The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, April 02, 1915, Page 7, Image 7
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A Bird's Eye View
/ ' (Judge)
S<)lee?"What is this Blue Bird
we/ear so much talk about?"
/apleigh?"The Dove of. Peace."
/ The Latest
/"How do you want your waist
Aade?"
/ "In this new style. I want it to
look as if it were a:bout to drop off
me, but of course, it musn't."?
Louisville Courier-Journal.
One Detail
(Judge)
He?You can't truthfully say 1
haven't supported you in the style to
which you were accustomed.
She?Yes, I can. You never hold
me on your lay any more.
No Brute
(Baltimore American)
"Did you strike Ahis man in an excess
of irascibility?"
"No, sah; I done hit him in the
stummick."
Circulation Statement Unsworn to
"May I print a kiss upon your lips?"
I asked;
She gave me sweet permission.
And so I went to press
And printed a LARGE edition.
?Philadelphia Public Ledger.
After 1 wash my face 1 always
look into the mirror to see if it's
clean, confided little Doris. "Don't
you ?"
"Don't have to. I look at the towel,
rejoined Willie.?Browning's Magazine.
Riches Buy Happiness
"But riches do not bring happiness!"
protested the lover.
"I know that," replied the sweet
young thing; "but riches will buy an
automobile, and if you have an automobile,
you can go after happiness."
?Houston Post.
Notable Anniversary
"It's five years ago today, and I'm
going to celebrate my wouldn't wedding."
"Wouldn't wedding. Wooden, you
mean?"
"No. Wouldn't. Five years ago
today since I asked a girl if she'd
marry me and she said she wouldn't.
?Browning Magazine.
Sure Thing!
"Farm products cost more than
they used to." "Yes" replied the farmer.
"When a farmer is supposed to
know the botanical name of what he's
raisin' an' the entomological name of
the insect that eats it, an' the pharmaceutical
name of the chemical that
will kill it, somebody's got to pay."?
Anderson (N. C.) Intellingencer.
Music Without Charm
(Exchange)
At a party Miss Brown had sung
"It's a Long Way to Tippcrary," and
for days after she was singing or
humming it to herself.
"It seems to haunt me," she said to
a friend who had also been at the
party.
"No wonder," said the friend.
"Look at the way you murdered it!"
Roundabout Way
"I've come to see if you can lend
me $25?"
"That so? Which way did you
come?"
"Down Griswold street."
"Qh^ you did, eh? Did it occur to
you that you had walked right by
eight or nine banks that are in the
business of lending money to get to
me?"?Detroit Free Press.
mow to Pronounce Them.
For the information of war-inclined
readers, we print the^following table
of pronounciation, hopinv it will
prove as helpful and illuminating as
the average table of its kind in the
daily press:
Xyrousspuchbiurj, pronounced Yushhkdhsh-hsg-hgx-j;
Ilbedkfgeu, pronounced
Lawyuf-ghfs-ing-yvz; Zygfr,
pronounced Gsfx-fy; Vitchafdhhkzzyprl,
pronounced Vodka; Grkamamatveithch,
pronounced I)sanmeo-gobomb-ski;
Boombf, pronounced Boobmf.?Puck.
Advantage of Borrowing
Some time since a little girl who
lived in rural community appeared
at the back door of a neighbor's
house with a small basket in her
hand, according to the Christian Endeavor
World.
"Mrs. Smith, said she, as the
neighbor answered her timid knock,
"mother wants to know if you won't
please lend her a dozen eggs. She
wants to put them under a hen."
"Put them under a hen?" was the
wondering rejoinder of the neighbor
"I didn't know that you had a hen!"
"We haven't was the frank rejoinder
of the little girl. "We are going
to borrow the he*i from Mrs. Brown."
Two Keet and Above
"You would not wonder that I hnve
forsaken play writing," said Booth
Tarkington, according to the Indianapolis
News, "if you knew how hard
it is today to make a success.
