The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-02-26
LAURENS, s. c., Feb. 90, 1909.
Our SOlOns.

LA MEMS, De C', ceUs 40 tUUSs
Our SOlOns.
The General Assembly adjourned
finally on Saturday morning last after
sitting forty days which is the limited
number for which they can be paid.
We have watched their proceedings
with interest and are impressed that
they have lone the State good and
faithful service.
The jury law and the law as to coun-
ty offices was in q terrible tumble on
their assembling, but these matters,
we believe, are satisfactorily untan-
gled.
Trusts and child labor were leading
questions before them but both have
been satisfactorily adjusted without rad
ical action. Many matters, more or less
consequential, must wait future deter
mination.
The body has not been extravagant
but has shown itself liberal. The big
appropriation for Confederate pensions
gives greater reason for q watchful adj
ministration Of the pension law.
There was a slight disposition to
create new offices and little disposi.
ton to cut off useless ones. 1t Is USE
less now for us to enumerate. What Is
done is done. what is undone is undone.
The people of Laurens are not q mar
row set and will take a liberal view of
votes cast by our immediate represen-
tatives. THE ADVERTISER specially
takes occasion and takes pleasure in
stating that they have usually been In
their seats at the right time and have
been watchful of the interests Of their
constituents.
At 5 o'clock Saturday evening last
the General Assembly became history.
AS affecting Laurens she gets an ex-
ira term of court, presumably in May
of each year.
Time for paying taxes extended to
31st of March.
Amendments to the pension law do
not go into effect this year.
Salaries and fees Of Laurens officials
do O materially differ from announce.
ments hitherto made.
The Assembly sat forty days and
pocketed the last farthing allowed by
the law. We are inclined to think
that they earned their per diem.
#*x
Do In Rome as Rome Does.
Representative Wheeler, Of Ken
lucky, has made a great speechin Con-
gress which is attracting attention. 1t
seems the speech attacks the toadyism
OF the present Washing ton administra-
ton in many things and especially for
preparation to give Prince Henry, the
representative of Emperor William, a
decent reception. We do not know
from what part Of the country of the
land OF Boone Representative Wheeler
halls, but very likely from the land Of
Blue Grass, the aristocratic racer and
the proud shOrthorn. Association with
these would entail the right to speak
In Congress in ~contemptuous terms of
even older rulers and older blood than
such comparative newcomes as the
Hohenzollerns. Still it is a good rule
to do in Rome as Rome does. We have
no right to a place in the world except
as a people and n nation we do as other
people do and conform to good man.
ners.
If we had proposed to be entirely
Democratic we should have adhered to
a big log cabin on the banks of the
Potomac for our capitol with Indian
scalps, coon skins, buck horns and
other emblems of native proves hung
around the walls but we are constrain-
ed by the conditions of civilization to
associate with France, Belgium, En-
gland, China, Japan and Russia. the
land of the COssack, and 1t becomes us
therefore to be at least decent. So
when the Emperor's brother is sent
here to represent him upon a social oc-
caston, even the Republicans ought not
to be supposed such barbarians as to
fail in the ordinary duties Of hospital
ity. Jefferson, the richest boy in
America passed g great deal of time in
France and there became inculcated
with most of his democratic ideas, yet
at Monticello, In addition to his two or
three hundred slaves, kept two Italian
vine dressers that he might have choice
grapes for his foreign visitors land by
the way Jefferson's home was the
Mecca of all foreigners who visited
this country in its early days.) We
are not to go back and live on ash cake
and roasted potatoes, as Marion is re-
puted to have done, simply because we
are democratic and believe that repub-
licans are not to be trusted with this
government, as disingenous, wasteful
and tyraunical where they have the
power and are not afraid.
~
There was a deep feeling of interest
in little Teddy Roosevelt, when his
parents were called to his bedside re- |
Gently in Massachusetts. Notwi5h-
standing the Washington dining Incl
dent, there was clearly as much CON
throughout the South as In any |
other part of the country. There
seems to be several sides to R%oosevelt's