The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 11, 1921, Image 4
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1921
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Many Things of Interest Gleaned from
from Many Points.
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?The Columbia city council Tues- i
day ousted John W. Richardson as j
chief of police and elected Fred S.!
Strickland, chief of detectives, to sue^
l*tvw T1*A O/I *V? 1 ni cf V1_
tccu nun. AliC tuaii^c vx auiiuiuoviM
tion became effective August 10th,
at 2 o'clock, but the present chief
said that he would refuse to relin- j
quish his office. The ouster proceed-1
ir.gs were brought under a resolution j
passed several months ago by city [
council providing that city employes'
must be elected biennially for terms ;
of two years.
?J. W. McCullough, Jr., and Dar.
McKeithan, Jr., of Darlington are in
a hospital at Greenville suffering from
injuries received six miles from that
city Sunday when their automobile
turned over. D. D. Witcover of Darlrngton
and Theodore Kohn of Columbia,
were only slightly hurt. A negro
chauffeur was pinned beneath the car.
The machine had to be jacked up before
the driver was rescued. Another
driver was thrown clear of the machine.
?Attorney General Wolfe has been
advised by authorities at Detriot,
Mich., that John Alcmwain, coiorea,
wanted in South Carolina for the murder
at Lancaster several years ago of
Ernest Watkins, brother of Senator
Frank Watkins, of Anderson, is now
available. Requisition issued for McUwain
by Governor Cooper last year
was not honored by the Michigan governor
nutil last week, and the attorney
general was advised to have an
officer go for Mcllwain. Sheriff Hunter,
of Lancaster, will go to Detriot
this week to get Mcllwain. He w"li
be brought to Lancaster to face trial.
?Dr. James A. Hayne, state health
officer his returned to his office in
Columbia from Washington where he
attended the conference of health officials
last week in regard to the
statements sent out over the country
recently picturing the South in the
grip of famine and pellagra. "We exonerated
the South completely." Dr.
Hayne said upon his return, "and
proved to the public health service ana
others responsible for the statements
of famine and destitution that no occasion
had arisen for such statements
to have been sent out"
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Interesting Throughout the Country
Briefly Told.
?This year's cotton crop is valued
at approximately one Diiiion ana seventy-six
million dollars, less than half
of last year's crop, by Secretary Hester
of New Orleans Cotton Exchange,
who said it was remarkable how financial
institutions held up under the
depreciation.
?The Willis-Campbell anti-beer bill
was passed by th* senate Monday 2d
to 20, and sent to conference with the
house with the , rospect of its final
enactment before the week-end. Should
this bill become a law, as it most likely
will, the lid will be tightened on
beer and light wines and home brew
will perhaps be less common.
?Fifteen men, are believed to have
been burned to death in the wreck of
a Gulf Coast Line freight train ht
Reeves, La., Monday. Work of clearing
the debris is proceeding. The bodies
are burned beyond recognition.
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Bonds Sold, Contract Let.
After a considerable amount of negotiating,
Kingstree's $200,000 worth
of bonds, authorized for street paving
and other public service improvements
has been sold, much to the gratifica'
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uon 01 our Citizens nuu, auiiuBt
unanimously voted for the issue several
months ago.
At the saem time the bonds were
disposed of, a contract was let for the
work of paving our streets and extending
sidewalks.
During the first days of the week
several firms had their representatives
here either for the purpose of
bidding on the bor.ds or on the work
to be done.
After several meetings of the town
council with its legal advisers the deal
was concluded Tuesday _ afternoon,
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wnereDy me Donus were uispu^eu ui
advantageously and contract let for
street paving, the latter to the firm
of Adams & Evans, of New York and
Jacksonville.
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WANTED TO RENT.?House with
six to eight rooms in good location i
and modern conveniences. M. A.
Waring, Salters Depot, S. C. 8-4-2t,j
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P. H. Stolll On the Tariff.
Speech of Hon. Phillip H. Stoll of
Kingstree, in the House of Representatives,
Wednesday July 13, 1921.
