The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-02-20

For the TsNns
Tia Rains Gets sll the Blame Cor Daa Ieofr
CRoss KErs, FEB. 17.--Nr. Eiitor .-FS
your last issue noticed that several Of yoor
correspondents seem to take great de-
light in sta'ipg the conditio~ 90 sS- ---s- -.
tSe mud, siush. Allow me to mako q fsw
remarks about This portion Of tho c,unty.
We are oil quiet out here but the idea&ece ms
very strange indeed. t, me. that tho ner<
respondents should lay all the blame of lad
roads on the County Commissioners OF the
past, and never for one m oment think, or
ssy, or speak ofthe longest spell of rainy
weather that any Of the present geuersiSs-z
foaas ia tiei,r. SS6d;tien.
Twas Ia your town not long since. aud =
while there heard man remark tkat The
farmers were derelict in their duty, or they
would not have euch roads. That they have
been taking too much stock in politics and
neglecting their own business; snd now they
would pay for il, IL they would count the
cost Of several thousand dollars in hauiinr
their fertilizers from tho depot. To my mind
that remark has very little reason or go,d s
sense in it but it proves very conc!us,ve!y
that we have some men who are wise theore' l.
eaiy, but practically they are below the
average.
think the present road law one Of the
most unjust laws that ever was imposed up
on free people. l know of number OF
men with large fami les, who, if they were
forced to work the road the full twelve days,
or one fourth Of that time, would cause their
families to suffer. Just imsgiue q poor
honest man, working for day wages, or un-
der lien, going on the highway with buckles
on his arr, the contents costing him not
than thirty cents, his poor little children at
home in need, it may be. Of the 2ssesssriea
a - H. III. L
he may ever have TO ride over it will be
when he is in his coffin. II is unjust ',is
not right, for those poor honest men who are
trying 10 make bread for heir little ones, to
give so much of the time God has given
them in which to battle for living TO the
public, for the sole benefit OF those more
favored by fortune, and who have horses
wagons, buggies, and carriages TO travel th
roads.
1t seems to me that it would be far
better to work the roads by tnxation.
don't mean that that would make the roads
good in bad weather. We will never lee
the time when the roads are rained dry
| can imagine man sitting at a desk or
in his office theorizing and supposiug aud
even planning how such q nice job could be-
done if the County Commissioners would or
could be induced TO do their duty. But for
tunately for us, our Coun'y Commissioners
are all farmers and are good common sense
men, end know that we poor uncipilizef
c'odhoppers like themselves, cannot affor1
to spend so much time Tho r..h,ic high
way.
The very men who arc kicking and grum-
bling at the bad st,te OF the roads had be-
ter make some suggestions 10 ''the one who
rules the heavens aud the earth," aud nQeaa-.
s'nuate that we poor farmers are ~tfn-
civi lied, because God in Ills wisdom sea
proper TO let the rain fall.
l said in the outset that we were quiet
over here. l will say that everything has
stopped, except expenses.
We have in our midst one of the best
schools in upror South Carolina, tansht by
Prof. W, F. Blasingamc, Of Grcenville, S. c.,
aud Miss Mez Edwards, of our own County,
We have on the roll ssventy-fvc (75) scho,ars,
and would invite all interested in edu cation
to send their boys and girls here. Roarl is
cheap, tuition reasonable, aud it is one Of
The hcaithict places in the Piedmont Sec
ton. Very truly,
THOMAS II. GoRE>