The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-04-05

question Of price, as to know now
and where to obtain the class and
style of goods demanded by the people
Of that reigon. How can there be over
production when there are millions
clamoring for cotton goods, ready to
pay for them and yet unable to obtain
them.
say that we are confronted with
under distribution not ver-produc-
tion.
; Our government has never helped
US in in the Orient, but now the New
Orleans convention has requested Con-
gress to create commission for that
purpose. The President has given me
his personal assurance that he will
recommend such action to the next
congress, and assist the cotton in
tsrests of the south in every way that
he can.
THE PROMISED LAND.
There is no decadence in my fore
cast of the future of the south. God
placed his time lock on these shores
of ours, bnt it is opened now and
our development, great as it is, has
scarcely begun. Ours is the
"promised land" the country favored
by God and nature, with a monopoly
of the only great agricultural product
which is used by civilized man every
where. 1t is inevitable, as inexorable
as the laws of life and death, the mills
must come to the cotton. There are
those in the sound of my voice, who
will live to see the time when the
south will enjoy as complete monopo
ly in the manufacture as she now does
in the production Of raw cotton.
When instead OF ten cents, We will
draw from the balance of the world
20, 80 and 40 cents per pound fer the
finished article, making the south
rich beyond our widest dreams.
When life's fierce battle is done,
and I find the rest that the grave
finally gives to US all. ask no proud
er epitaph at the hands of my fellow
man than. "He saw the light and did
all he could to speed it's coming
THE SOUTH TO SAVE THE Ma
TION.
AS a nation, fellow citizens, we
have developed continent, created a
vast national wealth and too1y the
United States stands as the most
potent factor of the worlds.
The great issues of this country do
not lie between the platforms of the
two great political parties, the real
divisions are the relations OF labor
and capital, the monopoly of public
franchise for private gain, the trans
portation and kindred problems.
On one extreme stand the trusts,
huge, grim and unrelenting in their
greed: on the other stands organized
labor, fierce, determined and social
istic. On one side a plutocracy, on
the other a socialism. If this country
is to be saved it must be by the farm
er vote, and the we'll to do, middle
classes holding the balance of power
and sticking to the principles upon
which the government is founded.
There must be some power midway
between these extremes, strong enough
to hold the old ship to its constitu
tional moorings, OF she will break in
pieces upon the rocks on one side or
founder in the quicksands on the
other.
have little faith in any political
party my faith lies in the manhood,
the exceptional manhood, of this re-
public, which has always risen to
every emergency.
In the great industrial war divid-
ing each year more sharply the mas
ses and the classes in the North and
West, the South alone remains intact,
serene and confident. ! have some
times thought that in the wisdom of
God, like Israel of old, the South has
been held in political and industrial
bondage, to educate and prepare her
for the great work, of saving the
republic of Washington and OF Jefer
son.
The solid South with one third of
.the electoral vote is without influence
aud power in projecting national poll
cies, but think I can see the time
c3ming wher she will hold the
balance of power, and become the
rallying point for the conservative
and preservative forces in this nation.
The first tariff bill for protection
to home industries was introduced
by Lowndes. of South Carolina, in
1916, and advocated by Calhoun.
Cheves and Clay, Daniel Webster
and other New England Senator's op-
posing it.
Expansion, potection and the early
policies ;of this government were the
products of Southern genius and
craftsmanship. God speed the day
when a non-sectional patriotism, will
give our country a bread non-partisan
craftsmanship, which will again make
the South the potent factor in guiding
and shaping the destinies of this
republic.
A SOUTHERN Nan FOR PREsI-
DENT
It is time for the people to make
platform; the politicians have writ
ten them long enough. Make one in
accord with the commercial spirit of
the age, that Will appeal to every
patriotic American citizen, North,
South, East and West, who doesn't
want plntocracy on one side or
socialism on the other, put southern
man on it, not because he is South
ern man, but because he is big
broad American, call it democracy or
what you please, and I tell you that