The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-02-04


for ratification, and has been for.
a week. There Is only one way
to get legislation, and that is
to stay by it, and not let the
other fellow get ahead of you.
Mr.. Whites inspection bill
has not yet been reported by the
committee, but I can say that
Bob White will keep reminding
them until he gets report. He
is on the watch always.
Mr.. Kennedy has abandoned
his bills to provide for a bond
issue for Douglass and Sandy
Grove townships for drainage
purposes, and instead had a bill
to require automatic gates across
the public roads. There is this
to be said for Mr.. Kennedy, he
does not bother the house with
freak measures or speeches, but
he votes Independently and usu-
ally with good jugdment, and in
committee work his colleagues
say he exercises rare judgment.
Mr.. Burgess has not had an
opportunity to demonstrate his
qualifications for the place, but
I am sure a man of his iuteili-
gence will soon adopt himself to
the work and become a very
useful member, providing he
will credit others with the SIM
cerity he accords to himself.
Game Warden Richardson
wants the legislature to provide
for a dollar and ten cents H.
cense on guns. I am opposed to
this proposition, and will do
what I can to prevent its pas
sage. In ny humble Judgment
it is a gun license bill in name
only, but it's main purpose is to
provide the means to build up
an Office breeding machine. II
Warden Richardson gets this
bill through he will mulct every
person who owns a gun out OF
81. 10 and have this fund at his
disposal to be used as he sees
fit, ostensibly to protect the
game by employing men to go
on the job. There is no propo'
sition to put this money into the
county treasures to 60 to the
roads or schools, but to go into
the State treasury to be expend'
ed in the enforcement of the game
laws. The people of South Car
DINA managed to get along very
nicely without paying a license
for the privilege of owning a
gun before Mr.. Richardson
landed on this job, and they can
continue to get along without
the license to provide the means
for a lot of buns who will not
work. AS the celebrated Josh
Ashley would say 'Boys I'm
agin it, and should they insist
upon passing the bill I shall
M every effort to exempt
! areu Ion, failing in that, I
81 l = my best to have the
collected in Clarendon
60 20 our road or school fund.
I had a talk q few days ago with
the father of the game warden
who was working on the mem
bers to support the measure, l
do not know what his interest is,
but suspect he smells fat drip
ping from it, if the bill becomes
a law. I find there are a good
many in Columbia urging legis,
lation that a little investigation
will disclose a sinister purpose,
some are working for a snap for
themselves or for some member
of the family: but I am not in
clined to crafty them. espec.
tally, at the expense of those
who toll for an honest livlihood;
if these people cannot support
themselves by work, the aims.
houses are open. If this thing
of exacting money for every
little privilege people desire to
enjoy continue, our boasted free.
dom is a mockery; it is a tax for
this and tax for that, but to
vary it a little they drop the
word "tax'' and use the word
"license," but it is money out
of the toiler's pocket just the
same, and I am tired of it. If
these people are encouraged in
their schemes every mother-son
! of them who are too proud to
loo. o-1 +oo lo1u fo unrly Wi