Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-31
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.



Says a Dubuque, Iowa, dispatch Of
August a. to the st. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat: Among other lecturers engaged
by the Y. M. c. A. star course was Sen
ator Tillman, of South Carolina. II
view of his recent violent utterances or
the Negro question at Marinette, Wis.
and elsewhere, the committee hal
stricken his name from the list Of en-
tertainments, and have so notified him
The Greenville Meeting.
The summer school meeting appoint.
ed for Greenville came off according t.
programme Wednesday,. AS at Spar
tanburg, 1t was held inSfhe courthouse
and the crowd was comfortably accom-
modated in the building. Speeches
were made by Messrs. IieniphfIl. Lat
inner, Henderson and Johnstone. Dur
ing the morning these gentlemen held
a conference and agreed upon the fol-
lowing statement for the press: 1T
has been learned through conference
with the gentlemen who have been op-
posing Mr.. McLaurin's views and have
been addressing the people in the inter-
est Of the regular Democracy, that nc
further meetings should be held after
the Anderson meeting. These meetings
were held in order that an answer
might be made to the views Of Mr.. Nc
Laurin promulgated at meetings to
which others were not invited. This
answer has been made in most Of the
places where McLaurin spoke"
Taxes on Dfspensnries.
Says a Washington special Of Tues
day to The News and Courier: Frank
lin H. Mackey, attorney for South Car
olina in the matter of claims for rebate
of wholesale and retail liquor licenses
paid by the South Carolina dispensary,
filed an additional brief today with
Mr.. Yerkes, commissioner Of internal
revenue. Mr.. Yerkes has not passed
upon the case because he has been
waiting for the additional argument OF
Attorney Mackey. The position taken
by Mr.. Mackey Is that. Independent OF
the constitutional question in the case,
the revenue laws Of the United States
have no application whatever to the
dispensaries. The dispensary system,
he claims, is a state institution, regu-
lated by the act of the general assem-
bly, of South Carolina. That act pro-
hibits the sale of distilled liquors
throughout the state by private persons
and confines the sales exclusively to
the dispensary agents, who are officers
appointed by the state, having no inter-
est whatever in the amount Of sales,
and are paid regular and stipulated SAL
aries fixed by law. The profits from
the sale accrue to the state alone and
are divided between the school fund
and the counties in which the liquor
has been sold. 1t Is claimed that these
dispensaries, being a state institution,
are not taxable under the revenue law;
that, even If it be conceded that con-
gress has the power to tax state, con-
gress in this instance, did not intend to
do so.
Textile Union Issues Proclamation.
Textile Union No. 211, Of Columbia,
has issued the following proclamation,
which explains itself: For sometime
past the employees of the cotton mills In
Columbia have been organizing and es-
tablishing their union on a good basis.
AS soon as the millowners learned
they were organizing, their union was
attacked. Recently this attack has
manifested itself openly, and the pres
ident of the mill combine declares that
no member of the union shall work in
the mill here. He further declares
there is tacit agreement among the
millowners to destroy the union. AS a
prelude to this movement the opera
tives were recently ordered to work
overtime for two weeks to make up the
holiday of Labor Day, which they de-
clined to do, and were forthwith sus-
pended for one week, after whicn they
were told If they would leave the union
they could return. They refused to
leave the union, and have called all
members of the union out of the mills
until such time as the mill management
recognizes the union. 1t is not a ques-
ton of wages or hours, but a question
of the right of the textile workers to