The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 22, 1909, Image 2
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IN HE lllTLEDGE
COUNTY.
A CAIM AND DISPASSIONATE REVIEW
OF THE MATTER-SOME FALSE
CLAIMS EXPLODED
J Editor County Urcord:
Much h-.s !nn-n both spoken and
written. with reference to the lintledjre
county movement, hut it yet
remains, we believe, for the different
sections of the county from whom
comes the deciding vote to give an
expression of prevailing sentiment in
-e - u ;.n ekia
IQUi paniouint luvaiuj. Mini i..<^
ia view we beg space in your valuable
paper to put our&elves on record.
We think a critical and patriotic
study of the underlying principles
involved in this new county issue
would justify all the people of the
whole county in saying it would be
best for the masses to vote the new
county movement down, and with
this conviction we shall cast our
1 i:.~ .1. A.
vote, He ueuevc iue ngm uuuotu
eration in public matters of every
citizen of this county is the welfare
of the masses of her citizenship, and
the general good ought specifically
and definitely to outweigh private
gain With these truths to govern
our judgment in this matter, can we
conscientiously favor, advocate and j
vote for the new countv? We answer I
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every time. No! We emphatically,
cannot.
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With the good of the masses of I
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oai j>eople at heart we cannot as
* fair-minded citizens afford to havej
the county cut after any such shape
and boundary as it is now surveyed.
It would certainly be detrimental to
the interests, present and future, of,
the majority of our people and more
especially the lower portion of the
county, while we do not believe it
would be benelicial to any great extent
to any other portion of the
oountv except the town of Lake
City."
The time never has been, nor everwill
be, when it would be profitable
\- to favor Like City as a town at the
expense of the greater portion of
Williamsburg couuty. In striving
for private gain those who allow j
themselves to go so far wrong in
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puuuc uiaucio ao iu xvigti u?u *...
low countrymen will have an awak-:
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ening acccrdiug to the eternal laws,
of God's justice.
There is no just reason under high
heaven, that we know of, why Williamsburg
county should be cut at
this time for the formation of a new
countv. If, however, at some future
. time she must be cut, then let us cut
her after such shape and boundaries
that the masses of her citizenship
shall be most conveniently served,
most benefited, giving the greatest
good to the greatest number of peo-!
pie. Such an arrangement as this j
would serve to enhance the prosper- j
itv of the county and the content-,
meat of the people. If you believe;
this to be true, then at the ballot
box we shall have the time and lib
ertv to answer for ourselves.
The question is this: Shall we al-:
low any given section of our county
to take to herself those desirable ad- j
vantages that naturally belong to an- j
other much larger and more distant
territory?
The Atlantic Coast Line railroad
gives us daily three north bound j
and three south-bound passenger'
trains. This schedule is almost]
equal to the trolley service of large
cities aud all people from Cades to
Cowards, living near stations, cau
go to Kingstree and return iu less
thaa two hours. All citizens living
west of these stations to the Clarendou
county line can make the sta
tioa from their houses, go to and re- j
turn from Kingstree iu about four
hours. So it is with all living south- J
east of the railroad at the different
stations along the road. The very
convenient and rapid schedule of-'
fered this section of the county by,
the Coast Line puts the people in
close proximity to their present
county seat aud any changes would
be of little benefit to them.
In comparison to this now agreea-!
hie accommodation to this section
take up the geographical positions
from King3tree of Harpers, Black
River. Bloomingvale, Morrisville,
Mingo Bridge. Rome, Poplar Hill, I
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Lambert, .Johnsonvillo and othei
remote parts that are too many t<
mention. From these points King'
stret- can be reached only by lonj;
'dusty travel and after many hour;
m making an all day and pari oi
night trip.
Should the new county be estab
lished and Lake City be the count;
seat, the lower portion ot \\ lllianis
buig now in the survey would no!
be at all benetited, as they are pract
ically as far from Lake City as fron
Kingstree. The injustice to thesi
people would be very marked and is
as it should be, a matter of greal
public concern. It does seem to ui
that the Uutledge county promoter:
haw? concluded that the thing:
worth while, and the on?// thing:
woith while, are the things imuiedi
atelv to be gained by the establish
ment of Lake City as a county seat
and that foresight and cousideratioi
due the welfare of the majority oi
our people aie negligible factors.
