Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-04-24
| saw in Che papers a few days ago chat

I saw In the papers few days ago that
the Baldwin Locomotive Works, In Phila-
delphia, were supplying the Russian
government with $50 locomotives for the
'rrans.Siberian Railroad. The facts sur
rounding this sale arc of peculiar inter-
est. The Russian government. owns its
railroads and maintains large shops. 1t
puts duty of 4 cents per pound on i'm
ports, but when 1t came to supplying the
equipment for this giant road of 5000
miles, 1t was found that they had to como
to the United States. And yet, seven
years ago, the first on shipment abroad
was from Birmingham, Ala.
Another feature of American influence
Is our suddenly acquired financial inde-
pendence. For years we have boon bor-
rowers; but during tho two years past
we have become lenders Of money.
ments-England, Germany and Russia
have found it necessary to como to New
York for important loans, thus showing
that the center of the financial world has
been transferred from Lombard to Wall
street. 1t is folly for tho political lead
ors of the South to close their eyes to the
truth that the commercial expansion Of
the United States is fact of constantly
enlarging proportions, demanding chang
cd governmental policies to meet new
conditions. [Applause.1
In spite of higher WAGES, with labor
saving machinery, the superior skill and
intelligence of our operatives, under a
factory system better organized than any
in the world, is giving us industrial as
condency. 1t needs, however, to sup
port it broad statesmanship, not handi-
capped by sectional prejudices. We can
differ about domestic matters and divide
upon party lines, but when it comes to
utilizing national opportunities North,
South, East and West should unto in
United States in the great struggle
among the nations for the commerce of
the world. Applause.]
Tho South must play an important
part in our country's future. For a
third of century she has been ham
pered by a struggle for mere existence,
forced TO devote all of her energy and
craftsmanship to the maintenance of
white supremacy. Thank God, this is
permanent and assured beyond perad-
venture of doubt. At last she has emerged
from her forlorn and prostrate condition;
freed from her enthrallment, she
can put herself in touch with the
exercise an influence In national
life. believe tho time will come when
the South will bo tho hope and salvation
of this nation. [Applause]. Her mar
velous growth in manufacturing enter
prscs, her development of natural re-
sources, and her rapid advance in pro
gressivo thought and action, are making
country. The center of manufacturing
in the United States has been transferred
from Fall River, Mass, to Columbia S.
q. But if we would mako the most OF
our opportunities wo must renounco sec.
tional ,proiudices and support broad
national policies, looking to the creation
of foreign markets, the expansion OF
trade and the upbuildng of common
country. [Applause]. We must demand
and have for the South full share OF
tho benefits as we'll as the burdens OF
national life. Tho South is vitality inter
cstcd in tho Asiatic markets. Her man
ufacturers arc studying the needs of the
people in an intelligent effort to turn out
products suited to those markets. The
: closing of the markets of China, owing
! to recent troubles, has caused a glut OF
goods, which is reflected by decline hf
three cents per pound on raw cotton.
: The administration is doing a great
deal towards improving our commercial
opportunities in tho East, by showing
} some regard for the inalienable rights OF
China, while protecting the Legitimate
demands Of foreign interests. Deweys
} victory first established American pres
tge along the Asiatic coast. 1t was
then that 500, 600, 900 people in the Orient
} learned respect for tho Unitod States
and saluted us as a first class power
, The attitude of tho United States since
; in the field Of diplomacy in China has
given confidence and increased that
respect. United States from tho frs,
took tho lead and even the warlike
Emperor Of Germany has had to yield to
! Uncle Sans friendly admonitions
Applause. We now occupy the want
age ground, because on friendly tcrms
with all tho powers. l make tho inser
ton that the South has moro to gair
than any other section from tho foreign
policy now pursued by the administra
5 tion, particularly when the Isthn,ial
canal is constructed, rs it is to be
Applause.
+ | have read extracts from tho spoecl
of my amable and distinguished friend
l His Excellcncy, Minister WI, recent,
dom and good sense. Wc cannot hope
t and we should not wish to break dowr
tho civilization of China upon which i,
based a polty, society and religion til.
} slow growth Of four thousand years. Il,
: do SO is to destroy tho empire in the at
tempt to suddenly thrust upon her ;
| Western civilization for which her people
are not prepared: All we can hopo to d.
is to vitalize this old civilization with
Western ideas, science and inventive
, genius, thus making it moro potential il
} material achievements. This countr,
has dono well to use every effort by thu
} benign influence of it's political and com
mcrcial power to preserve the identity O.
tho empire and the integrity of it's civili
zation. Under this policy it is reasona
. bio to expect China to become the con
stantly expanding market for our pro
ducts, and as gradually her interior is
fully developed by network of railroads
and all of hor cities opened up to foreign
} commerce, the opportunities are almost
} without limit. The South now controls
most of this trade, and with such do
, vclopment, in the near future, it shonlt
! increase tcnfOld.
We arc no longer a purely agriculture
section, but mining, manufacturing ant
kindred interests have sprung into prom
incncc and demand governmental poll
cics to protect and develop them. A
! statcsmanship so partisan in it's charac
tor as to adhere to old political doctrines
either settled by tho arbitrament of thu
, sword or firmly fixed as government pol
lcles, cannot s0lvo tho political and eco
n0mlc problems now confronting The
Southern people. Such statosmanshir
cannot properly interpret present eco
nomlc movements, nor provide by ag
grcssivo and progressive thought for the
A WORTHY SUCCESSOR.
Something New Under the Sum-