Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-01-17
THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE
Suggestions As to Needed Legislation
On Various Subjects

necessary to repeat q stater4ent of
the conditions that render white inn
migration SO vltG to the development
OF our State upon agricultural, cor-
mercial and industrial lines: l do
wish, however, to direct your atten-
tlon especially to the magnificent op-
portunity that awaits us rs an agri-
cultural, n cotton producing aud b
manufacturing State, in The SUCCESS
ful establishment and maintenance of
permanent transatlantic freight
and passenger lnie between tire Paci-
flee trans-shipping ports of Europe
and onr Wwn leading seaport ut Char
lesion, 0Sith its harbor unmatched for
accessibiiity and its 6iStributlve quail
lties tw any port ON the eastern
shores of the Ncr,h American con-
tineHtt.
']dr the maintenance of such a
line, we have already secured the ac-
tive, personal support cf Director.
Won Pills, Of oae OF The creates
Steamship corporations m the world,
AID | have reas0n TO know that lr
Is q loyal friend of the South ard
l..
What the establishment of this l4nc
r'.eans to us is 4 little difficult yet
lux any OF rs So understand. When
tell you that nearly $94.O90.G00
worth Of Southern cotton alone goes
INTO the foreign pCfS where we .~-'e
l+cstR Rblish!ng = connection; that nez1rlv
S7Z.uoU U,utN woc1h 'of Our cotton Seet,
neal reache; thar same port. md
that it is within our. power to direct
far more OF these products through
TINS port 10 their consicnors: and
when l add that ,cn the shipment of
these. and raHy otEer of cur pro-
ducts. through fiic port of Charles
ton. 1t is IL; orr power to save many
thousands os dollars to shippers ami!
producers os theEe articles bv reason
OF the proposed Eae-you may realize
what this undertaking means. nat
alone to the people IL general, tut II
the cotton farmer direct.
1T Is source Of pride to ms that
the conservatism and care whiGh has
characterized tlp course of the de
partment in this State has been such
as to already lead t. concerted move
men:s in or ass.er States oi the
South for the adoption, at once, of
the South CaTOIma act.
In view of tiR: recent decision of
Secretary Strauss, of the Omitted
States Departmera of Commerce and
Labor. 1t is vlrafhv important that no
material change sAould he MADE in
the act creating our department.
There IS but ore change ! would suy-
%est, and, after careful thought, con
Sideratlon and Investigation. ] Gsem
ifat a very necessary one. Section II
'of the act prevents the commissioner
from taking any sreps TO induce swnae
'of the desirable people Of Euro,F.-
peopie best adapted to our own cen
aitlons-most notably the North ltal-
lan and Greek f&1Inec-two of the
most law-a5iding sad thriftiest in,-
migrants that ccYHs to Americn. I
cannot too strongly urge the climina-
non OF this section fiurn the act. lear-
i1g the class OF peoplv to be brought
10 tie Judgment OF the commissioner.
or the proper support of this de-
paGiment. a minimum GppropriGt;ou
of rot less than $25,oc@ Will be ab
sol=tely necessary
p!spensary-
Concerning the d:gpcasary, the
Governor says:
THE fact that larae number
of counties in the State hgve voted
out local dispcnsaries; the work of
the investigating committee. and the
these considerations. in connection
with the fact that the people of Tie
state have recently expressed in no
uncertain terms their d!sapproval of
lhe present operation Of the dispen-
sary law, all demand imperatively
That something should he done to
correct existing evils. The people
VIII not stand for anything in which
they believe graft exists in any form.
and serious trouble with the dis
pensary law is that it affords too
great opportunity for wronc-doinr
and too little opportunity for detec-
ton.
l have referred to my fomer
recommendations upon this subject.
ana with your permission, l shall
quote from my message to the Gen
eral Assembly of 1906, as follows:
1t is imperative fer TIE honor cf
the state, that existing conditions
should be immediately remedied.
either 10y radical changes in thel avs
the dispcasary or bv tbo
adoption Of different system for the
regulation Of the liquor question:
II an convinced more than ever
that this recommendation applies now
with even greater force than it did
last year. This viii be the most i'm