The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-03-06
Roads And Something About The S0lu.
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/ have been reading the newI
given by your correspondents aIic
the most I see is that some ofthen
are telling of the visits that are be
ing made. There is not. 60 muci
visiting around here and / don'l
think it necessary to tell anything
about such anyway. / can t .set
that it would be of much interss,
to the reading public, sbut it filt
up space. But now re1nembe,
somebody is talking about candi'
dates and there must be room 'tt
tell US who they are what they
want and that is all we want you
to say about them; don't tako up
two or three columns to tell what
the many friends have to say about
them, we can Judge them when wo
see them. ''"'"'
want to tell your readers that
right now is the Tins to spray
your fruit trees to destroy what ls
called the San jose scale, for IT Is
destroying all your fruit. Don't
neglect this and allow tho insects
to ruin your trees and never have
full developed apple. Mr.. Il. Il.
Perry bas been spraying his trees
about six years; good man tod
me he sold last year about TWO
hundred dollars worth OF peaches
That beats cotton. The subiect::oi
spraying is no lengor matter OF
choice, it is a necessity. and must
he done or you will havo no fruit
that is fit for use, | want to tell
yOu too that thore has been a gang
Of convicts at work in tho county
about six years and that they have
lust reached Pumpkintown. l
learn somebody is petitionlng to
the commissioners to take them
lowor down, but we are asking
them to fix that big mud-hole, if
hey don't fix it We will get Mr.,
Jones' to do as before, call on the
'oys.to bring on their wagons and
tx them up, but then remember
90 it is going to take q heap of +
money to pay the EXPENSES Of |
he convicts, six mules and about
enty-five men to feed and two |
o guard to pay, then pay for tho
onvicts. Our boys say they have
lelpod to pay these expenses. for
tx years now, if you don't want
hem to help us any they are will
ng for you take them aud work all
your roads with them and We will
work ours as before but remember
100 that we don't want to help
pay the expenses any longer. and
think it would be right to pay us
back what wo have paid. Then l
want to tell you, before you agree
to do that, it is going to talo Il
heap Of money torun the machine,
then if you expect them to work
all your roads you will not 500 it
because you will all 10 dead before
they roach the end. They can
make some good roads here and
there but thoy move slowly.
l will tell you too that that it
has ever been mistake in our
law makers to keep cutting down
the time for working roads when
you can hear men all tho time
for better roads and the editors
are talking about it too. So it
Seems they Kept cutting mp and
cutting down and changing about
until at last--to nothing. How
ever, it was said wo did not have
any jury nor road law you sec-a.
constitution, without a law, no
good; law not enforced no good.
| don't kn Nv what new law was
made, | have hoard it is one dol
lar or Six days, if SO that will
mean voluntary labor or taxation
or no roads, still there may be big
calculations made as to what one
dollar and the chaln-gang will do,
if that should be so notice III the
end how you will be deceived, :,
then to tho man who wants to get
out of road work you might as
we'll give your labor as your mon-
ey; you know where you put your
labor, 1T ID right at home but when
some one olse takes tho money he
may or may not want to put lit
whore you want 1t; this you see is
Il difference. More work and less
grumbling will solve tho question
beat.
Twelve days beats anything we
have ever had since to make good
roads. If good roads is what You
want, inquire for the paths our
forofathers trod, tho burden will
be light and the yoke easy after n.
yoar or so. Some people say let
us borrow money to build up pub
lilo enterprises and issnc bonds.
Let mo tell you it is bad policy.
1t is better in my mind to lay up a
fow dollars for tho children than to
make dobt for them to pay. We
are out of debt now-so listen, LEI
me tell you what | think is best