People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A question still asked is why u ine dollars per day should be paid for three commissioners when one member does all the business. Six dollars per day might be saved the tax payers. Republicans ought not to crow over this panic coming during a Democratic administration; for it is only the culmination of Republican folly. A Republican egg hatched by the Democratic hen. Carlisle says there is no demand for silver dollars and therefore orders the mint to cease coining them. The lying old scamp, they are in demand everywhere that the honest are engaged in business.

A section of Med ill’s “ackknowledged prosperity” struck Ex-secretary Foster, and though • Calico Charley” is known to be a strong man, he was knocked out in the first round. Nothing seems to strike harder than “acknowledged prosperity.” If we could have had three or four hundred millions of state bank, wildcat, non-legal tender money in circulation, based on about twenty millions of coin, to have added to the mischiefs of the present panic, we imagine that even our Democratic friends would have been cured of their mania for this state bank, nonlegal tender stuff.

What does this noted intimacy be tween Voorhees and Cleveland mean? Does it mean that Wall street ideas have given place to granger notions? Hard--ly. Does it mean that the Indiana shyster has captured the Buffalo accident? Not much. It most likely means that Greenback Voorhees has gone over to goldbug Cleveland. Watch and see if we are not right. The people are now realizing something of Cullom’s “glories of the national banking system.” Cullom’s constant boast is that he looks like Lincoln. He may, but if lie does, the likeness ends abruptly there. Cullom, make your own record so glorious that for popular favor you will not need to depend on your similarity to some great man; that is nauseating in the extreme.

South Carolina last winter made a new liquor law, by which the sale of all liquors is done by officials appointed by the state, and the profits from the sale goes into the state funds. The new law which goes into effect July 12th, provides that dispensaries must be closed at 6 p, m. the year round. Applicants for the purchase of liquor who cannot write must make a cross mark, and no application of the person can be filled oftener than once a day. A state constable Or detective will be detailed to run down all persons suspected of infringing on the law. The prices of the various brands of liquor will be kept posted in each county dispensary and an officer who deviates from the prices will be dismissed. Gov. Tillman says the cheapest whiskey will be retailed at $3 a gallon, 73 cents a quart, 40 cents a pin and 20 cents a half-pint, and only the purest liquor will be sold. Under the law dispensaries ;iro not to be established unfa* a majority of the freefor it. The .