The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, March 05, 1915, Page 4, Image 4
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FRIDAY. MARCH 5. 1015.
IT'S L I* TO YOU. MR. VOTER!
Th" question of the good roads'
bond issue, is squarely up to the voters
of Union county. On April <?, 1915,
just about six weeks from now, the
question will be decided at the ballot
box. I am sincerely, honestly
and selfishly in favor of the bond
issue. There are many others
equally as honest and just as selfish
as am I. who are opposed to the
issue. Let's he honest about it; is
it not more or less a puestion of
self-interest? With most of us, at ,
any rate, it is. 1 "just naturally"
want pood roads because I believe |
it will help my business more than j
it will hurt my pocket, and it
will afford me a comfortable ioui*ney
instead of an uncomfortable one.
Does any man blame me for this?
What is more sensible than to "po
after" what you think will help you?
That's iny ticket. If a thinp is
morally ripht (and no one has said
the bond issue was morally wronp)
why may not one seek to possess
what he desires?
Now, human nature is very human.
Don't you find it so, brother? And
are we not all very much alike? I
believe so. Let us pet down to brass
tacks. Let's take thinps as they arc.
Will this bond issue hurt the poor !
man? I am poinp to put myself
in the shoes of the poor man
(Stranpe to say the shoes fit very
well, too.) l.ets say I am a very
very poor man, right down at the
bottom. (Truth is, I am mighty nigh
right there.) Well, Rice, very poor
man, what objection to the bond issue?
Why, none; I ant selfish
enough to be willing to let 'he property
owners build the roads. I am
glad to have them build them. 1
want good roads even for walking
purposes, to say nothing of the occasional
use I may have for them
for riding purposes. I will have little
of the taxes to pay. I will have
as much right to use the road as
will the ten thousand dollar automobile
man have to use it. In fact
more right. for if the automobile
gives me any "sass," 1 wdl go to the
courts and I will stand a better
chance to win, for I am in the majority.
More than that, I'll get
some of the $'200,000 of the money
that will be turned loose for labor;
for. bfiiiir a verv noor man. I must
ho a laboring man. Ye>, llice, ticver\
poor man will. ho u cs
shrewd judgment, vote for hoods for
goo.I road--. Ho would art w h poor
judgment if ho di i not, fo> so!li-n
i irisons.
Again, lot'.- put on the shoe- of
the groat middle class, not vory poor;
not very rich just in reasonably
good circumstances. (Whether the
shoes fit or not, let's suppose they
do.) vV'i li, Rice, the moderately
circumstanced man, owns a -tie. :
laim; or, a .-.mall merchandise .
tahlishmont or a "one-horse" new pap'
r (in dcht or out); or, a small
dairy; or, .-mall truck farm; or, a
heel' market; or, a chicken farm
nov r mind which -whatever it is
o: ?. a finno
vituwjn, ii: ai (Iimhii
and worth two or throe times that.
Now, from a selfish standpoint:
Hoes Rice, the moderately circumstanced
man have any kick against
the bond issue? Not on your life!
He would be kicking against good
fortune. In the first place it will
not cost me over $2 per year. I've
got no "kick coming," for it will put
more than that in my pocket every
year. How? Why, when I hauled
the products from my farm to mar
ket, when I get more people to com
to my store, when I get more $
subscriptions, when I find bette
roads to drive my dairy wagon ovei
when I bring my vegetables to tow
in a buggy with one mule (instea
of using a wagon and two mules
when I go out after cattle to furnis
beef in my market, when 1 fete
eggs to town?why no matter wh
I am, or what my activities, be in
a moderately well-off individual,
will get more than it will cost m<
You can just put it in your pipe an
smoke it, 1 am for good roads. 1
will cost me mighty little. Ye!
sir! I am for good roads.
