Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-01-08
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ACTION a AClY0N AG1IoN.p ~:
AT the late meeting of the New Eng
land Society III Clarlesto Col. Lathets
delivered q telling speech, from which
We make tho most prominent extracts.
Tie he speech is the suggestion of Common
sense, common justice, to ourselves our
children and to decency, and of common
benefit to everyone, (even to the base
men who would repent at least, while they
would be makingsan honest support at
days work in the penitentiary.) 1t is Of
no use to mincf matters longer with those
iYheo' after rroobhbing rs, viii give Us the
tpiIsahlts walk, Walk where; outupon .Le
drcary waste sofpovcrty, and cowardly
shame. Governor Moses like his predel
eessor Scott is full Of the peoples money,
aye; blood money" wrested from the
confsdeFsate tS soldiers widow and orphan
iHe, and his crew crew tax (robbery as finished
Eas killl's orf Laiitc's.) Governor Moses
feels saf;,behind his breastwork of suffiTa.
gkts, and smiles complacently as Tweed
did, ut Tie courts, and at his accusers,
But people Of. South Carolina, the game
must stop; or you will be; and will deserve
to be,withoutia State, and without right
10 claim one. Arise in your stength, by
grange, by association, by mass meetings,
pledge a monied support to able lawyers
to sift the doings of the creatures at Co
,lumbia, and. lodge. them clean shavcn,
and shorn, with latitudinal stripes EN
COSTUME i'll the walls of;the pcntentiary
which is their just reward. Think of it;
1881 ,94s for public printing to enlighten
the mcnagerie (called legislaturc) all Of
which goes to afew ring" leaders, against
$4,000 appropriated for the same purpose
before the war. Col. Lathers says rightly;
the plunderers can be caught, and how
derelict we are. to selves and ,urposterity,
if we suffer them to escape. The Col says
1t has been well said that "Taxes and
death arc the common heritage Of all
men," ] propose, therefore, to lay before
you few Of your burdens, which these
frauds have put upon you,bya comparison
between. an honest discharge of public
duties in the State under former period
and the dishonest administration of the
present period,
The taxable property of the
State before the war. $500 ,0O0, 900
The taxable property of the 49,
State OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 170, 100000
The highest tax ever levied
before the war did not
average NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 100000
The tax now levicd.......... 2,72O,O0O
Legislative expenses before
the 10000
Legislative expcnccs this
Observation-Disclosures. 91,3s9
Public printing before the
war (under) -................ 5000
Public printing this year.. 331,945
So you perceive that while the capital
of the State reached, at a very low valua-
tion, nearly s500,000,00O; the taxes on
the same did net reach s5OOO00; while
the present exaggerated valuation of the
taxable property is only about oneetilird
of the former amount, the taxes on the
samc arc nearly fvo-fold; and the printing
bills Of The Legislature, for learucd and
intelligent body of men, falling under
$4,000 per annum before the war, are
increased now to 1891, ,945, leaving yet
unpaid, I Understand, s11S,055 more for
this item for body, many of whom can
not reod The printing which they tax Our
labor 50 heavily to pay-so that the two
printing bills alone Of the present State
Government actually exceed the average
yearly taxation of the State before the
war in any period oft years. I know