The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-01-14
greatly strengthened.
Hosiery Will.


to your attention your hosiery mill
at the South Carolina penitentiary-
this hosiery mill more properly named
the South Carolina tuberculosis in
cubator" | shall not burden you with
a message in regard to it, but refer
you to House Journal, 1912, p. 119,
Senate oJurnal 1912, p. 80, and ask you
to read my message Of last year upon
this matter, and then go to the penl-
tentiary and see for yourselves. But
remember, gentlemen, things are in
very much better condition now than
they were at the time of the message
to which l have referred you. The
floors have been cleaned; the spider
webs have been brushed off the window
sashes; the windows have been open
ed; the cuspidors have been cleaned,
and many other changes have been
made since Eogan to raise what some
vi lHS OulCldlS nave ISl IIlCO iiSil.
am glad l raised it, gentlemen, if
have helped some poor fellows, even
though they are not out; and now |
want to raise a little more of it, and
abolish it l can not make you. And
I am not going to make any threat.
am getting too old for that. 1t is de-
mand of humanity which I am calling
to your attention, and it is for you
and the demand is upon you.
In the thirty third annual report OF
the State Board of Health, submitted
to me by the chairman, DR.. Robert VIII
son, Jr., Of Charleston, and which will
be transmitted to your bodies, this elo
quent plea is made:
"Once more we plead for aid to en-
able US to grapple with the tubercu-
losis evil Year after year this ter
rible scourge goes on with its train Of
suffering and death and poverty, and
its waste of hundreds of thousands of
dollars, and nothing i: done. Other
+ States are spending large sums of
money to check it's spread, but South
Carolina spends nothing. Will> the
! legislature never awake to the econo-
mic Importance of this disease and
support the board of health in it's
fight"
/ If you desire, in addition to what has
already been given you, any further
information in RECORD to this hosiery
MILL l will take pleasure in furnishing
4 you list of the names of witnesses,
who will come before your bodies and
4 give you a full and detailed account
of this institutions; of how prisoners
are treated in the penitentiary, the
kind of food that is given them, the
kind Of clothes put on them, and all
the inside facts. These are men, who,
although they were convicted of vio-
lation of law and have suffered punish
ment, will be recognized as truthful
men, some Of these unfortunates hay
ing been convicted, not of theft or per-
jury, >or other heinous crime; but Of
that class of crime which even the best
of us may be harassed into commit
ting, and they are known among their
neighbors and friends at home as hon.
est and upright men, although they
have suffered misfortune. In other
words, gentlemen, if you want the in
formation, l will furnish it; all you
have to do is to signify your desire to
receive it.
Board OF PardOns.
Heretofore I vetoed the appropria-
ton for board of pardons. My rea-
sons therefor were given at the time.
The legislature forced it over my We
to, and l then made up my mind l
would not have any pardon board, any
way. But, after thinking over It,
decided that l had just as we'll give
two OF my friends a position that aa'!
:, some honor attached to it and bare
ly paid their expenses. So l appoint
ed board 1t has done good work.
They are good, honest men, and have
been faithful so far as they could be,
under the circumstances. But, you gen
tlemen know that it is shame to Of
; fer for this board of three men the
pitiful sum of four hundred, dollars a
year, which they receive, when pos
, sibly they may have one case before
!; them, in which it may take a man two
or three weeks Of good, hard, honest
effort and study to go through the
| testimony, the judges charge, the affi-