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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-07-01
FOR THE RELIEF OF Ten
zee u. ANCY.

It will be recalled that some weeks
ago Hon. Wyatt Aiken introduced a
bill which, if enacted into law, VII
provide a method by which the smal
landowner can borrow money on hls
land for a period not longer than ter
years and at 5 per cent interest. Un'
der the provisions of the bill the de-
serving tenant can buy the land ne Il
cultivating as tenant, pay for it in ter
years, and not pay more than he i
now paying as annual rent.
~ The most commendable feature O
Mr.! Aiken's bill is that it is entirely
practical. That it or some such meas
ure will be passed by Congress has
already been agreed to by the Demo
cratic majority and no other bill has
been presented that is practical.
In the record of June 25th Mr.
Aiken explains and urges the passage
of his bin, in an exhaustive argument
His speech and bill are reproduced
in this issue of the paper, and every
farmer in Abbeville County should
read it.
This bill, or the principles in
volved, when enacted into law, will
mean more for the growth and up
lift of farming than any bill that has
aver been introduced in Congress.
Even the tariff and currency, recog,
nized as the great issues of the day,
pale into insignifcance beside the
question of building up rural homes
and increasing production by the
very simple method of making land,
owners of ten white men where there
is now one.
t" Under existing currency laws the
small land owner has not the means
for expansion and improvement OF
his land, and the tenant has little OF
no hope. Under the provisions OF
Nh. Aiken's bill the small land own
er can borrow for Improvement, and
the tenant may become sovereign OF
the soil he cultivates.
20 If the reader would be convinced
that there is nothing chimerical Or
visionary about this bill, let him read
the biz and Mr.. Aiken's speech in
support of it. 1t is not necessary to
go into details in this comment as his
speech covers details much more
fully than they could be covered lin
an editorial.
What it will mean for better
schools, better churches, and more
stable citizenship to convert thous-
ands of tenant farmers into land own
ers may be easily predicted. The
general plan is no longer an expert
ment as it has been thoroughly tested
in European countries with most
satisfactory results. Mr.. Aiken's
plan is in many respects new, and an
improvement on any plan heretofore
put in operation in other countries.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-07-01
School Notice.

The County Board Of Education vii
elect the School Trustees Of the various
districts Of the County on Tuesday, July
Z, 1914, the Trustees so elected to serve Tor
two years. l., 4h;z ~
flee or have suggestions to make as to VINO
are the most eligible, they can 90 SO py
writing the County Superintendent before
Jas. M. Lawson,
Co. Supt. Education.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-07-01
Estate of J. R. Scott, Deceased

Notice of Settlement and Application FOL
Final Discharge.
Take notice that on the 18th day OF July
1914, I will render q final account OF my
accounts and doing as Administrator OF tht
Estate Of ). R. Scott, deceased, In tn
office Of Judge Of Probate for AbbeV1llt
| County at 10 O'clock a. M, and on the sam
day will apply for a final discharge IRON
my trust as such Administrator.
All persons having demands against sale
estate will present them for payment OF
or before that day, proven and authenti
Gated or be forever barred.
J. 7. Scott, .
Administrator.
Mt. Carmel, S. G.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-07-01
NEEDED TAX

