The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-04-16
LAURENs. S. G.. April 1e. 1895.
The Income Tax.

ulsSgPOiutlnBj ana IL IL not. In9r6
rs bad philosophy In cherishing great
expectations; 1t is sound philosophy tc
be prepared for the worst, and ready
to accept what comes with an easy
grace. 1t has been called the mil ad.
mirari" school and while not consolinp
In theory, it works o all right in
practice. While an income tax has not
satisfied THE ADVERTISER, as founded
on good democratic doctrine, good
sound democracy has grown SO much
out OF fashion, we were prepared to
accept the Income Tax law, as an eff
fort at equity and justice in the teeth
OF principle. But the supreme court
has haggled it in a way that the very
gist and virtue of the law are butcher
ed. The rich b%ondholders and great
landlords escape through the meshes
and the important enterprises and in
dustries are held fast and must pay the
piper.
1t is disappointing in this that the
law aimed at equity and justice. 1t is
not disappointing in this; the verdict
OF q petit jury is proverbially uncer-
tain; it is getting now that the verdict
OF q supreme court is o sort of lottery
business and nothing but Divine wis
dom a anticipate its judgment. When
the Court comes, however, to pass upon
h enactments Of q mongrel ring
Observation-Disclosures Congress, such as
That. which on the 4th March last
passed into history, no man in his
senses, will quarrel with its delphic
DEGREES. So, THE ADVERTISER, and its
many readers, will not be disappointed;
intend to keep cool; wait with pa
thence; scratch along as best we may
A~andAAps for a good time coming.
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One Hallowell, Of Boston, with an
invalid family, was spending the win
ter at Camden in this State, Camden
Is a health resort for our invalid
friends, of the North seeking a milder
climate in mid-winter. Hallowell took
q commendable interest in the colored
people, to which there could be no OBJ
lection, but he was q fool at the same
time 1t Is said discussed with
them the matter of social equality with
the whites, their wages and other rela-
tions to their white neighbors. Where
upon a great fool, an elaphantine fool,
q prehistoric mastadon phoole, wrote
him an anonymous letter warning him
OF thirty-nine stripes on his bare back.
Whereupon Hallowell, takes fright and
leaves with bag and baggage and fees
into Boston, writing a great letter to a
northern newspaper, of the barbarous
y South, and warning capitalists of the
danger of investing in our State. 1t
1s simply a case of more than one fool
and with the addition of the Yankee
being an arrant knave to boot.
There was q time in the recent past
when the South could not in safety tc
her homes afford to be tolerant of en-.
tire liberty of speech. but the danger
point has been passed and any man car
say his say unless his language is in
cendiary. 1t is in order for Camden to
locate her own fool and warn him.
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General Hemphill, of the Abbeville
Medium, who is as full of the milk Of
human kindness as an egg of meat
y concerns himself to explain the signi
ficance of Senator Tillman's Tillman.
Barnwell-Cal Hemphill symposium =
The Senator and Ex-Governor is a mas
ter Of linguistic fence and brother
Hemphill and lesser satellites are en-
gagged in a work of sup~ererogation. II
0,rnhf fn ha 1aft m fha LfI~oGo1l okoko.
man to explain tweedledom and twee
dledee. 1t Is not the office of barnacle.
to talk; they should be left to feed ant
iatten On the big, fat,>able bodied cor
pus. Leave to the Senator to explain
himself. His right hand will lose it,
cunning before his tongue loses it.
apt utterance and light from the Yves
and home inspiration will supply hi
. ordinary vocabulary with aristocrat
plutocrat, and like %euphonistic terms
Autocrat Is the last term the common
place ~demogogae learns the signifi
pret what he is up to and "where he i,
at"
a reverend Mr.. Lansing, speaking
upon temperance, in an eastern State
declares President Cleveland o drunk
ard. AS the man was supposed, from
his calling, to have character, Mr.
Cleaveland promptly gave the lie tt
the utterance. Whereupon Mr.. Ian
sing apologies and says that he spoke
from hearsay. The essence of q lie lie'
in speaking that which you do notyour
self know. Lansing may escape repro
shstiQn upon the proposition 81 sait
haste that all men are liars
md you might have said it a
fsure."
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Weather Crop Bulletin No. 8, of tn
South Carolina Weather Service, Apri
9th, j. w. Bauer, Director, has reached
us. 1t shows that the crops, cotton ant
corn, In the eastern and southern part
of the State are progressing finely
while planting Is fairly under way In
the northern and western parts. Dat
sown In the Spring are promising
while Fall sown oats were largely killed
by the cold. A great cron of notatoes