Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-11-14

The price of cotton was slightly off
yesterday. and the receipts were cor
respondingly light.
The conviction of some half dozen
more tigers-the more prominent the
tigers the better-will put stop 70
the Illicit whisky traffic. .-
The approaching term Of court will
include three weeks Of jury business.
The third week jurors Will be drawn
next Saturday morning. =
The carpenters are having their day
now, especially in the immediate VI
cinity of Yorkville. There has never
before been such a demand for good
men. The wages are. good and the
work is plentiful.
There is less drunkenness In York.
Vile than when the dispensary was
here, and the situation along the roads
has vastly improved. Where drunk
men were formerly common on all the
outgoing roads, especially on SATURDAY
afternoons, there are now but few 10
be seen.
Five cents a bale on a fifty dollar
bale of cotton Is very small matter.
but If every farmer in the south would
give up this amount to the Southern
u
what that organization might be abfe
to do to still further help the situatfop.
OF course, all the farmers are not gQ-
ing to pay: but those who do pay VIII
not be hurt whether others pay or not.
Rev. j. s. Grier calls the attention
of the reporter to the fact that In the
publication Of the resolution introduc-
ed by him in the recent law and order
convention looking to the more salts
factory enforcement Of the law against
thu illegal liquor traffic, one very es-
sential proposition was omitted. The
resolution contemplated an amendment
Of the law, as 1t now stands so as to
urovide some way to compel purchas-
c"s of whisky to tell from whom they
Purchased. The other features Of the
resolution were the chaingang for Of
Tenders without the fine alternative,
and to make buyers equally guilty with
sellers.
Reports from all parts of the coun-
ty are to the effect that cotton picking
Is pretty nearly over. The whole
county was pretty we'll represented IN
Yorkville last Saturday, and the re-
porter made inquiries Of quite a num-
ber of different people. Most Of them
said that the amount Of cotton still
unpicked would not aggregate more
than a bale to the horse. Generally,
the farmers are pretty close up with
the ginning. One man said, II have
picked up, ginned up and sold up
But the selling has not been near as
o.ose as the picking and the ginning.
UP to this time, the sales probably
amount to rs per cent Of the entire
crop.
There is no use trying to deny the
fact that there has been good deal
Of laxity in the enforcement of the
laws against the sale Of whisky during
the past few years. The laxity has
been especially noticeable since the in
auguration of the dispensary system.
Just what the reason was, 1t Is diff
cult to say. 1t Is a fact, however, that
enforcement Of the law was left large
ly to the dispensary constables. The
people at large did not care much
about the matter. Where the state
sold liquor to whoever wanted to buy.
it was difficult to see much additional
practical harm that was to come out
of such sales as might be made by pri-
vate individuals. This, maybe, was
not a right view to take Of the matter;
but such a view was undoubtedly
quite general The constables did
what they could to enforce the law;
but K was generally understood that
they were always working under in
structions that were dictated as much
by policy as by principle. Indeed,
there is good reason to believe that
principle was only a secondary con-
sideration. Under the circumstances
there was about the whole thing an
indefinable something that made the
Juror hesitate to convict man for
doing that which the state said 1t could
do with propriety; but which 1t was
wrong for an individual to do. But
these conditions are changed now.
The people of York county have by
their votes, said that nobody shall sell
liquor here. They have not seen pro-
per to make any discrimination what
ever. There is reason to believe that
they mean what they say; but that
will develop more clearly when they
are called to pass upon specific Of
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