The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, April 02, 1915, Page 3, Image 3
L. L. WAGNON COMES AGAIN
Answers Critics of License Bill. New
Law Prohibits Nobody; but Places
Peddler, Vender or Dealer on
Footing with Merchant
and Farmer
Mr. Editor:?I came across this a
few days since: "There is a bar
against all information,'condemnation
before investigation,'" and judging
from the letters of my friends Neo,
Harris and Orr, I stand condemmed,
and judging from the nature of the
condemnation, there certainly has not
been any investigation on their part
at least.
I have long since learned that any
action of a public nature, by a public
servant, is subject to criticism and if
it desbrves it, to condemnation; for
such criticism and condemnation I
have no complaint to make, I am will
ing always to improve by any mistakes
that may be pointed out and
realizing that when you serve the
people it is a case of be "cussed if
you do, and be cussed if you don't"
and having a clear conscience and a
firm conviction of the justice, equity,
democracy, constructive and progressive
nature of the License Bill
which has provoked so much of the
"cussing" from my good friends, I
am unwilling to believe that it comes
from any source other than lack of
knowledge of the principles and purposes
of the bill, and to that end,
permit me to answer a few of the
arguments and criticisms.
Neb says "there is a lot of complaint
about the bill, forbiding nonresidents
of Union county from
bringing their produce to this county
to dispose of," the fact is that the
bill does not forbid anybody from
brineintr anvthiner at anv time or in
anyway, and selling it at any time
or in anyway, but it does provide
that the non-resident, non-taxpaying
"dealer, peddler and vender" shall,
for the privilege of so dealing, peo^
dling and vending, do as the balance
of the democratic farmers, producers
and merchants of Union county, do
pay a reasonable license for so doing.
Anything wrong about that? Anything
to forbid anybody from selling
anything in that?
Again, Neb says, "how much of
such produce does the farmers of this
county raise"? I will leave that for
Neb to answer, by asking to whose
shame is it, that the farmers of Union
county do not raise all the produce
it can consume, and thousands
of dollars worth for shipment?
There is not an item mentioned by
Neb but that can be grown as abundantly
and practically and as suepocc
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of time, as anywhere in the South,
unless it be apples, and I have yet
to be convinced that with a few years
effort and patience we could not
grow as Rood and as many apples
as North Carolina or any other State.
He also asks, "is the law for the
benefit of the poor, etc., is it democratic"?
and then proceeds to quote
Holy Writ for the authority that
we will always have the poor with
us, I am glad Neb put this as he
did, for I believe he is fair, and I can
say without fear of contradiction,
that this law is fully as much for
the benefit of the poor as any other
tax that was ever levied since the
beginning of time; the fact is, taxes
and licenses are not levied excepi
incidentlv for the poor, at all, nor
against the poor or rich either, for
that matter; they are levied for the
purpose of running the government,
and in these days, for schools, colleges,
roads and the thousands of advantages
of civilized government that
the poor and rich enjoy alike. And
as to it being democratic, the very
foundations of democracy is to tax
all alike and to let all share alike in
the benefits paid for with our taxes.
One of the prime purposes of this
bill is, to sto^a special privilege
enjoyed by th? few at the expense
of Neb and every farmer and merchant
of Union county. Do you believe
in special privilege? Do you
advocate taxing and licensing the
masses, and they your home people,
your own fellow farmers, merchants
and citizens, and subsidizing the
alien and stranger, allowing him the
graft of doing free of charge what
your fellow citizens have to pay for
every time they turn around? If so,
why don't you go a step further and
advocate bringing in the Dago, the
Pole, the Hun and the Chinaman, remove
all taxes and because they will
live in hovels, like beasts, to compete
with and run all our native son's of
South Carolina out of the mills and
all other jobs and businesses, because
they are relieved of all the burdens
of taxation, and living like beasts,
(which, thank God, our people will
not do) can work cheaper than our
people can? Is that democracy, if so
I have missed my calling, for I am
a democrat, first, last and all the
time, and if any man objects to this
bill when he understands it, then he
has got to abandon the rock-ribbed
foundations of democracy from the
time of Jefferson to this year of
grace, 1915, which says tax all oi
none, tax all alike, that share under
the government alike, and not turn
over to the man from New York,
Mexico or North Carolina, free and
for nothing, what every resident of
Union county has to pay for. Yes, if I
know what democracy is, this bill is
democratic, and one of its chief purposes
is to ston the few from craft
ing off the many, by having free the
privileges that the many pay for.
