The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-05-05

SSssSoSviS iuSd VI CUe CTenQ or
capital towards this State, and
It's readiness to enter into the
active development of the State.
When we recall that the factories
about Clifton were the only cot
ton factories in the State forty
years ago, and now look at the
State as tits dotted with manu-
featuring plants of the latest
machinery and most successful
management, and that there are
many Of them being managed by
young men, born since the war,
successfully, in the face of COM
petitiot which is born of the
desperation of New England at
seeing 1.-THE prospect of her SUI
premacE in that department
being taken from her by her old
enemyHN get but faint reali-
zatlon or the wonderful strides
this State has made in material
nrogreSs in manufacturing lines.
Ihls State, therefore, in a ma
terialNyay is now offering greater
advantages than almost any State
in the Union for energy and
thrift in business career. She
has hpt shaken off the Iethargy
incident to period of revolution
caused by the domination of the
former slave and his demagogic
leader, and is preparing for an
onward movement in all material
things, which can be but family
conceived by those who have
kept close watch on the progress
for the last ten years, and she
reaches out an appealing hand to
the young men of this State to
abide in the ship and participate
in all the good things that are in
store for this generation, and to
avoid the fatuous rainbow-chas-
ing OF those who would seek
quicker fortune in the money
ceRters of the East or the un-
developed countries. of the West.
IN Ae political career, there
are doors opening in South Caro-
lima which will render some man
in the next decade, who is now
under forty years old, a famous
leader in South Carolina affairs;
the great development which is
going on necessitates advance
ment in political ideas and ad-
vancem1ent in all legislative mat
tiers. The management of the
liquor traffic, which is now in all
the South one of the paramount
political questions, is here one of
the most difficult of all statecraft.
The continual and apparently
well-founded charge of crooked
ness in many departments of
this management has day after
day and week after week been
destroying the confidence of the
public, not only in the manage
ment of that particular depart
ment of government, but in all
departments of our government.
Corruption charged with prima
facie evidences of guilt in one
department besmirches every de-
partment of the government and
brings it under the ban of pub
lie: suspicion of the integrity of
their government will inevitably
lead to public condemnation of
that government sooner or later,
unless there is absolute, unspar-
ing and salutary correction of
the cause arousing the suspicion,
and in my judgment, around this
question will be fought the next
revolution in this State, and the
man who appears in public life
with the ability to deal with it's
questions and the frmness neces-
sary to grapple with the power
OF the dispensary and unscrupu-
lous use of that power will have
the opportunity to be marked as
the great leader of another great
step in South Cardinals progress
in political affairs.
| say this without intending to
condemn the system which is
now managing the liquor ques-
ton, but in sorrow at the mis-
management or corrupt manage
ment which is going on, and
with the intention of directing
the attention of the young men
of this State to the duty which
they owe to their State to guard
her fair name from charges of
corruption as zealously as they
would guard their own; and in
speaking of the political career,
/ desire to emphasize the fact
that / don't, by making division,
intend to intimate that the young
man who follows a hlIsiness