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When your Adoney is Burned up regrets won't bring it back to you. It is very UNSAFE and it Worries you a whole lot to have money in your house or in a hole in the ground, besides "looking" time after time to see if it is safe teaches people where it is and makes it very UNSAFE. Make OUR Bank YOUR Bank. We pay liberal interest consistent with safety. Enterprise Bank Laurens, S. C. N. B. Dial, President C. H. Roper, Cashier 100 Million Dollars Worth oi Shoes These are stupendous figures, yet this is the yearly amount that the South spends for shoes. As a curiosity these figures may attract you for a minute, but the most curious thing about them is that three quarters of this money is regularly sent away from the South and the South is that much poorer for it. You trade at a Southern shoe store. You give the dealer your money. You probably buy a western or northern made shoe. When the dealer pays his bill, this money, less a small per cent to the dealer, goes north or west and the South is that much poorer. Keep your money at home. Let it work for better times, better wages, more factories, more work for Southern people. Ask your dealer for The Craddock Shoe. Made in the South, by white labor, for Southern gentlemen. The best shoe value offered by any maker in the land for $3.50 and $4.00. Money spent for Craddock Shoes stays in the South, and pays Southern labor, Southern grocers, bakers and butchers. It builds Southern factories, homes and schools. We can support more and better industries. Lefs each do his part. CR?DD?CK-TfcKKY CO. Lynchburg, Va. iFor Sale! 12 Fred W. Green house and lot on West Main Street. Formerly owned by J. H. Boyd. One House and Lot, North Harper Street containing one-half acre, more or less, fronting on Harper street 50 or 60 feet. The Harriett Mills House and Lot i N. B. DIAL, President. C. H. ROPER, Sec. & Treas. $j Home Trust Co. LAU RENS, SOUTH CAROLINA E3BSBSBED SBSHc TAX DODGERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA (By J. C. Stribling.) Tho State has received the follow ing article, in the form of a printed circular, from J. C. Stribbling of Pen dleton: If a rake-off In a liquor deal Is graft ing the State's money, what is the man doing who ia false swearing about the amouut of tax he is due the State? We often become awe-stricken over corporation or foreign graft, but have to be lambasted into paying any at tention to our big army of home made grafters?tax dodgers?at our own door. If it Is a flagrant violation of law for the general whiskey drummer and dispensary men to fall to turn In just revenue and profits to the State. Is It not also a crime of the . same class for our genial friends in other occu pations to fail to turn into the State every dollar of taxes he is due the State according to law? We farmers are prone to point to corporations and the business world as the great harbingers of grafters, but the plain truth is no man or class of men can point the linger or scorn at any other class and say thief! grafter! The farmer has the same kind of human nature In his make-up that everybody else has. All the farmer has to do to rid himself of this con ceit, let him take a peep at a few pages of bis county auditor's book and blush with shame at the black sheep there Is within his own ilock. Why. bless you. not long since a farmer was looking over his county auditor s books after another matter, and uncovered the tax returns of an other farmer who is worth more than $10(1,(Mjo, who returned his property at less than $."..i)iii>. This well-to-do farmer pays less than $ii)o tax. while another farmer near by, who does not own one-fourth as much property, pays $220 tax. And worse still, this well-to-do farmer's son is on the county board of equal ization, while yet another son Is the county clerk. Now this may not be a conspiracy to have one son holding down the county board of equaliza tion and another holding down the lid of the books that contain records of securities of his father's, but at the same time we are forced to say that if this ugly state of affairs is not a conspiracy, that it Is at least an all-fired convenient accident or coin cident to protect tax dodgers. An Intolerable Outrage. Many of us know of cases where some unfortunate who owns nothing taxable save his head and heels (poll and road) has been chased for miles over the country and finally run down and In for from $S to $12 cost and the employer Is compelled to put up the cash for his unfortunate la horer or tenant or his man goes to the chaingang, while another well to-do tax dodger, just as lawfully due the State anywhere from $.">0 to $100, Is allowed to false swear and go free. Another case Is the "home builder" (the slogan for the safety of the State and nation- who pays one third on his purchase for a home nud borrows the balance and after years of toiling tinder the burden of high Interest, taxes and family expenses is closed out at last to satisfy the money lender's claim, which is lawful but the holder of these iron-clad securities had not paid a dollar taxes on these notes and mortgages during the whole time this "home builder" was strug gling to pay both interest and taxes too. Ask this money lender why he does not pay the taxes on his securities and he will have the gall to say a whole heap about double-taxing, to compel the farmer to pay tax on bor rowed money and the money lender pay tax too, while the law says both shall pay tax. A king Tax Dodger In a High Place. I am informed by a reliable source that we have In our State a corpora tion that has put more than $1.500,000 cash into its business, that is paying tax on only $f?f>,000, for the reason that one of the head officials of this corporation Is on the board of asses sors, and no doubt the whole State has all sizes of this kind of graft in all its counties. Are the tax laws of the State made for the plain, honest people to go by and the unscrupulous cunning to evade? Why Is It that the county auditors do not go down into this thing and place all the property, on the tax books aa the law requires them to do? There are few nmong them