The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-06-03
KILLING THE INDUSTRIAL GOOSE

KILLING THE INDUSTRIAL GUIDE
Here is something for North Carolinlans
to think about - something which should
have their most serious consideration next
Saturday:
The Anderson. S. c., Record asserts that
the textile industry in that State is In a
"precarious condition as the result OF the
tax burden it is bearing today; and the
Anderson newspaper quotes III support OF
this assertion this statement OF views by
The Greenville Observer: ...
"There are things in South Carolina far more
important than continuance of the fight for control
of the highway department and therefore 1t Will De
misfortune for this state if election of state sem
ators and representatives this summer should who'll
" turn on whether Governor Johnston or somebody
else shall control the highway department. The su-
nreme need of South Corolina is election OF mem
hers of the general assembly who will practice IN
Columbia all their promises on the stump OF econ
omv made in order to get elected. The textile IN
dustry in this state is in precarous condltlon De-
capse of too heavy taxation and must receive tax
relief if il is to be preserved Too heavy taxes have
closed cotton mills in other states and Will close
them in South Carolina just as they have stopped
the growth of the textile industry in this state
The truth is that for number, OF years
South Carolina has been afflicted with
bunch of politicians obsessed with the idea
of riding and regulating the textile indus
try. If the State has arrived at the point
where the industry is about to be ruined
by regulation and taxation, 1t is the lneVlta-
BILE result of such bad judgment and politi-
cal folly. 49,
The textile industry of the New England
States has been strangled and wrecked by
a similar course. Much of the industry has
been transferred from New England to the
South, the larger part of it to the Caro-
linas; and now South Carolina is taking
the course which will certainly result in
wrecking the industry. North Carolina is
following closely behind South Carolina in
the matter of imposing restrictive, repres-
sive and dangerously burdensome taxation
on the textile industry-and on other in
dustries. The almost unanimous opinion OF
conservative citizens of every class is that
the danger point has been reached in North
Carolina. -
Citizens who are interested in the future
welfare, progress and prosperity of their
State will take sane and common-sense,
as well as a patriotic, view of the present
condition of their State, and they will be
guided in their action next Saturday by
that spirit. They will not permit their vot'
ing to be controlled by ignorance, preju-
dice, spite, personal feeling or petty con-
siderations, but will support with their bal
lots the men and the policies that common
intelligence and experience have stamped
as being sane and safe.
Don't give your support at the ballot boz
to any plan that proposes to exterminate
the industrial goose in North Carolina
THOUSANDS of citizens are depending on its
golden eggs for food, clothing, homes, TO,
all'the necessities and Injuries of the age
Do, some earnest, honest and unbiased
thinking before casting your. 7ote.