The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-08-31
DEMAGOGISM.

DEMAGOGlSM.
Would some candidates for Of
hce know an immigrant if they
met one in the road? Especially
that class who have never tray
eled out Of the county in which
they live. The idea of men seek
ING to come in contact with IN
telligence talking about riff
raft, as if they themselves are
the offspring of aristocracy.
There are some men scornfully
talking about immigration who
are neither as intelligent, nor as
refined as many of the poorest
immigrants that reach our
shores. and some Of these anti
immigration advocates refer to
immigrants as :'the scum Of the
earth, !" when the fact is they for
Get the story Of the pot calling
the kettle black. There are no
advocates of immigration who
favor bringing into this State
ssthe scum of the earth," there
is too much of that kind here
now, native and foreign: but
what is wanted, and which every
sensible man should advocate, is
to open wide our gates and bid a
welcome to a class who come
here to be Of US, who will de
velop our waste places, and
make two blades of grass grow
where one grew before. The
riff raft" of Europe cannot be
induced to settle in agricultural
communities, that class huddle
in densely populated cities, coun-
try life is too lrksome for them.
but the immigrant who wants to
till the soil is OF that sturdy man
hood from which the present
American citizenship has its or
igin. When these narrow mind
ed politicians sneeringIy speak
of immigrants, they have only to
look across the Santee and see
what German immigration has
done: go to Marlboro and see
what the Scotchman has accom-
plisRed: Darlington, Sumter and
Clarendon and look upon the
monuments erected by the sons
of Ireland. All Of US are the Off
spring of the sturdy manhood OF
Europe, and wherever the Euro
pean has pitched his tent pros
perity and happiness has re-
suited.
IF ever this country builds a
Chinese wall around it. civiliza-
ton will decay and in the South
the supremacy of the white man
will be sorely tested. The time
is coming when we will appeal
to Europe for material to help Us
maintain our supremacy. The
educational strides now being
made by the other race will, in
course Of time, have its influence
on the ballot, and when that time
comes our only hope lies in num-
bers; but if we keep the white
man away as some politicians
would have the uninformed be-
lieve, it is not difficult to see the
result.
We say this State and the en-
tire South should receive a re-
spectacle class of immigrants
with open arms, welcome them,
and make them part of US.
The "rif-raff" will go to New
York. Chicago and other large
cities where they can thrive on
filth and crime, and the element
we seek to build up this country
will come where there are
schools, churches, an open and
healthful climate. We would like
for our anti-immigration advo-
Gates to tell US what built up the
great West if it was not immi-
grafton. Point out where in any
a gricultural community imml-
grants failed to make good citl-
zens. Yes, say some of the op-
position, that if we permit immi-
grants here, sin twenty years
time our children will be plow-
ing for them In reply to that
we say if our children are going
to sit down in idleness and let
their property slip away from
them, they should be glad in
deed if the thrifty immigrant
will give them employment, or
they might go to the poor house.
No, our children will work side
and side with the man who fears
God and earns his bread by the
sweat of his face, whether he be
a native or an immigrant. The
man who works and pays his
debts will live and prosper, he
can compete with the world; the
fellow who neither works nor
pays his debts is a gangrened
sore upon our social system and
deserves no consideration.
Carlyle Mckinley one of the