Now as to the reminder from Divine
authority, that we will always
have the poor with us, I point Neb
to the same authority, for the rule
of "Do unto others as ye would that
they should do unto you," and ask
if under thai rule he could afford to
tax and license the farmers and mer(
chants of Union county to provide
roads, schools, and government, ana
then take what little chance they
have for making a living and paying
these taxes away from them, by
turning other dealers, peddlers and
venders loose to get rich off our people
without money and without
price? We know that in the times
of the Great Teacher that men paid
taxes, and I believe that when He
laid doWn the golden rule as the standard
of relations that should govern
all men, He laid the foundations of
democracy and I am willing to stand
or fall by that rule. Take all the
taxes off the merchants and farmers
of Union county, and I am perfectly
willing that others may come in and
share with us without taxes or licenses,
but if the home merchant and
farmer has them to pay, you will
have to go further than the authority
of God's word or the foundations of
democracy to get justification for
giving them free to outsiders, whether
they be responsible citizens or fakirs
and quacks, which is the main
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against.
As my friend Orr puts all his
questions in such a way that they
drive to practically the same point, I
believe that he will be fair enough to
acknowledge that I can answer all his
questions, with others, and will have
to admit that his position carried to
its logical conclusion, would disrupt
all organized government, destroy
every school in the county and leave
him facing starvation, without a
chance of making a living.
I don't know what they pay now
to the town of Union, but the fact
that they may pay a license to the
town of Union, does not justify them
in not paying a license to Union
county any more than any other citizen
of Union. They every one pay
a tax to the town of Union?on your
basis?then every man in Union who
pays a tax to the town of Union
should be exempted from paying a
tax to Union county, carry it out and
you will have just about half the
taxes you now have to run Union
county and every part of the county
will suffer as a consequence. You
ask if this is not more than the average
merchant pays, I cannot answer
for the average, but I can say
it is about one tenth of what some
of your merchants pay, in fact about
as much per year as some of your
merchants pay per month, and even
if it were more, it should be more, foi
the reason that the home merchant
stays in one place and pays his taxe?
and licenses for the privilege of doing
business in that one place, the
i other man is allowed to go all over
the county and even to the door of
the home man, and rob him of the
nrivilotrn Vio Koe noi/l U?... I
would you feel, Mr. Orr if the Jap
or Chinaman, who may or may not
pay a small tax to China or Japan,
were to sit down next door to vet!,
send his children to your school and
pay nothing for it, and you pay as
you do now; pet his fertilizer with
all tax off, and you pay as you do
now; ride over and haul over your
roads and do no work and pay no
road tax, and you pay as you do now;
be protected by your sheriff and
courts free, and you pay as you do
now; have his cotton pinned free and
his corn pround without toll, and you
pay as you do now; have his cotton
and produce hauled to market free
while you drap throuph the mud and
pay for the privilepe, as you do now?
Would you call that democracy,
would you think you were pettinp
equal riphts with the Jap and Chinaman?
Would you condemn a farmer
who went to the lepislature as your
servant, and passed a law sayinp to
the Jap and Chinaman?not that you
shall not live here, not that you shall
not have a chance with the rest of
us to make a livinp and sell your
stuff like the rest of us, but sayinp
to him, if you want to live here in
democratic Union county, we will be
Kiau iu nave you, DUt you must pay
your share of taxes like Orr and
Wagnon, and every other farmer and
merchant in Union. I believe you
and every farmer in Union county
would rise up to condemn the special
privilege given the Jap, Chinese or
other alien and it would not make
any difference to you if he did pay
taxes to China and Japan, if he was
making his living off of Union county
people and they all paying for themselves
and him too, and he going
free?you would rise up and call the
farmer who went to the legislature
"blessed" who tried to give you this
relief. Well that is exactly what I
have tried to do, friend Orr, with
this difference, I happen to be a merchant
and not a farmer, and the people
who are enjoying these free privileges
are not Chinaman or Japs, but
good honest men, who I believe will
' themselves acknowledge the justice
democracy and equity of the license
law, once they understand it, and will
be glad to pay for the privileges they
enjoy, like the balance of the white
democrats of Union county do. So,
don't allow the fact that I happen to
a merchant prejudice you, friend
Orr, the bill may do the Union Grocery
Company some good indirectly,
if there is where the prejudice lies,
I hope it may, but there is not a
one horse farmer in Union county it
will not benefit more than it will the
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doubt if there is a business, large or
small in Union county that it makes
as little difference to as it does to the
Union Grocery Company, and furthei
the fact that I am a merchant would
not any more prevent my laboring
in the legislature for the benefit of
the merchants only, as you seem to
feel, than it would any farmer you
might send laboring for the benefits
of the farmer only, or lawyer you
might send laboring for the benefits
of the lawyer only, would you condemn
a farmer for laboring for farmers??then
why condemn a merchant
for laboring for every farmer,
merchant and producer in Union
county, God knows if they don't need
somebody to labor for them, what
class of people on earth do? You
ask about the prices of potatoes,
cabbage and apples, the burden of the
query being, did any one ever know
them so cheap. If their being cheap
(Continued to page seven)
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
State of South Carolina,
County of Union.
