Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-06-28

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es but more for our taxes.
Almost every state candidate seems
to have adopted the policy of hoeing
his own row. A mighty good one too.
The two women who are competl-
tors for the same state office are set
ting men good example. Theirs is
campaign of education rather than
degradation.
Scarcely day passes that terri
ble tragedy does not occur at some
railroad crossing and nine times out
of ten the man at the auto wheel is
more to be blamed than the man at
the locomotives throttle. The auto
list who stops, looks and listens is new
er hurt.
Undisturbed by the forward march
of the boil weevil, North Carolinians
are buying defunct ginneries in Geor-
gia just as South Carolinians did sew
eral years ago. How strange it is
that people will not believe what is
said about the devastation of the
weevil until they actually feel its
sting.
Governors Good Example.
Unless he breaks his record of the
past month, Governor Harvey will go
down in history as South Carolina's
non or anti-pardoning governor. He
has been chief executive now more
than a month and has turned down
every application for a pardon. OF
course a governor may err through
persistent refusal to grant pardons
but South Carolina has never yet had
such governor. In this day when the
shedding of human blood is taken so
lightly, is it not better for governor
to err on that extreme than by grant
ing pardons too Unfortunately?
Thus far Governor Harvey is setting
his successor in Office good ex-
ample.
Indirect Taxes Not Burdensome.
In few years the expense of op-
Grating the state government in
South Carolina will doubtless be
raised altogether through indirect
taxation, as is now done in North
Carolina and some other states, leav-
ing the real estate and other visible
property to be taxed by direct levy
for county and local purposes. The
last general assembly took the initial
step in that direction by reducing
the state levy five mills and placing
tax upon luxuries, gasoline and 9TH
er things.
An indirect tax such as is paid on
1uxuries and gasoline is not as bur-
densome to the people as direct
levy, the payment Of luxury tax
being optional with the consumer. If
none of the articles that are taxed
are used, then no tax has to be paid.
While some consumers may pay more
through system of indirect than di-
rect taxation, yet they do not find it
-as burdensome. The tax is paid in
small amounts and furthermore its
payment may be left off altogether.
Although operators of motor driv-
en- vehicles now pay tax of two
cents per gallon on gasoline, the high
way commission has given out the
statement showing that up to this
time in 1922 more motor driven We
hicles have secured licenses in South
Carolina than for the same period
last year, when tax of two cents per
gallon had not been levied upon gas
oline. This tax which in the aggregate
mounts up into the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars seems to have had
no effect in decreasing the operation
of motor driven vehicles in the state.
Home and Farm Demonstration
Work.
It matters not how much the home
and farm demonstration work may
be adversely criticised, through igno-
rance on the part of some, through
prejudice on the part of others and
as an act of demagoguery on the part
of still others, there is great need
for it in South Carolina, especially
in this crisis. All Of the counties ex-
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