The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-08-12
(Signed)

From most available lnformatlon /
learn that about two thousand dol
lars IN these notes are worthless, and
about three thousand more were not
signed by supposed glvers, but en-
dorsed by other reliable parties, and
the remaining $4,000 is only valu-
able to the extent of moral obliga-
ton, and | nave been Informed by
good lawyers that legally not a DOL
lar could be collected. The moral
responsibility involved in this amount
is at present good, but Mr. Wanna
maker says it will be three or four
gears before anything can be done.
Human affairs, particularly the t.
nancial, are so changeable that it is
probable that number of men now
able, If not exactly willing, to pay
these notes could not do SO at the ex-
piratiou of four years. This must be
apparent to all, and Judge Watts,
while not interfering in local issues,
is right in observing that the best
thing the town can do, if it keeps
faith, is to "cough up the cash"
Should the town fall down on the
500, 900 or any part Of it as result
of finally coming down to the indi-
vldual note giver, the thirty thousand
dollars that be proposes to raise from
the county would build creditable
court house and Jail, and the people
would have ample opportunity to
mourn over violated c pal gn
pledges, with no hope of redress. |
do not mean to charge Mr. Wanna
maker with designing such a result,
l am only pointing out possibility.
MIR Waunamaker says that all the
proposals for this large bond issue
came from the country people. If
this be true, why is 1t that Mr. Wan
namaker, city banker, is only to be
found long and loud IN advocacy of
the scheme?
yield to no man in a desire to see
the town prosper and succeed in ev-
cry line of progress, but l do stand
for absolute fairness to all in the
manipulation or this bond issue. l
am anxious to have a creditable court
house and Jail, but my sense of fair
ness revolts at a proposition to the
country people for thirty thousand
dollar bond issue, the burden of
which they are to bear, being placed
upon them by the vote of st Mat
thews. Of course a box would have
to be provided for the country vot-
ers, but it could be understood that
the town electors would refrain from
voting on the proposition, and it takes
the widest campaign flight of imag-
iuation to conjure up a bond sale for
that reason. am not objecting to a
bond issue by our country friends,
and would be delighted to have it,
but the effort to force the issue upon
the rural sections by the vote of st
Matthewsis tyranny, pure and sim.
pie, direct blow at liberty and a
step toward czardom.
At very critical period in Jewish
history the people, heart-sore and
weary with burdensome taxation, re-
sorted to Rehoboam and said: ''Thy
father made our yoke grieVous; now
therefore make the grievous service
of thy father and his heavy yoke
which he put upon us light" And
he said::"Depart for three days, then
come again." And the old men coun.
celed him, saying "Speak good words
to them and they will serve thee for
ever" But he forsook the counsel of
the old men and consulted with the
young men that were grown up with
him.
So the people came to Rehoboam
the third day, and he answered them
roughly and forsook the counsel OF
the old men aad said: "My father
L.,.;sad nm With uhins hnt | Will