The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-29
CAPT SHAW COMES AGAIN
Gives the Boys Some Advice on How
To Vote on The Bond Issue
And Tells About the
Irishman'si Prize Box

time is now at hand when the bond
issue is to be decided by majority
vote of the pepole. They should vote
eyes" or "no". I am one of Abbeville
County's sons who fails to see how
any man in Abbeville County, that
is an honest and labor-thinking man
and that believes in justice and
right to all men, can go to the polls
when he knows that he is casting a
vote on April 3rd., and put his hand
on his breast and cast his vote Eyes"
vote to impose a tax on hundreds of
men in his county that is unfair
unfair, because as l have said before
the proposed highways do not reach
a majority of the people and only
reach a small per cent of the people.
Taking this into consideration how
is a man to vote Eyes" and then
sleep soundly and peacefully after
wards?,
Some of the good roads advocates
seem to think if they can just get the
proposed highways built as they are
laid out in Senator's Moore's bill that
it won't cost Abbeville County a
cent to build all of the highways
from one end to the other They
seem to think that the Good Lord
will rain down money from heaven,
and all that they will need, to pay
the expenses of building these high
ways and will send enough of four
footed animals down on a sheet, like
he did to Peter, to feed the whole
crowd while they are doing the
work. l find plenty of people who
think that wagon can be loaded
down so heavy that the best team
can't pull it, and that a train can be
loaded so heavy that an engine can't
pull it, but they don't think that the
people can be loaded so heavy with
taxes that they can't pay it, and
they just keep piling them on.
In my way of thinking the people
better begin to consider how they
are going to pay so much taxes. They
had better look ahead of them and
make some calculation. What is the
condition of this country today? Go
to the banks and you will find thou
sands of dollars of debts the people
owe for high priced land, high
priced automobiles, high priced
mules. Some say this does not a.
mount to anything. 1t is a very dull
student who does not learn some
thing. Afterwhile the forty cents
cotton will make it alright they say.
There never has been a good thing
that has lasted always, and so it will
be with forty cents cotton. They are
crying out "boll weeviP'. Suppose
they come and destroy the crops this
year. What good is forty cents cotton
going to do the people to pay these
heavy debts at the banks and the
Proposed bonds to build highways, ii
III. ,oll weevil eats up their cotton?
The biggest fool man in Abbeville
County knows that if cotton goes to
five dollars pound and his crop is
destroyed, and he has none to sell, it
will not do him any good.
Some of the roads advocates are
going out in highways and hedges
and are trying to pull the wool over
the peoples eyes, that they call
fools, by telling them ooh, if you
don't vote for the good roads, you
will have to pay part of the amount
of the tax anyhow" But this is not
true entirely. The highway law pro-
vides that tax of two mills will be
levied for the building of highways.
and that the money paid in Able
vile County is to be spent here, But
this tax is not more than one-third
of the tax which the roads will re-
quire. We can repeal the highway
bill if we find that it is not doing
what is promised but when tho