Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THURSDAY. JANtARY 21, M2f. THE BARNWHl^ PBbPLB-SENTINttU HABNWHLL, SOUTH CAROLINA Walter Duncan Strikes Bad: at Gov. McLeod Columbia, Jan. 19,—“If the tax “yatem which Governor McLeod de fends so vigorously - is so completely ..defective that to tell the truth about it is to slander the State, then I sup- roae I am sruilty of slander," declares Walter E. Duncan,former Comptroller General of South Carolina' in the -current issue of his weekly.The South Carolmr Gazette, Mr. Duncan’s '■atement is made in reply to Cover- rvar McLeod s reference in his annual message before the General Assem bly last Wednesday to a recent series of editorial advertisements on the PREVENTION Medical science ac knowledges that cod-liver oil is invaluable to prevent rickets, weak-bones or Other forma of lTV«lr>ntritif>p | Scott’s Emulsion every of pure, nourishing cod- liver oil, abounds in the vitamins that near! child needs regular! Scoff’s Emulsion is important nourish- mentto help overcome faulty nutrition. PriM mMUS •Scott a Bewae. Bloomfield. If. J. 25-4Im MU GIVEN MMEf Uses simple home treatment Goes to work next day While working on the deck of a steamer at Sparrows Point, Md., Lewis H. Kiemyer, of Baltimore, Md., tripped over a rope and sprained his ankle. "Twenty minutes later, I could hardly walk with a cane,” he writes. "That night I got a bottle of Sloan’s Liniment, and to the surprise of all the boys in the shop, I was at work next morning." It is remarkable—the help that Sloan's gives to a sprain. Just a little of this remarkable liniment patted lightly on, and you begin to feeliwlieL Right to the place that hurts it brings the fresh healing blood-build- ir.guptheinjured tissues. The swelling and inflammation go down, the pain stops. Get a bottle today and have it on hand. All druggists—35 cents. Sloan’s Linimeni tax situation and the goverrtor’s de nunciation of statements contained in some of these as slanderous to the State. ;V,' v “I do l}ot know whether or not Governor.'McLeod was aware of the authorship of these advertisetnents when hei attacked their authenticity and in hif dedication of the nuisance taxes called Upon the contemptible* of historjf for. comparison, nor do I care," says Mr. Duncan, “but it was I who prepared the advertiseghents for thei Citizens Cooperative taxpayers Association of South Carina, this is an organization composed of busi ness men, merchants and bottlers of soft drinks all of whom are taxpayers and have the right to be heard, and I am prepared to back up every state ment made in them. I have no pati ence, however, with those who would continue to work injury and injustice upon a minority Sh order to placate the majority, and I have been surprised that Governor McLeod has seen fit to employ harsh terms in denunciation of those who do not per force agree Vith his autocratic no tions. Since when has it become the prerogative of the* governor to as sume the monopoly of dispensing the patriotism and loyalty of the people of South Carolina? “The Governor undeniably has the right,” Mr. Duncan’s statement con tinues, “to speak in defense of the indirect taxes if he honestly believes in them and is sincere in his cham pionship, but he oversteps this privi lege in his opinion. Would he brand as traitors and traducers all those patriotic and public-spirited individu als who, seeking to help the State are going abroad over it, speaking in pub lic forums other than through the press to arouse the people to a reali zation of the inequities r.nd injustices of the present tax system which arc injuring the State that these may be corrected?. The governor go$s far in his assumption of righteousness and patriotism, denouncing as propaganda ‘intended to mislead a nd confuse, 1 the appeal made and paid for by the Citizens Cooperative Taxpayers Asso ciation whose members* a re bearing the brunt of the nuisance taxes. But a landowner himself, he would resent the imputation that in championing indirect taxes as a means of reliev ing real property he is thinking in of a part of the tremendoua burden it naturally bean under present .con ditions 4nd must continue to Mtsr un til ^outside capital is brought into tho State to begin turning additional wheels of industry. But it h*s pro voked the governor, he says, to see statements regarding tax situa tion 'going out from the State,’ al though none has been sent for pub lication outside the State as a matter of tonne, :: J*. the governotywMrimple as to believe for one moment that capital and industry is coming into the State without fint investigating into the tax situation here, even if the true state of affairs in South Cardins were not already known abroad? , “In the nuisance taxes there is more involved that the opinion of Governor McLeod," the statement continues. “There is involved the prindpal of right and wrong. Influential mem bers of the General Assembly who, like him, are supporting the indirect tax system, have, but with more be coming tolerance, admitted the wrong of burdening a few classes of business with special taxes, but have Voted for them in the past on the theory that since they produce revenue they must * be retained for the reason it was not plain from what other source the money would come. Because those who are bearing the injustice of these discriminatory taxes and are suffer ing in their business in consequence have spoken, calling To the attention of the people of the State who have the right to be informed, these taxa tion inequities and injustices in force and effect—and from which the public Ikewise is suffering—these burden- bearers are officially branded as slan derers and traitors. Since when, would a^k, has the right of self defense in South .Carolina been re pealed by Governor McLeod? “Reference was made by the gov ernor to ope advertisement in parti cular, this showing that despite the fact the constitution provides that all property shall be taxed on a uniform and equal rate different classes of property are actually taxed at dif ferent rates. This is the fact indis putable and cannot be changed by burying our faces in the sand or throwing our hands up to high heaven and crying aloud against those who point out these inequities. I am not terms of his own pocketbook. A poli-j q Uef ^j on j n j, ^6 fact that farm lands pay a bout one-third of the total State KILLS PAIN tician, he would feel himself ageriev ed were it implied that his stand for indirect taxes was merely a demago gic appeal to the overwhelming far mer vote in South Carolina. “Is it slandering the State,” Mr. Duncan n sks, “ when a crusade is wag ed within its borders agnin^t the pal pable wrongs in the tax system that are keeping beyond its borders the capita! and industry and business the State needs to help relieve agriculture Let Us Fill Your Tank with And Prove to You the Superiority of This Wonderful Gas. - Barnwell Filling Station taxes. In a State where thwe are three farmers to one non-farmer and agriculture is overdone to the exclu sion of other forms of productive in dustry, agriculture must necessarily bear, as it has been and is still bear ing, the bulk of the burden. The only ralief that can ever come to agri culture from the standpoint of tax atipn will 1m* through attracting more industries to Siuth Carolina., This is as plain as a pikestaff on the horizon. “Neither 1 nor the Citizens Co operative Taxpayers Association would further burden agriculture. What *has been spoken has been spbken in equity and justice; and the honest endeavor has been made to point out the fact that South Carolina now has the wrong attidude to- wanl c»pjf*l. Since ‘selves we musTTfeccssarily induce it through favorable taxation to come in from the outside. “The figures given in the advertise ment are based, not upon assessment values, but upon the amount of taxes paid in relation to actual value. I maintain that these figures are cor rect and for confirmation the citizen has only to go to the court house and investigate for himself. “In his assumption of leadership in tax reform Governor McLeod is just about three years late in making a beginning. 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