The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, October 07, 1904, Image 4
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UNION, S. C., OCTOBER 7, 1904.
MORE SPEEDY TRIALS.
The law's delay is a subject that
has been worn almost to a "frazzle,"
having been preached from every pulpit,
been the subject of editorials in
very newspaper in the land. Various
and peculiar have been the suggestions
of the preachers and editors
looking to the more speedy and summary
trials of murderers, rapists and
other lawbreakers; but unfortuuately
none have met the emergency, were
entirely practical or expedient. It is
hardly possible to have a court in
session in every city, town and hamlet
in the State, in order to try the
perpetTutors of these crimes as sood
as committed, or as soon as the offender
can be apprehended and
brought before the court. In every
case under the existing laws the de
fondant is entitled to a fair and impartial
trial and cannot ba rushed to
trial before he or she is ready. He is
no less a citizen, and is entitled to
every protection guaranteed to citizens
under the provisions of the law,
because he stands charged with the
violation of the law. In olden times,
when we say olden times we do not
mean to go so far back in our country's
history, only just before the
civil war between the states, men
~ imrr~ mft dn r brmJ
tent to wait for the regular sitting ol
the courts. In this county among
the earliest murders and hanging ol
murderer was thai of Phineas Johnson,
who killed u wotftan, sitting in a
chair In her own house with her babe
in her lap. He put the muzzle of the
gun through a crack iti the house and
shot her dead as she sat, ignorant
and unsuspecting of his presence.
At that day and time there was no
thought of lynching, even for so diabolical
crime as that; if such a crime
were committed now, hut. few 1? iurs
would pass before that man would be
lynched; yet the men of today are
largely the descendants of those who
lived in this county at. that time.
What has brought aboiit the chunge
in the temper of men of today as contradistinguished
from that of their
ftncaatnpii 9 Win. /I.. ?? - ? J
w..vvw?w.u< WW a?jr uu lliril III lOUHy
clamor for revenge or vengeance,
blood for blood? 'Ihe social, civil
and religious conditions are not exactly
the same now as then, but v?ry
early ho, at least with the wiiit.es.
The juries are composed of the same
men who make up the mob; but
when they sit quietly and hear the
testimony and the eloquent arguments
for and against they bring in a
verdict of not guilty, men in the
audience daring the progress of the
trial are heard to say: "That man is
guilty and ought to hang," yet if the
man who says that were transferred
from the audience to the jury box he
no doubt would do as the jurors did.
Men's minds and feelings change according
to circumstances and conditions,
being creatures of susceptibility.
It is not every case, possibly
oniy a rew cases, that the law's delay
famishes an excuse for lynohieg, as
we have one case, that of 8tatesboro,
Ga. The two persons lynched hud
already been tried, convicted and
sentenced to be hung; bat this did
net satisfy the spirit of revenge, vengeance
and morbid thirst for blood.
In the case of John Morrison of Lancaster
County, he had killed a young
white man, a quiet, peaceable farmer,
because he would not lend Morrison
ten cents. This was so outrageous
and uncalled for murder, and
this being the fourth man that Morrison
had killed, the people became
80 enraged that they could not or
rather did not wait for the action of
the law. In this case, there did seem
to be a shadow of excuse for not
^
waiting for the law to try Morrison, j
as he had been, twice acquitted of
the charge of, no order. It therefore
f-ecmathat different things actuate
men in different commaDities, under
different and peculiar circumstances,
the same thing is done, lynch the
fiend, the brute, etc., as thecase may
be. To us it aeems to be of no consequence
what moves men to do such
deeds of iuhumau violence to their
fellow men. It is done, and the
question remains the same. VVhj ?
In this enlightened, cultured, refined
elevated, intellectual, prosperous and
progressive age, these savage, brutal
deeds are done. Legislat'on, religeon
and every other means seem powerless
to suppress or lesseD crimes of
this character. We return to the
courts and say it is possible, if the
solicitor could in his power of speech
and personality, fire the minds of the
jurors to that? pitch of frenzied feeling
of revenge and vengeance, that
thirst for blood, or whatever the feeling
is that carries the mob to lynch
by burning, shooting or hanging,
then there would doubtless be more
convictions aDd more hangings. The
jury would not convict and recommend
to mercy, because they would
convict with the intent that the person
be hung. That alone would satisfy
the peculiar craving which seems
to characterize the lynchers.
