Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-03-06

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wardcns, who are qualified to manage
the system successfully, to the end
that our taxes may be lightened and
our burdens decreased.
Second. 1t is almost an assured fact
that we shall, in the near future, have
established in our town a cotton facto-
ry, and it behooves those who may be
interested in that enterprise, to use
every effort to keep the operatives
secure from the influence Of whisky,
if they desire the enterprise to sue
ceed. 1t is the experience Of all arts
and trades that men, to become skill
ed in their departments of work, must
be free from the evils of drink. 1t is
then a logical sequence, that the more
skilled the labor the more profit to the
manufacturer. Suppose you allow a
dispensary to be established here, what
is the result to your enterprise ,? Less
skill in your workmen, less profit to
stockholders. Suppose you keep the
dispensary away, what follows? More
skill, more profit. Then again, if we
have n dispensary, the earnings of
many of these operatives, instead of
flowing in the legitimate channels of
trade, will find their way into the
rum shop and thence to the State
treasurer. Is it not, then, the part of
sensible business men, to keep the dis
pensary away and keep all the earn
ings of our people at home? We think
so.
Furthermore, we have in our midst
two schools that will he injured by
the establishment of dispensary, not
only in keeping pupils away, but SUBJ
jecting those here to temptations that
boys of uniformed character are unable
to withstand. The schools are now
attracting families to our town, which,
We claim, would cease when the dis
pensary comes? How many families
did dispensary ever draw to a town :?
Echo answers, how many?
There are many other reasons why
we should defeat the dispensary but
we must reach that part of our subject
we desire more especially to deal with,
viz. The exposing opublic view this
scheme which, we understand, is being
worked in our midst.
Their second plan is, "To have four
white men to become candidates for
dispenser" We charge this to he n
deep laid scheme to hay the white vote
of this town. Why? Because, we ap-
knf t1,a xuhn ,uill hn-
come candidates for that position are
men now out of employment, and their
hope is to work on the sympathies of
the friends of these men and thereby
induce citizens who are opposed to the
dispensary, to vote for it in order to
help their friend to position he may
never hold. Suppose, friends of these
four men-you who are opposed to q
dispensary-that you vote for dispen-
sary for the above mentioned reason
and your man is not elected. DO you
not see that you have put here an evil
you are opposed to, have done your
friend no good, and have sold your
vote for sympathy as much so as if
you nau TeCelNeu SD lOr IL
1t will be argued, too, that we are
certain to have n dispensary, and you
had best cast your ballot in order to
have the best man elected and appoint
ed. We trust you will be misled by
no such false theory, for any man is
good enough to fill that position if
he be able to read and write, and tell
q pint of whisky from gallon of beer
You must recognize the fact that it
requires no high order of liability to run
o dispensary. Don't, then, we ask,
sell your influence and vote to this
scheme for sympathy, or be misled by
false logic.
The third plan. "To have four Ne
gro men become candidates for porter
AZ s25 per MONTH" We charge this TO
be a plan to buy the Negro vote.
More revolving than the other, if pos
sible. 1t will be remembered that
some time since, petition was circu-
lated in this place asking the legisla-
ture to amend the dispensary law and
put dispensary here without vote
of the people. Their alleged reason
was that the white people desired the
dispensary; but that it had been de-
feated by Negroes and "blind tigers. /"
Now we see the dispensary advocates
r-"I.---ir1r 10 vat" Err Eonr0 for pnr-
ter ut II salary OF $25 per month. The
two positions are utterly inconsistent.
They realize that the white people
don't want the diSpcnSary, and their
only hope of success is in buying the
Negro vote.
Furthermore, we charge that they
are bidding for the Negro vote. 1st.
Because there is no earthly necessity
for porter in the dispensary, and we
don't believe there is dispensary in
the State that has one. Pray tell us
what his duties are. TO sweep out
the room and dust the mould off of
the bottles of chemically pure xxx
40 () year old whisky? Ifso, $25 per
month is rather handsome pay for such
work. Why pay so much when scores
of boys could he employed to do the
same work for 50? Why then such
high salary? Simply to catch the
Negro vote.
But they may say, he is needed
to deliver liquors. Bah ! Everybody
knows that the great majority Of per-
sons who purchase from II dspensary
need the purchase too, badly to wait for
it to be delivered. What then is the
need of n porter? I'd. We charge this
to be scheme to buy the Negro vote,
because if these men were consistent,
and meant what they said in the peti-
ton above mentioned, they would
have nothing to do with the Negro
and give the place Gf such an one
were to he had) to 4 white man or boy.
But they see their first plea of defeat
by the Negro and "blnd tiger" did no
good, and their last hope now is to
get the Negro on their side. TO ac-
complish this, they propose to create IL
place for him in the dispensary.
Sd. We charge an attempt to buy
the Negro vote, because, even if they
were to give the place to n Negro, they
would find. in the course of Il month
or two, that profits did not warrant
Keeping porter, and away he would
go. Too late then would the Negroes
realize that they had sold their votes
for something that existed only in the