The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-08-05

The State bonds do not bear seven per
cent, Il, n.c vi the gentlemen wbo sliote
before me said-they all bear six per
cent. | believe it is just as easy to re-
fund that debt at four cent as it is To
refund it at six, if we begin in IL" If
YOU wait until the State is bound for the
money, you will have to refund Mt six
Der cent, because those bondho!ders will
not release her for less than they are
getting now. If you pass that law you
can refund at t per cent. The U. 5.
Government has refunded at 81 per cent.
South Carolina has rs safe and good in
yestments rs the bonds Of the U. S.
Government. If We were to refund at
4 per cent, don't you see that, so faSS as
the present generation is concerned, 1T
would be equivalent to paying one'thlrd
of the State debt, because it takes two
thirds as much money to pay the inter-
eat of our debt at four cent as it takes to
pay the interest at six per cent, and con-
sequently the relief which would come
to the people would be as great as the
amount of one third, so far as the pres.
ent generation is concerned. This is one
of the ways in which the burdens of the
government may be lifted from the
shoulders OF our people. Another way
is by the development of the material
resources of the State-that is, this
property lying waste all over the State
should come into production, and instead
of being dead capital resting upon the
hands Of our people, it should be made a
living force, working and helping to bear
the expenses of our government.
My friends, a few years ago that mag
nifcent property OH which the Piedmont
Factory does business that pays s124,-
900 year to the hands which it employs,
paid to South Carolina in taxes about
ten dollars year. l have the figures
from the president of the factory himself.
That property has by law been exempted
from taxation and will be for two years
to come. That property is now paying
$500 in taxes to the school fund OF
Greenville County, and pays S124,000 a
year to its operatives. And Piedmont
and Pelzer pay to the farmers of the sur
rounding country more for cotton than
men in New York can afford to pay, and
pay the freight to New York. This is
the sort of thing that has got to build up
South Carolina. You can't profit by the
all cotton plan Of agriculture. You can't
profit by having everybody farmers.
Suppose you had nobody hut farmers
where would your produce 20 10. You
have got as much as you want. You
want some one to buy and not some one
who don't want it. You want merchants
who will buy your produce, and who will
get from abroad those things which you
want and can't make here, and sell chem
to you. Yes, my friends, you want these
other industries to come-those industries
which make men productive, women pro-
ductive and children productive in the
battle of life, and not expenses to the
labor of the country. You want these
factories. these diversified industries to
come in here. You must build up these
material resources of the State, and you
should bring in new people to help you
to bear the expenses of the government,
and the way in which you may make
them relieve you is this, you have got to
bring in ahealtby, thrifty and industrious
class of immigrants to this country to
work the land which is lying here idle
and unproductive. Those lands are to
you so much money locked up which
should be at work, and when you bring
this class in here you increase the num-
ber of people who have to bear the bur.
dens of the government. If you have
1000 men who have got to raise 81 600,
each will have to pay one dollar; if you
bring in another. thousand men and thus
double the population you would only
have to raise fifty cents. The idea that
want to give to you in this line is that
thrifty, industrious immigrants will de-
crease the burden which each man will
have to bear in maintsining the govern.
ment. The dollar that comes in there
the fifty cents and the 25 cents here viii
20 to relieve the burdens of the people
| don't mean by this that you have tt
overlook little things.
I am willing to show by my record in
the Legi.lature-and ! have brought il
here for that purpose, but have got into
this other line and have taken up all the
time by it-but I am willing to submit
my record to show that have never
voted for the expenditure of the State
money, but that I can give you reason
why doing so would favor the people Of
South Carolina. Therefore, incurred
frequently the bitter hostility of infuen.
tial men in South Carolina who were
interested in bills getting appropriations
from the State government. At another
time I may 60 into that.
We have been asked our opinion o.
free tuition in the South Carolina Uni
versity. I am in favor of giving free
tuition to every young man in South
Carolina who is too poor to pay for bis
tuition. am not willing that the rich
man in this State shall enjoy any better
advantages for the education and for the
future prominence and usefulness of his
sou than the poorest man in this State
enjoys; but at the same time / want to
say here, distinctly, that am directly
opposed to the idea of running Al educa.
| tional university in State, and allowing
men to send their sons to it free, when
they are able to pay tuition. think
they should be made to pay, and when il
is paid that it should be paid into the
State treasury to help bear the expense
of running the University. When We
were passing upon the Statutes of the
State on this question, l put an amend.
ment which provided that there should
be two benefciaries to each county in
the institution. They have one, / be-
lieve, who, in compensation for the free
tuition he has received, it is required
that he shall teach two years in tie pub
lie schools of the county from which he
came. My idea is that the State should
give every young man an education who
Shall give part OF what he has to those
who are beginning to start in the search
for education, while 1 say that I am in
favor of free tuition, to that extent it is
not free. I am in favor of giving one
his tuition, provided he comes back to
his county, and there teaches in the pub
lie schools two years but let those pay
that can, and help to relieve the burden
of the State.
I am asked another question here.
That is with reference to Prohibition. l
am not going to dodge where l stand on
on this, or any other question. | would
not have vote in any part of Anderson
County that had to secure by conceal