The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-20
A SOUTH CAROLINA STATE
PAPER.

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caions in writing from Governor Cole
Blease were read to the South Caro-
lima legislature. Ono Of them was
his annual message. In this state
paper the governor is all for economy.
He liz for abolishing h bureau OF
agriculture, the insurance commits
sioner, the bank examiner and the
state game warden. "Our higher
state institutions OF learning are re-
/, ceivin9 entirely too much money he
says. fIe makes the same complaint
about the Catawba Indians: they are
getting too much, too. Other places
for retrenchment are indicated. n
retrenchmcnt is an accomplished fact
right now. When 1 came into Of
fce," says the governor. nearly ev-
cry newspaper in h state, daily and
weekly. was coming there at the OK
pense Of the taxpayers. Immediately
an order was Issued stopping each
and every one Of them The COVER
nor boasts that. first and last. he has
saved the people more than 500, 900.
just by holding down expenses and
practicing the economy he had
preached upon the rostrum."
He advises the legislators to pro-
vide for a careful investigation of the
hunting clubs and other corpora
ions of foreigners" in South Caro-
lima and to rid the state of negro
lodges.
With regard to tho enforcement of
the law in South Carolina since he
took hold as governor. he lays he is
satisfied the reports will show there
has been a decrease of crime. He
continues:
Every killing and every little
crime committed during the year
1911 was heralded in big headlines
and special attention called to them,
in order to make 1t appear that crime
was on the rampage and that the
state was in Il lawless condition. We
have had only n lynching: and. so
long as the crime for which this oc-
CURED is committed just so long will
lynchinE be had. regardless Of how
much the newspapers may howl and
rage or who is governor. When a
negro puts his hands on n white wo-
man, no knows what Is coming. and
the treatment accorded to him gives
warning to others that If they do like
wise they will he treated the same
way"
One of the Cole Blease rccommen-
dations ia that the legislators pass an
act or joint resolution requiring all
state officers charged with the duty
Of awarding contracts. employing
architects and builders. and appoint
ing school teachers to %'patronize
home people," In support Of this
recommendation, the governor says
! in his message:
I'VE hear a great deal Of hollerine
and see much newspaper writing
about boys and girls. stay at home:
stick to your state and yet we do
not offer those boys n girls posi-
tons and places that will give them
something to live on and
them to stay at home. On the con-
trary, if we want a teacher: il we
want a preacher; il we want an
architect. or IL we want almost any
thing else. a great many of our peo-
pie seem to think that the further
from up in Yankeedom they come.
the greater they are and the better
service they will render Gentlemen,
our home boys and girls are discrim-
mated against n we are bringing
people into the state who absolutely
care nothing for us, our history or
our traditions-all they want is what
they can get out of us and MS soon
al they get it, or they are offered a
higher salary somewhere else, they
are ready and in many instances do
leave us. II our Institutions Of learn
ing. some Of them more than one
hundred years old, in all these years
rave not graduated men and women
who can hold any position in them.
from president down, you know and
] know and the people know 1t :s
time to close them up"
We thought Governor Davis OF Ar
kansas-now senator-and Governor
vardaman Of Mississippi-now sena-
tor-elect--the limit: we did not fore
see Governor Cole Blease. We avail
ourselves OF the opportunity to assure
tbs South Carolina newspapers Of our
sfncsre COMMUNICATION.