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CLINTON, ». C., JULY 9.J925
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SENATOR STEWART ON OUR UN
JUST TAX SYSTEM
State Senator Roach Stewart of
Lancaster, recognized as one of the
boldest, most independent and out
spoken members of the General As
sembly, was invited to York last week
by the Business Men’s Club ofS^that
city to deliver an address on South
Carolina’s tax problem. The York-
ville Enquirer rendered real public
service by publishing a full report of
the speech which was enthusiastically
cib]y sets forth the rottenness of our
tax system, The Chronicle is reproduc
ing it below: , **
“There is no problem on which the
future depends as much as upon tax
es,” he declared. The appropriations
life paying his state, county, muniei
pal, income, license, and luxury tax- r | ion*,
es—‘and then when he comes to die
feel that his wife and children were
going to be deprived of additional
money because he died.’
“Discussing the sales or nuisance
tax, the Lancaster senator declared:
‘The state will not recover from the
damage done by the sales tax in five
years.’ He knows of a million dollar
mill whose owners wanted to locate it
in South Carolina, but after they
learned of this state’s sales tax, they
located it in Texas. The same thing
happened to another mill of a half a
million dollar capital which was locat
ed also in Texas. Senator Stewart
desires South Carolina to have more
industries, for, with the boll weevil
making it all but impossible to pro
duce cotton* in this state, it must have
industries to give employment to our
people who can consume the diversi
fied products of our fai l.:a. The state
cannot develop on agriculture alone.
Thfe sales tax will not develop the
state. The sales tax on cosmetics is
an illustration. It drives business out
of the state. Senator Stewart said
that the. druggists made a mistake
when they agreed to absorb a 4 per
cent luxury tajc on cosmetics, for the
'next legislature will see that they
have absorbed the 4 per cent tax and
next year the lawmakers will double
it and let "them absorb' that. The
same thing will apply to the cotton
mills. If they absorb the sales tax
to^get business, then next year it will
be increased. Wisconsin had a sales
tax and it drove the manufacturers
out of the state. North Carolina,
Georgia and Alabama have no sales
tax. Industries will go to those states.
They do not come here.
“Ther^ will be neither progress nor
political peace until the tax problem
is settled, and settleifTtght, said'Sena-
tor Stewart.- He declared that, if
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behind with their subscript- .HolidayToll Goes\ %
Higher oq Monday
Cal Coolidge Is now taking his vaca
tion. The rest of us are ready for
ours, but who’s going to furnish the
cash?
Some people have a mania for writ
ing their names in places of public
resort. Those who feel a desire to
16ave a record of their presence in the
world, should accomplish it by doing
some useful thing that people will
remember.
Gee McGee, paragrapher of the An
derson Daily Mail, had this item in
his column yesterday: “When a mer
chant gets through paying taxes and
clerk hire and rent and light and
water bills and absorbing the acc6unts
of deadbeats, he’s exactly in the same
fix I used to be when the precher
would take dinner at our house and
leave no part of the chicken for me
except the neck.”
received. Since the indictment so for- day in the year a man drank as if the grain crop will be short an
made by the legislature were $2,700,-
000 in 1917, but this year they jumped
to-$17,600,000. In the senator’s opin
ion, as well as that of a vast army of
his fellow-citizens, this tremendous
sum is extravagantly expended and
wili-continue-to bp $o long as the state
has*'65 bureaus and commissions to
spend mor^cy. He suggested that if
South Carolina would abolish all these
agencies and employ three competent
business men at $25,000 year each,
they could and would save the state
not less than a million and a half dol
lar a year by applying business
meth'Kls to the state’s business. -
“^Ie added that as a member of the
senate, he has always favored first
rai^pg the money needed for the
state’s business and then spending it,
but the legislature this year first ap
propriate^ the money and then under
took to raise it. Every fair-minded
man is willing that the state should
maintain colleges, schools, the asylum
and the penitentiary, but these insti
tutions ought to be operated economi
cally..
"One of the first things necessary
is revaluation of the property of the
state, said the Lancaster legislator.
He knows of a piece of property in
Charleston returned for $5,000, while
a parcel of property of equal value is
returned in Lancaster at $900. He
pointed out that only about one man
in fifty fails to commit perjury in
returning his property for taxation.
