The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-19
THE STATE PRESS.
HIGHER WAGES.

| Somewhat higher wages are already being
offered to laborers by our farmers, and we only
| hope that tolerable crops nt tolerable prices
will enable them to pay them next winter, with
| out repenting of their bargain. For instance
| about eighty dollars is being offered for q
| plough ghman, which is at least twenty dollars
more than last year. third of the crop, but
with fifty pounds of meat, is another contract
in general favor, which Is also better, all things
considered, than last year, for the crop prom
| ises to prove more valuable than it did at
the same season last year. Let the freed
man but work steadily, and even be5ter terms
may be made by him for 1870, and no one be
loser by them. If he would work more skilfully,
that is. give as hearty attention to the making
OF manure and to the preparation Of the soil,
as to ploughing and hoeing the crop, higher
wages than the present high wages would be
his tor 1870, to certainty.
THE CHANGE OF VENUE.
| The Abbeville Banner pitches into the bill
authorizing the Attorney-G General to change
the venue in State cases as g blow aimed at
the dearest interests Of the citizen. 'N
THE OoNsTABULARY.
The Walhalla Courier says:
Why is this county bulwark Of Eadicalism
or espionage over quiet aud respectable citi-
zens to be continued in Oconee? A county no.
torious alike for the similarity Of sentiment
and opinions of it's citlzens and the universal
peace and tranquility that has prevailed within
its limits since the overthrow Of substantial
oppression.
SOCIAL EQUALITY.
The Orangsburg News says:
| We want it distinctly understood that the
columns OF our paper cannot, and never will be
used, while we control them, to lift the colored
race above the white. And the white man who
will deliberately strive to make the colored race
think that they are superior to the white race,
is knave, and the truth is not in him. The
colored man himself won't trust him. And
whilst we advocate giving the colored people
| all their political rights as citizens-and use
our every effort to sec that they are justiy
dealt by in Christian land, we at the same
time assert to our own race that g. whittier
thou goest, will go; and where thou lodgest
| will lodge; thy people shall be my people.
and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will
I die, and there will be buried; the Lord do
| 80 to me, and more also, if aught but death
part thee and me-"
BACON AND CORN.
The Newberry Herald says:
Cotton is royal article in the worlds com
merce; at present, it commands royal price.
| We deem 1t proper to throw out a suggestion
| upon the next crop. From all we can learn,
more thanNever, our planters have in view to
plant cotton almost exclusively. It is q dam
gerous experiment. Ev~ry planter should, at
least, have in view to raise his own breadstuffs.
| The scarcity of corn and bacon enhances the
price OF labor Labor, for the last twelve
months, mon has advanced nc at least twenty-five per
| cent. IN value. The negro is disappearing,
| nobody knows where, aud white labor does not,
as yet, take his place. The white man will
pause before he comes, as a laborer, to q coun-
try not well supplied with beef and grain.
Even at the present price Of negro labor, the
white laborer would not be Willing to compete.
II labor is to continue scarce, and the price Of
labor to advance steadily hy the increase Of
planter VIII be remunerated sufficiently by
the probable advance in the price OF the great
staple. In all probability, the price OF the
bulk OF the present crop is the maximum that
the staple will attain. The single article of
| wages Of the colored laborer and the profits Of
| the employer.
These matters should be well considered in
connection with pitching another crop: "A fail
would entail ruin ana starvation upon the ma
| jority OF the population. Let us have bacon
and corn.
SHARING THE CROP.
| The Winnsboro' News says:
The impression ptavails amongst some that
| the share OF the crop contract between land
lord ana laborer is sons thing new under the
dition in which the war left the southern peo.
pie. Now tho truth is, that in perhaps three
foufths or FL ance and One-halT OK Geruany at
tnls very day, ''the metayer system OF farming
prevails, which IL modification of the share
OF the crop contract system. and from what
writer's ol the subject say, we balieve that very
I! maliy o. the contracts aro identical in every
respect, with those which have been made IN
tne south aurlng the last few years. Adam
smith, whose work was published In l776.
comments upon the metayer BY stem, so that ii
Is century old at least IN Etrope. s.whaf-
ever theoretical objections may be made to 1t, .
says Tucker. IA work published on Political
ECONOMY for People, J" long before the war tsin
France and many parts of Europe, q happy
and prosperous peasantry dOnrished under ,t.
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