The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-03-05
A Measure TO Tax All Ifineranf
PeddIers was Passed During
the Recent Session of the
LegisIafure-The Bill Defend
ed by Hon. L. L. Wagnon, One
of Its Authors.

pay 70 cents per ton to Clemson
College on every ton of cotton seed
meal they use? And 25 cents per
ton to Clemson College for every ton
of commercial fertilizer they use for
the support and upkeep of Clemson
College? Shall every farmer in Un-
ion county pay taxes to keep up the
roads of Union county? Shall every
farmer of Union county pay regu-
lar and special taxes to keep up the
schools of his county and special
school district? Shall the farmer of
Union county pay taxes to keep up
the State government, and the sher-
if and every officer of the law that
we find necessary to enforce the law
in this county? And other farmers
from other counties, and from other
states, be allowed to come right into
Union county, come right to the door
Of Union county farmers, take his
own home market away from him and
make it impossible for him to sell
his produce, many times at any prlcv,
and force him to sell his stuff for
less than it is worth, because the far
mer of Union county is taxed for
all purposes and causes above re-
ferred to, and the farmer from other
counties and other states is allowed
to come into Union county, without
a cent of tax or cost, that the home
man has to pay-shall the outsider
take the markets away from the home
man because he does not have to pay
a cent to keep up the county, and can
sell his produce cheaper than the
home farmer can sell his, and then
Sf9ake bigger profit on it. This is
efe condition that the farmers o.
faced for the last year or so. Your
markets are monopolized and glut-
. ID, with ererythi"ey yo'a raise and
have for sale, by farmers from ad-
joining states who don't contribute
one cent for any of the purposes for
which you are taxed, he uses and
abuses your roads with teams and
wagons by the dozen, he monopolizes
and peddles from door to door, every
day in every town in your county.
and he sells everything you sell, and
because it does not cost him any
thing whatever to support and keep
up every institution of the State,
County and Town that you are taxed
to keep up-he is creating the i'm
preston all the time that he can sell
cheaper than you can sell, and that
you are charging too much for your
stuff, when as a matter Of fact after
you pay all the regular and special
taxes you have to pay, even if you
do charge more for your stuff than
he does, you are making less profit
on it than is the stranger and alien
from another state, who comes into
our midst and is allowed free privi-
lege and protection that you pay for
directly and Indirectly. Is it fair, is
it right? | don't believe you are
willing that a man living outside the
State of South Carolina and outsit;
your county should have free and for
nothing what you and your neighbor
pays for every day in the year.
Shall every business selling good"
to it's home people in Union county
be held up as robbers and as people
who charge more for their good
than they ought to charge, and more
than others charge? Because every
concern in business in Union county
is taxed by the State, County, Town
and Federal Government on every
thing they have and on everything
IuSy oSll, W hCCP Up e'i' Su'i al
Government, the State Government
the City or Town Government, and
the County Government, the Schools
the Electric Lights, for fire protec-
ton and every other convenience and
necessity that the people have? And
men from other states are allowed to
come into our midst, sell from house
to house, in the town and to even
canvass all over the county, and not
pay a cent of the taxes and expense
Of keeping up the roads or schools or
for state or county government.
Shall the home merchant, the citi-
zen, who lives in your midst who is
taxed to support your schools, who
stands by and supports the churches
and every other good work that goes
on in the county, who spends every
dollar he makes at home, with his
people and for his people; whose
home and everything that he accu
mulates is right here to bear it's
part of taxation for every form of
government, who employs your boys
end girls when he is able to employ
any at all. Who contributes in a
thousand ways to the welfare of the
community and town in which he
lives; shall this man, your home mer-
chant, be made to pay and contribute
to all these things and other men
form other states, who do not con-
tribute dollar to any cause in your
? city, town or county, who even bring
what they live on along with thcT,
from the states in which they live