NUISANCES AND NUISANCES.
A nuisance is anything that annoys
or gives trouble and vexation; thst
which is offien9ive or noxious; that
which incommodes, something that
produces inconvenience or damage.
Nuisances are both public and private;
public when they annoy people
generally, and it is of this we propose
to say a few words. A city council
has the power to abate a nuisance,
and prohibit the inaugaration of anything
which in its judgment would
likely to become a nuisance in the
course of ita'operation 8. All things
which are offensive and noxious with
in themselves by reason of the natural
elements in its existence should
be prohibited in certain localities and
> in some instances altogether, in any
and every town and city, not only as
a sanitary measure, but for the comfort..
convenience and pleasure of the
i citizens generally. We cannot think
i or conoive of anything more off?-n
fiiYfiv water*running from tub or barrel
across the pavement, to cross
I which a lady must lift both her feet
' and sk rts to avoid getting either or
hot h soiled and som< times the stream
running across the pavement is too
> wide for a lady to step over it. A
beef market, or beef saloon both give
our. offensive odors and should not be
1 ailowpd to be opened and conducted
on Main street. There is nothing,
however, that equals the odor of fish,
especially when kept for several
hours in the sun. No fish stands or
tubs or barrels of fish should be allowed
to be sold on Main street. We
i alluded last week to the hand cart,
> wheelbarrow and trucks on the pavements.
These also should be regnrdi
ed as a nuisance and prohibited from
being run on the pavements.
POLL TAX DELINQUENTS.
From the the time the first law
was enacted imposing-a tax on the
head (called poll tax) of every ablebodied
male citizen between certain
ages to be paid to the county treas- 1
urer each year, there have been delinquents.
Men have in one wav or
another kept their names from being
put upon the tax books. This dodging
the payment of poll tax is more
frequent in late yearB than formerly,
for the reason that these dodgers
have become more learned in the art.
Some won't vote for fear their names
will reach the tax books from the voting
poll iists. Some never make a
return to the County vuditor, and
no one makes it their business to
make the return for such men.
Some never stay in any one place
long enough to become liable, at least
leave jast in time to avoid the payment
of poll tax and reach another
place after the time for collecting. 1
Some men so avoid being known as ,
residents of any place and thus it is |
they are never caught by a tax exe- I
cution; but there are nien who do '
stay long enough and are not caught. |
Some years ago the county school I
commissioner discovered that the ?
polls were decreasing, according to (
the report of the treasurer and audi- c
tor. This being a part of the school ?
fund, the school commissioner und#rtook
to find out where the trouble t
was, as he knew that the number of v
polls should naturally increase fr? m ?
year to year. Upon investigation it
was found that the number of yotera c
. m m
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on the poll lists of the several voting g
precincts exceeded the number on S
the treasurer's book, charged with ?
and liable to pay poll tax, by, between ?
900 and 1,000. Since that time there jj
have been several cotton mills erect- \
rd Id the county, and the population l
has been thereby more than double, 2
in addition to the number of young R
men coming of uge, each year. This E
delinquency or deficit also applies to 5
road and street duty, or commutation \
tax. This same class of men who es- R
cape one of the tax payments also es- 5
capes the other. It is, in the face of 5
these facts, the duty of the officers of jS
the law, thnt is, the County Superin- ?
tendent of Education, Auditor and 5
Treasurer, to make investigations \
and thus inform themselves as to ?
