The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, August 19, 1904, Image 4
THE UN ION TIMES
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UNION, S. C., AUGUST 19, 1904.
DANGEROUS IMMIGRANTS.
Whether or not there is or will be
an awakening in this country to the
dunger of giving the right of citizenship
indiscriminately to the immigrants
who have been flocking here
for the past few years, it is true that
recent" events in the transoceanic immigration
business have opened the
eyes to the possibilities for evil which
lie in the future. Considering this
phase of the steamship cut-rate war
which has been the means of bringing
more foreigners in a bunch to
these shores than at any previous
time in our history, there is gratification
to be found in the fact that
naturalization courts are becoming
more careful. On many recent occasions,
men who were plainly not
qualified to become citizens have
been refused the privilege of swearing
allegiance to the United States
government and taking the part of
citizens in its administration, and
while it is not likely that drastic
measures will be immediately ap
plied to keep out forever those who
might in time leurn the things they
do not now kuow, the trend is toward
higher requirements. An example
worthy of emulation has been
set by a St. Louis Judge who a few
days ago refused to admit a foreigner
to citizenship because he could not
eminent. Tfirs rs~ oo/y onoJ oS5c
while there are thousands admitted
to citizenship without even a formal
application, especially where the person
has a few dollars to offer to prevent
refusal, the money being furnished
by some politician. All will
agree that no man should have a
hand in anything of which he is in
densest ignorance, and will hope that
the application of this ruling becomes
general.
In days gone by, there was too
much politics in naturalization. No
one doubts that thousands of aliens
have become American voters without
knowing the first principle of
government, or even the names of
men for whom they exercised the
granted right of suffrage. While
some of them have become worthy
citizens, it stands to reason that
there is danger in this course that
can hardly be overestimated. One
has but to go into the slums of the
big cities to have this fact brought
home to him with convicting force.
There he can see men herded?"colonized,"
tho ward bosses call it?and
coached in the art of voting long before
they are able to read a word of
English. One would naturally think
that a man who has lived in this
country long enough to be qualified
for citizenship ought at least to be
able to road tho language of the country
of his adoption, but that there
are thousands of casos in which
voters have remained in absolute
ignorance ward records show. And
this in spite of the so-called restrictions
thrown around the exercise of
suffrage by the election laws.
Hut whatever has been the process
of transformation of 5r?nnrun?
alien into the ignorant American
voter in the past, there seems to be
hope for the future. Citizenship is
taking on a higher meaning. Some
day, it will be generally agreed that
the welfare of the Nation must come
before politics, must come before a
settled increase in the population,
must come before everything. Without
attempting to belittle theachievementa
of certain classes of foreigners
who have done a large part in the
upbuilding of this country, we must
stund for a higher degree of intelligence
than is exhibited by some who
are coming now, before we grant
them a voice in the conduct of the
Nation's alTairs. Those who come
with a desire to do their beHt in the
new home should he welcomed and
encouraged, but that other class
which is content to remain in ignorance
should be permitted to have no
part in government.
A NEW COURTHOUSE.
The Times has been very pronounced
in its opposition to the voting by the
people of Union county a tax upon
themselves for the purpose of building
a new court house. On Monday
last we took occasion to question a
number of representative farmers as
to their views and the sentiment of |
the people in their section of the
county, and without exceptiou we
found not a man wh^-favored ca^^ig
his hallot in favor of a'taxtorSfe
erection of a new court hotSSJPW^
All with whom we have talked
without knowing our sentiments,
have agreed with us that Union has
the best court house in the State except
those which wore built about
the same time or even a little later,
as in those days substantial work was
done and the best material; but
aside from the workmanship and material
used, the present structure is
sufliciently large to accomodate all
who have business there, we have no
inclination to encourage idlers or
loafers by enlarged accomodations in
the temple of justice for this class.
We have been in several of the socalled
modern court houses, and failed
to observe the advantage these
buildings are claimed to have over
our court house. We admit that the
outside presents to some a more attractive
and imposing appearance,
and if the modern court house be
built for show, these now structures
have it on the Union county court
uuuse, io mat extern ana tnat alone.
