The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-08-17
Education and Taxation.
Editor The TINES:

EQllOr 1GE LINES.
The election is now near at hand
and the time for the voters of Claren-
don county to decide who is to Rep-
resent them in the next Legislature.
AS candidate for the honor OF rep
resenting the people in that august
assemblage, l will briefly give the
people my views through the columns
of your widely circulated paper on
two points most essential as think
to the people. My points are-one is
Education and the other is Taxation
l believe all Of our institutions OF
learning ought to be sustained ana
as liberal appropriations made as
can be Justly made to promote and
advance the cause education and es-
pecially help to the Free Common
schools of South Carolina l am op-
posed to no means Of education IN
South Carolina. I am in favor OF
every means. The Colleges and all
the higher institutions of learning
will take care of themselves, and the
representative Of the people must
guard and take care of the Free
Common schools Of the State and
with the free schools justly and lib
orally supported by the State; with
a proper interest taken in the efforts
of the State by parents to have their
children to attend the schools, ana
close application of the children to
their studies while in attendance,
will we believe insure a good educa-
ton to every child in the State. This
arrangement all round between State
parents and children will insure we
believe a good education to every
child in the State. The late Edward
Everett, man of unquestioned
craftsmanship and ability and a
member of Congress from Massachu-
setrs, condensed in a single brief par
agraph what constitutes good edu-
cation.
Here it is: ITO read the English
language we'll, to write with despatch
neat, legible hand, and be master
of the first four rules of arithmetic,
so as to dispose at once of every
question of figures which comes up
in practice" With the efforts of
both the State and the people the
ends of education to the above quot
ed extent we believe can be attained.
Let us all remember that along this
line that the efforts of the State and
the people separately will not do, but
the cooperation of both State and
people will be needed to reach the
desired results, and the impression
lastingly made, that good educa-
ton is elevating and refining and is
the foundation of happiness. This
much is my view briefly stated IN
reference to education for the pres
ent.
The next matter is taxation. I be-
lieve taxes are unnecessarily higher
than they ought to be. Governor
Ellerbe, if I am not mistaken in my
recollection, did on some occasion
say that it is impossible to reduce
taxation. This expression l must ad-
nit sounds a little strange to me, but
I will not take issue
with the Governor at this point, for
presume he must know whereof he
speaks. The power that makes it
to reduce taxation ought
to be equally as sprightly and make
it as impossible to increase taxation.
We all know that taxation is essen
tial to the upholding of a govern
ment it is true, but at the same time |
we would like to impress one indls-
putable fact upon the minds OF all
lawmakers, and that fact is that
paying heavy taxes is grievous and
burdensome to taxpayers and is not |
so pleasant to them as it is to those
who are reapinG prodigate harvest
as the fruits of higher taxation in
South Carolina will produce and that
at the expense of the taxpayers. Let
legislators as soon as possible inaugu-
rate system of governmental econ
omy in South Caroina, and by all
means in their power at least reduce
our burdensome taxes.
am in favor of better and more
beneficial assistance for education
and more especially for the free
schools of the State and for lower
taxation. If I am elected to repre-
sent the people of Clarendon in the
next Legislature for these results l
will contend, let the consequences be
what they may. Should the people
of Clarendon county confde in me
sufficient to honor me with seat IN
the next Legislature I will promise
that their confidence shall not be
nor neither shall they have
cause to regret so doing. I will with
out fear or favor endeavor to do my
duty as I may understand it, and if
I come short of my duty then my
constituents can safely attribute my
shortcomings to an error Of the head |
and not the heart.
GEO. r. JONES.
Davis, S. c., Aug. II, 1898.