The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-12-08

a tax levied on the people Of that county.
IL they want prohibition, let them have it
10 fact and not in name only. My observa-
tion and experience with men teach me that
il is idle to expect any elective officer to en-
force this or any other prohibitory Statute.
Such men want votes, and will not make
enemies If they can help it.
In regard to tho provision requiring o |
majority of the freehold voters to sign a |
petition for the appointment Of Dispenser, |
il Is both unjust and unreasonable. Some |
Of the present Dispensers appointed under |
this requirement are incompetent, and in |
some cases they are not fit persons to fill so
responsible position. think o provision |
allowing the County Board to establish
Dispensary at such point or points in
county as will put the people to the least
trouble sn securing what whiskey they need
for legitimate purposes should be inoorpo-
rated in the omended Act.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
The Citadel is performing the work which
it undertakes to do in its usual satisfactory
manner.
Clemson College has been completed aud
partially equipped, and opened in July last
with over four hundred boys, and there is
promise that at its next session it will be
filled to overaowing and many will have to
be turned away.
the schools which are running, the attend
ance is unsatisfactory. Materially, Us TO
plant and buildings in general, the College
is in better coalition than it has been for
half q century. The corps of Professors is
| an able one, and they are performing their
work with accustomed satisfaction but for
| the causes which were set forth in my last
Annual Message, the boys continue to go
| elsewhere. Yet have every reason to be-
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and that the College in the future will at
tract larger and l,rger number of students,
| so that the attendance will reach satisfac-
| tory average in one or two more years.
We cannot afford to take any step back
! ward in education nor can we lower that
standard. State pride, regard f,r the
| pledges of the Reform Movement-every-
thing which should influence those who now
guide the destinies of the Stale, point at
| this time rather 10 the wisdom Of searching
for the diseases which may cause the sickly
condition of the school, and applying the
remedy, than taking advantage of the un-
healthy condition to strike it down, and
| thus remove landmark which always has
been and shoud continue to be the pride Of
every true Carol ian.
| OF the South Carolina Industrial and
Winthrop Normal College, which has been
located at Rock Hill, after lively competi-
ton between that si'y. Spartanburg and
Chester, will only say that, remembering
the demand for n similar institution for boys
at Clemson, the Board Of Trustees are plan
ming for duplication of that school. The
amount Of money paid by the people of that
| thriving aud ambitious little city, 100000.
will be expended In the erection of the maiu
college building, which will afford class
rooms for at least GOO girls aud we hope to
have the building completed and ready for
use by the 1st Of September next. 1t is
estimated that the equipment Of dormi-
tory sufficiently large to accommodate four
or five hundred girls would cost $4,000, l
would therefore recommend and urge that
you appropriate for this purpose from the
earnings of the State Dispensary such a
sum Of money, TO be available after the fifty
thousand dollars appropriated last year to
the Dspensary has been repaid to the
Treasury. If the Dispensary does not make
it, then no harm will have been done.
There only remains to be mentioned the
Cedar Springs Insritute-the school for deaf,
dumb and blnd-which has been managed
with The usual good sense and judgment
oharaci erizing the institution, and merits q
continuance Of your fostering care.
The management of the State. Lupnlic
r,ur' coud oe desired. While the State
iarrn ON the "ui cree suucred severe loss by
ing breaking OF the dam and the consequent
overflow Of seven hundred acres of crop bv
the river, the institution has been more ,bon
self-sustaining, hos met payments on the
property, and has a large cash balance to
lis credit. 1t is the intention OF The uirec,
TOYS 10 go increase the strength and HEIGHT
OF the dam that such disaster will be i'm
possible in the future. The number of CON-
victs in the institution shows a heavy in.
crease, being ,0S3 against 900 last Noyem.
Der.
The number Of inmates in the ASYLUM
has remained about at the ayeragG and ihs
| capacity Of the institution Is tested to its
utmost. The Superintendent makes q sup
gestion, in connection with the use of con
Victs, to make bricks in anticipation of the
necessity for enl ,rg 'ng the quarters for the
co!ored males and guarding against FIRE
which / think O capital Idea.
would also direct your attention to the
correction Of an abuse which he points out,
namely: the use Of the Asylum BY persons
| ie'gplug insanity t. escape criminal prosecu.
ton, Of course 1t is not proposed to mt
insane people in the Penitentiary, but thew
can 60 there with perfect propriety when
they arc charged with crime until INSANITY
is satisfactorily proven.
In conclusion beg to remind you, gen.
| temen, that this session of the Lepislotnro
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near the end of the month will be shorter
by week than the average, should you ad-
journ "t Christmas in accordance with the
unwritten law. No session of the General
Assembly in the history of the State has
ever had to deal with more important vital
| questions. In addition, you have TO alec,
five of the eight circuit judges and one JUS
| tice Of the Supreme Court My experience
| and judgment have shown me that when i'm
portant elections are pending the public
business is neglected and the Legislators
seem paralyzed, becoming partissns of this
candidate OF that, and paying no heed to
matters of legislation.
therefore urge on you to appoint a day
not later than Monday, the 4th of December.
for getting rid of these clections-obstruc.
tions 10 legislative business. The new
Criminal and Civil Code has to be passed on:
the Dispensary law must be amended and
perfected wise and judicious bill reduc.
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