The only inconvenience of which
any just and reasonable complaint
can now be made with reference to
the court houso is the use during a
term of court of the clerk's office by
the grand jury. A grand jury room
could be arranged for without incurring
any very great cost. The indebtedness
of the county at this time
is not less than seventy-five thousand
and dollars, ilefore the disastrous
Hoods of last year which swept away
so many costly bridges, the indebtedness
for ordinary county purposes
was something over fifteen thousand
dollars ; the estimated loss by the destruction
of the bridges was about
twelve thousand, this amount wai
borrowed which added to the fifteer
thousand dollars of debt already ow
o tot uivuunij
purposes twenty-seven thousand dol
lars, this of course does not includi
the bonded debt of the county.
Now in thfi f?CB r,t fhooo
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the people of Union county preparec
and willing to increase this debl
twenty or thirty thousand dollarf
more for something, for which ther<
is at this time absolutely no necessi
tv; but for a false pride and spirit o;
foolish ambition to do what othei
counties have done at a possible sac
rilice of other material interests? No
we have a better opinion of our level
headed farmers and entire voting pop
ulution of this county.
One very prominent and successful
farmer of Pinckney township said h<
had been looking for a man in his
neighborhood who was willing to vote
yes on this question, but had failed
to find him. The Times has alreanj
expressed the opinion that this question
of voting a tax to build a new
court house ought not to be voted on
at the primary election, but at the
general election, and no one who did
not pay tax on at least one hundred
dollars on real or personal property
should be allowed to vote.
Union county has already had a
rather serious experience when it
voted to issue bonds in the sum ol
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
in aid of a railroad that was
built from Spartanburg to Asheville,
North Carolina. This was carried by
the vote of the non tax payer, this
debt is still unpaid. The original
bonds matured in at which time
there had only been bonds to the
amount of $2(5,500 retired, leaving
$128,500 of bonds upon which
to pay (> per cent interest semi-annually,
Jau. 1, July 1. These matured
bonds had to be renewed by an issue
of new bonds to this amount, $128,500
as the county was not in a position
to pay and retire them, therefore
since August 1895 we have been paying
interest on this amount. The
sinking fund commission has enabled
the county treasurer to so place the
money accumulated as a sinking
fund, and realize an interest on these
bonds that the interest accrued on
the bonds is promptly paid and by
the time the bonds mature and possibly
before that time the county
treasurer can take up all of the bonds.
Under this arrangement the county
treasurer will be able to retire all of
these bonds at, or before maturity.
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THAT MISSISSIPPI POST OFFICE, *
The shameful, disgraceful editorial I
which was written and published in I
the "Commonwealth," a newspaper I
issued, owned and controlled by Var- I
daman, governor of Mississippi, and
acknowledged by him as his, about
which so much has been written and
published in the papers all over the
United States, forms in our judgment
a sufficient and just reason for the
post master general for refusing to
name a newly established post office
in that state for such a man as Vardaman.
We are surprised at the
people of that State for electing such
a man. Had a candidate for govern*
or of the State of South Carolina said
such a thing, not only about a decent
and respectable white woman, but
about a negro woman, a human being
possessing a soul, would be sufficient
to defeat him. Mr. Vardaman
is evidently an educated man as is
shown by his writings; but in our
humble judgment devoid of those refined
feelings and sentiments which
make aud measure up to the standard
of a true gentleman. The following
is taken from the Newberry Observer,
which we fully endorse, as every true
ns-vC/MitU P.urnllna rlnoQ!
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VAKDAMAN'S OF1-EN8E.
We have seen Vardaman's letter
and we have seen his editorial about
the mother of'the president, and wo
are ashamed that any southern man
could be found to write such things
about a woman. Postmaster Payne
was.right in refusing to name a postoffice
for him. We cannot see how
any man can have any other opinion
on this subject. The editorial is
brutul and coarse in its reference to
the president, and in its reference to
the president's mother it is low and
vile. Let no southern man with a
spark of chivalry try to uphold the
conduct of Vardaman. Here is the
editorial, which Vardaman not only
acknowledges, but attempts to justify.
