The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-11-30
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whole, % pgch better thsn We expected
70 hears that We confess to feeling cheer.
iedy By il. Thor State fGonernment,
through both executive and legislative q
departmental. has taken decided ground
against jeopardizing the credit of the
state and depreoiating its present securi!
tIes by ill'considered aid TO railroads.
Gov. Scott oven enggests return to
specie payments as q means of still fur
sher strengthening The credit of the
State. 1t may be said, that he has
doubtless purchased up State bonds.
Be it 80; it is a good security for his
good behavior, and his financial recon-
mendations commend themselves to our
Judgment as both prudentand sagacious
They constitute, together with his re.
commendation OF an agricultural and
polytechnic college, the best part of the
message. But Gov. Scott's thorough
9ankeeism and inability to comprehend
She ooutherner, even with his private
secretary Heart to assist him. shows
itself again In this message, while treat
ing the wrongs of labor, as it did in his
last message, which was simply libel
on the State. All intelligent Southerners
already know the advantages of fair
dealing and justice, but the laborers of
the South unfortunately do not under
stand that days wages are worth q days
work, though even louder than Gov
Scott on days work being worth q
days wages. Nor have they tue faintest
conception that it is their own unteac ha-
bleness and unsteadiness in performing
what they do. which renders their work
less productive, and hence less remu-
neratlve to all concerned. Gov. Scott,
aiming his filings at an entire class, the
employers, because some few Of that
class (fewer perhaps than in any other
community in the world) violate the
rules OF fair dealing, supposes that q
change an that class. can or will elevate
labor. This is q mistake. Elevation
must come from aoithin the la5oring class
itseH, through education, knowledge,
skill and virtue, bursting forth iato
fruits of increased production and
assured comfort and prosperity.
This puerile abuse Of one class OF the
poor (for we are all poor in South Caro-
lima, now, and $5, 900, 900 of State and
Federal taxes to come out of this years
short crop will not cure us of poverty
may seem to Gov. Scott fine way OF
pleasing the class that casts majority of
the votes. But we believe in truth US
always better than trickery, and in q
liberal view as always wiser aud stronger
than narrow one. And verify, Cardoza
sets Gov. Scott a good example in this
very matter. Except in his Boston
speech, in which the colored secretary
INDUCED in stupid spout on the cub
lect OF "the large landed proprietors"
for our present regime are no Solomons
on most subjects of political economy
Cardoza has. i'll every other notice we
have seen of his addresses, been mode
rate and conciliatory, and has struck the
true key. note to this great social ques-
tion OF the elevation and improvement
oi labor, by exhorting his race to look
to education, science, true religion and
virtue, as the safe and certaiq< beans of
progress, and not simply to leg aion or
to antugonism with the whits
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