The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-03-25
4 BRIGHT OUTLOOK.
The Governor Tells Of the Day OF
Industrial Pro sperlty.
GREAT FUTURE FOR THE STATE
The People OF South Carolina Are
Being Brought Into Touch
With Those OF Other
States.

With Those Of Other
States.
Coy. Hayward attended the ami
verSary dinner of the Hibernian Socie
ty in Charleston last Tuesday night
week. He responded to the toast OF
South Ca rolina and spoke as follows:
Mr.. ToaStmaster and Members OF the
Hibernian Society:
Before addressing myself to the
subject Of the toast which has just
been announced-a toast which strikes
a responsive chord in every heart
around this board and tndS it echo in
the hearts of every true Carolinian
from the restless wave of the Atlantic
to the range of blue mountains on the
northern border of our StaIe-1 must
say word Of thanks for the invita-
tion which brings me here tonight.
To tell you that appreciate most
highly the honor you have done roe
would not be expressing all that | feel.
1t is not only an honor but a privilege
to commemorate with the members OF
this historic society the birthday OF
him who is the patron saint Of the
Emerald Isle.
Today with fonder memories, the
hearts Of IrShmen the world over are
turning back to Erin. Today they
rejoice because that liberty which has
always had home in Irish hearts is
about to ind lodgment on Irish soil.
To-day 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 a CLEAN through the gloom
there's light in the sky,
'Tis the sunburst resplendenC-far
flashing on high!
Erin's dark night is waning, her day
dawn is night
1t cannot, my friends, come too soou
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, 5hey are true
and patriotic Americans. They love
South Carolina and they love America
with the same love that they love
Ireland and hence it is that on such
an occasions as this, when toast is
proposed to the State of South Car
olina,'' the Palmetto is greeted by as
loyal hearts and true" as ever hailed
the shamrock N an Irish banquet
hall.
The few words which I shall ad-
dress to you tonight shall be to you
not as IriShmen or as descendants OF
Irishmen, but as Charlestonians and as
South Carolinians-a 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 senti-
ment of every true Charlestonian and
of every true South Carolinian, when
say 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 90 to the
things which lie before.
II 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 fertile field, in the pl wing
OF which l found ready and willing
helpers from the mountains to the
seaboard. In every section Of our
State found sturdy South Carolin-
ians-men who loved South Carolina
men whose warm handclaSpS and
whose untiring labor did far more
than anything I could dc to accom-
plish the results upon which we felicl-
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 childrenS
children. Whether or not we shall
attain our full measure Of good de-
pends upon US and upon US alone. II
we are to work out successfully the
great future which I believe 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 an6
net to pull down-to understand and
not to misunderstood, remembering
always that we are one people with
common heritage and common des-
tiny-all sons Of one mother and that
mother the grand old common wealth
of South Carolina.
\ brighter day is breaking over oul
State-a day of industrial prosperity
such as our fOrefatherS never dreamed
of. 1t is coming as surely as the sur
will rise upon the morrow. We car
see it's signs on the horiZon-we can
breathe it in the very atmosphere.
When storm 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 raj nbow
in the cloud, 1t ascends from the
rugged mountain top and with its my
Rad of colors spanning the sky, il
seems to sink to rest in the bosom o.
the ocean--a holy covenant that nevel
again shall those waters cover The
earth.
So it is with that prosperity which