Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-01-28

QlcatlOD, anu We are sure Guo1 niS
readers would have enjoyed our effort
as much as they did his. Some of
them, especially those who now rea-
lize how badly they have been taken
in might have enjoyed it even more.
We do not remember to have said
anything about county advertising.
We do not remember to have even
suggested such a thing, and, really,
we do not see how there can be any
"lie, pure and simple" along that line.
What our esteemed friend has to say
on the subject reminds US of mistake
we made last week. "Unfortunately
we failed to wound conscience" was
one of our expressions. The raising
of this county advertising question,
where no reference TO it was made.
seems to indicate that an arrow has
hit the mark. But since the matter
is up, let US discuss it.
ave do the county advertising for
one.half the rate prescribed by law"
says our philanthropic contemporary.
Is not one-half the rate allowed by law
for the county advertising more than
you charge individuals for the same
class of work ? Do you charge for
individual advertising one-fourth as
much as the law allows you to charge
for county advertising2 But "county
Advertising" brother, except when
there are long official reports to print,
is mighty small proportion of the
official advertising. You are getting
off splendid bluff on that. But what
about other official advertising-clerk g
sales and the like? Do you do that
for one-half, too? If you want it, we
can give you evidence that you do
not-at least for people over in this
section-and if not, why not? One
fourth the rate prescribed Ivy law
would be more than ample for a paper
of the character of The Ledger. We
are not talking irony, now; but a
plain business proposition. And here,
in reply to your suggestion, we will
tell you rightlnow that if your paper
was in Yorkville, and the politicians,
through fear of your tongue, would
try to put you on an equality with
THE ENQUIRER, unless you could
compare with this paper in character
and circulation, we would refuse to
submit. We would rather do the work
free of charge than to have the taxes
we help to pay used toward giving
you support to which you would not
be entitled. And you want to know
why this rule does not apply to other
official advertisements? Well, the
placing of them does not depend upon
politics. Except where it is the last
hope of collecting desperate account,
lawyers and others, in the interest OF
their clients, place the advertisements
where they are calculated to accom-
plish the best results, and where this
is the rule, The ENQUIRER does not
have to cut prices against anybody.
See?
But say, friend, really it was not the
advertising question that we bad in
mind when we classed you with the
hoodwinkers. Were you and The
Ledger not parties to that prom
Use whereby the people were told
that if they would vote for the new
county the people of Gaffney would,
at their own expense, erect a court
house and Jail? Was there not drawn
up a $4,000 bond, or bond in simi-
lar amount, and was not this bond
Aaunted into the faces of the people
until they actually believed that the
court house and Jail would be forth
coming? After the new county was
erected, was there not trade with
the county commissioners whereby an
old opera house that proved failure
was palmed off as a court house ?
Did this increase the wealth of the
county a cent? Did not the peo-
pie of the county have a right to
believe that the people of Gaffney
would increase their wealth to at
least the amount of that bond ?
That the county board Of commission
ers were "agents" of the people in
this matter is true, as legal PROPOSE
ton. But now, let US get right down
to actual facts. Did the people who
made that bond and induced the voters
to vote for the new county, keep faith
with those voters? Then why did
you not expose the whole business ?
Why did not The Ledger act as the
mouthpiece of the people and insist
that the makers of that bond stand by
their contract
"a LEGISLATIVE RECORD"
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