The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-21
CAROLINA REDEEMED
PALMETTO STATE QUITS LIQUOR
 BUSINESS.
EIas Put Populfsm and Socialism Be- hind and Returns to Conservative Government With Great PrOs-
 pexfty to People.

Columbia, s. C.. Sept. 2o.--tspeciaD ---The state of South Carolina is final lx out of the liquor business.
 On February last there was in the warehouse in this city about $10o,0OO worth of liquors belonging to the state. When at that time the Legislature de- termined to abolish the system com mission was created to close up the business, and the last has just been sold. So, after fourteen years, one month and fifteen days the sPalmetto brand" is known no more.
 This was the first experiment or @woyernment ownership in South Car oIina. and the fruits have been such that 1t is likely to be the last for many . year. Neither municipality nor state is likely to embark upon that seq while memory of the State dispensary lives as a terrible warning@
 Advocates of the system promised that the dispensary profits wopld- elim- inate State taxes. That was an un- realized dream The thing got into politics and stayed there; and there corruption was so appalling that the strenuous personal efforts of senator Tiilnan could not stem the tide of re- volt.
 According to predictions of the friends that stuck to the sinking ship South Carolina, six months after the whiskey revenue was cut on. should pe Financially embarrassed. The actual condition Is confusing to the friends or State control.
 Big corn Producer.
 The indicated cotton yield Is 1,2OO'OOV bales and this, together with the seed for which oil mills are clamoring Will fetch the producer something like $7S,- O0O, 900, or about $i4.00o,000 more than the value of any previous cotten crop produced in this state. The year Will also be remarkable for It's corn pro duction. The partial adoption of new method of corn cultivation. deVel- oped by a scientific south Carolina farmer, has resulted in great increase in yield. south Carolina has ceased to be corn customer. The value of the years crop is estimated at $22,500,0oo. The total value of these two crops is about $l00, 1000, 900. more than $sO,OOO. 600 De- ing net profit, and only 5,00o,0O0 of South Carolina's 20.O0O.00o acres are planted in cotton and corn.
 South Carolina's cotton mills will consume, at present prices, somewhere between $45,O0o. 900 and $5oo000oO worth of raw cotton this year--or ex- ceedine FOG, 900 bales. for while produc- ing a very large quantity of cotton in proportion to area and population. this is the largest cotton manufacturing State in the South and is only second to Massachusetts.
 The development of water powers Is sroinR forward at an unprecedented rate. that developed and in process of development aggregating about S5O,o0O horse, bower. One result is large in- crease in electrical power in mills.
 POpuIiMm Disappears.
 The change in industrial conditions since 1890 is no less remarkaole than 1hs ,,oIlticaI transformation. The tenn ner of the people Is not the same. There is no trace of Populism or so- eiaIism. These elements. then conspic- mons. have disappeared. There is not A newspaper in the State inclined to sociaiism, nor Is there a community in