The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-06-09
A Plea for a Square Deal.

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"a letter was received from DR.. R.
B. Furman Of the Privateer section
asking how soon the road petitioned
for in that part Of the county would
be built. The Board did not see its
way clear at this time to open up this
road, bat will do SO as soon as posi-
ble.''-The Item. June 3rd.
Now hat the big bond scheme has
become law. mainly by the over
whelming vote at the hub Of the
wheel, it is time that we on the Pc
riphery were accorded some measure
of justice. There is a well founded i'm
preston down here that we have been
badly and unjustly dealt with in the
past and we see but little prospect for
future amendment.
Think of well; populated and fair
3y prosperous community containing
25 square miles untraversed by a pub
lie road in this day and time! I have
yet to find the man In this section who
favored the bond issue. And can you
blame us? For years we have been
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petition:ng the County Board for an
outlet, and for years we have been
treated to vaccillating promises and
rebnffs. What profit will it be to the
farmers of this section to have a paw
| ed road three or four miles away over
which he can haul sin bales of cotton
! if he can only haul two bales to it
What good will the road do our auto
mobiles if We have. to wreck and
ruin them getting to it? We are not
children begging for fayors. but vot-
ers and taxpayers, asking for the just
rights which should have been accord
ed to- US long ago.
! It goes rather against the grain to
see our taxes doubled for the balance
of our natural lives with a very
doubtful benefeto ourselves. We are
sick of being answered with the time
dishono,'ed bromide about what may
be done in the future. We have been
fled on slops of that Kind down here
for more years than I can remember.
What we want now is action and not
{helPs paving stones.
It would be prepoSterous to spend
$4,000 or 100000 on Gamers ferry
for the benefit Of handful Of auto
mobile tourists when so much is need
ted-in the Development. of Sumter coun-
I4y. If the Board has such wad to
dispose of-the plea has heretofore
been poverty-why not spend it to the
benefit of the people to whom the
county owes her prosperity The ex-
penditure Of This sum for the purpose
named would at this time be nothing
short Of a misuse Of public funds.
And the Turheville road. Take ofe
your hats, bow to the ground, paw
UP that some with your feet and put
gentlemen. come in, Just name
what you want and you shall have it,
pro re nata-" G.et me whisper in the
ear of Turbeville, ct. al: Get your
road before you cut loose from your
present moorings-it might cost "a
good deal to come in and then go QUO
againD and to Lower Privateer who
has been begging crumb. all these
years: Put your thumb on the tip OF
your nose and wiggle your fingers and
say: Wait until your betterS are done
eating and then you can have the
bone. if there is any bone. II not you
lcan simply go to-Avernus.
/ suppose the County Board has the
legal right to dispose of the funds OF
the people as it sees fit. But might
does not always make right. 1t some
times makes grieyous mistakes that
inn paraby inj,,re the makers and op-
press the victims
r, B. FuRMAN.