The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-21
have pleaded with your legislature to
Some Needed Remedies.

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Whenever a fugitive from justice IS
returned to this State, if his services
go to the county changing of coun-
ty, that county should pay the ex-
pense, and not the State at large. II
he goes to the penitentiary, the STATE
receives the benefit of his work ana
should pay all of the expense.
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 oy
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 cit
izens. 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 whenever any
peace officer desires to enter one OF
these lodges either of the white or
colored people, that he should be al
lowed to do So The white fraternai
orders would not be interfered with,
because all of the peace officers are
white men, and the negro lodges could
be properly regulated.
White people teaching negro schools
in our State are doing much harm,
and are putting into the heads of the
young negroes the idea of social equal
ity, and creating an ambition among
them which can only be quelched at
the end of a rope or in the electric,
chair. 1 asked your legislature to
pass an act prohibiting this, but they
paid no attention to it, and the evil
continues to exist
You should have fiat rate of 2
cents per mile on all railroads for
passenger travel. This was advocated
by me in my messages to your legisla-
ture in 1911 and 1912, but nothing
was done towards remedying the sit
uation. The railroads are getting
richer and richer every day, and it
would be no hardship upon them to
ride people for cents per mile.
They are already riding the rich man,
who is able to purchase a thousand
mile book, for cents per mile, so
why should they not also ride the poor
man, who has to take an occasional
trip, at the same rate?
I favor biennial sessions of the gen
eral assembly, and think the last ses-
sion is the highest proof of it's need.
1 am in favor of literally support
ing the old Confederate veterans.
The free school system of the State
should be built up so as to allow every
white child in South Carolina to re-
ceiye a good common school educa
ton I am absolutely opposed to COM
pulsory education, and the white peo-
pies taxes being used to educate ne
grees.
Spoke to Legislature.
All of these matters were called to
the attention Of yo"r general assem-
bly,, and as the opportunity presents
itself at the various campaign meet
ings will be taken up and discussed.
: I can scarcely do more than mention
them here, because there are entirely
too many. However, there will be
published and placed in the hands of
as many of the people as possible my
veto messages; message upon the cot
ton mill merger; message upon the
hosiery mill, within the walls of the
penitentiary; message relative to your
higher institutions of learning, and
other papers which were presented, at
various times, to your general assem-
bly,. We can not hope to place these
rin the hands of every citizen, but
shall endeavor to place them in the
hands of enough men in each COM
munity that they may be in position
to fully inform those who are willing