It appeared in the Commonwealth
of January 10, 1908:
"It is said that men follow the
bent of their genius and that prenatal
influences are often potent in
shaping the thought and deeds of
after-life. Probably good old lady
i Roosevelt during the period of gestation
was frightened by a dog, and
that fact may account for tho qualities
of the male pup which are so
1 pronounced in Teddy. I would not
1 do either an injustice, but I am dis.
posed to apologize to the dog for mentioning
it."
The following is Mr. Vardaman's
answer to an enquiry made of him
by editor of the Anderson S. C.
r D^ly Mailt
executive nepBriitre?, .. .
Miss., August G?My ' Boar tftr!
3 Your very kind favor of the -4th inst.
has been received. If I had a copy
j of the Commonwealth you desire, I
. would take great pleasure in sending
it to you, but the files of the old pab
per are a hundred miles away. There
i was nothing in that editorial ofTen5
sive to Mrs. Roosevelt, err that reflected
upon her in the least I slmply
undertook upon scientific grounds,
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r and general cussedness, without
. holding his ancestors responsible for
it. I thought I owed it to his ances'
tors. Really, I should be ashamed
^ to charge the devil himself with the
responsibility of the infamy of that
distinguished accident. Sincerely
I and cordially, J. K. Vardaman.
} THE INDIANOLA POST OFFICE.
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> Is it postal tyranny for the postl
master general to reduce the rank of
r a post office from a presidential to a
fourth class because its postal re'
ceipts did not show a twelve months
1 earnings, he having closed and dis1
continued the office for six months?
1 If the postmaster general had good,
I sufficient and legal grounds for discontinuing
the office, then he has
the right to rank it according to the
law governing such cases based upon
the postal receipts of this office. If
on the other hand the act of discontinuing
the office was nothing but
' the exercise of an arbitrary partlzan
measure as u rebuke or punishment
of the patrons of this office, then we
1 think that he would have no right to
reduce the rank, for the simple reason
that the cause of the failure to
reach the required postal receipts to
entitle this office to the place of a
presidential appointive office was the
result of his own acts and not the
fault of the postmaster or patrons.
The Indianola post office in the
state of Mississippi was closed, discontinued
for six months by the postmaster
general, on account of the attitude
and opposition of the white
patrons of this office towards Mrs.
Cox, the colored postmaster. She
resigned; but tho post office department
refused to accent her resl?rna
tion. She further declined to hold
the position, and the post office department
through the president refused
to make any other appointment
of a postmaster for that office, rather
than do so the department discontinued
the office, and the patrons
were forced in consequence to go 10
miles for their mail at another post
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Lockhart Locals.
Lockhart, Aug. 15.?Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Keasler and sons, Roy
and Floyd, have returned fron
Woodruff, where they have been visiting
Mr. J. S. Bailey.
Miss Estelle Bailey is visiting at
the home of her grand parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. Q. Bailey.
Mrs. F. Bulloch, of Westville,
Fla., and Miss Bessie Rivers, of
Greenwood, S. C., are visiting at the
home of Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Brawley.
Mr. Loy Cary, after an absence
of over two years from among us, in
Paris, Texas, is visiting at the
| home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. II. Cary, He will return some
timo during the present week to his
[adopted home. It goes without sav
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ing that he baa many friends who
were delighted to have him with us
again. Mr. Cary has not lost sight of
us, as Tiie Times goes to see him
each week.
Miss Essie Sanders, of Union, is
visiting Miss Lena Reeder.
Mrs. J. II. Wilburn, and daughter,
Marie, have returned from an
extended trip to the mountain resorts
and different watering places.
? Pacolet and Lockhart teams
played a game here Saturday even*
which resulted 11 and 12 in favor of
Lockhart.
Messrs. Walker Revels and J. L.
Damerson, who have been dangerously
ill from fever, are considered
better
Possibly fruit and watermelons are
somewhat cheaper now than they
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been invented. All can be bought
and the buyer name the price.
Mr. Harrison Wood gave "Homo"
a bucket of tomatoes recently, and
among them was one that weighed
19 ounces.
In this connection, if you will, let
me thank the good people of Lockhart
for the many kindly deeds that
they have shown us since our return
from Oreers.
Mrs. Bessie Riggins is now our
efficient poet office clerk. She dispenses
mail satisfactorily the patrons.
IIomo.
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