The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-07-14
MIR. CANTEY SAYS SUMTER
SHOULD PUT UP CASH BOND
Summerton, S. c.. JULY 12.

Summerton, S. c., July 12,
Editor of The Manning Times:
note from the newspapers that
our fellow citizens at Pinewood and
Turbeville wish to vote themselves out
of Clarendon County and into Sumter
County for the purpose of securing
better roads.
also note from the newspapers
that some of the country people in
Sumter County wish to vote them
selves out of Sumter county because
the recent appropriations for good
roads will be expended in and around
the town of Sumter, for the benefit
OF the real estate agents IN the town
of Sumter, and because he country
people in the county CT Sumter will
have to pay the taxes for good roads
while the Shylocks in the town of
Sumter will get all the benefit of the
recent appropriations for good roads.
The people Of Summerton are inter-
ested in good roads and would readily
vote themselves into Sumter county,
If Sumter County would put up a one
hundred thousand dollar cash bond to
guarantee the people of Summerton
that the county of Sumter would build
a brick or cement road from the town
OF Sumter to the town of Summerton.
but the people of Summerton are not
such blatant fools as to vote themsel-
YES into the county Of Sumter,
with the expectation OF thereby get
ting better roads and thereby be com
PEELED to pay additional taxes, upon
the mere assurance of Lang Jenn-
ings.
Lang Jennings is a shrewd and cum
nlng lawyer, but he would not loan
any one in South Carolina the sum
OF one hundred thousand dollars up
on worthless collateral. and neither
would the people of Summerton vote
themselves into Sumter county and
loan Sumter county several thousand
dollars IN extra taxes without some
kind of safe and sound cash bond.
When John Sherman was elected to
Congress from the State of Ohio, the
old gentleman was so poor, he had to
borrow suit Of clothes from a friend
in which to make the trip from Ohio
to Washington, but as soon as John
reached Washington, he had himself
put on the appropriation Committee
for the District of Columbia, forth
with purchased unimproved real estate
IN the District of Columbia, and in
stantly made appropriations for
cement sidewalks in and through said
unimproved real estate, and it is
needless to state that old John quick
ly became millionaire, while the
poor ignorant country people in the
State of Ohio were yelling and shout
ing that old John was wise and
humanitarian patriot and statesman.
The people of Pinewood and Turbe-
will have clear legal and moral right
to vote themselves into Sumter county
and thereby loan Sumter county sew
eral thousand dollars in the shape of
extra taxes, but / am just bit afraid
that in the end my good friends
around Pinewood and Turbeville will
find themselves impoverished and
Lang Jennings and the Shylocks in
and around the town Of Sumter will
become immensely enriched, by build
ing cement roads through their unim-
proved real estate, with the hard
earned taxes OF my good friends from
Pinewood and Turbeville.
At least, it would appear to any
reasonable man that the people of
Pmewood and Turbeville would re-
Quire Sumter county to put up a cash
: bond to guarantee the people OF Pine
wood and Turbeville, before voting
upon themselves extra taxes upon the
mere worthless statement of bunch
of town Shylocks, who trade upon the
innocent country people, and now
wish these same country people to
vote money into the pockets of these
town Shylocks, upon the worthless
and unsecured statement and promise
to provide better roads.
At every county seat, can be found
a bunch of Shylocks who trade and
live and fatten upon the honest labor
of innocent country people, and Jesus,
when he lived upon the earth. secured
whips and rods, and drove these vic
ious traitors from the holy temple,
and the people Of Pinewood and Tur-
beville should at LEASE read history
and taXe a solemn warning.
Yours truly,
j. j. Cantey.
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