Notice is hereby given that a special
election for the county of Union
aforesaid, will be held at the voting
precincts in said county prescribed
by law, on Tuesday, April 6, 1915.
upon the issuance of bonds under the
terms of the following Act passed
by the General Assembly of South
Carolina, at the regular session of
1915, and duly approved by the Governor
of the State of South Carolina:
"AN ACT
To Authorize the Holding of an
Election in Union County on the
Issuing of $200,000 of Coupon
Bonds for Building Permanent
Roads, to Name Seven Commissioners
to Expend the Proceeds of
Said Bonds and Otherwise Define
Their Duties, Powers and Term of
Office.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of the State of South Carolina:?
Section 1. That on the Gth day of. 1
April, 1915, there shall be submitted
to the qualified electors of Union
County the question of issuing $200,000
of GOUDOn bonds. hearincr not
more than five (5) per cent, interest,
for constructing public highways of
said county.
Sec. 2. This election shall be held
under the laws governing the holding
of general elections in this State.
The ballots shall be provided according
to law; on the one ballot shall
be printed the words: For Permanent
Roads Bonds?Yes; on the other,
For Permanent Roads Bonds?No. If
a majority of the ballots cast in said 1
election shall be for the issuing ot
said bonds, the seven Commissioners
hereinafter provided for, to be known
as the Highway Commission of Union
County, shall advertise for sealed
bids on said bonds. No bid shall be
considered for less than the par value
of the bonds. The Commission
shall have the right to reject all bids
and re-advertise for bids until the
bonds are sold," etc.
The qualifications for suffrage are
as follows:
Residence in State for two years,
in the county one year, in the polling
precinct in which the elector offers
to vote, for four months, and the payment
six months before any election
of any poll tax then due and payable:
Provided, That ministers in
charge of an organized church and
teachers of public schools shall be
entitled to vote after six months,
residence in the State, if otherwise
qualified.
Managers of election must require
of each voter the production of a
registration certificate and the proof
of the payment of all taxes, including
poll tax, assessed and collectible
during the previous year. The production
of a certificate of the receipt
of the officer authorized to collect
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of the payment thereof.
Before the hour fixed for opening
the polls, Managers and Clerks must
take and subscribe the ConstitVjf'
tional oath. The Chairman of
Board of Managers can administer 'I
the oath to the other members and
to the Clerk; an officer duly qualified
thereto must administer the oath to
the Chairman. The Managers elect
their Chairman and Clerk.
Polls at each voting place must be
opened at 7:00 o'clock a. m. and
closed at 4:00 o'clock p. m.
The managers have the power to
fill a vacancy, and if none of the
managers attend, the citizens can
appoint from among the qualified
voters, the Managers, who after being
sworn can conduct the election.
The following Managers are appointed
for the aforesaid election, and
they are requested to call at the office
of the Master in the Courthouse
for ballot boxes, ballot forms and
instructions:
MANAGERS
Union?John Whitlock, J. I). High,
J. G. Long, Sr.
Monarch Mills?S. C. Crosby, W.
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Knitting Mill?J. J. Eison, Frank
Hart, J. Haskell Thomas.
Cross Keys?T. E. Davis, Norman
Beaty, Robert Glenn.
Black Rock?Aus. Tucker, C. W. T.
Willard, Will J. Wilson.
Carlisle?Reuben S. Thomas, J.
Edd Hancock, J. D. Flemming.
Santuc?M. R. Jeter, Starks Austin,
E. W. Jeter.
Meadors?John Meador, John Sinclair,
Will Carter.
Lockhart Mills?Pete Childers, B.
B. Belue, Charlie D. Broom.
Adamsburg?I.onnie Adams, J. J.
Hughes, John Scales.
Kelton?Jack Farr, Boyd Gallman,
Haskell Garner.
Jonesville?R. N. Mabry, C. L.
Reeves, A. I). Plexico.
Buffalo?John Wix, J. G. Riley,
Wallace Vinson.
Gihbs?Mills Malone, Henry Smith.
Fincher Dawson.
West Springs?Boyd Lancaster, C.
D. Bogan, T. J. West.
Colerain?Gordon Smith, John
Harrison, Holland West.
D. C. WHITE.
W. C. WILBURN, ;
J. P. THOMAS,
Commissioners for State and County
Elections for Union County.
March 8, 1915.
FINAL DISCHARGE
State of South Carolina?Countv of
Union?Court of Probate.
Notice is hereby given that on the
17th day of April, 1915, at 11 o'clock,
a. m., in the Court of Probate for
said County, the undersigned will
make his final settlement as guardian
of the Estate of Herbert Fowler,
and that thereupon he will apply
to the Judge of said Court, for his
final discharge as such guardian.
W. B. FOWLER.
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And right upon the heels of the physicians in this country for years
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