The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-12-19

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once btgih;to take tBoagkt lfos the suofrow,
aud aye s(pbulafsd To labor and 40 sare.--
Their stJ4 4d sfaSaN fheir rude hutsy their
tattcteds dssarmef fts, their laz3Smoti6ns, all
bcs;u to brighten up aud quicken. They
take better care Of their health, work
TO more advantage, demand better tools
and cultiyntc the soil or labor in the me- !.
chanics shop with more success. Common
laborcrs, with such an education as tho
free common school gives, are found by
actual experiment to be worth to the State,
as mere producing machines, on an average
fifty per cent. more than if il!iterate. in
other words, the 100000 Of illiterates in
the South would, if they had common
school education, accomplish on the average
fifty per cent. more Of productive work per
year than they now do This would be
equivalent, as wealth. creating power, to
adding million and hale to. the, indus
trial population Of hepcottop States. and
! uu,hiug to the cost ofsufportiug them"
do not quote TO you what Washington,
Jefferson and Calhoun said on the subject
Of education. Immigration and education
arc the two great needs Of our State.
Mr.. Earle said: am opposed to local
legislation. know that it is sometimes
necessary TO enact local laws; but there
shoa!d be no local Legislation upon general
subject. Education is a general subject
and it is most important subject. 1t
should be provided for by this body itself.
1t is not matter of education We are con-
sidering it is question whether We shall
give the towns aud villages the power to
levy school taxes. Is it wise to remit to
bdivisions of the people what wo should
attend to? If the two mill tax and the
poll tax are not sufficient, then let this body
provide for it and not shift the responsible
ty to towns and villages. The present tax
levy is as much as South Carolina can al
ford to pay. concur in all that has be n
said in praise Of the Superintendent of Ed
ucation, but this report is erroneous in some
particulars. South Carolina lays her full
share in proportion to wealth, debt and pop
ulation.
Here Mr.. Earle m,dc quotations from
tabular statement, showing these particu-
hcrcaftcrl
l believe the law will have the same cf-
feet as the Republican law that those
persons who are SO fond of attending meet
ing' will como to pass and levy over the
heads Of the property holders; and then
there will be hue and cry as 20 property
qualifications. If the law is not unconsti-
tutonal it will be said that it is.
Mr.. Brown also spoke against the bill and
Mr.. Cooke in its favor.
CHEAP QCINlNE-Thc act of Congress
making quinine free of duty, seems to have
worked like charm. The number Of
prophets of evil were many, but the pre-
dlctions which have come true have yet to
be enumerated. When the duty repeating
the clause was passed, on July /, qui-
nine went up ten cents per ounce, because
it was said that the two Philadelphia hou-
scs which have been getting rich On this
tax for the promotion o: malarial fever
meant to 90 out of business at once and i'll
coutincntly. However, the American man
utacturers seem to have changed their
minds after the bill became a law. For
clgn manufacturers began to increase their
productions, and to increase their shipments
to this side also. The mportations Of uui-
nine and sulphatc Of quininc from April to
July were S2o, 200; from July to October,
after the duty was taken of, the imports
rose to $3.50 800, while during the same
period, in spite Of the fact that this period
covered the malarous season, the price of
quininc fell to S275 per ounce for Ameri-
can and to So % FOR French This disp,-
scs at last Of this blood tax, for it shows
that free quinnc will not drive American
manufacturers ont Of the market, but that
it has had the effect already to stimulate
their production and that of their foreign
competitors so much as to enable our sick
people to get quininc at prices which are 50
cents cheaper per ounce than those which
ruled while the monopoly was still sustained.
This means that the American people, who
are forced to consume good deal of this
invaluable anti-pe:iodic, are already able to
get it about y per cent. cheaper than for
merlv, in consequence Of the remission Of
this tax, which yielded scarcely penny Ii
the shape of revenue to the country, while
it enormously enriched two manufacturing
drug houses in Philadelphia.
VALUE OF THE SUNF.owER. The sun
flower is turned to extraordinary account
in the Lithuania. The seeds yield at first
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