10 any n VINO is at all la1nlllar
with the present system of levying
taxes in South Carolina, it isa known
fact hat the poorest of property and
the poorest of individuals carry the
largest proportional burdens.
1t is further a well known fact that
property in South Carolina has fallen
in its assessed value to about % per
cent. of it's actual value.
There would be NJ serious objec-
ton to this latter condition if it did
not allow so mach room for Unequal
ity of assessment. When nothing is
taxed at it's real value and every tax
payer is trying to get his real estate
on the books IS low as possible, the
assessed value becomes largely a
matter of conscience, the man with
the least scruple getting the advan-
tage. The trouble is that despite the
fact that realty values have doubled
and in many places have quadrupled
in ten years, assessed values have
steadily decreased. The question is,
when will this decrease stop, and
who is to stop it?
Aside from the fact that the very
low valuation of property Injuries the
credit Of the State abroad, or even in
Northern money markets, this sys-
TEN is seriously unjust as between
individual taxpayers of a county,
and as between counties. For in
stance, the lands of Anderson, Spar
tanburg and Marlboro counties,
would sell on an average for over fiji
ty dollars pei acre, taken as a whole.
The lands of Abbeville, Greenwood
and Edgefieid counties would not sell
on an average for more than fifteen
to eighteen dollars taken as a whole.
And yet there is scarcely a shade OF
difference in the assessed value OF
lands in the former counties and in
the latter. This is due to the fact
that members of the State Board OF
EQUALIZATION act rather as agents fol
their respective counties than as q
Jury or impartial committee to adjust
differences. ..
There will never be any reform in
the present farcical system of levy
ing taxes until the State Board Of
Equalization is done away with en-,
tirely, and realty values fixed in q
general way by a disinterested COM
mission. Such a commission would
visit every county in the State; as
certain averaged selling values OF
land for say three years and fix a to,
tai to be levied in each county Based
on the number Of acres of land. The
various township boards would be re-
luuired to work out details and dis
tribute values. On city lots, the
county boards should take the la~1
selling price, if within three years,
as the assessable value, and if the
property has not changed hands, the
board should then fix its assessment
lat the market value as nearly as il
can ascertain.
Ifpeople could ever realize that in
creased values will necessitate de,
creased rates there would not be such
opposition to tax reforms. 1t is not
to raise more money that reform is
needed but to equalize the burdens O.
taxation that are now so grossly un'
equal.
Conditions are becoming so intol'
erable that the reform will certainly
be forced. How much more sane
then to meet it with wise legislation
now.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-07-01
Notice Of Election.

Whereas a petition signed by more than
one-third Of the qualified electors q Tree e
holders Of Due West School District No; 81
has been presented to the County a o.
Education,
be held in Due West School District No. 81
for the purpose Of voting an additions
3-milI tax for school purposes on Saturday
July II, 1914. Said election will be held IL
the town of Due West at the City Hall be
tween the usual voting hours; Inc rus
tees will act rs Managers Of Election.
Those in favor of voting an additional
s-mill tax, will vote a ballot on which Il
written or printed the word YES" Those
opposed to the additional S-mil tax VII
vote a ballot on which is written or printed
F. Y. Pressly,
j.. H.. Brooks,
j. R. Bell,
... Trustees.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-07-01
BuckIen's ArnicR Salve for Cuts,
BURNS, SOres

. Mr.. E. S. Lopez, Marilla, N. Y,
writes : II have never had a Cut,
Burn. Wound or Sore it would not
heal" Get a box of Bucklen's Arnica
Salve today. Keep handy at all times
for Burns, Sores, Cuts, Wounds. Pre-
vents Lockjaw. Csc, at your Drug.
Uiof
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-07-01
ID
For State Senate.

We are authorized to announce J. Moore
Mars. as a candidate for reelection to the
State Senate, subject to the rules and
pledged to abide the result of the primary
election.
hereby myself as a candidate
for the State Senate from Abbeville Coun-
ty, subject to the rules and regulation OF
the Democratic primary.
7 M NickleS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-07-01
SUPERVISORS
QUARTERLY REPORT,

The Following Claims Were Aud
tied and Paid by the Board Of
County. Commissioners for Alb
beville County for the Quarter
Ending Sept. Goth, 1918.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-07-01
For House OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Believing that the experience and in
formation gained by two years service on
the Ways and Means Committee will en-
able me to take an important part in the
making Of the next Appropriation Bill, ]
election to the House of Representatives,
subject to the rules of the Democratic Pri-
mary. +. u. Robinson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-03
EDITORIAL COMMENT

