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r tbTrow goeson in calhoun county 6VER PUBLIC BUILDINGS THAT ARE NOT j ?CHARGES OF BAD FAITH TOWARD COUNTRY PEOPLE. I The following extract from one j si vie of a hot newspaper controversy now going on in Calhoun: count* through the local uewspa-! L. per, the Calhoun Advance, is a I good lesson to onr people not toi put too much faith in ante-election promises as to the people of the proposed county seat putting up the public buildings "without its | ? * ? - ? 1- i >> i coating uie country peupie a cent, j Talk is cheap, but it doesn't build court houses and jails. ^ While we lack space to reproduce! j the eutire article from the Ad- j ance, there is enough in tkefol-j lowing to put people to thinking very seriously. Remember, it was! represented to the people of Cal-j houu before election that the niou-1 ey was pledged and available toj erect the pubiic buildings and j that no one outside cf the town would be asked to contribute a a cent. Now they claim that some of the notes are worth leas and the county must be bonded tc supplement the town's $20,000. Editor Calhoun Advance ? The people of Calhoun countywere given the most solemn pledges that the town would furnish $20,000, winch amount they were told would be amply sufficient to erect a w suitable, well-equipped and up-todate court house and jail in every particular, and that all they would be called upon to contribute was to vote for the county and enjoy its blessings. They were furthermore told that Orangeburg was pressing a project to build an expensive court house and that if we did not get out | with a rush, the burden of taxation as a result would be unbearable to I i our taxpayers. The people, believing j they were .eceivmg the truth, voted j for and wen the county, and now , they look with amazement on Mr Wanuamak^r's spectacular aivocacy of their voting for a cool $20,000 adaitional mortgage upon themselves' and upon their children?more than the amount that this section would * probably ha?e been called upon to ^contribute to a new court house i:i did Orangeburg, had w e remained m that count?. The sooner the people are told the worst and allowed to realize it, the letter for all concerned. In 1907,in lieu of giving certified checks for the $20,000 to build the court house aud jail, the following note form w arranged: $100.00 On demand, I promise to pay to T A. Aniaker, Treasure: Cal-. koun County Organization,One Hundred ( ) Dollars, value received, payable at St Matthews, S C, for the purpose of building a court j ^ house and yu.il for the county of Cal-; houn, prov.ded the town of St Mat- J thews fails to build a courthouse and jail Should the town of St Matthews build a court house and j jail, this obligation is to become null ami void. i Signed) Fiom most available information I learn that about two thousand dollars kit the^e notes are worthless, and " about three thousand more were not signed by supposed givers, but endorsed by other reliable parties, and the remaining $15,000 is only valuable to th-i extent of moral ofcligutioc, aud T have beeu informed by good lawyers that legally net a dollar could be collected. The moral responsibility involved in this amount is at pic-sent good, but Mr Wanuamaker says it will be three or four years before anything can be done. UUUl&U pttiuwuiaiij iuv unancial. are so changeable that it is probable that a number of men now able, if not exactly willing, to pay these notes could not do so at the expiration of four years. This must be apparent to all, and Judge Watts, while not interfering in local issues, is right in observing that the best t thing the town cau Jo, if it keeps faith, is to "cough up the cash.'' Should the town fall down on the $20,000 or any part of it as a result of finally coining down to the individual uote giver, the thirty thousand dollars that he proposes to raise from the county would build a creditable court house and jail, aud the people would have ample opportunity to mourn over violated campaign pledges,with no hope of redress. I A moon +/\ r?1i??rfT?? \f r W:inna UU uv/i lutan iv vuittgv maker with designing such a result, I am only pointiug out a possibility. Mr Wannamaker says that all the proposals for this large bond issue came from the country people. If this be true, why is it that Mr Wan* namaker, a city banker, is only to be found long and loud in advocacy of the scheme? I yield to no man in a desire to see the town prosper and succeed in every line of progress, bnt I do stand for absolute fairness to ali in the manipulation of this bond issue. I am anxious to have a creditable court house and jail, but my sense