The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1916-05-24

work moulding public sentiment.
When the SyStcm demonstrates its
usefulness, they attack my character
and try to DESTROY confidence i'm me.
No appeal to 4 sense OF Justice avails;
greed and sclf-intcreSt outweigh the
rights. prosperity and happiness of
mllllonS OF human beings
Charges Monopoly.
There is today in this State a close
corporation of interests demanding
an exclusive monopoly in making. de-
claring and administering laws They
care not who holds the Offices, so they
control policies. Whose bread cat
his song sing" Never was there so
| oNcrWhcIming desire on the part Of
the people for knowlcdgc Are they
to be denied?
| If the State warehouse system has
one thing TO he specially commended,
| it is economy and efficiency. Is it
dangerous to give the people lesson
IN these cardinal virtues?
South Carolina has never had real
| business administrations
Taxes have doubled in twenty years.
who darcS say efficiency has been bet
| tered?
Political LecchcS.
venture the assertion that about
| 80 ~ - ~ i'''i NOt'lS IL OIl lIt
| public payroll i'm some capacity. This
state is Hooded with political lccchcs
! performing no useful work, but bend
ing their energies to keep up n ma
chime which will porpctuatc their
jobs. rood inspectors, drug inSpcc-
tors, whiSkcy conStables, special con
stables, charity experts. labor experts
hookWorm and pclagra and mbcrcu-
Ills experts, hog agents. anti-toXin
distributors, mad dog inspectors, white
slave agents, demonstration agents
tomato club agents. crop bureau in
formation gathcrcrS upon whose in
formation the prices Of our products
arc forced down trustees, purity con
CESS delegates, drainage delegates
anything that will create a Job all
travelling over the same field, ever
laStinSly drawing salaries and piine
up expense accounts to the profit OF
the political machine and the impov-
crishmcnt Of the ordinary taxpayer
Who pays the freight? Where is il
all to cnd2 What man outside of the
lunalic asylum does not know that
such loose, diiIusc administration o
its affairs would bankrupt the United
states steel trust i'm a few years? Tho
state only survives such Il lack Of Of.
llcicncN at the expense of a conSian
drain upon tho taxpayers We need or.
: dinary business efficiency and plar
common sense in public service.
I This condition came about because
9 after 1876, every time objection was
raised, those in control said, "IIush
you'll split the party" Now, it i!
"3lcaSc in the wood pile, and pcopl,
Y are whipped into line by a threat O.
: "Blcascism" God save the state, |
the people can he fooled and if they
$ allow themselves to be dupcd into
bitter iactionaiSm againts their owl
Interests by this inccSSant cry agains
{ "BlcaSciSm."
{ The interests which are lighting the
: state warehouse system because /
G cuts off their enormous profits mis-
led the state convention into a fac
! tiOnal lineup against The interests O
the people whom that convention hat
: been assembled to represent Manu-
iacturerS, exporters and others wht
| arc now Droflting al the expense o
} the producer do not want Il licensed
graders system under which cOttOr
} can be stored and sold on STANDARD
grades, and they do not want other
f laws which will stop the c0nstan
. drain upon the people OF the Soutl
which every day enlargcs Of the al.
ready rich. They defeated these meas.
ures in the last legislature, and they
, will defeat them in the next unless
the people arc on the alert. | have
no fear as to the final verdict when
these matters arc presented TO the
people fully, and shall take that
course which shall seem to me best
to get an exposition Of the principles
of the State warehouse system clearly
before them.
,JnO. l.owndes McLaurin.