The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-12-19
MALLORYITE's VIGOROUS PRO.
TEST.
Sees Nothing But Selfishness I'm Man.
ufacturers and Sections that
Want State Highways.
Mallory, s. c., 12-14-18,

Mallory, s. c., 12-14-18.
Dillon Herald:-A dissenter gets
neither pleasure. satisfaction or hon
or from his activities as a knocker
or kicker while the propagandist gets
large measure OF them all. When
an individual, society. corporation or
government sets out to mould public
opinion up to a winning point by
the use of propaganda or advertising
the conscientious objector is held up
to view as yellow. as an obstruction
ist. a reactionary and when they get
through with him there's not much
left. But I'm going to kick against
the activities of the Automobile AS
sociation until they either succeed
in their arbitrary proposition or
are defeated. I have before me one
OF the late lamented Col. Watson's s
highway maps of South Carolina and
am supposing that any plan of the
self-constituted automobile propagan-
dists of Charleston and Detroit, Mich
igan, representatives of cement and
paving material corporations, will be
based upon that plan. If so l would
advise every owner of an automobile
to secure a copy of that particular
map and study it a bit before sign
ing a petition for legislation for
which he is liable to repent The
cement people are we'll informed as
to what they want and how to Sc
cure it. Now let the car owner in
form himself of what they are driv-
ing at and form a definite idea for
himself as to what he wants and if
he is willing to pay annually the
price they propose.
If powerful gun trust or powder
trust in Germany or elsewhere wants
war to stimulate trade they know
how TO get it. If a company of civil
engineers want to stimulate their
business they scatter to the four
winds propaganda for drainage and
reclamation. If a road plow company
or a cement or paving material COM
pany wants to stimulate trade and
add millions to their wealth they
know how to get about 1t. And the
honest unsuspecting public don't
stop to inform itself but catches the
enthusiasm. takes up the catch phrase
slogans and becomes a catspaw and
stoves along a propaganda whose
victim he Is.
All commercial activity is based
upon advertising. 1T pays to adver-
tise." Propaganda is just a stealthy
deceitful member Of the advertising
family. Get that into your head Also
get hold of the fact that the same
bunch of fellows who tried to hold
up the U. S. Government for enor-
nous profits on navy yard site in
the marshes near Charleston are
fathering the bond proposition aided
and encouraged by representatives of
manufacturers of road building tools
and materials from Michigan and
elsewhere.
Don't get the idea that this kick is
in opposition to good roads. No sir.
On the contrary l want good roads.
The people generally want good
roads. But the tendency of unfairness
that turks in the proposition for 25
million dollar bond issue is the thing
I object to. Dissatisfaction is at the
bottom of the social and political
unrest in Austria, Russia, Germany
and the large labor centres in other
countries. including this country
The tendency of entrenched wealth
is toward selfishness and the unrest
it engenders is steering the helpless
pouulace toward socialism year after
year. The hard grinding attitude
of those large corporate interests
who want to sell their wares wheth-
er the buyer needs them or not is
the daddy OF many an injustice, and
the grand-daddy of socialism. Let
the legislature work out a scheme of
township road commissioners or
school district road commissioners
heavily bonded to handle special au-
tomobile taxes from that district or
township and free it from graft and
robbery and 1 warrant there will not
be two per cent objectors to even a
higher tax on automobiles and
trucks than that now proposed, but
don't talk to the car owner about
the justice of a class tax to build ar
terial roads which in the enthusiasm
of the meetings being held in Char
lesion and Columbia have swelled
from 1000 miles, the first PROPOSE
ton. to 1900 miles the present plan
While the hired spoilers from the
the city are building up a favorable
sentiment for their petiaion to the
legislature let the volunteer car owner
voice his disapproval in a most Wig
orous appeal to other car owners to
utter a counter petition seating
forth the numerous Objectionable
features Of the proposition.