Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-22

little defect. Money makes the mare 60, and
the universities, also. 1t is one of the most
powerful agents with which mankind have to
deal. 1t was Sprague, I believe, who said
that there was nothing so powerful as mil
lion of dollars, unless it was two millions.
THE SALARY STEAL.
The Tennessee Congressman who ran their
arms, elbow.deep, into the treasury and took
five thousand dollars each, of the peoples
money, are not getting over the little matter
so easily as they expected. Brownlow has
come out in letter defending himself on the
ground that his services are worth seven
thousand five hundred dollars to the people.
He is mistaken. The people don't want him
at any price. If he don't believe it, let him
resign and stick out his head for reelection
again. He would soon find where he stands.
He is not worth two hundred and fifty dollars
year to the people. Seven thousand five
hundred dollars, however, the amount of his
salary, could be easily raised to get him to
resign. He is utterly played out and knows
it. The salary grab was the finishing blow.
By the way, see the report that Sloss, of
Alabama, has given his back pay to the poor
of his district. Some men, you know, can
be so very liberal with other peoples money.
ExTRAvAGANCE IN DRESS.
I dropped into the Maxwell House few
nights ago, where fashionable ball was in
progress. 1t was gotten up by the knights OF
something or other, l don't remember the
name. What struck me most was the ex-
travagance in dress of both ladies and gentle
men,. A friend told me that the young bucks
had spent on an average two months salary
each in their outfit. l should say that the
outfit in dress for the ball alone could not
have been less than ten thousand dollars.
In the South this is wrong, absolutely wick
ed. Such folly drains the country of money
to no purpose. We do not get value received
for it. If we send for steam engine or bar
rel of -four we have something to show for
our outlay, but when it goes for Aashy and
Aimsy attire, of quality which we can very
we'll do without, the southern country is rob-
bed of just so much, and it never returns. If
we manufactured our own goods of the sort,
the case would not be so bad, for then it
would be an exchange of commodities among
ourselves; but now the money goes and never
returns, unless it is brought back by sweat.
Every fashionable ball in the South, such as l
witnessed at the Maxwell, costs on an average,
a hundred bales of cotton That is to say, it
takes the value of that amount of the hard
earned products of the country to pay for the
foolishness. The lesson of severe economy is
hard one to learn, but it is necessary that
the Southern people become students in that
school, for years to come, in order that they
may become "even with the world" AS a
section, the balance of trade is against us, and
always will be, so long as we send our money
out Of the country as fast as we get it in. We
do not manufacture in the South anything
that is fine, nor indeed much that is coarse,
and it should be the object Of every one to do
without foreign-made fashionable fnery as
much as possible. Every dollars worth of it
we buy sends dollar out of the country never
to return.
Consider these matters, kind reader, and be
economical, not only for your own sake, but
for the sake of the PROSTATE section in which
you live. MEMO.