next year, hut to
those who are acquainted with
political conditions throughout
the State and the apparent opport
unity for success at the noils
oi* tlu? candidate who promises
the people relief from the tax
burdens they are now having to
bear, there was nothing in the
announcement to marvel at. None
save the uninformed will undertake
to discount the fact that
there is more or less general resentment
against both the Legislature
and the executive officers
ii: Columbia for what is believed
t< have been unnecessary appropriations,
especially at the last
session of the Legislature, when
the Slate was passing through
the disastrous financial depression
which is not yet^behind us. j
As The Times has before observ- I
ed, the people?that is. the fairminded
section of the people?
do not often complain of having
to pay the taxes they have voted
upon themselves for the improvement
of the roads, for the betterment
of the schools and for other
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t...uiiv |?iieposes, nut i hey do complain
of the big increases in the
appropriations of the last fewyears
for the State government.
Nor is the average citizen so unthinking
as to contend that the
cost of government could be kept
down during the war period and
since, with everything else at prices
above peace time levels, lie
i? willing to concede that more
uioncy was necessary to operate
the State government ; but after
making the concession, he is on
certain ground if lie thinks it
worth while to present a fewfigures
to rebut the arguments
of the friends of the current
State tax levy by asking why. in
191.">. the Legislature was able ??
finance the State government on
a tax levy of t> mills and in 1921
it was necessary to increase the
levy to 111-2 mills, exclusive of
the :i mill levy for school purposes
and the levy for the improvements
now under way at the
military college in Charleston.'
Ami if it he contended that in
efficiency the State government
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appropriations, the citizen might
v ask for specific proof to boar out
the contention. Mr. Ktc:i*v s"iises
the opportunity to m.tki politic. J
capital out of a comparison of
governmental conditions in South
' ( aroliua today with those of yesterday.
He may or he may not
be electeil governor. If he is
elected it will be due to the legislature's
eotnplance with the im%
port unities of State officials ami
th?'heads of State institutions for
big appropriations. At one time
we were of the opinion tha* his
opposition to the World war. after
the 1'nited States had entered
tin war, meant his elimination as
a factor in South Carolina polities;
hut having seen what han
. pened in Georgia last year when^
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Tom Watson was elected Uniteu
States senator and Hardwiek
was swept into the governor's
office, and having noted that both
were aR match opposed to America's
participation in the World
war as was Blease. we are not
now so certain that we were correct
in the conclusion that the
former governor was all in politically.
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The Newberry Observer of Monday
prints an unusually interest- j
ing editorial in reply to the ob- j
servot ions pf The Times last week 1
[oiiesliouiug the necessity for a
|compulsory military law in South
('arolina. Lack of space prevents
| * lit* publication of our eonteinpoirary's
editorial, otherwise it
would be re|N'oduccd in these columns.
Hut interesting as the edi- j
torial is. we are unable to find in
il soflieieiit I'l.'u-.m. ?i Imiv ??.?
! (juiriny militiii*y service of the
citizens of tin- State. As to trou- \
J hh The Observer fears will conn*
when (Sappins a lit I fox are taken
from Charleston to l.exinylon to
In- tried for tin* murder of younjf
lifa/.ell. and in which I'e. r it sees
j ihe necessity for every citizen
within certain ayes haviny to he
'a militiaman. Tlie Times lias this
to say: There is a National tlnard
company in fort Mill, about KM)
I strony. Included in its membership
is a seore or more soldiers
; '.vim faced the (iermans on Mho
I!indenl?nr?r line. The other 70-'
odd yuardsmcn are South Carolinians
of the same spirit and pa;riotio
impulse which made possible
tin' hroakiny of the hoche
stronyhold. If there is danyer of
tSappins and fox falliny into the
hands of men who will murder I
them as they are believed to have
murdered the helpless youny
ransfer driver, let tlie syovornor
of South Carolina order the fort
Mill company to Charleston, hex
inyton or arty other point in the,
State where hodilv harm threatens
these prisoners and this com- '
pany will stop any audi that may !
form for that purpose. The fort ;
'Mill militiamen are not supermen.
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i iuit tnev know how to shoot ami
| if they should ho ordered to pre|
vent the lynching of the law tin* !
I law will not be lynched. lTniversaI
military service brought ahout
tin- downfall of Germany. There
is enough iu that fart alone to
condemn any sueli law for South
*'arolina.
"The Times" Gives Offense, j
Kditor Fort Mill Tnijps:
All along I have been your |
friend, but last week1 you put i
something iu the paper I did not
like. I don't believe in eountrv I
editors getting smart and trying!
to show off. You done both of
these things last week and I heard '
three different people 'aiknig
about it. One said lie would slop
taking the paper if it happened
again. The seeund man said he
had not been taking the paper
Out had been borrowing his neigh
bor's every week and read:n\; it
and that lie would not even bo
kind enough to you to do thai |
again if we all agreed tb.i> \oii ,
deserved the punishment. Tin
third man spoke up and said In ,
had been getting the paper.- long
time and that lie was glad lie was
WUV VOIutel* l..*li in. I ** ill.
script ion that lie haul good reason
now for refusing to ever jeiy
U|-. There are some things K"- e!
headed people ought not to have
to st.iiul for?condone. I mean.
The ideal of ai country editor us
ir.g sneli ai word ais " unilaiterail!"
The clianecs are you did not
know whait-the word meant. Of
course I knew wliait you \\er?
diiving ait. hut that is another
maitter : people expect me to know
hig words. Mut don't you get
smart again it injures your
staiuding in the community and
hurts your paper. Now. hut for
l:iis friendly aulviee. I feair thai:
pretty soon you would have hcen
spouting out something ahoui
" hehetude." Don't do it ; I
found the word first.
'(iood Counselor.''
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Thomas B. Black ami Miss
Minnie Mac Jacobs, both of Fort
Mill, were married Satunlav af
t? rnoon by Magistrate J. U. llaile.
Spot cotton sold on the New
N'?srk market Wednesday at 14.1f>.
W e sec u ret I some special bar- I
grains in Bugs. Art Squares and
('unsolemn that it will pay you
to sec if interested at Massey's. |L
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