The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, February 08, 1951, Image 6
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, February 8, 1951
But because he is so persuasive and
appealing let no one confuse his sua
vity with lack of force. He may prove
as Senator Tillman used to say:
"Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re”—
Easy in manner but strong in action.
As to the proposed Sales Tax: the
more I think of it the more I agree
with everybody, both those for it and
those against it. It is bad to think
too much about both sides of any
question. The proper course is to
think clearly and then to act. If you
spend much time on both sides you
will paralyze your mind and do noth
ing.
Let’s see how it works: the poor
man will be taxed: All the orators tell
us that. The poor man seems to pay
the taxes on cigarettes and soft
drinks (and, sometimes, on some not
so “soft”). And, in the language of
the street, as amended, it is a shark
of a tax, not a whale, since whales
are not so bad; whereas sharks are
vicious and tear one to pieces. (If
I can just “get by" Mr. Alex Salley
with that. But he doesn’t know any
thing about sharks, except literary
and historical figures.) And the poor
man's wife and daughters meet the
Federal sharks on cosmetics and oth
er things, down to baby oil. And the
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poor man, wife, son and daughter,
pay a tax, a series of federal and
state taxes on gasoline, even more
ferocious than those sharks I refer
red to.
I have no doubt the legislators will
consider the poor man and “temper
the wind to the shorn •lamb,” as.CL. j. C. irin |: ftc
Shakespeare must have said And J* 10 ” supplies
that expresses it well, too, for the Qf ROW CottOfl
poor man is shorn beyond all per- r __ r 1QC1
adventure, and needs to have the, rOi 1I
wind held down to a gentle breeze
or a mild zephr. New York, Feb. 2—Robert Jack-
Now a tax of three per cent on $20 s A on - executive vice president of the
a week is only sixty cents. That may i
American Cotton Manufacturers In-
, seem very small, and it is small, pit-' stitut *- Predicts the tightest raw cot-
'ifully small, but we have some of our| tin £U PP-y in almost a century next
i fellow citizens, men and women, who summer.
I have not an extra sixty cents a week.! Hc ^ he C ^ rr ^ U ’
If you don’t know that you don’t Suest 1 will be only 2,200,000 bales
1 He told the annual dinner meet-
know conditions. That is not a con-!
elusive argument against the sales the Association of Cotton Tex-
tax, though it suggests that we pro-! ^J^anAs of New \ork last
ceed with due “circumspections.”
'That is a good word—“circumspec-
1 tion”: It means looking all around,
to see from every side,
i The man and woman who will
really pay the sales tax is not the
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night that “the only factor that is
sure to bail us out of this extremely
delicate position is the production
of a real cotton crop next year. The
cotton farmer must be given assur
ance that the production of 16,000,-
. . „ .000 bales which the government is
poor man, or woman, but the man ie ^ uest j n g of will not ^ a i low _
jor woman who spends liberally, in eC j t() depress his price structure to
• the upper brackets. Some men have unreasonable levels.’’
advocated a sales tax on the ground; , ,
! that many people pay almost no tax- 1 He w arned the cotton merchants
es, though they send children to 1 the surest way to throw the
school and receive all the hundred "‘^try into a tailspin was to “start
land one other public services. So far *‘ abbin « these meagre supplies out
as that is concerned, many a man I of Proportion to requirements.”
will pay three dollars or five dollars And sai d the same considera-
a week—$156 or $260 a year-in or- tl0ns must a PP ] y t0 actlons b y an y
der to cause others to pay fifty cents agency,
a week, or less.
i So far as the tax is concerned, we New OldsiTlobileS
have many thousands of men and p .
women of ample spending power iNOW D€inQ jnOWn
who contribute almost nothing to the fa Timmerman's
state, the schools, the counties or the 9
towns
‘ Our counUes and towns and schools * The 1951 Oldsmobile is now on dis-
(in part) are supported by taxes on pl*y * Timmerman Motor Company
land and buildings. JVhat measure of 0 * c ^y-
relief will be given to land and home ^ wide \ ariety of co*or choices and
owners I do not know Whatever they upholstery options are availrt>le to
buy will have a sales tax added. the buyer of a 1951 Oldsmctoile. Thlr-
Several months ago 1 had a very
pleasant conversation with Senator
Jefferies, about taxes in general, and
he faces the problem with courage
and frankness. As I recall, he re
garded some measure of relief for
property-holder/ as equitable, in view
of the new exactions that a sales tax
would involve.
We are fortunate to have many;
sound, level-headed men in the leg-
is.ature. Many of those gentlemen
know that a dollar is a dolar. whe
ther the purchasing power be $102
for electric current, or 32 cents for j
something else And Governor
Byrnes is a man of wisdom, as well
as graciousness and tact There are
so many good men in the General
Assembly that I haven't space to
name all of them, from my old
friend, the Warrior from Barnwell.!
or the suave Senator from Beaufort,
or the mild-manneed but able Sen
ator from Lee; my old comrade, the
Senator from Newberry; or my own
Clarendon Senator. I could name 1
many others; 1 have already mention
ed my fiend from Colleton. 1 think
we have had some very sound men
in our pikilic life And now my friend
of many years. Solomon Blatt. is
speaker again. By the way we have
had many able spekers. even if I do'
not go back beyond the days of chiv
alrous James B. Gibson and come on
down.
One day when 1 was speaking my
appreciation of the gentlemen in pub
lic life here. Federal, State, county
and city, some'one asked if I were
becoming soft and repentant, per
haps feeling sick. No; I have always j
found our officials very fine gentle
men.
Governor Byrnes is our glamor
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