Mr. Stoll said:
Mr. Chairman, when this congress
was called to meet in extra session I.
in common with the great mass of
people of this countn, hoped that
remedial legislation would be speedi'
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jy enacted to relieve me uuiu. ui
ai; overtaxed people; that something:
would be done to provide ways and
means for our people to emerge from
the financial chaos that is following
the readjustment period incident to
the World War. We have now been
ir. session for four months, and nothing
has been done. During these four
months and for some months previous
the gentlemen from .Michigan (Mr.
Fordney) has been acting as a wet
r.urse to old Mother Tariff and now
present us a monstrosity which, if
he is to be believed, will prove a
Moses that will lead us out of the
wilderness of high cost of living, high
taxes, and financial distress into a
land of plenty, into a veritable land
of milk and honey. Although I am
opposed to the theory of protective
tariff and think it fundamentally
wrong in principle, still if I thought
the roseate predictions of better times
as promised by some gentlemen would
follow the enactment of the pending
bill into law I woald vote for the bill,
believing the present emergency to be
so critical as to justify such a vote.
Put I cannot accept what the gentlemen
who so ardently sponsor this bill
say about it. I do not consider the
bill economically j-ound, and I believe
that under it our last state will be
worse than the first, that instead of
bringing relief it will bring disaster.
The economical princplc announced
by the gentleman from Texas (Mr.
Garner) I think sound, and am satisfied
that the rates under this bill will
so effectually shut out foreign goods
as to practically destroy our imports
and that a paralysis of our exports
will result. Believing this, I shall
vote against the bill.
There may be* many ways to ascertain
what the proper vote on any
pending legislation is, but for me
there is only one, and that is I must
be convinced that the proposed legislation
is just and equitable. Legislation
that makes provision for any particular
interest to the detriment of the
general public is wrong and should not
be enacted. This is a gavernment of
the people, and to legislate for the
benefit of a few against the interests
of the great mass of people that make
up the Nation is fundamentally wrong.
'And yet this is what is being done in
the bill now under consideration. The
title of the bill is?
"To provide revenue, to regulate
commerce with foreign countries, to
encourage the industries of the United
States, and for other purposes.
To provide revenue is, of course
necessary, and it is all right to do so
by custom house dutiese, provided the
duties are just and equitable, being
an equal burden on all the people and
providing no special priviledge to any
person or interest. To regulate commerce
with foreign countries and encourage
our own industries is also all
right, provided it is done on a just
and enuitable basis. But the big
thing in this proposed legislation is
the last clause of the bill, namely,
"and for all other purposes." This is
a bill not only to provide revenue and
regulate commerce and encourage industries
but it has other purposes, and
those purposes are to give to the special
interests a chance to make a clean-up
at the expense of the people. If there
is a golden harvest after this bill becomes
a law, it will be a harvest for
a special few and not for the masses.
I am thoroughly convinced that the
purpose of this oiil is to exploit the
great mass of the people for the benefit
of a few.
But in their mad desire to hog everything
in sight I believe they are
overstepping the mark and that in
sowing the wind they will reap the
whirlwind. An effort is being made
in this bill to make the tariff rates
J.Jgner man was ever oeiuie an,cuiy</
ea. To make it appear otherwise, the
aci valorum tax is based upon the
American valuation. When* the provlsioions
of this bill are put into operation
the American people will not
remain fooled very long.
The greatest mistake that the distinguished
chairamn of the Ways and
Means Committee and his high-tariff
followers made is that of drafting
a bill without knowing all the facts
that should be known in order to intelligently
frame it. A tariff bill, of
all bills should be based upon tacts. Tc
undertake to fix a tax to provide revenue
without knowing all the facts
bearing upon the matter is legislation
on guesswork or assumed statement
of facts. To undertake to regulate
our commerce with foreign countries
on facts that are nothing more than
guesswork is downright criminal. And
yet this is what has been done. The
commercial condition of the world to
day is such that ro one knows what
tomorrow will bring forth. The time;
are really out of joint, with no assurances
that the conditions that confront
the commercial world today will
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be the same tomorrow,
Partial information will not do and
partial regulation will not do. To leg- j
if late properly theie should be full and '
definite information and the tariff law
I enacted should be to safeguard all of
our commerce. To properly regulate
I our commerce we should enact a law
that would give a strong and healthy
tone to both cur import and export
trade. Is this done in the pending
bill? To the contrary, if all economic
principles hold true. If our tariff wall
i.- built so high as to keep out entirely
foreign competition and give the
American market to Americans only,;
just to the extent that we cut off im- j
ports, to the same extent will we cu*
off our exports. We are compelled
tc have a basis of some kind for trading.