'PL.-. .voa. 1 oil flio ?\an_
x ur ^tvaicii/ j,wu tut tin niv |'(vple
is lt-ft out of account in the rac<
for immediate results,you might say,
for the immediate dollar, or it*
equivalent. This is the fundamental
harm that is beiug done.
The question we shall answer ai
the ballot box is: Are you democratic?for
the masses?or are you foi
self? Every voter who is a thiukinc
man, who is free to vote after hi*
own judgment, shall answer this
question for himself.
We see from the public prints that
in the establishment of Calhoun
county St Matthews, the county
seat,proposed to build the court houst
and jail without cost to the country
people and as a matter of good faith
the business men of this town pui
up "good paper", joint notes, etc.
We are told these notes are given
without a consideration and the law
holds they are not collectible. The
town has failed to% make good under
this agreement and now the county
is without court house and jail and
the people are in quite a dilemma.
t ..l? rex- ?
M e unuersiauu .u^e viij
similar proposition on foot. We do
not say they will not make good; we
simply say promises do not build
court houses and jails, and as proof
of our statement we point you to a
"precedent case" in Calhoun county.
In the beginning of this new county
movement we were led to believe
that it was only a ruse to defeat a
sister town in seeking similai honors.
Our eyes are now opened; we now
see.
We were told that the towu of
Cades could never extend her corporate
limits unless she supported the
new county. ' This statement was of
course too absurd to be argued and
fell flat.
Then came the statement that the
promoters of the new railroad now
under construction from lioseuiary
to Marion, S C, had sold out their
road to the Coast Line and that the
people of that section through which
this road runs would never reap the
expected benefit from that source, as
the road would never be developed
and the people who did now support
the new county would be discriminated
against. A false statement, conceived
in iniquity and born in siu.
We were urged to believe beyond
investigation that the new county
area contained all the most valuable
lands of Williamsburg, her taxable
property much greater. The county
auditor's statement published two
weeks since proves this false beyond
contradiction.
One of the latest things given out
is that the lands right here in the
county will be enhanced ten dollars
per acre in value. We do not doubt
that Lake City property will be enhanced
considerably in value, if the
movement is successful,but the other
statement is false on its face.
The next, but not last promise we
expect to be "giveu out" for advertisements
an old one,but perhaps it
may work ? "Forty acres and a
mule."
If the promoters in their disappointment
after the election should
be accosted by some credulous voters
who may ask, "When is delau' goin'
for to be divided?" do not hesitate to
make good.
Majority Max.
Cades, July 19, 1909.
Old papers for sale at The llecord
tiiftice.
>1 W. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT. ^
(Contributed. >
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= Does It Pay.
^ Does it pay to liceuse a traffic
which lessens the demand for the
helpful things of life, which in'
creases their cost ami diminishes the
ability to pay for them!'
Does it pay to license a traffic
which makes men less skillful, less
1 steady, le^s reliable: which lessens
endurance, lessens self respect, and
the respect of others, lessens conlit
dence. lessens credit, lessens the de5'
maud f< r food, elothinir. sheltei and
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' tools with which to work?
5. Docs it pay to license a traflic
' which breeds idiots, paupers, criminals,
lunatics and epileptics and
' j casts them upon society to be sup
ported by decent, honest, industri1
ous people?
:i Does it pay to liceu>e a traffic
which iucreases taxes by creating a
i necessity for jails, penitentiaries,
1. asylums, hospitals, almshouses, or>
i phanages, reformatories, police and
? criminal courts?
' Does it pay to license a thing
which decreases a man's industrial
Lj efficiency so that the government
" reports show that 72 per cent of
" j agriculturists discriminate against
I! him for usinsr it. and that TO ix*r i
0 ,
! cent of manufacturers, SS per cent
; of tradesmen and (J0 per cent of
railroad officials do the saipe thing?
Does it pay to maintain national
1; quarantine against criminal and derj
pendent classes from abroad and license
250,000 saloon keepers to
maufacture such products at home?
1 Does ii pay to support the families
of saloon keepers and bur-tenders
and pay their rent, taxes and
ljinsurance, and buy luxuries for
' them in order to get a few penuies
'; in revenue and license out of the
' many dollars which they filch from
; the pockets of industry?
