The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-10

The state commissioner of labor sta
tistics of North Carolina reports, from
personal observation and from data sup
piled in answer to inquiries, that the
condition of the factory laborers in the
state is far superior to that of the farm
laborers, each class being considered as a
whole. The factory operatives W york, on
an average, eleven and half hours daily,
and are, probably, in better circum-
stances than any other class of laborers
ia the state, while the farm laborers are
in worse condition than laborers pur-
suing any other calling.
What the commissioner regards as the
worst part of it," is the fact that EN-
ploying farmers are paying their laborers
all they possibly can afford to pay, the
rate being now the same as when cotton
sold at cents pound.
The commissioner notes that the farm
laborers receive, in addition to their
wages a number of extras" including
house rent, fuel, garden privileges, ferti-
lizer privileges and in number of in
stances the use of cows And, further.
he says that the vast majority of the
farm laborers are blacks, while the fac
tory operatives are all whites
This latter fact may have d good deal to
do with the bad showing for the farm
laborers as a whole, The wages they
receive run from 81 to Sl3 a month, which.
added with the 'extras" referred to above,
probably makes their actual pay approx
mate that of the factory people But the
blacks who labor on farms are VIGOROUSLY
improVident They very rarely avail
themselves Of their garden privileges, or
stock privileges, or any other privileges
whereby their incomes may be augmented.
They DEFEND upon the employing farm
ers commissary, or the village store, for
all their supplies. and prefer western
sailed bacon, New Orleans black strap"
InOlasses and Minneapolis -four to home
raised mutton, green peas and Graham
bread. 1t would not be fair to the white
farm laborers to judge of their condition
by the condition of the class as a whole.
The supreme court of South Carolina
will be convened in extra session at Co.
lumbia to-day, one week ahead of the reg
ular session. The call of the chief Justice
gives no intimation of the purpose of the
| extra session, but the fact that there are
! no new cases of exceptional Importance
to come before the court seems to war
rant the supposition that the dispensary
law will be the matter under considera-
tion. 1t was reported last week as COM
ing from uuimpeachable authority that
the chief justice and one asso-
ciate justice had two months ago,
signed decision in a dispensary case,
declaring the law unconstitutional, and
that the decision since that time had
been in the hands of Associate Justice
Pope, Tillmanite. And it was further
alleged that Gov. Tillman had instructed
Justice Pope not to write his opinion, or
sign or file the document until certain
time, which he named. This latter, how
! ever, is such an extraordinary statement
that it may be taken with salt. 1.-THE
laws delay in this matter has undoubt-
eddy worked great harm to the state
| Thinking men on both sides of the con-
troversy in South Carolina have expressed
! the opinion that had the supreme court
acted a month ago the lamentable tragedy
at Darlington would not have occurred.
Senator Murphy, of New York, who is
! away from Washington for his health,
! told a reporter at st. Joseph Mo, that he
thought it extremely unlikely that vote
| would be taken in the Senate on the tariff
! bill before November. II there were two
| or three more Dave" Hills and ED"
! Murphys in the Senate, a vote on the tariff
| bill might not be taken at all But it may
be depended upon that the country will
not permit any such delay as Senator
Murphy predicts. With him the wish
| was father TO the thought.