The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-03-18
THE RICH-THEY RIDE.

Commenting on, our feeble re-
marks, in which we contended that il
the people of the State are to be
called upon to build roads and to
pay enormous sums of money there
for, the county authorities in the sew
eral counties should at>least have the
designation of the roads to be con-
>structed in the counties, the Colum'
bia State says:
"From the city of Greenville to the
Anderson County line is five miles
Would the Abbeville Press and Ban,
ner have Brushy Creek Township to
be terra incognita forever and for
ever to all Greenvillians? From the
State House in Columbia to the
estate of Lexington" is about one
mile would The Press and Banner
have the Lexingtonians fortify a.
gainst an invasion Of ,ColumDians by
series Of mudhole entanglements?
To be sure, one who knows his Alb.
beville, and loves it as we do, car
think the thoughts of the Abbevil.
lians in this matter, which is to say
that if we 2dwelt in Abbevflle, or in
any other region Of the entirely blest
it would never occur to us to cross
the county line. Abbeyille TO :. her.
self q kingdom, is, or queendom,
and the long-distance telephone is
properly looked upon by the Able.
vile people as an insufferable bother
To, fly out of the county. when flying
shall be diversion Of the plain peo.
pie Gas it may be in few years.
will be regarded as execrably bad
manners-there will be room enough
between Secession Hill and the roof
of the blue vault above for the soar
ing ambition Of the true sons and
daughters without their. hazarding q
Whit Of the tainted air cushions that
press down upon the soils of Ander-
son, Greenwood and Laurens.
: The elect live in Abbeville and
the rest of the world is composed of
mortals yearnipg to 60 there and sit
in the game Of setback that began
to sprout with the canes of Long
Cane and will go on till kingdom
come. There is no place like Able
vile; not even Charleston is like it."
; Having read the above, we are i'm
pressed with the fact that the rea-
sons assigned are about as good rea-
sons as we haae siieards and w taks,
it, as good as The State can assign,
why the peeRspef AbbeIllea County,
should pay six, twelve or eighteen
thousand dollars, all affnpsaIlls in property
taxes, and about twenty thousand in
license taxes for the building of
roads, and then surrender our right
to have these roads built where they
will best serve the interests of the
people of this county, and in turn
give over to a few men in Columbia,
who are about as visionary as some
other people, the right to expend our
money according to their visions.
We have a perfect right, of course,
to pay the taxes, we always have had
that right, but in these days of max
ing the world safe for democracy,
we have no right to- say what roads
we desire built with our own money
it seems. It is ours to do the pay
ing, but the roads must be of a
state system, and The Columbia
State says it is not important ;wheth-
er they reach either Abbeville or Co.
lumbia. We might doubt the latter
part of the statement, but we have
no doubt that when few people con-
stituting the Highway Commission
begin to spend the money of people
to whom they are in no way respon-
sible, it will make little difference
whether the roads in fact reach Alb
beville, or any other of the smaller
Gi
commission to -Snend . the share off
sahsssiaavs sasllsaga snssssiulz
which it pays rather, in building q