Well, 1 will now put on anothe
pair of shoes: I, Rice, am a rich mat
(alas! the shoe does not fit, but I*
wear it for argument's sake, an>
way). Rice the rich man, what ha\
you to say? l>o you find any selfis
reason for voting for bonds fo
good roads? Let's see, 1 will not liv
very long. If 1 leave a fortuni
leave it I must, or I must spen
some, if I am to get any persotu
pleasure out of it. Yes, I am willin
to be taxed to g? t the roads. I g<
more real pleasure out of a goo
auto spin than anything 1 think o
( Kxcuso me, the auto is sort of ne
to me- 1 am rich only in imagin:
tion.) I like to hear the hum of tli
engine. I like the sensation of tl
drive up hill and down hill?it's fin
(I did not know how good it wi
until I got on the rich shoes). Fir
it is?yes, I Rice the rich man, wi
vote for bonds. I am selfish enoug
to want some benefit from the mono
I have accumulated. I am also se
fish enough to feel that if I lea\
my children all my wealth the
should heln nnv fru- irnnd mud
Yes, I feel that to he about righ
I am middle-acred; soon will not nee
good roads. If I were going to li\
always, I'd be willing, for selfis
reasons, to pay the whole thinj
I'd hate to think I had always to liv
and yet had no way to get deliveranc
from the mud. Yes, I will for se
tish reasons, vote for bonds. Mor<
over, I often have business trips t
neighboring towns and cities. I fin
it will pay me and be a great cor
venience to me, as well, to have goo
roads for quick automobile trips.
Yes sir. Rice the poor man, Ric
the comfortably fixed man, Rice th
rich man?no matter which he beis
for bonds. For selfish reason:
to say nothing about any higher mi
tivos, Rice is for the bonds. Rut M
Blank, rich, poor or whatnot, com
on with your argument against th
bonds. This old Union Times i
open to you for your opinions, 11
matter what Rice thinks or desire
This is my last word on the nor
issue.
OAKLAND
Oakland, March 2.?A great des
of farm work is now being dom
which indicates that the farmers at
so badly discouraged after makin
such a failure to get what his colto
was worth last fall, but are tryin
the harder to make a success out <
his toiling efforts to try agaii
Although I do not believe the energ
will be put forth in making this coi
ton crop as was exercised in niakin
last year's crop. There certainly i
not any inducements being offers
the farmers that would encoura^
him to plant an ordinary crop of co
ton again this year. This, I thin
is so much for the better, because
there is no trap set he will eertainl
not be caught in a snare blindfolde<
In the Hon. I.. L. Wagnon's articl
of the last week's Times was soir
excellent points which was defined i
not a brief sketch, but was arrange
so as to disclose to the public th
true facts concerning the .$200,01
bond issue, as he views it, also
revealed the fact that nothing bi
a very sensible man was author r
it, and I do admire the way in whic
he so emphatically shows where h
stands on the subject, but it. is n<
hard to see that most of the point
in which he discusses have bee
ironed very smoothly and all tli
bright sides shining. Not that I ai
a critic in this instance whateve
nor am F trying to point out an
defective part or parts of hi articl
which probably will have escaped U
scrunity of tie- public, had I not met
tinned it, hut not so, I am morel
seeking information, not trying t
show my ignorance. Kv< r since
can rcmcmlier there has been no d<
crease in taxes, no, they <lo not <1
minish one cent, instead, it is a gra<
ual increase every yar. This is r
guess work, taxes are double no\
compared with twelve or fifteen yeai
ago. It is this officer demandin
that his salary he raised and th;
officer wanting another hundred <
two added to what he calls a meagi
sum to support him and his famil;
and appropriations for this and fr
that and new officers to he addc
which is to be paid a nice salary an
other miscellaneous expenditure
which it takes about two or thrc
extra mills to dispose of them. An
now, in the face of all this we ar
told that by adding a $200,000 ir
dobtedness to what the county a
ready owes, will not raise taxes an:
if this is true, I fail to catch th
point.
If the value of land will be li
creased by the construction of the.good
roads, then what is to hind<
the taxes from being raised also, fc
it is a sure fact that a man pa>
taxes on his land just according ?
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Krasp the idea of how every fumjM
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from roads that probably they will j
never see, much less ride over them, I
for I am satisfied that $200,000 will I
not build roads sufficient to benelitl
I know there are lots of people?
L'? who would delight in procuring cm-ff
<? ployment that would afford th>m ajL
V- continuous job for at least tvo 01F
p three years, but what is the v<e t<|
consider this plea when these samJ
d people can find employment n th?
farms if they only seek it; bt no*
V there is a class of people wb will
L" not work at all unless th?
? shiney," as they call it, is omin?^
' s .in on Saturdav evenincr.
Another point I do not s-e i'ntf3!
? and that is how are eight tc twelvJj
dollars per mile going to ke-p tliesF
^ roads in good repair whn jt ij,d
claimed that there was neu* sixtl'1
V dollars per mile used last year o?
