The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-13


able evil. So far as the South Carolina
'chivalry' are concerned, they will evi
dently meet with obstacles in the further
pursuit of their beloved pastimc, if, as il
probable, this bill becomes q law"
The Boston 4Adrertiser (Rep.) refuse:
to be comfortcd. 1t insists that the
whole social and political fabric in the
South shall be rebuilt in day. This is
its view:
"The South Carolina Legislature is
credited with some good work Of late
imposing stringent penalties for duelling,
exempting immigrants into the State
from taxation for three years. and the
like. Now, if the Legislature would in
good faith provide some way of punish.
ing frauds upon the ballot box, it would
20 far to make South Carolina a COM
Portable State to live in. But no emf.
grant who is worth having, if he knows
what he is about, will ever choose to set.
tie permanently in State where tissue
ballots are treated as a good joke and
false counting is considered honest.
Since the November election the Repub-
lican Executive Committee of that State
have issued a statement of the manner
in which they were def.auded. Such a
statement, or rather such n state of so.
ciety as it reveals, will keep more people
out of the State than exemption from
taxation would call in for generation" ="
We assure our Boston friend that every
i'm Migrant who is qualified to vote can
vote as often in South Carolina as in any
other State, aud have his vote counted
quite as accurately as in municipal elec-
tions at "thc Hub" Irregularities at
elections in the South are the conse.
quence of fear of negro rule, and against
that rule immigrants are protection.
We should be glad to have Immigrants
who could legally vote twice, and be
counted four times.
The Quaker City is represented on our
list by the Record Rep and the Times
lind. The former admits that NO are
getting on, but is fearful lest its readers
should believe that the millennium has
come in South Carolina. So it says:
South Carolina is for going ahead in
the line Of Northern precedenls. The
Anti Whiskey bill recently referred to in
these columns has passed both houses of
the Legislature, and is now law. The
sale Of all kinds of Intoxicating liquors,
including malt liquors and wines, is abso-
lutely prohibited outside of the incorpo-
rated cities, towns and villages. When
it is considered that the points thus ex-
copied are exceedingly few in compari-
son with similar municipalities at the
North, the widespread extent and conse-
quent harshness of the prohibition will
be perceived. If the new statute is rig
idly enforced it will operate as very
effectual blockade upon the rural dram
drinkers. The Legislature of the same
State has also passed an Act to punish
the carrying about the person of con.
cealed deadly weapons. Among the
weapons enumerated are pistols, dirks,
daggers, slung shots, metal knuckles and
razors. 1t must not be taken for granted
from all this that the millennium is about
to be instituted in South Carolina, for it
is one thing to make laws and another
and harder thing to enforce them."
From the Times comes the admission
that "the world is moving" which is a
gratifying Iact) and that South Carolina
"is moving with it," (which is another
gratifying fact, and that we really are
making substantial and liberal progress.
Thus:
"There is substantial and liberal pro-
gress in South Carolina. Her State ad.
that cost three millions or
more under former carpet-bag rule now
costs about onc.tenth Of that amount,
and twelve hundred colured teachers are
now teaching coored schools at the cost
of the State. A stringent license law
has just been enacted prohibiting the sale
of liquors outside Of Incorporated cities
and towns; another imposes severe pen
alties for carrying concealed weapons;
another inflicts The severest penalties
upon the duellst; another offers special
exemption from taxes to actual settlers,
and law of a former session exempts
factories started in the State from all
taxation for,tcn years. The world moves,
and the Palmetto State is moving with
it."
AS might be expected, the New York
Tribune sneers at the good work, and
hints that it is discountenanced by the
people. This is what it says:
"A great moral revival is going on in
South Carolina. The Legislature is tus-
sling with the evils of dram-drinking,
dueling and carrying concealed weapons,
all at once. Perhaps it is too much to
expect that it will take hold of bull.
doing and ballot box.stuthug. Old
fashioned South Carolinans are already
accusing it Of shaking the pillars Of So
ciety."
The Chicago Times (Ind. is disposed
10 be tacetious about the razor clause.
1t says:
"It is true, as every barber will testify,
that razors are usually used for the in.
Fiction of personal injury but whether
they are deadly weapons or not depends
somewhat on circumstances. They are
often so in the South, it is we'll known,
and the South Carolina Legislature may
have done we'll in including them in the
law for the special benefit of the colored
But it will be- difficult in
practice to decide when q razor i,
deadly weapon and when it is legal
instrument of torture"
The Nation is cynical and cold bloodei,
as Usual, and is conspicuously inaccurate,
besides, in speaking of South Carolina
aud Mississippi as standing in the same
scale as Albania and Corsica. Lawless.
ness is incidental in the South; in the
countries the Nation names it is the rule.
Crime is punished here; it is not pun.
ished there. Trade and agriculture
flourish here; they are dead and dying
there. We fear that the Nation is more
intent OIL saying something smart than
in sticking to the facts. Nothing is TO
be gained by speaking OF Suutherners
who violate the law as "brigands" or
"assassins" while men in the North and
West who commit worse crimes, and
more Of them, attract no attention and
pass unnoticed. When the Nation treats
the people in the South as it treats the
people in lis own neighborhood, we shall
bp satisfied The Nation SuyS.