"Musical comedies like 'The Girl
from PariR'are what the public wants
rather than serious plays."
Mr. Tarkington smilingly concluded:
"A young man who has seen the
first performance of 'The Girl from
Paris' from a front row seat said, as
he left the theatre with a friend
amid the deafening encores of the
lingering audience:
"'I am not surprised that the play
is so well received. I knew it would
be a success before the curtain had
gone up two feet.' "?Indianopolis
News.
i
L. L. WAGNON COMES AGA1
(Continued from page three)
has been a help to the people, nobo<
is more thankful for it than I ai
you seem to assume that I want
put up the price, and you seem
think this is all the bill is for, y<
never was wider of the truth in cith
caf?. But if it takes the same co
ditions another year to get cheap a
pies, potatoes and cabbage, I belie
when you really begin to think, IV
Orr, that you and every other mi
in Union county, who with or witho
reason, with or without any knov
edge of the bill as most of them w!
have condemmed it and its auth
are, you will join me in praying
merciful God that those conditio
shall never prevail again.
You ask, "did you ever see the
things so cheap?" No, and I nev
saw cotton drop from 13 or 14 cer
per pound to (? and 7 cents in two
three weeks before, did you?
never saw every industry in t
country tremble and totter on 1
foundations as it has in the past fj
and winter, did you? I never sj
men with wives and children depe
dent on them for a living laid off
the hundreds before, did you ?
never saw two sets of hands eag
and waiting for every job in o
mills, and those without jobs anxio
for those with jobs to go o
for the day, that the one who did n
have a job might get a day's wo
before, did you? I never saw cott
drop from $70 to $80 dollars p
bale down to $30 to $40 dollars p
bale in a few days before, did yoi
I never saw a prosperous farmii
producing people lose over four hu
drod millions of dollars on one cr
of cotton and that after it was ma
before, did you ? God forbid that a
man, woman or child now livii
should ever see it again, and y
friend Orr, the very thing that ma
cotton cheap, the very thing th
caused panic, suffering and despei
iion to every industry of the Soul
is the thing that made cheap appl
and cabbage and potatoes, and not
license or lack of license, as y
seem to reason. If the same com
tion prevails a year from now, th
will be cheaper than ever and t
dealers, peddlers and venders, w
have heretofore enjoyed the spec
privilege of doing free in Union cou
ty, at the expense of the farm*
merchants of Union county, will
glad to pay the license and sell th(
cheaper than ever before my friei
Do you want cheap stuff at the pric
That is your argument. The biggi
crop of cotton the world ever pi
duced, with all export shipments c
off for a time is what cost the Sou
hundreds of millions of dollars, a
reduced cotton from $70 to $35 d
lars per bale, is what ruined and i
poverished hundreds and thousands
our best people. The biggest crop
apples and produce the country h
ever made, with all export trade c
off and with this stuff rotting on t
hands of the producers is what h
cost the producers of cabbage, a
pies and potatoes millions of dolla
and given you the cheapest prodc
you ever had; a world-wide hori
and debauchery of war, such as h
not been from the foundation of t
world, is what has impoverished hu
dreds and thousands of the produce
of the cheap cabbage and potato
you have been eating?my friend a
you willing to pay $.'55 to $40 di
lars per bale reduction on cottt
to have cheap produce? I know y
and the other democrats of Uni
county are too fair to refuse to r<
ognize the truth when it is present
and I know you neither can nor \v
deny the truth of the figures, whi
are based on government authoril
and you could not, if you would, de
the actual facts that you have fi
here at home.
You say again, "that you belie
that 90 per cent of the people wot
vote to take off the license, gra
that it is true, it is also true th
that same 90 per cent would vote
take off all other taxes that th
| now pay, until they saw the gover
ment turning to anarchy, the schc
houses closing, and the wreck a
ruin that would follow any system
government without taxes to run
until they needed the protection th
could no longer be had, because the
was no tax to provide for it.