We can not expect Europe to buy
our surplus commodities with money,
for she has not the money with which
to pay. We are now a creditor nation
and not a debtor nation. Things have
been reversed and America now ocI
cuDies the position that European na
tions formerly occupied. The only
way for us to do business with Europe
is to exchange our goods for other
goods. In other words, if we expect
to export our goods we must import .
Europe's goods. This can not be done
if the duties imposed by this bill are
so high as to make it impossible for
foreign goods to come upon our markets.
The conclusion, therefore, can
only be that in our greed to monopolize
the markets of the world we will
force a condition that will stagnate
our own markets and bring about conditions
even worse than what we now
have.
While I am opposed to a protective
tariff on theory, I think this bill doubly
vicious, because it undertakes to
fool the people, especially the farmers,
If there ever was a thne when the
farmers of this country needed assis
tance from the Federal government
it is now. His story has often been
told from the floor of this house. Every
member here who has farmers
among his constituency has received
letters and telegrams from individuals
and farmer organizations urging that
something be done to help those who
toil on the farm. The cry for help
f: cm the farmer is from every section
and his plaintive voice has been calling
now for a year or more. During
the last session of the Sixty-sixth congress
the Republicans tried to appease
the clamornig of the farmer and the
socalled emergency tariff was offered
as the panacea for all ills. During
the summer and fall of 1920 widei
spread discontent was evidenced a!)
over the country. Republican politicians,
although this party had been
in control of the senate and house for
two years, foretold great changes for
the voter if the Republican parly was
continued in power in the congress.
The great unrest in the country was
such as to make it susceptible 1:o any
promises that bespoke h*tte- conditions.
The result was a Republican in the
White House and large majorities in
both branches of congress. The conspirator's
archconspiracy succeeded
and the Republican party got complete
control of the government. We
were called into extraordinary session
on April 11. Four months have passed.
Conditions are no better, assurances
to the contrary, notwithstanding.
What his become of the great
intellects, far-seeing statesmanship
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renei at nome ana enlarging inuuences
abroad, that were to be the gift
to the nation by the new administration?
Four months and nothing done.
And now comes the gentleman :from
Michigan (Mr. Fordney) an! names
the tariff bill the Magna Charta of
American commercial life. 01 word.- to
that effect. Here is the medicine that
we have needed so long and which will
cure all the 'lis that the nation is heir
to. Again they seek to foo1 the people.
Our people are burdened w ith the high
cost of living and no market for their
nroducts. And now come.-, 'he pend
ing tariff bill, which unquestionably
means higher cost of living and fewer
markets for our Droducts The South
today has her cotton crop that she
cannot sell; the South produces the
bulk of the cotton raised in the world.
A tariff to keep foreign grown cotton
cut of America will not help us seil
;cur crop abrtad. A tariff that keeps !
! foreign goods out of our markets Aril! 1
r.ot help us lo sell our cdtton abroad <
j b? cause they can rnly buy our cotton
through the medium of exchanging |
their products for ours.
This bill, in my opinion, does not and <
I will not help us. It is designed to help !
only a few. If I understand the Re- ;
publican attitude, it is to legislate for <
the special interest?for a few favored !
ones?and let the masses get the J
crumbs that fall from the rich man's <
table. My theory of legislation is to !
legislate for the masses; and if they J
are prosperous, then the big interests <
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The Fordney tariff bill if enacted into
law will foster the big interests and
will prove another link in the chain
that binds the American people as
vassals. ^
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