Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-02-07
Miseellanrous &radins.
OUR SOUTHERN TRADE.

OUR SOUTHERN TRADE.
Senator McLaurin Gives Valuable InfOrma'
ton on an Important Question.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Re
cord Of January 25, contains interest
ing interviews with Senator McLau.
rim, of South Carolina, and Senator
Jones, of Arkansas, with reference to
he southern interests involved in the
pending treaty between the United
States and France. Senator McLau
rim is quoted az follows:
"The crying need of what has come
TO be called 'the New South has always
been ways and means to utilize its re-
sources, TO realize upon its slow as
sels,' or, to use honely phrase, to
find market for its ducks. There
fore, it behooves our representative
men, more than those of other sections
to do some hard thinking about how
to fill this crying need, and to study
with double diligence the great indus
trial and commercial problems OF the
hour. / am, therefore, heart and soul
in favor of every treaty or other com
mercial measure calculated 10 secure
more markets or better markets
whether iu France or China, Europe
Asia or Africa, for whatever the south
has today or may tomorrow have tc
SELL Aud while I naturally (and be-
lieve property favor first OF all what
will most benefit the south, | am at the
same time, as an American who loves
his country next to his state, in favor
of whatever will strengthen the power
and influence of the republic. BY the
same token l rely upon and expect
patriotic men of other sections 10 CON
slider what is best for the material al
vancement of the south, for, as the
motto of The Manufacturers Record
expresses it, the development of the
south means the enrichment of the
nation
81 had just Dictated" Senator lMc'
Laurn continued, "a letter in reply 10
yours asking me TO tell The Manufac'
turers' Record what I thought of the
pending treaties, in which took ad'
vantage of the opportunity TO say why
I always felt ready to comply gladly
with any reasonable request The Man
ufrcturers' Record might make, ifthere'
by might lend helping hand to the
great work your paper has been doing so
long and so faithfully for the upbuild'
ing of the south. And before getting
down to this particular instrumentality
for commercial expansion Il. e., the
French treaty. I want TO say how
cheerful sign Of the times it is Ia
notice, as I do every day, the increas'
ing public interest which is being man.
tested throughout my state and all
over the south in commercial and
industrial affairs-an interest which
amounts, in fact, to a waking up OH
the part of our people to things that
effec, their real and lasting welfare.
We were never a commercial peo'
pie, nor Except for home use before
the wal) manufacturing people until
lately. In anti.bellum times our peo
pie took keener interest in politics
than in anything else, because since
the period antedating the Missouri
compromise, politics meant the per.
peluation or extinction of the south's
peculiar institution involving the
great issue that led at length TO war
between the states. mention this
only to explain why the people of the
South have been comparatively slow
to take an active interest i'll industrial
and commercial questions. The effects
of habit aud traditional tendency can
only he counteracled by agitation and
education. And in this behalf-lhe
agitation of living material issues. and
tie education of the public TO Il rcali-
zarion of The needs of the hour-the
Manufacturers Record has done more
than all other publications put to
gethrr.
"And while we are talking about
educational work want 10 add IN!
tribute ot The recognition now being
accorded Senator Morgan of Alabama
by the enlightened press and progres
sive, liberal minded men of all parties
and sections for the work he has done
in bringing the public mind to II renli
zation of great national need. MOI
only has hp been more largely instru-
mental than anyone else in making
the Nlcaraugua canal almost, if not
quite, fail accompli but he has done
more than any southern man in public
life to awaken our people To a practical,
business view Of affairs, instead of al
lowing themselves to be lied away
captive by mauhlin political senlimen'
lallly. For myself, l can say with
sincerity and truth that whatever edu
cation | have received along lines that
20 to justify my holding my present
representative position, owe largely