The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-03-27
4 BRIGHT OUTLOOK.
The Governor Tells Of the Day of
Industrial rtsperity.
GREAT FUTURE FOR THE STATE

The People Of South Carolina Are
Being nrought Into Touch
With Those Of Other.
States. Z.
Gov. Hayward attended the ami
yersary dinner or the Hibernian Socie-
ty in Charleston last Tuesday night
! week. lie responded TO the toast of
South Carolina and spoke as follows;
Mr.. ToastmaSter and Members OF tile
Hibernfan Society:
Before addressing myself to the
subject Of tie toast which has just
been announced toast which strikes
responsive chord in every heart
around this board and finds it echo in
the hearts Of every true Carolfnian
from Lbe restless wave of the Atlantic
to the range Of blue mountains on the
| northern border Of our State must
say word OF thanks for the invita-
tion which brings me here tnuight.
To tell you that l appreciate most
| highly the-honor you have done me
would not bc expressing all that feel.
1t is not only an honor buta privilege
to commemorate with the members Of
| this historic society the birthday of
| MIN who is the patron saint OF the
Emerald Isle.
To-day with f0nder memories, the
hearts Of Irishmen 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 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-
ing realized, when he said:
Look aloft! look aloft! the clouds
=. drifting by,
There's CLEAN through the gloom
4. there's a light in the sky, 4
'Tis the sunburst resplendent-fa
4. flashing on high!
Erin's dark night is waning, her day
dawn is night"
1t cannot, my friends, come too SOON
| From our hearts we all should say:
God speed the coming or 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
Carplinians s-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 Estate of South Car,
olitfa, the Palmetto Is greeted by as
loyal hearts and truen as ever hailed
the shamrock in an Irish banquet
hall.
The few words which 7 shall ad-
dress to you tonight Shall be to you
not as Irishmen or as descendants Of
1rlshmen, but as Charlestoniaus and as
| South CarOlinianS- -ss men who rejoice
that over the newly welded noun
tain and seaboard'' as expressed in my
toast, peace and prosperity" now
reign. / know, my friends, and my
countrymcn, that voice the senti-
ment,of every true Charlestonian and
Of every true South Carolinian, when
l say I'rejoice that the day has come
| when, forgetting the things Of the
past we can, hand in had and shoul-
der to shoulder, with renewed cour-
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, l can only say that
| found a fertile field, in the pl wing
OF which found ready and willing
| helpers from the mountains to the
seaboard In every section OF our
State found sturdy SOUTH Carolln-
ians-lnen 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 felici-
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 future 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 Ttbelc'vc lies be-
fore us as a people, we must practice
not only in our lives but also in our
politics the 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 i
common: heritage and e0nmon;d des-
tiny-all sons of one mother and that
mother the grand old common wealth
Of South Carolinl.
A brighter day is breaking over our
State--a day OF industrial prosperity
such as our forcfathers never dreamed
Of. 1t is coming as surely as the sun
will rise upon the morrow. We can
see its signs on the horizon we can
breathe it in the very atmosphere.
When astorm Is over, and the light.
ming has ceased to flash and the thun-
der to shake the earth, how gladly
does the traveller behold the rainbow
in the cloud! il 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