' our roads. We are sure to have ir'1
the future, as we have hai in thj
l(" past, and that is severe st rms an l(
n floods that causes so mucl damag 1
'' to our roads washing away the roa*'A|
,e beds and scooping out ho's in th
1(1 roads, that if it costs as mu h to hav ;
IX a wheelbarrow full of sand hauled t
make the repair on the new road 1,1
as it takes to do the sarre job nov ^
'' then I guess it will take the sam "
10 old "sixty." ff reports are tru ' '
'' about the rascality tricks that ar l'*
being exercised over tin- county i . 1
n the way of road repair work, tlvn
am not surprised at the enormon '
1! sum, that was spent on the road
last year.
>' Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Fincher ha 11
as their guests last Saturday nigh
' Rev. I). W. Garvin of C.iion. As pc
announcement. Rev. Garvin preache '
at Oakland school house last Satin '
" day night, and also filled his annoin '
' inent at Duck Pond church Sunda 11
at 11 o'clock. Both sermons wets'
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unjuycu ".V all ui ? ?.-< m;aici
Miss Iva Relue of Union, was vi<
10 itin^r her cousin, Mis? Angella Belui ?j
v* for tin- week-end. ' ,
Mr. and Mrs. Kenan Cunninffhai
^ of Buffalo, was visiting Mr. and Mr -<
lt J. Fincher last Sunday. m
Mr. Lewis Gault of the Sparta!
"e Academy returned to his studies t<1,1
V' day, after spending a few days wit ni
"" his parents, Mr. and Mrs. ,T. F. Gaul 01
Messrs Jessie Newel and Due
Gallman, from near Kelly's statin I'1
s' were visitors here Sunday, the truesU"
!e of Mr. Victor Smith. Neb. r
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1- I wish the public to know th^il
v, I have severed mv connection wity,
ic the Union Steain Laundry and havj t
taken the agency for a first-clasw
1- laundry. f '
a; My headquarters will be at N<jlo
r land's Market, office phone 100. Word
?r will be called for every Monda(o
's morning and satisfaction pruarantee<ei
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I JONESVILLE
.Jonesville, March 2.?Snow was
jported to have fallen here SuViday
jpht but it was very little, and .vas
len by only a few colored peoo
that were up late in the night,
te ground is yet very cold and
irly garden stuff don't grow much.
The Wallace mills has for the last
w days, been filling their vacant
uses with operatives for the purse
of putting on a night force and
nning day and night, and last night
?y commenced running at night,
ire than a hundred inhabitants
ve been added to our town in the
t few days and as many more will
added in the# next few days or perps
more.
Vot a single sack of fertilizer has
. been shipped to our town this
son. I have talked with a good
ny farmers from diflVrert parts
the county and I learn from them
t there will not be more than half
much guano used this year as <
re was last year, and the acerage ,
lt-'d in cotton will he much less
n last year. 4
n error of one word occurred in i
communication to The Times last i
k, 1 vpoke of a telephone line
g talked of from Jonesvill to *
H. (laults, over near l'acolet mill, 4
translators made it telegrapn ^
>ad of telephone. Its a telephone '
a name sake of mine. <
W. (). Southard has been ailing
complaining for some time and ?
yet a very sick man.
good many bales of cotton were <
on the market here last week. <
1 the price went down the farrushed
in their cotton, which
ually the case. J
friend and fellow correspondent
from across the Paoolet, had a J
touching correspondence in t'n> JJ!
ins of The Times last we-k, as J
ioke of his good companion in
/ho had lately gone to a bettor
and left him sad and lonely. X
ikes one of my age think that ?
I not be long until th> y will be ?<
i':e brother Vox, all alone, and ?, <
tad the thought. Brother Vox t
y sympathy in his sad bereave j
and the best and most comit
words I can convey or express &
i, is 10 irusi in a kind Heavenly ^
i1, whose (trace alone can sup- V
nc! sustain him.
t. Charles Petty, one of the
ards, for many years a news
editor and correspondent, polchurchman,
and a pood man
y way, has (rone to his reward. JL
ral men have requested me
te more about the (rood roads
hut for want of time, I will
o postpone that matter till X
eek.
'Hce-llaw" ministrel of Tones- ??
cal talent will play in !h"
school building Friday cv>n- ^
r the benefit of John flames *5^
, u. n. r.
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