I'll go further, friend Orr, and yi
will not deny it, followng your sar
line of argument, 90 per cent of t
people who have to have cotton ai
clothes made from it to wear ai
who do not produce any for sa
would vote today to make you ta'
5 cents or less if they had the chan
lor all the balance of the cotton y<
and the other farmers of Union cou
ty will ever produce, but that wou
not make it right would it? And 1
per cent of the people who make cc
ton would vote to never sell anoth
pound for less than 20 cents p
pound if it would do any good, wou
they not? Even if hundreds had
go naked as a consequence. So,
think you will have to admit th,
your premises are wrong, and th
the law of supply and demand hi
to regulate the ultimate price, unle
chaos and cataclysms of war or oth
disaster beyond human power
control steps in as it has this tim
and I think you will feel more kiiv
ly towards your servant who is I
boring to give you a market and
rri\rn vau 1 *
r,..~ ,Twk Kuuu ruaas to get to ar
from that market at half what
costs you now.
As to my venerable friend, Mr. V
II. Harris, I feel sure he must ha^
heen suffering from indigestion <
biliousness the day he wrote h
"cussing out" for me, for I know 1
is too well versed in the principh
t.f "equal rights to all and speci
privileges to none," to be serious
his objection to a measure that i
oppose, any man must not only abai
don, but become the champion <
"special privileges," and I was ele
ted by a people who claim to be den
ocrats and I am not yet prepared 1
N believe that they believe in taxini
? the many for the few, or taxing th
farmers and merchants of TJnioi
? county for the benefit of dealers
iy peddlers and venders of other coun
u?, ties and States, and yet that is wha
to it would seem on the surface, of th
to sundry and various dressings m;
ou hide got from my friends last week
er I feel sure that when Squire Harri
n- and mv good friends of Jonesvill
p- know that "dealer, peddler, vender
ve do not touch, and in their definition
lr. make a distinction, as from a pro
an ducer, they will see that there i
ut absolutely nothing either in tb
/I- spirit or wording of the bill, tha
ho would touch or hinder in any way
or any farmer or producer, who happen
a to live in Cherokee county, or an;
ns other county, and do his business a
Jonesville, from selling any of hi
se surplus produce, chickens, eggs, but
er ter, wood or anything else on eartl
its he raises, in any way he pleases, am
or without a cent of cost more than h
I has always paid and that he wil
he feel more like, at least one othe
its good citizen, not even a resident o
all this county has written me (he i
iw both a merchant and farmer) am
n- that is "that it is one of the bes
by pieces of legislation yet introduce!
I in our legislature," especially whei
ei you come to realize that it does no
ur interfere with any regularly organ
us ized commercial business, payinj
ut taxes in the State, but it does ge
lot the fakir, the man who slips in am
rk sells the ignorant white or your ne
on gro a lot of junk, and takes a mort
er gage on everything he has and a lo
er of times on things he has not got
j? and nobody knows a mortgage ha
ng been given until it is presented fo
n- payment, and then you have to pa;
op your negro out, or have him sol
de out, or his time taken up in going t
ny court, when you need him worst,
ng It does stop the privileged fe\
ret from selling all over the county fre
de of all cost, when every citizen am
at farmer and business man has to na
a- for that privilege. It does not sto
th, anybody from selling anything tha
les is legitimate and will bear the in
a spection of the law, but it does mak
ou it unprofitable for the fakir an
Ji- quack, it does not raise the price o
ey anything to anybody, but it does giv
he the home farmer and merchant some
ho thing like an equal showing with th
ial alien and stranger,
in- It is a measure to encourage far
?rs mers of Union county to diversify
be to give them a market, and to giv
;m them an equal showing in their owi
id. market, to make it possible fo
e? them to plant something besides cot
?st ton and be able to convert some o
ro- it into money. It is designed to giv
:ut the business interests of Union coun
ith ty an equal showing with outsider
nd and non-taxpayers,
ol- This is the bill that seems to hav
m- stirred up some of my friends. I
of the efforts to create home market
of is wrong, I am wrong; if the effort
las to give home producers some encour
:ut agement and a living chance is wron'
he I am wrong; if the effort to give tn
ias home merchant a living showing, an
ip- some measure of equality wit
rs, an outsider and non-taxpayer i
ice wrong, I am wrong; and as the cor
or ditions that are true at Jonesvill
ias would be equally true with Lockhai
he or any other border town in th
in- county, I will yet believe that m
>rs efforts to serve my people have bee
ics misunderstood hut not unappreciat^f
ire Very trulv. I. T- WAnwn\
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)n MORE AGAINST THE
ou BOND TSSU1
Mr. G. T. Gault of Kelton Agai
ed Argues Against Voting Bonds
'ill for Good Roads
ch ?