An unprecedented demand for the
services of expert knife sharpeners is
reported from various Republican dis
trict in rural New York-New York
sun.
If anything were needed to empha-
size the futility of permitting a hand
ful of voters to pre-empt a party name,
giving them the right to have a sepa-
rate column on the official ballot and
TO nominate full State tickets by cir
culating petitions, it would be sup
piled by the filing of affidavits at Har-
risburg for a "Nonpartisan Party"
Although such n title is the acme of
paradoXical absurdity, it appears that
it must stand legally unless it shall be
held to conflict with the norpartisan
judicial ballot and therefore likely to
prove unduly confusing to the voter.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
There is no doubt that the opposi
tion leaders in the Senate will keep
careful watch of the recovery of for
eign trade, as business resumes its nor
NAL course. and win not hesitate to
inform the defenders of the emergency
war tax bill of the truth, namely, that
the emergency is due primarily to
their meddling with the tariff law and
to their uneXampled eXtravagance.-
Public Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-03
+ LETTERST0THE.EDIT0R
MCCORMICK AND THE
COMMANDMENTS
To the Editor of the Telegraph:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
There is commandment which
says that no man shall bear false wit
ness against his neighbor. Let me
call to the attention of the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor, Vance
@. Mccormick, that among his neigh
bors are some very reputable men and
Women-some with whom he fire.
quently comes in contact when he is
not whoring after strange political
gods, and these neighbors to whom l
refer are clerks or attaches in some
of Sthe departments on Capitol HILL
Mr. Mccormick is frequently quoted
as saying in his speeches during this
campaign, that the Capitol is den of
thieves and plunderers, and he pro-
poses, if made Governor, to drive out
every attache in every department
from top to bottom, CHASING them all
as thieves and plunderers. Does the
man really mean what he says, or has
he lost his reason and mathematics
his neighbors merely because he has
an audience on the hustings? Does
he not fear a hereafter? Why, some
of these Capitol Hill people go to his
church. | know of one estimable per-
son who does and that persons dis
tress over MIR. McCormick's incoherent
rawlings is simply pitiful to see What
| would like to know is. Was McCor-
mick absolved from observance of the
Ten commandments when he went on
the stump? | am only seeker after
truth in this benighted world but
there are many like me in the
(Signed) FOURTH WARD.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-03
Do YOU KNOW ?
That Harrisburg made steel is
in many of the coal cars that pass
through this city?
/ CUMBERLAND COUNTY VIEW
TFrom the Carlisle Herald

[From the Carlisle Herald
The Republican party is singularly
fortunate in the nomination of Doctor
Brum baugh for Governor. We do not
have been found. While never active
in politics, he has been prominently
identified with education in the widest
and best sense, and with great civic
matters. and viii bring to the duties
of the GoVernorship not only the high
est type of executive ability, but also
character without flaw. He is self
made man and his career is another IL
lustration of the adage-"The Republic
is opportunity
Mr. Mccormick. the Democratic nomi-
nee. is branded as the Wilson candi-
date for that high office. lie is the
hand-picked candidate of the President
and was really nominated i'm the White
House at Washington as the result of
a conference of prominent Democratic
politicians last winter. He was chosen
as the special representative of the
Democratic national administration. and
as such he must stand or fall. IL Me
Cormick is really friend Of the people,
no one has ever been able to discover
ii, except when he is a candidate for
public office, and requires votes. His
term as Mayor of Harrisburg was medi-
ocre. He formulated no particular re-
forms and he has had no experience in
public life beyond this. His integrity
is not challenged, but he is essentially
narrow gauge man. He has never
shown the attributes of broad states
manship While a Yale graduate, he
has not had the intellectual training or
the civic experience which Doctor
Brumbaugh possesses to pre-eminent
degree. The good fairies which presld-
ed at his birth gave him wealth and
social prominence. He is a plutocrat
by inheritance, not by achievement,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-03
NOW AND THEN

TTIE country is facing a very Pc
culiar condition. Times are hard
I and business is dan. Yet prices
for everything are unusually
high--never were higher, in fact. This
is without precedent in the United
States. During the Cleveland depres-
sion, when tariff very similar to that
foisted on the country by the Wilson
Administration was in force, there was
little or no work, but prices were cor
respondingly low. A dollar bought
much more than usual; the only trou-
BILE was to get the dollar. We thought
we had touched the bedrock of hard
times then, but now we have poor
business with prices higher than ever.
our Democratic friends have outdone
themselves. The question naturally
arises. to what new depths would they
plunge the country were they to be
given a new grant of power in Novem-
ber?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-03
NOBODY BOSSES BRUMBAUGH
[From the Phila. Public Ledge

