The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1903-03-25
A BRIGHT OUTLOOK.
The Governor Tells of the Day of
Industrial Prosperity.
GREAT FUTURE FOR THE STATE
The People of South Carolina Are
Being Brought Into Touch
With Those Of Other
States.


verSary dinner of the Hibernian Socie
ty I'm Charleston last Tuesday nigh
week. He responded to the toast o
South Carolina and spoke as follows:
MIR. ToaStmaSter and Members of the
llibernian Society:
Before addressing myself to the
subject OF the toast which has Just
been announced toast which strikes
a responsive chord in every hear,
around this board and finds it echo i'm
the hearts OF every true Caroliniau
from the restless wave OF the Atlantic
TO the range OF blue mountains on the
northern border OF our State must
say a word of thanks for the invita-
tion which brings me here tonight.
To tell you that | appreciate most
mighty the honor you have done me
would not be expressing all that feel.
III Is not only an honor but 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 lriShmen the world over are
turning back to Erin. Today they
rejoice because that liberty which has
always had home i'm 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 aIoft. look aloft. the clouds
drifting by,
'Hhnra'S n ,rlnn,x,
there's light in the sky,
lis the SunburSt resplendent-fa
flashing on high,
ErinS 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 dav.
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
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CarolinianS-Irish Americans, are
true South CarolinianS, they are true
and patriotic Americans. They love
South Carolina and they love America
Win The same love that they love
Ireland and hence it is that on such
an occasions as this, when a 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 in an Irish banquet
hall.
The few words which | shall ad-
dress to you tonight shall be TO you
not as lrlshmen or as descendants of
IriShmen, but as CharleStonians and as
south CarollnianS-aS men who rejoice
tnat over the newly welded noun
tain and seaboard" as expressed in my
toast, peace and prosperity" now
reign. | know, my friends, and my
countrymen, that | voice the senti-
mcnt of every true Charlestonian and
OF every true South Carolinian. when
say L 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, can only say that
found 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 Carolin-
lanS men who loved South Carolina
men whose warm handclaSpS and
whose untiiing labor did far more
than anything | could do To accom-
pllSh 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 i'm the
present and for the future for us.
Tor our children and for our children's
children. Whether or not we shall
attain our full measure OF good de-
pendS upon us and upon us alone. III
we are 10 work out successfully the
great future which | believe lies be-
lore us as people, we must practice
not only in our lives but also i'm our
politics the principles OF the golden
rule. We should seek to build up and
not - pull down to understand and
not to misunderstood remembering
always that we are one people with
common heritage and common dcS-
tiny all sons Of one mother and that
mother the grand old common wealth
of South Carolina
n brighter DAY is breaking over our
state day OF industrial prosperity
such aS our forefathcrS never dreamed
OF. 1t is coming aS surely as the sun
Will rise upon the morrow. We can
see It's signs on the horizon we can
breathe 1T In the very atmosphere
When storm is over. and the light
ming has ceased 10 flash and the thun-
der To shake the earth, how gladly
does the traveller behold the rainbow
in the cloud! 1t aScends 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
the ocean--a holy covenant that never
again shall those waters cover the
earth.