The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-01-30
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call flag, and see if you do not agree
with NE that it is a sin to call /! 4
flag. The State is not able tc huJ one.
l am told that the ways and means
comE,ittee-I believe that is the name
of the committee that fixes up the bill
with which your money is appropriat-
eds trying how to meet two NIL
lion four hundred thousand appropria-
ton bill with an income Of sixteen
hundred thousand dollars. There are
only two ways-and I am not much
of a financier-one is to add about two
mills to the tax levy, and the other is
to cut off some of that appropriation.
But the people are rich and the State
is prosperous and the easy way is to
add the two mills. It will be easy to
figure out next summer how little it
will be to each taxpayer.
The same condition, I am told, ex-
lists in Newberry county. The legis-
lative delegation levies less than is
necessary to raise sufficient money to
pay the expenses of the county gov
ernment and then borrows from the
sinking fund. And runs the county On
a credit. That is all right if you don't
have to pay back, but I should think
there would some time be a day OF
reckoning.
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There was just little bit of poll
tics being talked in Columbia, and just
a little bit-a tiny little bit-being
played in the legislature. I heard
some one say that Judge Jones was in
Columbia and that he had opened
HEADQUARTERS at the Jerome hotel.
And that 500 and more new bills had
been drawn and introduced in the leg
islature, and this the second session.
I reckon some of these are for mate
rial to be used on the stump the COM
ing summer with the dear people, and
not intended to be enacted into law.
Just think of 500 new laws every year.
And then the session is not half over
yet. And ignorance of the law they
tell us is no excuse. 1t is terrible for
a Door man to contemplate. Cigar
cites, liquor, horse racing, pure foods,
fertilizer, Investigating committees,
COLLEGES, schools, everything you can
think of, has place in legislation
now. It was not so in the good old
days when I was young. There was
not so much government regulation.
However. reckon it is all right. The
tendency is for the government to do
everything and everybody to work for
the government, and then We will all
be relieved of looking out for oursel-
YES and be fed and clothed from the
government trough.
Talking about politics, if any mem
ber of the legislature is fortunate
enough to read these lines would
like to suggest that it might be good
politics to listen to the small noise
that comes from the outlying districts,
rather than the big cannons now going
off at the State house, for by the COM
ing summer this small noise that
comes now. from these outposts may
gather sufficient volume to form cy-
clone. These people who are not max
ing a. big noise will have to be rech-
oned with, and don't you forget that.
And while they are not making any
fuss now they are taking note, and
don't you forget their either. And
YOU would be surprised how we'll in
formed they are, and how difficult
task it is to fool them. I read this
sentence once somewhere: people
who always say what they think as
sumo that their opinions are OF great
Importance to people who probably do
not care for them at all. Unless d.
rectly asked, it is better to say only
the kind things and keep the rest to
ourselves Now, you may apply this
to me if you care to, or you may ap-
ply it elsewhere, but with the advice
it carries am going to leave the SUB
ject and write about something else
next time.
This is too long already, but par
don me, want to commend the gooo
people of Newberry county for the
GREAT use that I hear is being made