The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-05-29

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our great industrial army; each time that
an old. lingering mortgage is cancelled;
each time that he sees new roof put
upon the house and q few more comforts
for the old mother at the tireside; each
time he sees the burdens Of domestic toll
lightened for the weary wife, to be COM
PEELED to have chill for fear Mr.. Bryan's
chances would be hindered by each and
all of these varied circumstances during
the last three or four years, would have
kept me in perpetual shiver. For my
self. rather than be /. sufferer from an
ina ginary ague, shall prefer to glory in
these evidences of prosperity and happi-
ness, rather than conjure them up as
specters even if some politicians chances
are thereby lessened.
When to be approved by 1.-The latter
day saints of Democracy as q consistent
! party man, one must turn his back to the
! rising sun and watch alone its setting,
and when, instead of viewing the glories
of the morning, he must conjure up the
phantoms o. night, I shall rest content
to place my faith in those immortal prin-
ciples, which the fathers of Democracy
promulgated, at the rmation of our
government and which have been sealed
by the devotion of patriotic men and con-
secrated by the blood of heroes.
When marching from a condition of
misery, when fleeing from land of
Sodom, must one needs look back with
yearning?
When, like the chosen of God, escaping
from the task-masters Of Egypt, and
marching towards the land of promise
flowing with milk and honey, with wealth
of corn, vine and olives, abounding in
| fatness, must we still attempt to satisfy
! the morbid cravings of that appetite
which yet yearns for the feshpots Of
Egypt?
GIVE THE YOUNG MEN OF THE SOUTH A
CHANCE.
When pig iron was stacked up in the
yards at Chattanooga and Birmingham,
unstable at six dollars per ton. furnaces
cold, men idle, and 1 now find furnaces
blazing, yards empty, men working, and
| customers knocking at the door to buy
| that iron at prices which have ranged
from sixteen to twenty dollars per ton;
| when, instead Of four cents. sold my
cotton this year at eleven, shall l, as a
| loyal citizen of this glorious Southland,
with the visions of the greatness that lie
before her, standing as she does at the
| open door of opportunity, shall | follow
the leadership of Pettigrew, Altgelt, or
Tillman; or shall exert every honorable
effort in my power to make the present
measure of prosperity out as faint
| glimpse Of the coming morn, compared
| with the splendor of the sun at its me-
ridian?i
Am to be turned from my course,
conscious of the absolute unselfshness
of my purpose, to do all that may lie in
my power for the welfare ard happiness
of the people whom 1 love; am | to be
| deferred from my course, because some
political wolves are heard bowling upon
my track?
see before me a mother, who over
and again has with bowed head and in
finite yearning asked herself. "How may
| I 50 rear my son that he may go out into
the world and achieve success?" This
has been sterner problem in the South
than in the North. The diversity Of
manufacturing industries has left the
avenues of success wide open for the
Young men of the North, while to the
young men Of the South there have been
| but few avenues open for those rightful
ambitions which fire the heart of every
youth. I would, il in my power, before
| / am called home from my labors, pro-
mote condition where might see these
boys-one, perhaps, the president of a
great factory, the other perhaps the trea-
| surer or secretary, another the manager,
| and another perhaps as the sales agent
establishing markets for South Carolina
products throughout the world. All
men cannot be lawyers, clergymen or
bankers, hut every boy with the training
of good mother, and the education af-
| forded by our public schools, has a rea-
| sonable right to aspire to the proudest
positions Of eminence in the world, finan-
cial, industrial and commercial. would
if in my power, promote the condition
where your sons might 60 out into the
broad avenues Of life with every impend-
ing barrier torn down, where the boy
upon the poorest farm in South Carolina,
or the son of the least paid operative at
the mill, could march out with hope and
courage, and, having been taught those
| lessons at the mothers knee which must
ever be his guiding star, find that oppor-
| tunity for success and eminence which
his qualities command.
| With the great race problem, which
has for so many years confronted us,
happily settled, as I said at Charlotte,
"why should we be miserable slaves of
ope party and football for the other?''
Let it be understood that the industrial
and commercial interest of the South
| come before the interest Of any politi-
clan. l cannot believe that narrowness,
bigotry, prejudice or the arts of the willy
politician, should be permitted to swerve
us from course which leads to the at
tainment of these objects, which bring
in their train blessings to every farm and
tireside, to every hearth and home, in our
grand old commonwealth.
Why should the achievement of some
narrow political ambition stop the young
men of the South from the opportunity
of winning the same success which is
open to the young men of the Norths
Some twelve years ago, boy OF German
parentage just out of a little school near
| Pittsburg, went to work in an iron mill.
Quick, active, willing, obliging, he was
soon promoted to a position in the
draughting Office. a short time after
wards he was promoted as assistant fore
man, then as foreman, then as superin-
tendent, then as manager, then as presi-
dent, and to-day he stands as president
Of the largest corporation that the
world has ever known, and by common
| renort draws salary of one million dol
lars per year. This is an extreme case,
but merely an example of thousands and
tens of thouands of similar cases in the
North. I cannot believe that there are
higher intelligence, greater capacity or
truer worth, to be found anywhere than
among the youth of our State. The diff
ference arises alone from conditions and
environment.
What father or mother, what good pa
triotic citizen, what Christ tian man, then,
would censure me, realizing as l do the
marvellous advantages that South Caro-,