‘You do it and I do it.’ There is a
block of property in Lancaster which
he feels sure would sell for $15,000,
if offered for sale, yet it is returned
for $7,200—‘and it is no worse there
than it is elsewhere all over the state.’
He told of a piece of property which
was bought for $5,000 and had $19,000
spent on its remodeling, bpt it is re
turned for taxation at $560. While
the assessed valuation of all property
in Lancaster county is <$5.2<jo,000, sev
eral years ago one mill in the'county
was priced at $10,000,000. The as
sessed valuation of all property in the
state five years ago was $448,000,000;
now it is $420,000,000.* ’If it keeps on,
in a few years it will be wiped out.
A loss of $28,000,000 in five years.
Is it that way in Yoi;k? It'should all
be returned alike, whether it be 5 per
cent, 50 per cent or 100 per cent of
real values,’ he said.
“ ‘The small farmers are paying
more taxes than any other class.
Large farmers are not paying in pro
portion to what they are worth. ThO
heaviest taxpayers are the banks.
Every stockholder in a bank knows
what he has to pay—42 per cent on
the capital stock and surplus-, The
merchants know, the manufacturers
know what they have to pay. It is
said that farmers ought to be taken
care of in the matter of taxes, because
farming is so precarious’—and then
Senator Stewart went on to cite the
number of bank failures in South
Carolina in 1923, 1924 and 1925, com
menting that banking is also a pre
carious business. Then he called at
tention to the large number of mer
cantile failures and said that mer
chandising is sometimes precarious,
too. He pointed out that the mills
have made but little money during the
past few years.
“The only fair basis for taxation is
property, Senator Stewart continued
two bottles of soft drinks, his wife
two, and child one, Stlch a man would
pay more taxes than a landowner
would pay on 5,000 acres of land. ‘It
is not fair to tax the mill worker for
his soft drinks. It is about his only
luxury and he is entitled to as much
consideration as is the man who wears
broadcloth.’
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“ ‘If North Carolina has a sales tax,
and so has Georgia and Alabama, and
if you will abolish Sears and Roebuck,
then I’ll vote for a sales tax,’ said the
senator.”
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Try this on yaur piano: “I believe
in the stuff I am handing out, in the
firm I am working for; and in my
ability to get results. I believe that
honest stuff can be passed out to
honest men by honest people by hon
est methods. I believe in working,
not in weeping; in boosting, not
knocking; and in the pleasure of my
job. I believe that a man gets what
he goes after, that one deed done to
day is worth two deeds tomorrow.”
Chicago, July 6—The toll of holi
day fatalties throughout the country
moiinted today to the 250 mark with
automobile accidents and drownings
at the head of the list, wVthout Boston
cabaret tragedy, in which 43 persons
perished. •.
Although the Fourth of July passed
with remarkably few deaths from
fireworks and explosions, the abnor
mal traffic |n suburban areas led to
an unusually long list of dead and in
jured.
More than 400 were injured in the
states which reported (he heavest
death tolls.
Illinois reported 57 dead and moto
than 100 injured.
Other state totals-follows: Massa
chusetts, 49;, New York, 26; Indiana,
13; Ohio, 29; Missouri, two; Connecti
cut, eight; Rhode Island, six; New
Jersey, three; Pennsylvania, six; Ver
mont, two; Minnesota, eight; Iowa,
four; California, ten; Colorado, three;
North Carolina, two.
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CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank all of our friends
for their kindnesses in our bur moth
er’s illness and death. May G&d’s
richest blessings rest on each of you.
Mrs. Si P. McCrackin.
Mrs. J. F. Workman.
. Miss Ruth Bonds. ,
J. H. and E. W. Bonds.
Just lift the receiver; ask for either of
our numbers, and we will promptly give
you the best for the least
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How to Overcome the Corn Failure
The old crop of corn in Laurensr
county is a failure for this year, looks
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A pint of whiskey has gotten many
a man into a peck of trouble.'
No matter how mad a-man may get
at his wife, he always admires her
judgement in having married him. *
We have known a promising young
man to fail to make good because he
fajled to keep his promises.
it is advisable to plant corn*in the
middle of the rows between now and
the 15th of July. The be^t variety
for planting late in the season is the
Mexican June. This variety will ma
ture before frost in the Piedmont sec
tion, that is, if we have a reasonable
late frost.
