The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-05-25
Only Ono Remedy.

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dollars which will arise under the tax
and appropriation acts, says the CO.
lumbia Register, and to the consequent
embarrassments in all branches of the
public service, and in all tho institu-
tions of tho State. Salaried officers
havo received about half of their pay,
and will receive nothing furthor, OK
cept fraction of dues for May, until
next February or March. II is osti-
mated that tho Lunatic Asylum, Or,
phan Asylum and tho Penitentiary
will have received and exhausted by
tho ond OF this month their full pro-
portion of the tax realized from the
levy for their support. Those who,
TO their loss and ruin, in some instan-
COS, Came to their rescue in former
years with their goods and supplies
on credit, cannot do it again. Tho
lunatics and the orphans can do moth
ing to help themselves, and their re-
gents will find it an upshill task to
get credit on their behalf. The Peni-
tentary convicts can be put to some
use In assisting to procure their own
support. One hundred of them are
working at Big Lako plantation, be-.
low Columbia, and, as we learn from
the Union-;Herald, negotiations are
pending tosutilizo two hundred or
moro of thom in grading road which
will make an important railroad con-
ncction with Columbia, and those who
romain within tho walls will be put
to active work in manufacturing
brick. This is as it should be, and
necessity has confirmed at last the
suggestions of this and other iourn-
ais for the utilization of convict la
Dor.
The evils hero glanced at arc but
drop in tho bucket Of those which
really exist. Our people are bravo
and hopeful, and make but little COM
plant, but sagacious minds must sec
that tho condition of tho country is
fast tending to universal bankruptcy
and ruin. The whole difficulty with
us is expressed in nut shell in a Ice
ture by Prof Summer, of Yale College,
recently delivered in Now York;
ave cannot legalizc plumber undor
any guise whaLovor. without surely
wasting wealth, and impovcrishing
robbers and robbed together"
The causes of this monstrous "crc>
vases" are not far to seek. The ro-
medy can only como from heroic
treatment. Nothing short of thor-
ough political revelation can bring
the State any peace, prosperity or
hopo. Whom Governor Chamberlain
said, in the Oarpenter-Butler CAM
paign at Chester in 1870, that failure
in finance was failure in everything,
he uttered q truth which then existed,
has existed over since, and now exists
in the most intense and magnificd
form, to be followed soon by momen-
tous consequences. What have we
known but failure, not only in finance,
but in everything which depends upon
it in tho last decade of yoars2 There
is no parallel in history of tho mis-
government, corruption, oxtrava>
gancc and profigacy that tho people
of South Carolina have endured. Tho
end now approaches oithor of rescue
from this miserable and contemptible
condition or of confirmation over us
Of the rule of barbarism and of the
system of organized spoliation. Which
shall it be? The Governor wrestlcd
with the General Assembly to prevent
the elimination and exposure which
havo now come. Ho sought to koop
tho tax levy within bounds, and to
make appropriations conform to it.
He pointed out reductions, and made
various useful suggestions, which, had
thoy boon adopted, would havo kcpt
up appearances little longer. But
that is all they would have done. Tho
crash had to como sooner or lator. Ii
has como, and leaves but one duty to
the people to discharge and but ono
remedy for thom to apply. In it's
application they will welcome assist