whether every one in the County Ha- l
ble to pay poll tax and work on the I
roads are on the books. The police ?j
sergeant, whose duty it is to fill out 5
and collect town tax executions., has l
in the past month discovered and ool- t
lected overone hundred, whose names I
were not on the town treasurer's, \
book, und the town treasurer gets *
the names from the auditor's book. y
60 it stands to reason that these *
names were on no tax book, therefore
paid no taxes, nor worked the 5
roads or streets. Be vigilant in the t
discharge of your duty and the allegi- |
ance you owe to your country. 5
AN INTERESTING LETTER \
FROM TEXAS. g
A Onion County Girl in the Lone K
Star State Tells of Her Trip. N
Coppel), Texas, Sept. ]904* v
I have often been asked to write and *
give an outline of my visit while out t
here, but kept putting it off for a mote 9
convenient time and was interested in t
goiug somewhere aud meeting new ac- j
quaintances every day. j
1 will proceed although I do not know j|
where to begin, but know where I start- t
ed from. Writing is not anything com- \
pared to seeing and I can only give an t
idea of the differences of the customs oi B
the people out here. (
I left IJniou the 10th of February on 5
the 9 o'clock train aud arrived in Dallas B
the 18th, about 5 o'clock p. m. I was s
delayed twelve hours in coming. A r
trestle was burned ahead of us, neat s
Holly Springs, Miss., and caused me to ?>
miss my train at Memphis. Yes, 1 c
walked part of the way to Texas. We 3
had to walk across where tins trestle was t
ourned to meet a train that was sent for
us. I met a number of pleasant friends I
on my way, whom I will never forget S
and may never see again. Several oi 1
! them were from Georgia and Alabama V
| aud were coming in. J
tweuty-three homes of uncles, aunts ana "
first-cousins to visit. Well, I must has- snj
ten to my destination. 1 ordered mj thi
ticket on the Cotton Belt but they seni chi
me ou Iron Mountain and of course thai dn
put me off at the T. & P. depot instead yai
| of the Cotton Belt, and my uncle was to rai
meet me at the latter. It was stormy on da
us from Little Rock, Ark. until just be- wa
fore we reached Dallas. Well, not na
knowing exactly what time we would rie
get to Dallas and knowing my uncle cej
would meet me at the other depot I tele
Kiapneu mem to meet me at the T. & P. coi
Here I was met by two fine looking "*o
young men. (One a lawyer of Dallas, ju*
the other a pupil of the business college, '-to
who has since completed aud gone into Bh
busiseess. These were two of my cous- "t
ins, but do not favor me at all ) I failing 11
to say which depot, as there were two on ha
the line I came in on, I would get off at, w?
thoughtedly one of them went to one coi
aud the other to the other. We bad 11
never seen each other, so the lawyer be- 'y
ing the one at the depot I got off at. thi
guessed at me and asked if I was from inf
South Carolina. We waited here until ha
the otlier-bqv joame, wl*) was not quite
"on time and I slipped on by the depot he ar<
was at. Oh I you can not imagine my no
feelings so far away fiom home and with tiv
strangers so near to me. The lawyer 301
had to go back to his office, so I went 1
home with the other boy. We had to co'
go three miles on the car to the part of cal
.Dallas called Oak Cliff. I was met there
by a sweet aunt and a number of fine Dh
looking cousins. (Uncle was not at '?o
home at present.) But do not look at ey*
me as I presume I was looking like a Hn<
chimney sweep and feeling like a drunk ?rtl
inan. I could scarcely tell when the
Train had stopped, I had passed so many *D(
trains and car boxes. I spent five weeks rtn(
in Oak Cliff. During this time one of <
my cousins was married and I took
measles, which .1'think I captured in
Memphis as I came through. I had to
wait those twelve hours there and there we
was a sick child at the boarding house I Th
stopped at. Measles took hold of me in ent
about two weeks after my arrival, and nee
kept me in about that long, but have
not lost any time since. Let me say 8b*
here that all of my uncle's family had rati
had it and I could not have been treated Nk?
any kinder or any more attention given cai>
to me if I had been at home. 1 will 8*16'
never forget where "I had measles."
