The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-11-06
WAREHOUSE COMMISSIONER
comments On the Legislature and
g Some Other Things Perth.
ents

The following editorial comments
from a recent issue Of the Yorkvllle
ENQUIRER are pertinent and to the
point
The fact that a joint session of the
general assembly of South Carolina
should be willing to give Hon. John L.
McIaurin a majority vote for such an
important position as that to which he
has been elected is indeed significant.
When Mr.. MoLaurin entered the SEN
ate # will be remembered that that
body was very hostile to him, though
quite respectful and the majority gen
orally went against him wnen it could,
which was quite often. 1t Will also
be remembered that shortly after the
adjournment Of the general assembly
in 1913. Mr.. nFcUaurin expressed his
opinion of the membership of the house
in a way which to say the least was
not complimentary to that body. New
ertheless, he has received a majority
on the first ballot over two very ex-
ceEent men, and we have it straight
that this vote would have been very
much larger except for the fact that
no one in either thouse had any idea
that Mr.. McJaurin would be in the
running until after his nomination,
and at that time many members had
already pledged their votes on the
first ballot.
In speech delivered in Mecklen-
burg court house last Saturday night,
CONGRESSMAN Yates Webb said:
.My prediction is-though I don't
want you to hold me to it's that
within the next nine months we are
going to have H1e greatest era OF
prosperity the world has known since
the gold d9 Peru was poured into the
Spanish empire. In fact, am afraid
it Will be so great that we will forget
our God. You know, it'isn't always
good for us to be too prosperous. But
the warning nations have three-fourths
of the gold OF the world and our great
country is the only one to which they
can look for supplies of food and
clothing"
That sounds good and it is very
probably true AS to whether 1t Will
be true depends on the extent Of the
ruin and desolation that will be
wrought in Europe before the settle
ment of the war. But the most I'M
portant suggestion in the speech is
that which refers to the forgetting OF
God. People do not think o. that; but
if they Will consider the lessons of sa-
cred and profane history they Will be
forced to conclude tI5at herein lies the
cause of most wars, and we have but
little reason to doubt that it is the
cause of the present war. And it is
much better to do without such tre-
mendous prosperity than it is to forget
God.
Talk about your poor farmer
Take a look at Farmer McLaurln,
bufkinlg large with Websterian head,
his $4,000 sinecure and expenses paid,
iunketing over tire country in Pullman
cars and feeding at Waldorf-Astorla
hostelries, while the t'poor farmer
puts another peg in his one-gallus to
hold up his overalls and bends ms
back to the task of meeting the addl-
tional taxes made necessary by this
new burden. Faugh! Is there moth
ing but jobs and selfishness in South
Carolina craftsmanship? Here is a
living example Of the kind of "poor
farmer" that our polatician-lawmak-
ers are legislating to relieve and such
as these will be found to be the cat
in-fhe-meal4turb every time of the un-
accountable sort of legislation at
witch we have looked on with amaze
ment for the past month.-Colunlbla
Record:
The owners of the Columbia Rec
ard are the owners of the largest
warehouse system in South Carolina,
and the manager of the said system
has salary of about $4,000 a year. !,
The big income is derived partly from
warehouse charges, partly from com /
missions on money borrowed, and
partly from commissions on sales of !
cotton. The poor farmer" to whom
the Record refers, does not know a !
poor farmer that would be capable of
managing suoA business as Farmer /
McLaurin" has been called upon to !
roaDooo. b1,f tho Pooord knows that if !