Does it pay to employ teachers to
I teach children the evil effects of
* alcohol upon the human system and
1 license men to sell a thing which
inilames the stomach, hardens the
brain tissue, softens and weakens
the blood vessels, impovershes the
blood, over works the heart, retards
I the elimination of effete matter,
i dims the eye, did Is the hearing, die?
i eases the throat, luugs, kidneys,
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liver, nerves auu inuscies; me ueniand
for which is wholly artificial
aud when supplied serves no good
purpose. t
Does it pay to call miuisters to
preach the gospel of love, charity,
| honesty, purity, forgiveness and reI
demption, and 'icense other men to
I engage in a traffic which fosters
| hate, engenders strife, breeds dis|
honesty, impurity and destruction?
Does it pay to send missionaries to
j the heathen to point out the way of
' salvation, and from the se.me port
and often in the same vessel send
"liquid damnation'"?
Does it pay to build a palace for
the brewer, hire servants and boy
i silks for his wife, and dress your
own wife, iu rags, make her take in
; washing to support the family and
| finally send her to the poorhouse
I and bury her in th'* potter's field?
I Does it pay to levy a tax to sup
port orphans and widows and license
the murder of husbauds and fathers?
Does it pay to license a thing which
is always and everywhere known to
be the enemy of everything sacred to
God and man?
Does it pay to maintain on our
coasts 275 life sariug stations at a
cost of little more than a million
and a half, and out of the same
pockets and under the same flag
maintain 250,000 life-destroying
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SIUUUI1S at iwu Uiiuuua uuu a uaii.
Does it pay to listen to the sophistries
and falsehoods of passion,
prejudice, ignorance, appetite and
greed, and close your ears to the
voice of conscience, reason, judgment,
suffering, religion and God?
Does it pay to do that which will
blanch the cheeks with fear and
make you dumb with terror when
at last you stand in the presence of
t he Judge of the quick and the dead?
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The Record lias printed up a
number of promissory note
books, fifty notes to the book,
that we are selling at ten cents
i, each, tf i
SCRANTON SKETCHES.
People Coming and Going-Picnic
and a Ball Game.
Scranton, July 21:?Mr II L>
Cannon and Miss Addye Cannon
are visiting in Greenville
Miss Kosaella Harmon of
Prosperity has been elected music
teacher in the graded school.
The faculty for the next session
will be composed as follows:
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Air ivi r> v.Tarrjs, pnutipai, j?n?a
Floride Harper, first assistant; ,
Miss llosaella Harmon, third
assistant. j
Mr Will Casque of Florida
spent Saturday in town with
his brother, Hon M L Gasque.
Mr W E Whitlock spent Sunday
and Monday in Charleston.
Mr R F McKnight left Saturday
for Jacksonville, fla,
where he has secured a p^sitiop^*1
as salesman. ?
A match game of baser,
played between the home team j
and the Cypress Branch team
on the local diamond Friday
afternoon resulted in a score of
' I to 4 in favor of the visitors.
The town council is having
much needed work done on the
streets and sidewalks.
Mr Fred Coward, agent for
the A C L railroad at Foreston,
is at heme on vacation.
Miss Jessie Holliday and her
brother, Master Johnny Holliday,
have returned to their home j
at Lanes after spending a week '
with their uncle, Mr A M Cooke. ,
The Pythian picnic at Godwin's
mill, on Lynch's river,
Friday, was largely attended,
and despite the intensely hot
weather, everybody seemed to
enjoy the day. lion Chas A
Smith of Timmonsville was
present and made a speech on
prohibition.
The farmers are "laying by"
their croDS and will in a few
days be enjoying a season of
well earned rest. W E C.
Many people with chronic throat
and lung trouble have found comfort
and relief in Foley's Iloney and Tar
as it cures obstinate coughs after
other treatment has failed. L M
Ruggles, Reasnor, Io writes: "The
doctors said I ha 'SumptioD, and
I got no better i ' took Foley's
Honey aud Tar. s*^-topped the hemorrhages
and pain in my lungs and
they are now as sound as a bullet."
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R- STACKLEY, the Furniture Man, X
is still doing a X . *
A RUSHXNTG BUSINESS O
x at the same old stand. x
8 L. J. STACKLEY, 8
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X Guns,Ammunition, Cutlery, Cook- Q
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Now at our Stable. Will be here until October 1st.
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Greelyville, S. C. I
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