The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-12-19
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I Itattoteu s5tUctt tiS3Y rssottVus, oh
begin to brighten up aud quicken. They
take better care Of their shealth, work
TO more advantage, demand better tools
and cultiSntc the soil or labor in the me- Z
chanic's shop with more success. Common9
laborers, with such an education as tho
free eopimon 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 3,000000 ofilliterates in
the South would, if they had a 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 withdrawing power, to
adding million and a half ta the; Indus
| trial population of thaeottop Ststes, and
! ! uothfuy ru- tirr~oo,t ofa suf fportiug 'tbem,
do not quote to you what Washington,
Jefferson and Calhoun said on the subject
Of education. Immigration and education
are 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
shoald be no local legislation upon general
subject. Education is a general subject
and it is n most important subject. 1t
should be provided for by this body itself.
1t is not matter of education we arc con-
sidering; it is a question whether VIC shall
give the towns aud villages the power to
levy school taxes. Is t wise to remit to
subdivisions of the people what VIC 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 IN
said in praise of the Superintendent of Ed.
ucation, but this report is erroneous in somo
particulars. South Carolina lays her full
share in proportion to wealth, debt and pop
ulation.
Hero Mr.. Earle mndc quotations from
tabular statement, showing these particu-
lars in several States, which We will publish
hcrcaftcr.l
l believe the law will have tho same cf-
feet as the Republican law that those
persons who are so fond of attending meet
ings will come 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-
tutional it will be said that it is.
Mr.. Brown also spoke against the bill and
Mr.. Cooke in its favor.
CHEAP QUININE.-Tho 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-
dictons 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-
ses which have been getting rich on this,
tax for the promotion Of malaral fever.
meant to 60 out Of business at once and i'll
contlncntly. However, the American man
utacturers seem to have changed their
minds after the bill became a law. For
cgn manufacturers began to increase their
productions, and to increase their shipments
to this side also. The importations of oui-
nine and sulphatc Of quinine from April to
July were S25, 200; from July to October,
after the duty was taken off, the imports
rose to $3.50 800, while during the same
period, in spite Of the fact that this period
covered the malarious season, the price of
quininc fell to S2.75 per ounce for Ameri-
can and to S255 for French. This disp,-
scs at last Of this blood tax, for it shows
that free quininc will not drive American
manufacturers out Of the market, but that
it has had tie effect already to stimulate
their production and that of their foreign
competitors so much as to enable our sick
people to get quinlnc 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 a good deal of this
invaluable anti-pcSiodic, arc already able to
get it about u per cent. cheaper than for
mcr!v, in consequence of the remission Of
this tax, which yielded scarcely penny n
the shape Of revenue to the country, while
it enormously enriched two manufacturing
drug houses in Philadelphia.
VALUE OF THE SUNFLowER.-Thc sun
flower is turned to extraordinary account
in the Lithuania. The seeds yield at first
pressure excellent salad oil, and the residue
forms excellent oil-cakc for cattle, who also
relish the lorvcs and stalks chopped up
The flowers little short Of full bloom arc,
when cooked, nearly rs good as artichokcs,
and are IN the garden very attractive to
bees. The leaf well dried is used as to-
baeco. The seed reccptacles are made into
blotting paper and the inner part Of tho
stalk is manufactured into fine writing
paper. The more woody portions of the
plant which attains great sizs are used
for fuel. The best seed is obtained i'm the
Crimca. AS an anti-malara agent the
sunfower is most valuable