Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-06-19

be made to encourage immigration. As the
natural result of this parsimonious and jack
assical policy, the stream Of immigration has
ceased almost entirely, and Colorado and
Bleeding" Kansas are now receiving the
vast crowds that ten years ago were pouring
into Texas. In addition to this, the great
promises made by the Democratic party upon
coming into power, have not been redeemed
The State debt has continued to swell steadily
year by year, and taxes, instead Of being re
duced, have in some respects remained as they
were under Radical rule, and in others have
been increased. Property in this city pays
an annual ad valorem tax of three and a.hali
per cent. upon its assessed value, State, coun
,ty and city tax. Besides this, we have Ii
cense tax upon all occupations, trades and
professions, except agricultural and mechani
cal occupations. A lawyer or doctor pays
annually to the State, county and city the sum
of twenty dollars for the privalege Of trying
to make living. These high rates Of taxa
tion have operated, with other causes, in de-
terring immigration. Particularly has il
prevented the investment of foreign capital
The Democratic party in the two last
several elections carried the State by major
ity of about one hundred thousand. Its con-
dition today is bordering on the precarious
The Governor and the Legislature (Which
adjourned last month"; differed irreconcilably
on the provisions in the general appropria'
tion bill providing for the support Of free
schools and for payment of the interest on
the public debt. An extra session of the
Legislature has been called by the Governor
to meet on the 18th of June to take these
matters and others into consideration. The
strife has waxed warm in the newspapers and
among the people, and as a consequence the
power and unity of the party is greatly i'm
paired. The Legislature has passed the usu-
al bill providing for the assessment and col,
lection of taxes. Following this was the
general appropriation bill, setting apart one
fourth of the whole revenue for school pur-
poses, and appropriating S500,OOO to pay the
July interest on the public debt, and make
the necessary addition to the sinking fund.
The Governor vetoes these items in the ap'
preparation bill, saying that the total reve'
nue. under the bill of assessment and collec'
ton of the taxes will not exceed $1,60O,OOO,
and that to take from this 100000 will not
leave enough to meet the necessary current
expenses of the State government. He says
that our first duty is to maintain an efficient
State government; pay current expenses as
we 90 that it is better for the "wet weather
schools to be suspended till the State gets able
to support them, than for the officers Of State
and county to discharge their duties without
pay. In this opinion am satisfied the great
majority of the people concur with the Gov
ernor. The schools for the most part are
great farce, being Kept open only few months
in the winter, when the money lasts. BE-
sides, there are great many men who are
opposed to public schools on principle. They
see no good reason why they should be taxed
to educate another mans children any more
than to feed and clothe them.
In the division of the Democratic party the
Greenback party finds its opportunity for ad,
vancement. This piebald, spotted, mixed con-
Germ called, in its own parlance, "The Nation
al Greenback Labor Reform Party" isgradu.
ally making rapid progress in this State. 1t
already has representative in Congress
Hon. G. W. Gives-representing the Gal
weston District, and at the recent municipal
election in this city an individual who had
previously affiliated with both the Republican
and Democratic parties, and who last year at
tached himself to the Greenback party, was
elected mayor. His election was not owing,
however, altogether to the strength of the par
ty he last preferred to belong to, but in great
part to the division in the Democratic ranks.
The result, nevertheless, is the same; the
Greenbackers claim it as great victory,
and shout exultingly over having captured
Dallas, the stronghold Of Democracy in North
Texas. In the canvass last year in this Con-
gressional District there was strong disposi-
ton among the people to desert the Demo
cratic ship and seek their fortunes in the new
vessel. TO counteract this tendency, the
ablest representatives of Democracy were call
ed upon to stump the District The burden
of their arguments was that the financial pol
icy of the Republican party was oppressive
and iniquitous that it necessarily tended to
make the rich man richer and the poor man
poorer, and that the Democrtic party as soon
as it got into power would furnish all the re-
lief to the people that could be done consis,
tently with good faith to the governments
creditors. The Democratic State platform,
adopted in July last, committed the party to
the immediate redemption of all the bonded
Indebtedness Of the government in legal ten
der notes, except so much thereof as by the
express terms of the act or acts creating the
same is made payable in coin. The Green.
back party claimed that all Federal bonds
could be paid off in treasury notes the DEM
ocratic party contended that there was por,
ton of the National indebtedness that could
be paid off only in gold. Both parties agreed
upon the policy of abolishing the national
banks, and having the circulating medium Of
the country supplied directly by the govern
ment. Unless something is done during the
present session of Congress to relieve distress.
es Of the people consequent upon the contrac'
ton of the currency, there will be an incon-
trollable stampede into the ranks of the Green
back party next year. have heard the wish
expressed by many good and true and intelli'
gent Democrats in the past month that the
Greenbackers could be in power at Washing
ton for just one month, so that they could is
sue a billion of fat money, and put the wheels
of enterprise once more in motion. And look
ing around upon the stringency and distress
that prevails mere often 1eel ike saying AHeH.
The ESSENCE OF FALsEHooD.-It should
be pointed out with continual eanestness that
the essence of lying is in deception, not in
words lie may be told by silence, by equiv
ocation, by the accent on syllable, by the
glance of the eye attaching peculiar signif.
canoe to a sentence; and all these kinds of
lies are worse and baser by many degrees than
a lie plainly worded so that no form Of blind
ed conscience is so far sunk as that which
comforts itself for having deceived, because
the deception was by gesture or silence instead
of utterance: and finally, according to Ten.