While here I went to two different lonf
churches in Oak Cliff and twice to the
First Baptist in Dallas. At the latter I P'P<
heard Rev. Truitt, who is considered the anfl
finest minister in Texas They seem to '8
have a revival every Sunday and add
new members. Thev hav? o ? h? i
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*an and choir. It is a large church and "7 <
.he aisles were crowded with extra chairs
o seat the congregations. I was there ^
he 4th Sunday night in February ?od it Wo
was warm enough to use fans and have
he windows raised, also to have the ice cam
iream parlors open on the streets. This vlev
:hureh has something over eleven hun- c^7
Ired meml>ers Well Dallas is a very eno'
arge buBy city. It certainly has a nofb- 1
?r of large stores which are furnished We
vith all conveniences such as elevators. i'ig
ozy corners to rest in, lunch rooms, soda ,nR
nuntains and electric fans, etc,
From here, In company with two
ousins I came to Coppell, which they
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r is a wide place in the road. It is a
ckly settled neighborhood with two
urches, two dry goods stores and two
ug stores, a public gin and lumber
rd, blacksmith shop and a depot and
Iroad. Seven passenger trains pass
ily and freights all the time. Here I
is met by another uncle who has a
mber of children whom are all mard
and have families of their own exit
one.
Well, nearly all of them and other
asins came in the next day to see the
uth Carolina "curiosity" This was
it' a beginning of meeting the connecn.
* The next day was Sunday and the
iptist preaching day too. O myl I was
he center of attraction" and felt that
ooked like a "sore eyed cat," as I still
d my signs of measles in my eyes, it
is "this is so and so," "when are you
ming to see me," "go home with me."
vent home with a cousin and his famifor
dinner and such a crowd of cousins
it followed you never saw. I was goi
all dav and nart of t.h? niniit
. r '"S"'"! ?"U
ve beeh going day and night the most
the time since. I have visited in and
>und Coppell a' great deal but have
t spent a while with alt of my relaes
yet, and have promised to visit
ne friends.
t dfcent five weeks with an uncle and
jsin near Roanoke. This country ie
led Grand Prairie. You know this
ans a grain and cattle raising country,
i! it was grand to be out driving and
k over this prairie and see as far as
>s could the fields of wheat and corn
1 large pastures of cattle aud sheep
izlng leisurely. One pasture just had
vs and young calves running together
1 another had the largest, both in size
1 number, of fleers I ever saw.
)ne afternoon while riding in a wagon
,h some friends after water (you have
ird that some people have to haul
ir water, about which I will tell later)
could see four of the Independent
reshers threshing. These IndependThreshers
furnish everything they
d. They carry their bands, cook,
ions and stove. Tfiey have their cook
ck to carry their stove vessels and
ons in. This shack is something
i a car box on wheels and has sides of
vass wtiich are stretched out and
Ives are let down under them for the
ids to eat off of. The thresher lias a
I pipe extending above it which is
trolled by a lever which turns the
3 something like an elephant's snout
forms a high stack of straw which
>ft in the pastures for the stock and
,le to eat off of during winter. Tq
Irivinor ftlnncr anrl * *
tooiiih blld HITHW
>ut of these pipes remind me of tiie
' I imagine volcanoes look.
Phlle at this uncle's I went to Ft.
rth and several small towns. I cerly
enjoyed my trip to Ft. Worth but
not describe it. It was the graodeet
r I ever saw when driving into the
. It is somewhat hilly and has
ugh trees of different kinds growing
hem to make it look cool and grand,
drove around and through the packhouse
yards and watched them drivin
cows, calves Sod sheep by the
Ired. This wfc*.a eight to be remem1
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first question of a shoe is that ||
the foot with absolute accu- p~
sly but not tightly, no waste JS
t no pressure. The Queen p
loe is made so that P
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ist as a Paris made glove fits 1
Have you ever noticed that |
hoe talks much about fit? j|
about style, beauty, form, j|
things that means nothing. If
say little about fit. They 1
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iW Mia vutn v/ij uiiicrcm tonsirucnon to
j. PRICE, $3.00 THE PAIR. g|S
DRY GOODS GAMPANY, 1
R. P. HARRY, Manager. ?H
floYSTERSl
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Fresh York River II r
Oysters just ar- J|
rived at the City |l
Oyster Parlor. 11
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I uuuu CUOK! GOOD ORDER!
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past experience
you know m
the Oysters that
are used here.
OPEN 8 A. M. TO II P. M. |
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Phone 34. Main Street.
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