Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-07-06

nesday that he hoped to get the chain
gang moved to Hickory yesterday.
The Charlotte Observer now reaches
Yorkville on the morning train from
Chester. Heretofore it has not reach
ed Yorkvile sooner than the afternoon.
information from different neighbor-
hoods in the county indicates that the
watermelon crop is unusually promis-
ing this year. 1t promises to come in
early and to last long time.
The fact that the number of hogs
returned for taxation this year Is less
than it was last year may very proba-
bly, be taken to mean that with the
promise of better prices for cotton
people are paying less attention to the
raising of their own supplies.
This highly appreciated compliment
has been received from a subscriber
in Niagara Falls, N. Y: II enclose a
check for six months more OF the
Yorkville Enquirer which l consider
one of the best edited local papers l
have ever seen. / enjoy all the read
ing, the paper and print are excellent,
and you certainly ought to have
large circulation
IL used to be that most Of the crops
.'were laid by along about the Fourth
of July, but the farmers do not get
through with their crops so early
nowadays. In the first place they are
usually later with the planting ana
in the second place the crops receive
more work than formerly. Most OF
the farmers of this part of the coun-
try will have a breathing spell after
about the 18th of this month.
Jacob WeIch, proprietor of the Char
lesion stock yards, was In Yorkviile
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
locking for miIch cows. He bought
about fifteen, and would no doubt have
gotten great many more had he let II
be known in advance Of his coming
that he would be here, because there
are lots of people throughout this Sec
ton with good cows to sell. Mr.. We!ch
SAYS that Charleston is not so good
market for up-country cattle now Tor
the reason that all the western beer
shipped to this section and which can
not be disposed Of elsewhere because
of its condition Is unloaded on the
Charleston people at reduced prices.
Real frst-class fresh beef from the
up-country cannot be sold in Charles
ton in competition with the question
able western stuff.
Out at the Junior Order picnic
Wednesday Mr.. M. B. Jennings made
a suggestion Of free liquor as solu-
ton of the whisky question. He ar
gued that if the tax were removed
and the price of whisky put down to
80 cents per gallon as 1t was in the
olden time, there would be less OPP
portunity for corruption and after
the people so inclined had drank their
fill they would become even more
temperate than now. He referred to-
the good old" time when liquor was
free and said there was not so much
drunkenness then as now. The posi-
ton taken by Mr.. Jennings is not a
new one. Others have declared the
same views within the past ten or fif-
teen years. and it must be admitted
that the argument is more or less
plausible. The great trouble with IL
is that it is controverted by the facts.
The "old days" were not so ideal as
they have been made to appear
through the softening veil of time.
There are still living numerous old
men who very we'll remember the
days of comparatively free liquor
when the tax was merely nominal
and the purchaser could have all he
wanted for 80 to 40 cents a gallon,
but they do not represent that there
was less drinking and drunkenness
then than now. On the contrary
almost everybody used liquor freely.
The total abstainer was more of an
exception than he is today. 1t was
thought no great harm for minister
of the gospel even, to indulge freely
provided he did not expose himself
too much in public. But the story of
those times is not free from blood
shed and abuse of women and chill
dren. There are probably still living
old women who could tell of their
drunken fathers having thrown them
about by the hair of the head while
they were children, and there are
thousands of people in this part of the
country who claim that they would
have occupied a much better position
i'm the world today if it had not been
for the too free indulgence of their
ancestors i'm liquor. All the evidence
of history and experience are to the
effect that whisky has always been
too free and that the more it is re-
Stricted the better the condition of
civilizations If however, Mr.. Jennings
meant by what he said that free liquor
is better than government monopoly.
and many who heard him so under
stood his position cannot be easily
controverted. The evils arising from
free liquor are within the range of
government control, but when the gov
ernment seeks to avail itself of the
benefits of the liquor traffic, it neces-
sarily embraces all the attendant