In planting^this corn in the middle,
it will be a good idea to use about
100 to 150 pounds of fertilizer to the
acre of corn, then as soon as the old
corn is ripe enough it should be har
vested for roughness and then the
unused fertilizer can be gradually
turned from the old corn row to the
young corn. It will be better to do
this than to prepare stubble for corn,
but the stubble could also be planted
in corn.
The
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is a prescription for
Malaria, Chills and
Dengue or Bilious
It kilk the germs.
Dr. E. Mood Smith
Dr. Felder Smith
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CLINTON. S. C.
Another good way to judge a man
is by the phonograph records he buys.
All that goes up is bound to come
down—except taxes.
You don’t have tb hav£ a hunter’s
license when going hunting for trou
ble. ■*
There is no accounting for tastes.
One girl has. her hair bobbed, and
another wears a wig. *
All men are lazy, observes a Texas
philosopher, but some men give in to
it more than others.
The trouble with this bootleg beoze,
says a man’ who has tried it, ir that
you have to be drunk before you can
drink the stuff.
If women keep on getting so inde
pendent; pretty soon they may de
cline to support their husbands.
The automobile speeders-should not
drive so fast that when they stop, it
will be necessary to make their exit
through the windshield.
Philosophers tell us to-avoid anxious
thought, and the slow pay debtors
have decided to abide by that princi
ple.
It is claimed that there are too
many white collar men, but they are
at least ornamental when-they get out
on fashion parade at the summer re
sorts. *
Many people have consented to ac
cept monkeys as ancestors, but no
monkeys so far as known hive recog
nized human beings as their descend
ants.
Weevil Situation
In the lower part of Laurens coun
ty the weevils are bad in sections.
Infestation is running from one per
cent to fifty per cent, but the farmers
in that section are getting ready to
put up a good fight just as soon as
the weevils do serious damage in their
fields.
If you expect to control the weevils
it will be Important to use the-latest
improved dusting machines and also
good brands of calcium arsenate.
Some of the calcium arsenate being
put on the market is not worth using
at any price because it will choke up
your dusting machine and you cannot
g!et distribution even and under con
trol. It is very important to be sure
you have the right material when you
buy.
The weevils are practically through
coming out of hibernation at the pres
ent time, but even being dry, they are
getting a few squares in most every
field. If we have rain any time in
the near future you had better watch
infestation to see how much damage
they are doing. ,
SWIM IN
LAKE THOMAS
Will get any Piano we sell
during July and August under
our special arrangement.
Uprights $295.00 up
Players $450.00 up
O’Daniel
Clinton, S. C.
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ON THE HIGHWAY
WHAT DO
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SWIM IN
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In this day of road building every citizen would like
to be on a real paved highway. Paved highways are
scarce and many of pur people will never have the
opportunity of having a paved highway pass their
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It’s a fine thing for the govern
ment to make all these little Savings,
but not necessary to save any more
of the red tape.
All women are beautiful. If you
don’t believe it, read the wedding
write-ups on the society page.
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Many of us-do not know •what to
Although the state law provides thati^ 0 ourselves when on vacation,
the state income tax shall be one-tl\ird , ar, yy a y can go down to the
of \the federal income tax, last year it, pos ^ an( ^ as K if TJhe Chronicle
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took $10.55 more to pay his state in
come tax-than his federal income tax.
In the senate he favored repeal of the
state inheritance tax, thinking that it
v No one'knows when the end of tlje
world will come, but it’s safe to bet
is not right for a man to go through t it will catch a great many newspaper
has come in yet.
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WOMANLY AILS
Kentucky Lady Got Well
After Taking CardiL
M got down in health—suffering
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from womanly troubles whicl
caused me much pain and worry,”
says Mrs. Rhoda Canary, of
R. F. D. 6, Owensboro, Ky.
‘‘My stepmother had taken I
Cardin when she . was in my same
conditioa, so 1 got to inquiring
around among my friends about u
and found several women who
tirere taking it at that time.
“They au told me how good it
was, sol told myhusband to get me
a bottle to try. That night he came
home with a bottle of Cardui...
”1 had a... which left me in a
very serious condition. 1 had been
in bed eight weeks and was unable
rein b
to move fn bedi without help.
"By the time 1 had taken half a
bottle (of Cardui), my strength be*
P i to come back. 1 could sR up
bed.
”1 finished up that bottle and by
that time 1 was able to walk, across
the floor, ni continued faking
Cardui for several mouths and r
got well.”
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