The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-06-19

state.
In my inaugufa! address to your
General Assembly in 1911. certain
policies We're laid down, and your
General Assembly asked to take
them up and consider them very care
fully.
In my annual message Of 1912.
those same matters We're taken up.
as We'll as other matters; and. now
beg leave TO submit to YOU the most
important matters which you should
give consideration to:
! First, and most Of all,-Educat:on
Of your children; Taxes; Government
Printing; Extravaganza Of your high
er institutions of learning; the care
less issuing Of acquisitions and re-
wards, which has been followed bv
previous administrations; the pur-
chase for your State institutions; :;
The hunting clubs, which are in the
hands of foreigners and deprives the
citizens of our state of their God
gwen right and privileges; the negro
lodges, which do so much harm in
our country; Appointment OF Special
Judges to hold court, when regular
Judges are disengaged; White per-
sons teaching negro children in
schools Of the state; Railroad fare.
which should be reduced 10 two cents
per mile, as advocated by me in my
messages to your General Assembly
The Cotton Mill Merger; The Hosiery
Mill; Biennial sessions of the General
Assembly; Liberal support Of the
Confederate Veterans.
Your taxes are entirely too high.
which is caused by the extravaganza
of your Legislature. in making large,
excessive and useless appropriations.
Your higher institutions of learn
ing are receiving too much money, to
the detriment OF the common schools.
These institutions should be run at
a less expenditure in order that
more money may De given to the com
mon schools. Every dollar uselessly
spent in your higher institutions
could be spent and should be. in inn
proving the rural schools OF the
State.
Anyone who will take the pains to
investigate. will see that We are pay
ing entirely too much for Govern
ment rinting, and that thousa nds OF
dollars could be saved the state il
this matter was thoroughly sifted
ture to do.
The present law Of issuing reuuis-
tons and rewards is entirely wrong.
! Whenever a fugitive from justice is
returned to this State, if his services
go TO the counCy chain gang Of a
county. that county should pay the
expenses. and nOr the State at large.
If he goes to the Penitentiary, the
State receives the benefit Of his work,
and should pay I'll of the expenses.
! If the heads OF your institutions of
learning will get together and make
some rule by which they could make
all Of their purchases Of supplies by
advertising for competitive bids. the
articles could be purchased much
cheaper and many thousands Of dol
! lars saved to the State.
! Northerners are buying large guam
titles Of our land and establishing
hunting and fishing preserves and
prohibiting the use of them by our
citizens, in violation of the statute
, laws Of our State, and are depriving
: our citizens of their God given right
to hunt and fish. which should not
be allowed.
/ The negro lodges are doing much
harm in our country. | have begged
your Legislature To pass an act pro-
hibiting them. Some say this can
not be done, but it can be and very
easily by simply stating that when
+ ever any peace officer desires To enter
one of these lodges either of the
white or colored people. that he
should be allowed to do So. The
white fraternal orders would not be
interfered with. because all Of the
peace officers ere white men, and the
negro lodges could be properly re-
J gulated.
! White people teaching negro
schools in our state are doing much
! OF the young negroes the idea of So
cial equality, and creating an ambi-
tion among them which can only
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