Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-11-10
EDITORIAL VIEWPOINTS.

Anderson Daily Mail: Here is this
old thing happening again, A man In
Saluda county sold a tract Of land fer
$1,000. Instead Of putting the money
In bank he hid 1t under his bed.
Thieves broke into his house one night
and stole every dollar of 1t. No doubt
II he had walked up he would have
tried to defend his money and the
thieves would have killed him. Keep=
Ing large sums of money in ene,s
house is dangerous. 1t invites dishan=
house to rob It will commit murder II
he Is interfered with. The safest way,
the only sensible way, is to keep mon=
ey In bank,
News and Courier; The department
Of agriculture, at Washington, asked
l,272 seedsmen for samples Of red eie=
yer and alfalfa seed, as offered for sale
by them and, obtained and examined
S5S samples. It then purchased in the
open market q rSmbert Of lots OF seed
and has issued circular giving the
names and addresses Of the seedsmen
who sold the lots found to be adulter-
ated, together with the percentages Of
adulteration In each lot, In nineteen
cases the department found seed sold
as alfalfa to be adulterated to the eE,
tersburg, Va, house to 45.73, In the
! case of a New Haven, CQnn., CONCERN.
1t would do well for all those who are
engaged in the cultivation Of clover
and alfalfa to ask the department for
list Of the seedsmen who have
been caught selling adulterated seed.
Winnsboro News and Herald: Even
the doubling Thomases are coming
forward now and acknowledging that
the Southern Cotton Association has
played no small part In maintaining
fair price for the south's leading
staple-for the leading agricultural
commodity of the whole world, ON
which this section has monopoly.
through this association to demons
strate to the financial world that an
organization Of the southern farmers
Is not like a search for the fountain
Of perpetual youth, that the good
work has merely begun. There must
be a closer organization Of the farm
ers another year and the time to be-
gin is right now, so that plans may be
thoroughly matured before the plant
Ing time for the next years crop ar
rives. What has already been ac-'
complished must not be permitted to
lose any Of its good results by q fail
farmers on to greater effectiveness,
Charleston Post: Spartanburg came
In out Of the wet yesterday with sonae-
thing Of a whoop. The dispensary was
kicked out Of the county so hard that
Its fragments could be heard falling
about the State headquarters at Col.
umbia. Now Spartanburg is one of
the greatest counties in the state and
It's attitude on any public question Is
OF high Importance, When II votes
against the dispensary In the propor-
tion of six to one It gives the political
leaders something to think about,
Moreover In joining the list of coun.
ties which have voted the dispensary
out Of their borders under the provis-
ION Of the Brice act, spartanburg has
Piedmont, the most populous and
powerful section of the State, which Is
marked as free Of the State liquor
system. In only two Of the eleven
counties Of this State border
ing on North Carolina Is the
sale Of liquor now legal and that,
Of course, only through the agency
Of tie State, under the dispensary law.
Oconee, Pickens. Spartanburg. Cher
okee. York, Lancaster, Marion and
Horny have voted out the dispensary,
within the past year, since the Brice
law was enacted. Marlboro has
maintained It's right Of prohibition
by special exemption from the
operations of the dispensary law.
Greenville and Chesterfield are the
only counties Of the upper border line
OF South Carolina which remain un-
der dispensary operation and in both
or these counties movements to vote
out the system are under way and
will probably prove effective to BAN
ish the state liquor monopoly. Be-
sides these border counties, three
prohibition. Union and Newberry
have voted out the dispensary quite
recently and Greenwood has been
like Marlboro from the first, exempt
from the operation. Twelve Of the
forty-one counties Of the state, there
fore, have prohibitory liquor laws in
operation and almost as many more
are agi:ating the question Of remov-
ing the dispensary from their borders.
Anderson county, which with Spartan
burg, Greenville and Charleston Is one
Of the richest divisions Of the State,
Is expected to fall in soon with the
general movement, which is sweeping
the Piedmont, and Anderson counts
for a good deal In any undertaking Of
State concern. 1t is rather remark
able, In view OF the conditions, that
the wiseacres of politics continue to
smile with q superior air at the talk
of a general banishment of the dis
pensary from the State. While the
people are steadily ridding themselves
by counties of the States liquor insti-
tuition, the politicians who foregather
at Columbia insist that 1t means moth
ing at all and that the dispensary is
a sure winner and will beat all COM
ers. There is bound to be an awak-
ening before long.