We are having some fine Marc
ny weather just now and the farmer
are making good use of it.
Mr. Editor, you have thrown ope
ve your columns for a free discussion o
dd the $200,000 good roads bond issu
nt to be voted on the 6th of April. Yo
at have shown a noble spirit in so doini
to which is just and fair, for it is a pub
ey lie question.
n- In last weeks' Times I gave a par
>ol of my views on the subject an
no thought I was done, but reading las
of weeks' Progress, I saw so much tha
it, was said that was misleading an
at deceiving about the $150,000 R. i<
re bonds voted on by the qualified elec
tors of Union 40 years ago, I coul
tn> not hold my peace, so please give m
ne space in the old Union Times to asl
he Progress a few questions, and com
nd mcnt on the same. Progress say
nd they got official figures showing tha
le, the Southern Railway was payinj
ke taxes to the amount of $11,030 pe
ce year and the amount of interest th
ou county paid on those bonds was onl
n- $6,270, hsowing that the county wa
Id I actuallv makin<r .*,1 onn ?
v .>r) r <4 y cai HU I1U
[)() it?but my figures have it savinj
it- $-1,7(50; $500 more than his, now
er do not give the official figures a sin
er gle doubt, but I want to ask Progers
Id or the author of this statement a fe'J
to questions. Was not this R. F
I through Union county built years be
at fore those bonds were voted on
at Was one foot of this road built i
as Union county or one cent of th
ss money spent in IJninn mimn-' XT~
vvuiibjr . nu
er but it was to build a road in Spar
to tanburg county and in North Caro
ie, lina, of which we do not receive i
d- cent of revenue. Now could then
a- ever be anything more misleadinj
to and deceiving than this statement'
id I will say that I voted for this bon<
it and I and all others who voted fo
it should have paid for them. I
v. would have been hard on me and ai
/e others that did, but experienc<
or teaches a dear school. Those whi
is advocated the bonds would have ui
ie believe that we would have meat
es flour, corn almost given to us if thi
al bond issue carried, but did it com*
in true? No, but Union htfs had th?
to pleasure of paying $.'160,000 of han
n- earned money, counting the interes
of on the bonds and for retiring them a
c- 6 per cent (which I think is too long
a- is what we got and some would havi
to | the mill people believe if we ge
i* those good road bonds they will get
e wood at almost nothing. My friends
n don't you let them pull the wool ovi-i
>, your eyes as they did mine 40 years
- ago, for I was paying big prices for
t flour with this outlet into the Northe
west and we had the road almost 40
y years. No, my laboring mill friends
if we get the bond issue for good j
s roads you will still pay high prices
e for wood, etc. Some people are
" mighty anxious to get the votes of
s the mill people if they will just vote
- as they want them to. But how was
s it last year and in 1912, when those
e very people wanted to vote for men
t of their choice to fill offices. One
thing I forgot, how much of this R.
