The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-03-19
u. s. GOVERNMENT ROAD
EXPERT HERE THIS WEEK.
CITIZEN OF JONESVILLE
CONDEMNS PEDDLER'S BILL
Will Have No "Yankee" Show
Us How to Build Good
Roads.

Roads.
Jonesville, March 15.-From time
| immemorial there has been inter-
national and interstate laws govern
| ing traffic and trade between nations
and states, but not until the other
day did | ever hear of an inter
county law prohibiting the people
! from carrying their produce from
/ one county into another county for
sale, without first procuring a
license to do so, paying $50 for said
! license which seems to be law now,
according to an act passed at tn.
late session of our legislature, known
as the Wagnon Act. Jonesville is
near the line of Cherokee county and
we really get large trade from that
county. We gin their cotton, buy
their cotton, buy their produce and
sell them much goods and merchan-
disc. 1t suits them to trade with us
and it suits us to trade with them.
but for them to comply with the late
inter-county act is just putting tn,
lid on and shutting them off, and
they will turn their trade from lis
and we will be hurt. If the town of
Union wants such law why Jones'
vile says let her have it-just let
their town council pass an ordinance
| for the town of Union and leave
other towns out, Jonesvillc especi-
| ally. There is some difference of
opinion as to the construction of the
act, who dealer, peddler and vcnders
are, but a very reasonable construc-
tion of a dealer is one who deals or
sells anything, whether he buys the
article or raises it on his farm 1t
might, however, not have been the
intention and purpose of the bill to
include such persons as those who
sell their own produce, but the word
| ing of the bill shows for itself
Seems to me there are some doubts
along that line and the doubt will
have the effect.
Farmers have started out with
double diligence this Monday morn.
ing, as the ground is in fine shape
for the piows. The' gardeners are
equally busy putting in the seeds,
some of which should have been in
the ground long ago.
| see in the papers that some yam
kee is coming around to tell the peo-
pie about good roads and how t.
build them. Yes, the yankees are
constantly throwing it in our teeth
that we are an illiterate and ignorant
people and yet we keep kissing the
hand that smites u.s." but mind you,
| don't do it anymore, fact is, never
did. We have plenty of sane folks
in the South to run our institutions.
w. II. S. Harris.
(For Mr.. Harris information we
beg to say that Mr.. Robt. f. East
ham, the good roads expert, now in
specting the roads of Union county
is a native of Virginia, and is not
a yankee" His father. was sho,
severely while serving in the Con-
fcderate army, and carried the scars
to the end of his days on earth, his
death occurring recently. However,
even if Mr.. Eastman had been a
"down easter" it certainly seems
that after fifty years of christian
experience, Mr.. Harris shauld have
learned to be haritable-"The great
est of these is charity" Moreover,
if Mr.. Harris will inform him self.
he will find that he is far wrong on
the question of illiteracy as he is on
VII. Eastman S pedigree. II he will
look into it he will find that the
United States census for 1910 puts
South Carolina right at the top of
the column of illiteracy, there being
but one State, Louisiana, that has q
larger percentage of illiteracy. Mr..
Harris makes a good news writer
but as an editor he certainly would
soon run amuck. There is not a
one-horse newspaper in this State
that would not hold me up to ridiculc
if | were to publish as my editorial
sayings the articles of Mr.. Harris
as given above. His attack on the
pcddors bill is as wide of the mark
as is his attack on the government
road expert. There is not one thing
in the bill to keep farmers of Chero-
kee selling their products in Jones'
vile, or any where else in Union
county. Lewis NJ. Rice, Edtor.)
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