The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-16
THURSDAY, October Is, 1902.

Did the Exposition pay Charleston? :?
If so, how? We would be glad for the
Charleston papers to answer this, giving
facts and figures.
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And now some people and officials
want the Legislature to appropriate large
sum of money for an exhibit at the
St. Louis Exposition We think it high
time the legislature quit wasting money
on such things. The financial condition
of the State is bad enough now.
Bamberg is going to have better
graded school building, and that too in
few months. The plan is to enlarge
and improve the present building. The
matter will take definite shape in short
while, for every one realizes the necessity
of increasing our school facilities right
away.
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The statements of high State officials
as to the depleted condition of the State
treasury does not fit in very well with the
arguments used in favor of completing
the State house and appropriating $4,000
to the Charleston Exposition. 1t is time
Z to quit spending money for show and
parade. The people have had enough of
: it.
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Booker Washington breaches against
social equality of the negro and whites at
his school in Alabama, and yet he prac-
tices it by sending his daughter to white
college for girls in Boston. However, the
girl was socially ostracised there, and
very rightly so. Mixed schools and social
equality appear to be somewhat distaste-
full even to the New Englanders.
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Everybody in Bamberg county should
not only talk good roads, but be willing
to be taxed in order that we may have
good highways. 1t is said by persons
from other counties that they can tell the
Bamberg county lines by the admirable
manner in which our roads are worked.
But we have many sand beds which
should be clayed. This will be expensive,
but it is the best kind of economy in the
end. We are doing well along the line
of better roads, but there is still room for
improvement. Several new roads are
needed to shorten distance and get lighter
travel, and all who are interested should
: give right of way and render every assist
anee possible, for good highways benefit
every citizen.
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Editor W. H. Wallace, of the Newberry
Observer, does not think he was treated
fairly by the publishing committee in the
+. recent award of the contract for publish
ing the Southern Christian Advocate. 1t
seems the contract had been let to Rev.
G. Fl. Waddell, who will have the print
ing done at The Herald Office in Spartan
burg. Without going into the merits of
the controversy between Mr.. Wallace and
the committee, we may say that the man
who has the contract is likely to have an
elephant on his hands. We note with
regret that no publisher gets second
contract, and we surmise the reason is
they do not want it. There is little if any
money to be made out of it after paying
an editor $4,000 a year and other per-
auisites.
The coal strike is in fair way to be
settled now it seems, and on account of
the approach of winter and the scarcity
of fuel, it is to be hoped that the contest
will shortly end. But it should be settled
right. The miners have demonstrated
that they can prolong the strike almost
Indefinitely, they having ceased work last
May. There are great and grave issues
at stake; there are of course two sides to
the question and the whole matter should
be settled with equal fairness and justice
to all parties concerned. But there must
be something radically wrong with labor
conditions all over the United States.
All over the country and in many
branches of ofindustry, strikes are becoming
very numerous recently.