Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-23
ABOUT THE EXPOSITION.
What the Comptroller General Says Abca, sAs
Matter Col. Thompson Talks.

Matter--col. Thompson Talks. y
Columbia, January To-. There are
two vital questions in connection
with the pending appropriation Tor
the Charleston Exposition: First,
will it increase the tax levy, and,
second, is the amount asked for,
really neoessaryp The directors of
the Exposition are all business men,
and are only asking for what they
deem absolutely necessary, and what
they wish the State to expend in
erecting a handsome building and
taking care of the States part in
the Exposition. 1t is not request
for more than is deemed necessary.
As to the tax question Comptroller
General Derham was asked by this
correspondent what he thought of
the Exposition and the effect of such
an appropriation upon the tax levy,
if any, and he said:
81 think that the Charleston
Exposition would be a good thing
for the entire State. There is no
other way in which the resources and
advantages of this State can be as
well and cheaply advertised as by
an Exposition held here, or in fact
by appropriating money to make
proper exhibit at any Exposition.
"South Carolina can afford to
erect a building at Charleston and
expend $4,000 on the erection of
this building and the securing of
proper exhibits. To do this State
levy of five mills, which we have had
for the past three years, need not
be increased.
"While other States are spending
money to inform people of other
States and countries of their
resources, and in this way secure
desirable immigrants, South Carolina
must employ the same means to
make known her great resources and
advantages of soil and climate, or
places less favored by nature will
secure the immigrants necessary to
build up their waste places and
South Carolina will not make the
progress that she should in the next
decade.
"The Exposition means that
thousands will visit Charleston and
travel over the railroads of South
Carolina who otherwise might never
see this State. If at that Exposi-
ton we have fine State building
filled with the exhibits that we can
furnish, composed of almost every-
thing that can be produced from
Maine to Mexico, those visitors will
gain some idea of the possibilities of
South Cardinals soil and climate"
COL. r. A. THOMPSON
is what might be called a re-
markable man. Although he has
passed the three-soore and ten wears
allotted to man, he is as active and
wlde-awake as any of the members.
For more than sixty years he has
been connected with the newspapers
or the up-country and when the
Secession Convention was held he
was a member of the distinguished
body. Last summer the people of
oconee county wanted him to be
one OF the members from that county.
he did not like to go into scram-
BILE, but the people told him if he
would run they would do the rest
They did 30. Mr.. Thompson has
kept pretty close to public affairs for
more than sixty years, and he says
that he is going to support the
appropriation for the Exposition
with heartiness, and feels that his
people will approve of his course,
because he is satisfied it is for the
common good of the State.-August
kohn, lii News and Courier.