The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-21
SOUTH CAROLINA
 FREE FROM LIQUOR
After Fourteen Years Trial the
 Dispensary is Dead
GREAT INDUSTRIAL GAINS
Cotton and Corn Crops Are Greater Than Ever and People Are Very Little Affected by Unrest
 or Race Troubles.

Columbia, s. C., September 2o-(Spe- finally out of the liquor business on the 1st of last February there was in the warehouse in this city about $700 GOO worth of liquors belonging to the state. When at that time the legislature de- termined to abolish the system d com mission was created to close up the bus mess, and the last has just been sold. So, after fourteen years, one month and fifteen days the Palmetto brand" is known no more.
 This was the first experiment of gov ernment ownership in South Carolina, and the fruits have been such that it is likely to be the last for many year. Neither municipality nor state is likely to embark upon that sea while memory of the state dispensary lives as a terrible warning Advocates of the system promised that the dispensary profits would eliminate state taxes. That was an realized dream. The thing got into politics and stayed there, and there cor ruption was so appalling that the strenu- ous personal efforts of Senator Tillman could not stem the tide of revolt.
 Conditions Confusing.
 According to prediction of the friends that stuck to the sinking ship, South Carolina, six months after the whisky revenue was cut off, should be financially embarrassed. The actual condition is con fusing to the friends of state control. The indicated cotton yield is 2OO7O0O bales and this, together with the seed for which oil mills are clamoring will fetch the producer something like $7S,OOo 0oO, or about $14,0OO,0O0 more than the value of any previous cotton crop pro- duced in this state This year will also be remarkable for it's corn production. The partial adoption of new method of corn cultivation, developed by d sclen- titic South Carolina farmer, has resulted in great increase in yield 1t will be bad news to the west that South Caro- lima has ceased to be d corn customer. The value of the years crop is estimated at S2. 5o0ea. The total value Of these two crops Is about SIOO,OOO,OoO more than SD,0O000 being net profit, and only 1000 wv VI .lohAii Rdibllild Au,HH,blU acres are planted in cotton and corn.
 Mill Consumption.
 South Carolinas cotton mills will con- sume. at present prices, somewhere be- tween forty-five and fifty million dollars worth of raw cotton this year-or ex- ceeding 10o,et0, for while producing a very large quantity of cotton in propor- ton to area and population, this is the largest cotton manufacturing state in the south and is only second to Massacnu- sets.
 The development of water powers Is going forward at an unprecedented rate. that developed and Tn process of develop ment aggregating about 350, zoo horse power. One result is large increase in electrical power in bills
 Industrial Progress.
 The change in industrial conditions since 1890 is no less remarkable than the political transformation. The temper of the people is not the same. There is no trace of populism or socialism. These elements, then conspicuous, have disappeared There is not d newspaper in
 
 there community in which municipal or government ownership Is advan>--. or agitated. South Carolina and Ten nessee are the only states touched by the Southern railway system that have not attempted the regulation of railroad rates.
 While sensational lecturers in distant states may give the impression that the races are on the verge of war, nothing fe
 evidence of unrest, nowhere less lkeli- hood of trouble or conflict. Influential whites are continuously demanding q square deal for the negro and this evil dence of spirit of justice and friend ship in high quarters inspired negro leaders to preach the observance of law by their people and to urge better con- duct.
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