The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-12-18


acute realization of Interpretation Of
our State motto: 'Animis Opibusque
Parati. The only thing that1 know
that he hasn't any sense on, whatever
is women. With as young and hand
some a faceas he has got and rea-
sonable amount of brain and a pretty
fair character, foI him to get up here
and tell these ladies that he, IN con-
templating their beauty, has such a
realization of his own unworthlness
that he cannot afford to put himself
on one. Qaughter) is very good, how
ever, when he knows that every wo-
man here who isn't married wants a
husband. Why, that sentiment you
know won't do. It's 'agin' natur' for
a woman to do anything else, and
they say and l say for him that if, by
reason of his unworthiness, he has
been unable thus far to induce any of
our fair daughters to take him and
try to cultivate those little locks of
his that are growing so thin, that he
ought to do like I.did. I came into
your State when I was boy before
I was twenty-cne years of age, and in
duced one of your best women, who
has been my blessing and pride ever
since, to join hands. If he can't in
duce any of our own daughters to
take him, then 1 am sure that if he
will come to Atlanta some time III the
future that some of these Georgia
ladies will-well, l think he might
persuade them. (Applause:) / am a
sort of half Georgian, anyhow, for as
I got my wife before I got away from
my mother l got under petticoat gov
ernment before was man, and have
kept under it ever since and I thank
God for it. In fact if I have made
anything of a name for myself and
have come to be anything, and con-
sidering the amount of cussing | get
think must be a pretty good sort
of fellow. attribute it to the fact
that the women have had charge OF
me all my life.
Il come TO extend to you fraternal
greeting, brotherly greeting. While
my friend claims that Georgia is the
daughter of South Carolina, rather
look upon her as big sister, great
big. handsome one, l mean. Doubling
us in area, nearly doubling US IL
population, and more than doubling
US in taxable values.
"But gointoany county in Georgia
you may; GO into any county IN any
State West of the Savannah River tc
the Rio Grande, anu you will hnc
South Carolinians, or the sons ano
daughters of South Carolinians; and
never have seen one of them who was
not proud to acknowledge the relation
ship and to send back the greeting
that we love our mother, and are proud
of her. (Applause.)
sMr. President: have had no op
portunity as yet, to look at your Elk,
position. I have only been able to get
a glimpse arounds the grounds IN drlv
ing through them in carriage and II
coming in on the train yesterday
afternoon, and to read the account Q:
the papers and hear from my friends
who have peen here and looked a
this grand collection of the resources
and manufactures ofthe Southern peo
pic YOU havo here as TO what has beer
accomplished. The most natura
thing for person who visited thu
Chicago Worlds Fair is to make {
comparison between the two, and
say to you, sir, that from what have
been able to see gathered togethe,
showing what you havedone that yor
have come up to that magnificent ane
most glorious Exposition that the
world has ever seen, as a good second
and say here again that no city ex
cept the Chicago of the South coule
have doneit. (Applause) To whom
is credit due? Your Governor says
the Southern men did it. Southern
genius and Southern capital. | don
think thi; is altogether-well, | won
say that he has rot given due credit te
some outside help from those men who
have cone from the North and cas-
their fortunes with you, and are to-
day as good Southerners as am anc
I want to call your attention 10 one
thought, and then I shall stop. 1t !:
this: We hear and we read a grea
deal nowadays about bringing North
ern capital and inducing Northern
brains to come among us and develop
our waste places. The newspaper
harp on This in the South, and North
ern papers twit US with our incompet
ence and lack of progress and lazl
ness; and too many Southern paper
have become the echoes of this un
worthy thought. But pause and an
alyze the conditions which have ex
listed here since the war and consider
for a moment, to enlarge upon the
thought which my friend, the Cover
nor of South Carolina. has JUS
touched upon, the pension tribute
which We pay, and you will see tha
we have not received back from thai
source or any other source more thar
1.-THE O: the money that the Southern
people have dug from the earth anc
sent northward to remain there.
"Now I will give you few figures
and this is the only thing I took thu
trouble to look up to tell you about
The entire amount paid by the United
States Government since 1861 for pen
sions has been eighteen hundred anc
sixty millions. Of that sum the
amount paid to the veterans or widow:
of veterans of the war of 1912 and the
war of Mexico and the Indian war:
was $50, 100000, so that the Unior
soldiers have received $500, ,000, ,00O
from the United States Government
The number Of pensions in the South
all told--I mean the eleven Confeder
ate States, or the Cotton States:
65, 900. The number in the United
States, as whole, is $50, 600, so you
see that less than one-slxteenth o1
this money comes back here. How
much do we pay? Statistics VII
prove that these eleven Cotton State
count them in any shape you will, ane
measure them by any yard stick yol
want. pay not less than one-fourth an'
nearly one-third of it. If you deduc
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