The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-02-20

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" add greater wealth than its
entire cost; the development Of
Cuba, and by good sanitary meas
ures the practical elimination of
the danger to the South from
that country of yellow fever: the
establishment of coaling stations
in the Pacific and the control OF
a large part of the trade OF the
Eastern world.
.:Truly we are living IN d won,
derful time, when it may almost
be said that Dewey fired a shot
that made it possible to see the
fulfllment Of Scripture in that
a nation shall be born in a day
This nation has had a new birth,
and it enters upon its new life
with a glorious future-a future
cf cfgreatresponsibility, of tremen-
dous progress, OF peace and pros
perity among our own people, an
end of the cry that the rich have
no patriotism, united people
and q united country, taking our
place as the foremost nation OF
the world in the advancement of
civilization and in the extension
Of trade"
What the Manufacturers Re
cord then outlined as the posi-
bility Of the future Governor
MacCorkle very pointedly des-
cribes as the situation Of today.
Picturing this advancement of
the United States, he takes the
position that from the CONNER
cial point of view Cuba holds the
strategic position in our future
development. On this point he
takes advanced ground, and,
without regard to whether his
views are in harmony with Re
publicans or Democrats, he dis
cusses this great question from
the point of view of our CONNER
cial development and expansion.
And on commercial expansion
rests the very life of our nation.
It is appropriate in connection
with Governor MacCorkle's sur
vey of commercial expansion that
we publish the brilliant speech
of Senator McLaurin of South
Carolina, delivered in the United
States Senate last week: on the
Importance to the South of a
merchant marine. Taking as his
text the resolution passed by the
Cotton Spinners' Association of
the South last May, demanding
the enactment by Congress of
legislation in aid of American
shipping, he reviews the cotton
industry of the South and it's in
fuence upon the progress and
prosperity of that section. He
aligns himself with the most
progressive business men of the
South, with the cotton manufac-
turers who passed this resolution
and with the manufacturers Of
iron and the workers of wood and
other products, who have been
equally emphatic in demanding
that the representatives of the
South in Congress should view
these questions not from their
political affiliations Of the past,
but from the standpoint Of the
necessities of business advance
ment in the South. He points
out how the destruction of the
war and the greater horror and
the greater evil of reconstruction
so embittered the South that its
people naturally opposed every
policy or doctrine advanced by
the Republican party, and that,
therefore, when the Republicans
advocated protection the people
of the South naturally became
more intensely free-trade than
they were before; when the
Republicans proposed ship sub
sides, the South fought bitterly
for free ships. And he adds:
'This was natural, but it was not
craftsmanship. The time has
come now when the South, fol-
lowing n the lead of it's great
business interests, can afford to
put aside the animosities of the
past and take up the work of the
Old South, and when it's political
leaders should rightly stand
shoulder to shoulder with its
business men and strive to ad-
vance measures calculated to up
build its prosperity, without re-
gard to whether they are advo-
Gated by Republicans or demo
Gratis"
We believe that every honest
thinking man of the South must
agree with Senator McLaurin in
this platform. Every man has a
right to his own convictions, and
some may differ with him as to
whether government aid to ship
ping is a wise thing or not, but
they must give him credit for
this broad platform of working
for the upbuilding of the South,
and for any measure which, in
his opinion, is of value to the
agricultural, industrial and gen
eral business of this section. as
in the view of the great business
leaders of the South the shipping
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