that has the "sand" to go Into the lair of tho lions, that guard the voters, that drive the nails down in the shingles that, cover their heads! Do these floundrelng officers of the law think more about their salaries than they do about the good of the people or tho oath they take? Why don't the I boards of equalization do their duty and place all taxable property upon the books upon an equal basis? Is it a fact that many or them are tarred with the same stick along with the common tax dodgers and the rest of them keep mum for fear of being called a "common knocker"? So far as placing all property on the tax books upon equal basis at its market value is concerned, the county au ditor's office is a farce, and the board of equalization is a huge joke. Why Pays for the Rake-off Held Back by the Tax Dodgers! It is a stupendous fact that every one who places his property on the tax books at current or customary rates helps to pay the graft, or rake off held back by tax dodgers, which fact should enlist the active coopera tion of all lav-abiding citizens with Comptroller General Jones in his com mendable crusade for tax equalization. The Remedy. Publishing all tax returns In county papers every four years at reassess ment of real estate is tho one fell sweep that would attract the interest and aid the people in each township of the State. This publicity is the guttling gun or bombshell that would drive every hider-out into the open where the populace can inspect the returns and see to it that no one shall pass muster without a clean record. For the same reason that we require establishing of expenditures of the people's money that we may see where it goes, we should also know who is not turning in all the just tax money due the county and State. The drag-net that would catch all 'the sharks that jump over and dive under the first of January as the dates for property on hand instead of nain- , lag one day. the law should take an ; average of several months for a basis! of money on deposit or in any busi ness. Tax Inquisitors. A tax Inquisitor for each congress ional district having the right to ex amine all public and corporation rec ords and the power to summon wit nesses as well as the right to convene county boards of equalization to suit the itinerary of bis rounds would also be the one limb of the law that might be made to bring In a revenue of $10 or more for every $1 spent on his work on. either of the plana of a sal ary or percentage pay. Some think that these tax inquisitors should be required to change districts in their rounds, after the plan of the circuit Judge*. Kind ot Men te> Enforce Taue Laws* These tax Inquisitors should not be floundering politicians or weaklings of the .10 cent calibre, but should be a selection from among the ablest men we have and paid accordingly foe their work?men of spine, discretion and diplomacy, that know the law more than kith or kin, or friend or foe. Something Must be Des?. We have been moralizing over this tax dodging graft about long enough. It is time our representatives go for these "parasites upon the body politic" with gloves off, and provide a sure plan to tighten the screws down upon all tax dodgers alike. We have sent | a I.yon out after the liquor grafters that fetched in the game, and we now want a gang of Bengal tigers, that can see. to go after the wiley tax dodgers. Something must he done to relieve the strain upon the con science of our good people who arc in the habt! of sitting In tho nraeu cor ners Of churches singing psalms on Sunday, and go before the -ounty au ditor on Monday and swear that the value of their cow Is $s. when they know they could get $l!<> or $10 for her. or their land Is worth $t> per acre when they know that other lands by them are selling from $40 to $100 per acre; or they have no other property, stock, notes, mortgages, cash or any Other property to their credit not ; listed In their returns, and spend six months afterward trying to relieve the strain upon their conscience by saying "they all do it," or trying to make themselves believe that false swearing is diplomacy or some other left-handed thing with no harm in it. A Show Down for the Demagogue. Most any man who has the pluck to sny that the plain people do the double tax paying, while the cunning rich do the stunts in tax dodging, is sure to be doffed as a demagogue, and now is the time for each and every representative to he called upon to stand up and be counted as to whether a dollar is a dollar, whether it Is in the hands of the lieh, or poor man, or in iron-clad securities, or in the active producing world. Give all a Chance to say whether or not they go to Columbia to get something for the "interest they represent" that Other people don't get. Is there an honest man in all South Carolina who thinks or believes that other people should pay taxes on his dollars"? Visit The Central Cafe J For Ladies and Gentlemen. Our Long Experience has taught us how to J serve you Neatly, Quickly and Agreeably. * Central Cafe Laurens, S. C. tV |i^t? mmi111J Special Values at W. G. Wilson & Co. Children's Sweaters 50c, Misses' Sweaters $1.50, Ladies' Sweaters, strictly all wool, at $2.50 and $3.50. All wool Mufflers, Togues and a complete line of Cotton and Wool Underwear, Cotton and Wool Hosiery, Blankets and Flannels. W. Q. Wilson & Co. Farewell 1910 Welcome 1911 Happy New Year to All! \ \ The Year 1910 has gone breaking*ajl records in the Coal and Wood business. More Coal and Wood sold with none dis satisfied or disappointed. We guarantee Our Coal to Give Satisfaction. For we buy only the best grade of Coal. We handle all our Coal with forks?impossible for you to get any dirt or slack coal. Let us keep you warn?. ? J.W.&R.M. Eichelberger \ "The Coal Hen" Phone 33. We want to do your Tin Roofing Guttering and all other work in the Tin and Sheet Uron Line We will sell you a better grade of -VALLEV TIN = than you have been using at the same price. We make anything to order out of Sheet Metal Be sure and see our M3tal hinwies before roof ing your residence. Yours for better work and material. DIVVER BROTHERS Gray Block. Sullivan St. - Laurens, S. C.