Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-26
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ECONOMY.
The Southern people must change their
mode of doing business. Every event which
transpires, and all the circumstances by which
we are surrounded, are calculated to impress
this upon our minds. We cannot do as we
once did and We cannot, as people, long
live as we are now living. The wear and tear,
and almost wholesale waste, which is going on
amongst US will, in short time, reduce us to
beggary. We must commence system of
saving Annually, there is wasted, by the
Southern people, enough, if it was properly
husbanded. to make the South rich in a few
years. This wastefnl practice embraces eve.
ry thing, from the soil we cultivate to the food
we eat, and the clothing with which we cover
ourselves. We are sorry to say it, but in this
particular the Southern people resemble un-
civilized tribes. With large number of our
people, the motto seems to be to destroy and
waste The forest is wantonly cut down and
the soil recklessly cultivated, and the final re-
suit, which is soon reached, is gullies and
glades. Horses, mules, COWS, sheep and hogs,
are treated in way that the inference would
be, did we not know otherwise, that the owner
was making desperate effort to exterminate
these domestic animals. There is one word
that is not in the vocabulary of our Southern
people. That word is the monosyllable, care!
Rich and poor, black and white, seem to have
no idea of saving anything. Those who are
reputed rich, expend, in useless extravagances
and reckless wastes, all their gross incomes !;
and those who are poor imagine that unless
they ape the rich they will be disgraced. If
a rich man gets new coat, his poor neighbor
thinks that he is compelled to do the same
thing. Broadcloth coats and silk dress in our
country, are no indexes of the financial con-
dition of the wearers.
The manners and customs of our people in
this respect must be changed, and that very
soon. We are poor There is nothing gained
by attempting to conceal this fact. Fully one
half of the present citizens of the Southern
country are poor. They have nothing but
their labor upon which to depend. They are
not only poor, but they are fearfully ignorant
and thriftless For this they are not culpable,
but the fact is not removed by this. Of the
remaining portion of citizens, very large
number, whilst they are not absolutely poor,
are relatively so. They are possessed of a
small amount of property without the physic-
al or mental capabilities necessary to make
it profitable. For this they are not to be
censured. They were educated to be gen.
tlemen of leisure, and to waste and spend !;
not to make and save.
These are not very palatable statements,
but they are nevertheless truths which we
should look fairly in the face. All that the
South needs that it may become prosperous
and powerful, is the introduction and practice
ola wise and honorable system Of economy.
Without this We do not see how we can ever
rise from our present poverty stricken condi-
ton. The gross income Of some of our South
ern people is fabulous when compared with
that of others of the same financial standing
in other sections of the world but the expen-
ses of the Southern people are enormous.
Hence, it often happens that those individuals
whose gross income is great have nothing
that they can call their own after expenses are
paid. A proper system of economy, if we are
not greatly mistaken, would remedy this state
of things.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Several cases of hydrophobia are reported
at Cheraw.
- Mr.. James S. Chambers died in Colum-
bia on Sunday last.
There is general complaint throughout
the State of bowel disease.
The crops of wheat and corn ip Green
vile county are reported as fine and promi-
sing we'll.
The Ledger says that dysentery is prevail
ing to a considerable extent in Lancaster
county.
DR.. F. S. Lewie, formerly member Of
the Legislature from Lexington, died in that
county on Friday last from small pox.
A young man in Orangeburg, one day
last week, was bitten by garter snake from
the effect of which he died next day.
- Camden has had case of small pox. II
was carried there by colored woman from
Charleston.
For the year, ending June 1st, 2S9O bales
of cotton were shipped from Blackstocks
Fairfield county.
Mr. S. G. Caughman, the travelling agent
will deliver lecture at Rock Hill on the I'd
of July, and one at Yorkville on the 18th, in
aid of the Palmetto Orphan Home.
The Randolph Rihemen of Charleston
having been invited to visit Boston on the
Fourth of July, are trying to raise the money
needed for the trip.