of fairness revolts at a proposition to the country people for a thirty thousand dollar bond issue, the burden of which they are to bear, being placed upon them by the vote of St Matthews. Of course a box would have to be provided for the country voters, but it could be understood to at the town electors would refraiu from voting on the proposition,and it takes the wildest campaigu flight of imagination to conjure up a bond sale for that reason. I ani not objecting to a bond issue by our country friends, and would be delighted to have it, but the effort to force the issue upon the rural sections by the vote of St Matthews is tyranny, pure and simple, a direct blow at liberty and a step toward czardom. At a very critical period in Jewish nQAnla KoOrKonrA *111 ll LUC ?SW/?/AVp UVWt V ssvra. v mm m weary with burdensome taxation, resorted to Rehoboam and said: "Thy father made onr yoke grievous; now therefore make the grievous service of thy father and his heavy yoke which he put upon us light." And he said. ''Depart for three days.then come again.''And the old meu counseled him, saying "Speak good words to them and they will serve thee forever." But he forsook the counsel of the old men and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him. So the people came to Kehoboam the third day, and he answered them roughly and forsook the counsel of the old meu and said: "My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise yon with scorpions." Aud Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, and the people said: "To your tents, O Israel!" Then Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute, and all Israel stoned him with stones that he died. Therefore Rehoboam made haste to get him up to his chariot to flee to Jerusalem. Mr Wannamaker might ponder this sad chapter of human history with great profit. The citizens of the portions of Orangeburg and Lexington counties were told that they were serving hard taskmasters, and were given the most solemn promise that St Matthews would bear all the expense of the court house and jail,and only faith in these assurances gave us the county. We trusted the people theu, and they stood by us, now let the town stand by its campaign promises, plank down the $20,000 and not wait "three or four years" to do it. If the people see fit to supplement that amount with twenty or even thirty thousand dollars, I do not object, but we cannot afford to break faith with our friends and - - % ? .? , % . it thus "cnastise tnem witn scorpions. Neither can we ask them by an act of pure and simple generosity to contribute any supplementary amount and then, by our vote, force it upon them. If Mr WaDnamuker is determined to do so, thus ruthlessly violating the sanctity of campaign pledges, the people would be justi? 2ed in holding an election and voting themselves back into Lexington and Orangeburg counties. Rehoboam answered the people in three days, during an important crisis; now the demands of our citizens for the $20,000 is meet with the cool assertion that it can be done, and in [ the meantime he proposes to force a | J thirty thousand dollar bond indebtedness upon the county, by tbe vote of St Matthews. He had better act upon the suggestion of Judge Watts ?"Cough up the twenty thousand in cash"? lest when he. like Rehoboam of old, sends out this tax gathering scheme three or four years hence, the people stone it with their ; ballots till it die, and J Skottowe Wanuamaker, Board of Commission I ers," like Rehoboam of old, be com1 pelled to "get him up to his chariot,'' j or automobile, and flee to St Matthews, where he may close his last years in peace?a sadder but wiser J- 1 1 1 inau ior naving leameu me i?ouu that the people, and not "J Skottowe Wanuamakcr," are in the sad* | die in Calhoun county. ! I mistake the spirit of our rural voters if they quietly sit and accept | the dictum of of a banker, while writing from his comfortable and elaborately furnished office, coolly advisiug them to vote a thirty thouj sand dollar bonded indebtedness,and all this while the average voter is j pulling the bell cord over a mule, with the thermometer ranging in the nineties, and worryiug his sun-baked brain a3 to how he will meet his maturing bank notes in the fall and his ever increasing taxes in December. A K Smoak. June 7, 1909. Troable Makers I When a sufferer from stomach ttouble takes Dr King's New Life Pills he's mighty glad to see his Dyspepsia and Iudigestioi fly, but more?he's tickled over his ew, fine appetite, atrong nerves, healthy vigor, all because stomach, liver and kidneys now work right. 25c at D C Scott's. 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