GFrom the Phila. Public LEDGER
Mr.. Mccormick says he is for Nc
Nair to be Secretary Of Internal Al
fairs because McNair went before
the people himself and told them
where he stood" That is what Brum-
baugh did.
on Monday, March 16, DR.. Brum-
baugh made public his decision to
submit his name to the voters as a
candidate for Governor at the May
primaries on the Republican ticket
Accompanying his statement of his
platform, with its planks in favor of
equitable labor legislation, local op-
.tion, the woman suffrage amendment
and other measures, was this explicit
declaration:
Il have no entangling alliances of
any sort. l am under no promise, no
agreement, made or implied. ! shall
never be party to any such thing. If
ele ted it must be with the definite
understanding that l shall be entirely
free, to perform my Official duties
solely and steadily for the people as
a whole"
Brumbaueh received an overwhelm-
ing support in a popular primary. He
accepted it as the expression of the
will of the majority of the Republican
voters of the State. He did not accept
1t nor did he receive it from the Pen
rose laCllOn. IN Idcl, on lHc bdslS VI
the actual count, Brumbaugh and not
Penrose should be the headliner. The
official returns of the primaries, as
given June 8, show: Penrose, 219,-
S71: Brumbaugh, 253,7SS. Gin Phila-
delphia Brumbaugh polled S5,657 to
S0,799 for Penrose.)
DIR. Brumbaugh has said: 81 in
vite and welcome the support of all
citizens, regardless of partisan align
ont who believe with me that the
day has come when only capacity and
character and their expression in con-
duct should be considered in selecting
public officials. / agree that we need
moral standard in all public
service"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-03
POLITICAL SIDELICHTS

According to the Patriot Palmer
said in McKeesport last night that the
present tariff law would stand for six
years Great scott!
-Palmer's prediction about the
tariff standing for six years will not
be popular in Steelton or South Har-
risburg.
There is time to register tonight
from to 10.
Thomas Shelton Harrison, promi-
nent Philadelphia and former consul
general to Egypt. has repudiated Will
son and come out for Rrumbaugh.
Seven thousand persons have not
registered in Allentown.
Thomas Finnerly, Democratic
candidate for the Legislature in
Wilkes-Barre, has been sued for $20,-
600 for breach of promise.
Senator Penrose last night declar-
ed that DR.. r. M. Little, the Philadel-
phia charity expert, was bit inconsis-
tent in advocating Palmer and Nc
Cormick and then appealing for funds
for families of men out of work.
Senator Oliver appears to have
caught Palmer engaged in some daily
ing with facts.
DIR. Brumbaugh's speeches have
the punch to them that Roosevelt's s
lacked in Philadelphia.
Bryan should be a popular figure
on the Democratic platform in this
State after the tales told by returning
tourists.
Il. f. Morris, the big Bull Moose
of Towanda, is out for Brumbaugh.
up to date the slump In the Pro-
gressive vote in New York and New
Jersey has not been explained in Mar
ket Square.
A good many Bull Moosers are
going to accept DIR. Houck's invita-
ton to come home.
The Roosevelt speech appears to
have pleased the Republicans more
than the machine Democrats.
The Philadelphia Old Guard is
suspicious of Mccormick s olive
branches. Probably because they fear
they contain a dirk.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-03

mick, a thick and thin, thorough going
Democrat and supporter of the Demo-
cratic administration policies to the
uttermost. He gave countenance to
the Endorsement of Mr.. Mccormick by
the ProgressiVes. And this notwith-
standing the fact that when he was in
this State last June he took what is
essentially an absolutely antagonistic
position. for in June he devoted him
self almost utterly to the denunciation
of the Democratic national policies
and to criticism of President Wilson.
He tried to justify himself now for his
abandonment of that position and his
support of Mr. Mccormick by declar-
ing that We are for principles, not
men," This was surely far from the
old-time Teddy. for nobody knows bet
ter than he that this was nonsense and
far from candid.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-03
VANCE, NOT a CHANCE
by Wing Dinger


