The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-08-04
BEWARE OF PROMISES.

The Rutledge County PROPOSE
ton, the more investigated. the
more convincing does it become
that the people of Sandy Grove
should not permit themselves
to be persuaded intoit. Whether
through wantoness or ignorance
the promoters Of the Rutledge
County scheme has misrepre-
sented conditions to the extent
that it is fast recoiling Gpon
them. It was represented to the
people OF Sandy Grove that Rut-
ledge County would be ''com,
pact" easily of access, that the
county seat, if established at
Lake City, would be in the cen
ter of the proposed county. that
it would be wealthy in property
valuations and various other at
tractive promises, but when the
map is looked at, it is seen
that the proposed county OF Rut-
ledge is q long narrow strip, with
Lake City no where near the
center, and that Sandy Grove
township in Clarendon, is located
somewhat like a hump on a
camel's back. The property valu-
alton is away below any other
county in the State, which Of
course, points to high taxation:
any thinking man will admit that
it requires about as much money
10 maintain one county as anoth-
er, and if the property valuation
in Rutledge County is not suffi-
'cient TO raise money to pay its
expenses by low taxation it must
be done by hugh taxtion, for the
county government must go on,
even if the burden must fall on
the few. Rutledge County, if
created, will be a verltable
::shoe-string, and altogether
different in Shape from what It's
promoters represented. The
whole scheme, in our judgment,
is in the interests of few prop
erty owners in the town Of Lake
City, and a few politicians want.
ing the people to buy Office for
them. We are informed that
representations were made to
the effect that the proportions of
Clarendon's SO, 600 which Sandy
Grove is mortgaged for the next
SO years, will not have to be
paid by Sandy Grove. but by the
entire Rutledge County. It's not
true, Sandy Grove alone will
have TO pay this, matters not
what county she is voted into.
There is absolutely no avoiding
Sandy Groves paying every
cent of her proportion Of Ciar-
endon's Indebtedness. The peo-
pie of Sandy Grove should take
warning from the experience OF
the people Of Calhoun, the St.
Mathews town lot spectators.
like the Lake City Schemers,
made promises to build the court
house and jail: out they did not
do it, and they are now trying to
bond Calhoun for her public
buildings.
LS:Se City, we understand. has
made dig promises, but these
promises are not worth hill OF
beans in business. AS we have
said, in d previous editorial, to
build a court house and jail in
keeping with todays' progress,
it will cost not less than $50, 600,
and unless Lake City deposits
the ..tual cash with no strings
TO it, there need be no faith put
in promises. Let the cash show
the faith
To show how little faith there
is in such promises, there is al
ready a dispute as to what was
promised. Dr.. y. II. Williams,
of Lake City. over his own sig
nature in The County Record
says, he promised the people
of Johusonville that If the new
| county was formed, and Lake
/! CITY was selected as the county
seat, the people Of Lake City
would put up the public build.
ings." etc. The people Of John
sonville contend that Doctor