The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-03-15
People Should Have
Decided Bond Issue

Mr.. Editor: If you will allow me
space in your valued paper will en-
deavor to write you some of the hap
penings along route 3.
We are only playing the "toad frog"
game sitting back in our holes watch
ing the incessant rain fall We have
had more than two months steady rain
and nothing much done on the farms.
No spring oats sown and the fall sowing
almost killed by the recent hard freeze.
we have most all been blessed with
good health, but great many are be-
ginning to take the blues in consequence
of their inability to prepare their crops.
The short crops of the several past
years have aroused strong determina-
tions in the minds of the people to make
full crop this year; but more than two
months Of 1917 are gone and nothing
done.
We tried to interest ourselves as much
as possible during all these rainy days
reading the papers and trying to keep
up with the transactions of our great
solons in Columbia, but our interest
soon began to wane as the first article
that would meet our eye when we would
pick up paper would be the bone dry
or the air tight bill, the DuRant bill,
the Richey bill, the Boyd amendment,
etc Really believe most of the forty
days were taken up in fighting those
glorious battles. No. no! the supply
bill was not forgotten. They gave us
8 1-2 mills state tax-thc highest we
have had since the days of negro rule.
And last but not least comes the
Plckens county road appropriation bill
without referendum. Don't you think
the q, ZOO taxpayers in Pickens county
should have had voice in that as to
whether they accepted or rejected it?
mat would sound like democracy. In
1918 they gave us a prohibition refer
endum and it carried Perhaps would
this. Anyway, it was just to the tax
payers and users of the roads. The
delegation from Laurens county, with
her level country, voted bond issue of
$3O0,O with referendum provision
that the people vote on it the 9th: the
Cherokee delegation voted 1926, GOO with
a provision that the people vote on it
the 18th. And as we go along let us
remember that in 1914 the Anderson
delegation voted $7SO, 600 with pro.
vision and It was vo.ed out all over the
county, l3 to l. At the same session
Greenvlle county voted 5000, 600 and no
referendum, and we remember there
was considerable confusion over it.
Pickens county has supervisor and
chaingang, and with the hired labor
employed and all equally expended over
the county as it should be Pickens coun-
ty would have fairly good roads. Pick
ems county has had chaingang for 22
years and it is expensive, and you might
say that they have not been EMPLOYED
any during those % years in the upper
section of the county. So it can very
easily be seen that the upper section
has been very liberal to the lower sec
ton in giving her convenience and en-
HANGING the value of her property. Per-
haps the $250,0OO bond issue was born
the heir of few special friends to
bulid the trans-mountain road. If SO,
perhaps it will draw the supervisor this
way.
l read with interest the article of
Mountain Sprout in reference to the
route and gap-crossing Of the cross
mOllnfHln I
IONS IN full. Come again, Mountain
Sprout; if the sap is not up let's hear
from you in full. enjoy your articles.
Well, Mr.. Editor, am trespassing on
your space, if this article even is not
doomed to the waste basket, 80 | will
quit for this time. With kind wishes
to everybody. TAX PAYER
Pickens II 3, March 5.