There Is a rich chappie named Vance,
At a ball. he sets all in trance,
With the wonderful ways
In which he "sashays;'
Golly me, how the rascal can dance.
OF money he has large stack;
Not earned, but left TO him years back
What he wants for himself
He Just buys with his pelf,
BE 1t dress coat, Prince Albert or sack
Fresh from college. with money to
spare,
He ran for the office of Mayor.
They say. If n cent,
Thirty thousand was spent,
But he won out--so why should J. care!
Then paper he purchased one day.
| presume so that he then could say,
Like the kid with the pie.
What a great boy am l.
And hope to fool people that way,
In this paper. he cried down the boss"
In the Democrat Ring
And proclaimed himself king,
And they fe!, for this neat double
cross.
With a hand gloyed in iron he ruled ruled
And old timers in politics schooled
Give a gasp at the way
He so boldly did sway
His gold scepter and veterans fooled
For the cream of the state Office
thrones
He spoke in quite forcible tones,
And on primary day,
With the plum walked away.
At cost of some thousands of bones.
Now he's out on the ticket-each day
In some part of the State he will bray
Against booze, but with coin
Dealers are asked to join
In the game to let him have his way.
Don't disturb him, but just let him
prance,
For in spite of his gold-headed lance
Next month he will Know,
AS they pile on the snow,
That he hadn't a ghoS+ of Il chance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-03
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Mayor f. r. Jermyn, of Scranton,
is going after ministers who are say
ing things about his city which he
claims are not borne out by facts.
Fire Chief ]. I. Alleman. of AL
toona, is urging motor fire apparatus.
Samuel Rea, president of the
Pennsylvania, likes to go out on little
trips of his own to inspect tracks.
Captain p. DeLacy. of Scranton,
has been elected president of the One
Hundred and Forty-eighth Volunteers
for the forty-third time.
H. r. Biesecker, of Stroudsburg.
who is SS years old, has been elected
president of the Monroe county Oc-
togenarian's Association.
Judge II. w. Whitehead, of Ly-
coming county, is with a party of
friends on a bear hunt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-03
DEMOCRATS PROTESTING
HERE is no longer occasion for
Republicans and others in oppo-

HHERE is no longer occasion for
Republicans and others in oppo-
= sition to the present Admins
tration at Washington to do all
the criticising. The most severe critics
of the Democratic regime are Demo-
Gratis. Speaker Champ Clark and
Representative Fitzgerald, of New
York, chairman of the House com
mittee on appropriations; Senator
Hitchcock, of Nebraska; Senator Reed.
of Missouri, and many others have
been vitriolic in their denunclation of
the broken pledges, the prodigacy and
the absolute disregard of the interests
Of the people by the Democratic Con-
gress and the administration. Per-
haps nothing more sensational has
occurred since the beginning of the
Wilson dynasty than the attack of
Senator Reed, a Democratic leader
upon his own partisans in the matter
of the antitrust jusglery. He de-
, clares the Clayton measure to be an
apology to the trusts and a betrayal
of the Baltimore platform.
He pointed out that the bill has
been so mangled as to eliminate all
the most important and effective pro-
visions against combines and mo-
nopolies. But here is an extract from
Senator Reeds bristling speech:
We are playing the hypocrite.
sir. We came here sounding our
cymbais, girding our loins. burnish-
ing our weapons. We said to all
the world: when this great Demo-
cratic host shall assemble. when IL
bears down upon the Citadels of
greed, of corruption, OF pluuder,
then you will see how valiant arms
backed by honest hearts. win hew
a clean path for the common peo-
pie to tread"
What more could any Republican
say in denunciation of an admins
tration which has been characterized
by Inconsistency. broken pledges in
competency and a general disregard
of the public welfare?
Yet we have two candidates in
Pennsylvania, hand picked by Presi-
dent Wilson, pleading for support be-
cause they bear the stamp of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-03
Mhntever the excnse Id the contrae-

Whatever the excuse of the contrac-
tors on the River Front improvement
for dilly-dallying in the removal of
large deposits of silt and rubbish out
side the wall, it must be apparent to
the average citizen who has given any
attention to this undertaking that suf-
ficient time has already elapsed within
which this part of the work should have
been accomplished OF course there
have been difficulties to overcome, but
this was not one of them. and the
urgency of the matter at this time is
emphasized by the unusually low stage
of the river and the near approach of
the autumnal rains.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-03
TEDDY sIDEsTEPs
IPhiladelnhia Press. ]

Teddy has come and seen and
failed. Not failed as an attraction, for
he is still sure of n great assemblage
whenever and wherever he speaks.
Not failed as a personality, for his
buoyant, literary spirit, typically
American in its incisiveness. is always
sure of effect. But he failed as pub
lie man, as a Statesman, if you will.
And he failed because he sidestepped
fundamental principle. The prac-
tical question on which he spoke was
that of the Endorsement of Mr.. McCor