The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 17, 1909, Image 2
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tbTrow goeson
in calhoun county
6VER PUBLIC BUILDINGS THAT ARE NOT j
?CHARGES OF BAD FAITH TOWARD
COUNTRY PEOPLE.
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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 |
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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.
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How long, oh, how loug, will our
farmers burn up every spring the
little fertility that Mother Nature
has laboriously speHt the previous
twelve jponths trying to develop?
Turn out au old field, sick, famishing,
naked, and Mother Nature
clothes it with a coat of grass to
heal its scars, to atop the wounding
of it with gullies, and to feed it
rotting vegetable matter (humus) as
the only way ou earth to bring it
back to life and strength. And yet
nine farmers out of ten will go ahead
and in *. wc-fourhours' time burn
off all the potential humus that Nature
has spent a year growing for
the salvation of the laud.
"For the land's sake" indeed we
must stop burning off our old fields.
It mav make the grass seem greener
tins season, bat in tne ena it means
that the land will become too barren
to grow any grass at all.?
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I A Carious Tomb.
One of the most curious tombs io
the United Kingdom is in County
Wexford. In it is laid the body of
one of that curious body?the Resurrectionists.
One portion of the
tomb is a furnished chamber, with a
table and a few chairs. On the table
will be found at any time a dainty
meal of considerable dimensions,
with a fowl, a ham, a leg of mutton
and the necessary drinkables. The
departed Resurrectionist provides by
bis will that this meal shall be laid j
each fortnight, and "if the meal is
untouched in the meantime, it shall
be given to the poor and afresh meal
laid.'' So far the meal has been untouched,
though eerie rumors spread
rouud the district from time to time
that in spirit form the
has appeared and has ei
meal. Curious stories are ton*
people so whom the ham-'
of mutton has been gi
awakened in the night h
rappings on their doors an '
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some the food immediately it 10 ,
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constantly present. ? Dundee Advertiser.
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