s R. sinking fund was lost by the comy
missions by bad loans? The tax payt
ers will have to make it good. And
s too, if the good roads bond issue carries
what will the county have paid
h at the end of 40 years at 5 per cent
d for they will not be sold for less;
e lets figure a little, $400,000 and still
1 the bonds at the end of 40 years, not
r a jCent paid. So if there has been
f a ruled to our taxes enough in 40
s years to retire those bonds, just add
d $200,000 more and we will have the
t small sum of six hundred thousand
d dollars, and I have not counted the
n compound interest $10,000 or more
t for 30 years, which will aclu many
. more thousands to be counted, rough?
ly estimated at $85,000. We hove
t the sum total of $085,000 paid for
d road bonds alone. Let me say a few
_ words on some other bonds. The
. voters of Jonesville and I'inckney
t townships voted $20,000 eacn to build
t a road from Lockhart Junction to
s Lockhart Mills. They said if we ge;
r this road what a boom for Jonesville
y and Lockhart Junction. Now, let us
a look at it, a traveler cannot gee a
o square meal there, and we have the
road too. And if it had not been for
v John II. and Henry Howell of Kelton
e we would have been paying taxes
d on that road. One of my best friends
y got his feelings hurt, because I told
p him what I thought about the bonds
t and again did not the people of some
i_ of our township vote bonds on theniv
selves to help build three counties
railroads through the townships. It
f passed through, but the county went
e under and we saved our taxes. What
_ do all these taxes mean ? Readers,
e listen, Abraham Lincoln said: "I see
in the near future a crisis approach_
ing that unnerves me and causes me
r> to tremble for the safetv of mv
e country as a result of the war. Corn
porations have been enthroned and
r an era of corruption in high places
. will follow and the money powers
f of the country will endeavor to proe
long its reign by working upon the
. prejudices of the people until the
s wealth is concentrated in the hands
of a few and this republic is det
stroyed. I feel at this moment more
f anxiety for the safety of my country
s than ever before, even in the midst
s of the war." Dear readers, don't
this read more like history than
kVp.ophesy? Look from 65 to 76 in the
d'l'n'Xth? look at corporations today!
d^fliey^t.'n all the mining fields and
h all the railroads, water powers and
is everything else except our land ano
personal property, and now to think
e that our own men in the South
t would try to get us to mortgage
e them away by voting taxes to bo
j paid in HO or 40 years. Stop and
n think or reason before you vote a
1 tax on yours and your neighbors
; children and grandchildren. For
God said "people will not reason." ,
G. T. Gault.
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Stop using dangerous drug before it
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li
s You're bilious, sluggish, constipated
and believe you need vile, dangerous
n calomel to start your liver and clean
f your bowels.
e Here's my guarantee! Ask your
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son's Liver Tone and take a spoonful
i- tonight. If it doesn't start your
liver and straighten you right up
t better than calomel and without gripd
ing or making you sick I want you to
t go back and get your money.
,t Take calomel today and tomorrow
d you will feel weak and sick and naui.
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TaVo o OnnAnfnl 1 <
? opuumui ui narrniess, vege-j
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e and wake up feeling great. It's
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s so let them eat anything afterwards. \
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The Ford is lighter than any other car of its
size and power. Light weight means economy.
Economy in gasoline consumption. Economy in 1
tire expense. Economy in repair bills?less I
than two cents a mile for operation and upkeep. I
Yet with all its light weight the Ford is the strongest If
sturdiest car that is built. It is the longest lasting car. 1]
Vanadium steel is responsible for that. "Anti-fatigue" :
steel, scientists call it?the strongest, toughest steel put ||
into automobile construction. H
Buyers will share in profits if we sell at retail .'300,000 lltj x
new Ford cars between August 1914 and August 1915. ||j|
Runabout $440; Touring Car $400; Town Car $090; |j||
Coupelet $750; Sedan $975, f. o. b. Detroit with all ||||
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for his customers, he can't blame me for dealing
elsewhere. Operator, give me 437."
How do you know this very occurrence doesn't
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