The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-03-27
a BRIGHT OUTLOOK.
The Governor Tells Of the Day Of
Industrial -Prts tsperity.
GREAT FUTURE FOR THE STATE
The People OF South Curolina Are
Being Brought Into Touch
With Those of Other
Staten. ~,

With Those of Other
Staten.
Gov. Hayward attended the ami
yersary dinner of the Hibernian Socic-
ty In Charleston last Tuesday night
week. lie responded TO the toast Of
South Carolina and spoke as follows:
Mr.. ToastmaSter and Members Of the
Hibernlan Society:
Before addressing myself to the
subject Of the toast which has just
been announced "a toast which strikes
Il responsive chord in every heart
around this board and finds it echo in
the hearts Of every true Carolfnian
from The restless wave of the Atlantic
to the range OF blue mountains on the
northern border Of our StaLc-1 must
| SHY a word Of thanks for the invita-
tion which brings me here tonight.
| To tell yon that appreciate most
highly the-honur you have done me
would not he expressing all that feel.
1t is not only an honor but Il privilege
to commemorate with the members OF
| this historic society the birthday of
him who is the patron saint OF the
Emerald Isle.
To-day with fondcr memories, the
hearts Of Irishmcn the world over are
turning back to Erin. Today they
rejoice because that liberty which has
always had a home in Irish hearts is
about TO find a lodgment on Irish soil.
Today the prophetic words Of your
own poet, tho we Of America and Of
the south can claim him too, are be-
| inr realized, when he said:
Look aloft! look aloft! the clouds
=. drifting by,
There's . g!eam thrcus!! the gloom
/. there's Il light in the sky,
It's; the sunburst resplendcnt-fa far
flashing on high!
Erin's dark night is waning, her day
dawn is nigh''
1t cannot, my friends, come too soon
From our hearts we all should say:
God speed the coming Of that day
Never mind how poor an Irishman
may be when he comes to our shores
there is one thing which he always
brings with him, and that is his love
Of country; but loving and remember
ing the land from whence he came
makes him none the less loyal to the
land Of his adoption. Irish South
CarOlinians-Irish Americans, are
true South Carolinians, they are true
and patriotic Americans They love
South Carolina and they love America
with the same love that they love
Ireland and hence 1t Is that on such
an occasions as this, when toast is
proposed to the 'sState Of South Car
olitia,'o, the Palmetto is greeted by as
loyal hearts and truen AS ever hailed
the shamrock in an Irish banquet
hall
The few words which shall ad-
dress to you tonight shall be to you
not as 1rishmen or as descendants Of
lr1shmen, but as CharlestOnians and as
South CarolinianS-as men who rejoice
that over the newly-wedded noun
tain and seaboard" as expressed in my
toast, peace and prosperity" now
reign. l know, my friends, and my
countrymen, that l voice the scnti-
mcnt.of every true Charlestanian and
Of every true South Carolinian, when
| say I'rejoice that the day has come
1 when, forgetting the things OF the
past we can, hand in had and shoul-
der to shoulder, with renewed conr-
age, as brethren, press on to the
things which lie before.
If it has fallen to my lot, as you
kindly intimate in the sentiment
which has just been read, to bear an
humble part in bringing about this
happy condition, can only say that
| found a fertile field, in the pl wing
or which found ready and willing
helpers from the mountains to the
Seaboard. In every section or our
State found sturdy South Carolin-
ians-rnen who loved South Carolina
men whose warm handclasps and
whose .untiring labor did far more
than anything | could do to accom-
plish the results upon which we felic-
tate ourselves tonight.
The era Of peace and good will
which today is prevailing in South
Carolina means much for us in the
present and for the futurc-for us,
for our children and for our children's
children. Whether or not we shall
attain our full measure Of good de-
pcnds upon us and upon us alone. If
we are TO work out successfully the
great future which T!1belicvIc lies be-
fore us as a people, we must practice
not only III our lives but also in our
politics tho principles of the golden
rule. we. should; seek to build up and
not to pull dOwn-to understand and
not to misunderstood, remembering
always that we are one people with 4
common: heritage and cUmmon,des-
tiny-all sons OF one mother and that
mother the grand old common wealth
OF South Carolina.
a brighter dayis breaking over our
Stated day Of Industrial PROSPERITY
such as our forefatherS never dreamed
Of. 1t lis coming as surely as the sun
will rise upon the morrow. We can
see it's signs On the horizon-we can
breathe it in the very atmosphere.
When a storm IS over, and the light:
ming has ceased to fash and the thun-
der to shake tile earth, how gladly
does the traveller behold the rainbow
in the clouds! 1t asccnds from the
rugged mountain top and with its my
Rad Of colorS spanning the sky, it
seems to sink to rest In the bosom Of
tho c"ean-.-a lloly.covenant that never
again shall those waters cover 'tl1c
earth.
So it is with that prosperity which
today is gradually spreading it's
| brirht how Of promiSe over South