The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-02-23
LAURENS, S. c., Feb. %, 1897.
OUR SOLONS.

tions. This will be readily appre-
ciated; the poor old State has to live
and she lives by nutriment-the taxes.
She has many mouths, the public
schools, the leaf and blind, the great
hospital for the unfortunate insane,
that cover acres upon acres, and Is
filed with unfortupates, the Gov
ernor and Judges, and Solicit
itors, who look after the rascals,
the hundred and seventy Legis-
lators with $500 per day and mileage,
the colleges for boys and girls, the
Professors, and q hundred incidents,
all, all have to be paid and kept firmly
on their pegs without lettering. This
1t is to be civilized and keep up with
what they call the procession.
But to details. The cigarette bill
has been killed. Many of our poor
farmers owe in the eastern part Of
the State are raising tobacco, and
their interest should not be leg~islated
against. Besides, we must give up
sumptuary laws or give up calling our
selves Democrats. That term demo-
crat-we tear, Is made to cover q null
titude OF sins. There will be no Dis
pensary legislation at this session.
Things, in this regard, will remain
statu q%uO--good enough. The dispen-
sary and the interstate ar
ticle will remain in competition. Gov
ernor Ellerbe sent q message calling
attention to ar act which requires pub
lie scales to be kept in the Clerks Of
flee, which has been d~isregarded =
This shows that the Governor under
stands what he is there for and prom
ises we'll for the farmer Governor. A
great fight was made upon the State
Colleges, especially upon the South
Carolina College. This was the most
absurd Of all the fghts-it is purely a
est taxpayers have ar ownership-it is
the peoples institution, If we have
any,. 1t is College, supported out and
out by the peoples money. The strug-
gle turned upon poor boy or girl get
ting free tuition-a matter Of $4,000
per annum. Give the poor boy a
chance for a higher education, and do
not fasten him down to the pickings of
an old field school. There is always a
small coterie to fight the State Col
lege md largely on denominational
grounds. 1t ought to be remembered
: and mover be forgotten, that this Col
lege graduated McDufie and Preston,
O'Neal and Wardlaw and Pinckney.
1t ought not to be forgotten that White
ford Smith, the great Methodist ora
tor and preacher, Thornwcll and
Palmer of the Presbyterian church,
and that noble gentleman and chris.
tian, James Carlisle, of Wofford, came
from this College OF the people. The
Citadel got $4,000, Winthrop, the
Girls College $4,000, and the South
Carolina College, $2l 900. Clemson
gets the privilege tax and the govern
ment appropriations and the farmer
boys are all right. We note with
pride that the Laurens delegation
stood up like men for broad liberal
principles, maintaining the character
of the county for n hundred years.
Attorneys costs have been agreed to
be restored and the Bill will likely
pass. This will do away with the
present practice of putting into a note
the clause to pay 10 per cent. addi-
; tional II it is collected by suit--a great
hardship on the borrower and amount
ing to ten or fifty times the old costs bill
The State tax will be 5 mills and q 3
mills school tax. Our county TAX will be
2f and the railroad tax 81 additional.
So, our levy is about as usual. The Bill
to repeal the anti-free pass bill which
had squeezed through the House got
Its quietus in the Senate. Wallace, of
Laurens voted squareiy against the
bribery dodge. In the debate some
one said a Judge had bought a 1000
mile ticket for a dime--but the name
OF the Justice did not transpire. Ills
name should go into the almanac.)
1t is law o to authorize the Sheriff
to purchase and keep blood hounds
(Now listen for McCravy's horn, If you
please.) A stringent act has been rati-
fled against carrying concealed wea-
pons. From this time forward the
warlike inclined will have to carry a
winchester or breach loader in the
open.
The salary Of the Supervisor of Tau
rens has becn fixed at 5000. The Board
OF county commissioners OF this county
are authorized to employ q clerk at a
maximum salary OF 800
On Thursday the entire shebang
from the Governor down, of all the de-
partments, the Senate, the Representa-
tives, the officials, the pages, their
wives, their children, their "uncles,
their cousins and their a%unts," and
the entire population OF Columbia, the
suburbs and all the country rounda-
bout, took advantage of the free ride
to old Charleston and when there went
down TO the sea in ships to see the
mighty fleet of Uncle Sam just outside
the bar, They had a glorious greeting
from the good citizens of the old town,
and on board had q monster free lunch,
with claret punch, rum, X X x, and a
nameless catalogue of lovely liquids
answering not to the description OF
Harris Lithia MOI any other Lithia.
While the rood eng rode tho