Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-03-05

.he negro State college. The appro- |
priation for Winthrop, S245,000, is
two and half times the amount of
the Clemson Bequest," which 80
years ago seemed of princely pro-
portions. Boldly the General Assem-
bly, sets out to enlarge the Citadel
and, because it proved itself an insti-
tuition of distinguished worth, not
one dollar of its s169,619 will be
grudged. To the State hospital for in
sane persons $685. ,4O2 is devoted
and the people are not only willing,
but resolved that their afflicted shall
be we'll cared for and protected. Re-
membering the experiences of the last
two years in war and pestilence, when
the doctor was needed more than any
other man in the community, the ap-
preparation of S49,737 to the State
medical college will be universally
applauded. Never will skilled physi-
cias be too numerous and the people
gladly do their part in multiplying
them. The people give an additional
100000 to the Confederate Veter-
ans, not forgetting that the heroism
of their sons in the late war is the in
heritance from the heroes of the COS.
The school for the deaf and blind,
the University, the South Carolina
Industrial School, the. Industrial
School for Girls, the school for the
feeble-minded, the board of charities
and corrections receive the susie
nance essential to the performance Of
their respective missions and tasks.
Nearly $4,000 is directed to the
protection and improvement of the
public health-and ten years ago the
expenditure for this object was NOM
inal.
For the salaries of officers, the gov
ernor, judges, county fiscal officers
and others, for the support of the
railroad commission and agricultural
department, for the penitentiary, for
State policing of every kind, for the
expenses of the legislature, for all the
ordinary functions of the government
including s222,2S9, interest on the
public debt, the aggregate expendi-
lures are about S750,000. In other
words, the State government itself
costs the people of South Carolina
little more than half millio.l dollars
a year, while of every 100 cents ap-
propriated by the legislature at least
80 cents goes back to the people in
the schooling of their children, the
safeguarding of their health, the
housing and treatment of their sick
and defective and the support of the
old soldiers who fought for them in
war. Were S3,2OO,O0O not raised by
taxation for these objects, education
and the care of the unfortunate
would be had, if at all, from private
be, evidence. The duty of the State
to sustain the educational and chari-
table activities has come to be under
stood, for the most part, in the last
hundred years. Always the wealthy
look after themselves. Were there no
State hospitals and colleges, the rich
men of South Carolina would not be
seriously embarrassed-they would
send their sons and their sick to pri-
vate institutions of other States. Less
than half century ago England had
no State supported public schools and
the hospitals were private establish
ments-and the very poor people
were very miserable.
In South Carolina it is the working
man who benefits in the main from
the State institutions and expendi-
lures. What the rich need most is
protection for their property and, hav
ing that, they can buy everything else
with their money-even health, for
they can build homes in the most
heathful surroundings.
The money collected by the State
and honestly and intelligently spent
by the State is the great dividend dis
:ributor among the people.
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