Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-10
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
-ivilege Tax Fund.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Privilege Tax Fund.
The State, Saturday: The secreta-
ry of state is being kept busy these
days filling orders for fertilizer priv
ilege tax tags. Already for this year,
since January 1, enough tags have
been furnished to fertilizer manufac-
turers to aggregate something over s4O,-
900. By the end of the present month
the receipts will amount to more than
the total for the last year, and all of it
goes to Clemson college. 1t looks as
if Clemson's income from this source
this year will be very large.
Dispensary In Charleston.
The Charleston grand jury created
something of sensation recently by
finding no bills on large number of
dispensary indictments. Last week
the grand jury submitted a report
which swelled the sensation to still
larger proportions. The report sets
forth that the dispensers regard not
the law; but sell to minors inebriates
and illiterates without discrimination,
and that their platform is "larger
sales, larger profits" AS reason for
throwing out such a large number of
cases, the grand jury says they were
of trivial character, supported only
by the evidence of especially paid wit
nesses, while in the case of large
number of other offenders no cases
had been made. The report accuses
the police of furnishing money to in
dividuals to make dispensary cases.
The Right Kind of Man.
Columbia Register: DR.. Babcock,
superintendent of the hospital for the
insane, has been practically offered the
position of superintendent of the
Tewksbury asylum, in Massachusetts,
one of the largest and best managed
in the country. 1t will be gratifying
to the people of the state to know that
DR.. Babcock has decided to remain in
South Carolina, Notwithstanding the
high honor conferred on him and the
larger salary that would attach to the
Massachusetts offer. DR.. Babcock is
thoroughly wrapped up in the success
of the hospital over which he now pre-
sides and has certain improvements in
view which he hopes soon to carry out.
Until these are accomplished no in
ducement will make him relinquish his
present position. Governor Ellerbe
and others interested in the work of
the hospital were afraid of losing DR..
Babcock, but are delighted that he
will remain and his patriotism will
certainly commend itself TO all the
people.
Negro BILL Labor.
Charleston correspondence of the
Columbia Register: The reported pur-
pose of the management in the reor-
ganization of the Charleston Cotton
mill, to replace the white labor for
merly employed with Negro labor for
the sake of cheapness, is naturally
causing great anxiety and distress
among the class of labor concerned.
Aud, looked at from personally dis
interested standpoint, it must be con-
fessed that the movement seems
fraught with most serious and far
reaching consequences. The mill is
calculated to employ and support
nearly 1000 persons, all told, men,
women and children. Think of 1000
white persons-the great majority
skilled laborers-pushed out of their
places and condemned to enforced
idleness to make place for an equal
number of colored people, as yet un-
trained to the work and better fitted
for other employments in which there
is greater demand and necessity for
them. And that, too, in a city where
the colored people already outnumber
the whites in the proportion OF some
thing like $4,000 whites and $4,000
black and colored. One-thirtieth of
the resident white population to be
wiped out of existence to make way
for an added one-thirtieth of the COL
ored population. The most populous
class of skilled labor to be turned over
bodily to the colored people and field
hands, phosphate diggers and what
not to be translated into factory opera
tives in the city while the present
trained operatives are to be turned out
to Deg or starve, for that is practically
about what such revolution in labor
means nowadays. The proposition, on
its face, seems monstrous. And yet
we talk about offering inducements to
bring white immigrants among us
God save the mark