Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-05-10

ern manufacturers per cent. One
OF the Yew England railroad mana
gers testified before the Senate CON-
mittee at Washington last week that
that railroads would carry raw
products, such as cotton, from the
South to New England mills at a
very low rate, because it was neces-
sary to keep the people in the New
England mills employed or the towns
would be abandoned a concession
that was found necessary to save tb >
New England industry from disaster,
which, but for the assistance of the
railroads and the bounty of the Gov
ernment could not stand the natural
competition of the Land of Cotton.
1t is most remarkable condition
of things that the advantages which
have been given to us by prodigal
nature are to be overcome by the
enactments of legislative assemblies,
the exactions of money lenders and
the industry of secret service men
engaged in the work of disorganizing
our labor. But in spite of all the
handicaps under which we have been
running our race for industrial su.
premacy we have made good. Our
success in the past is only an earnest
of what we shall accomplish in the
the future, if we shall hold together
with the same spirit of industry and
the same tenacity of purpose.
CHARLESTON AND GREENvIILE.
In all the good fortune which has
come to you, the people of Charleston
are deeply interested. Your welfare
is their welfare. They have invested
largely in your industries and they
have shared with you in the fortunes
which you have made by your superb
management of the mills you have
built and operated. They would like
to establish even closer business rela-
tions with you and work with you in
every good cause which has for it's
object the upbuilding. of the State
and the prosperity of its people. 1t
is natural that it should be so; there
are 30 many ties between US; ties of
common ancestry, ties of the closest
sympathy in all the history of the
past, ties of commercial advantage,
and the overshadowing and irresisti-
BILE and all-compelling thought of
common destiny. We cannot do
without you. / wish that you could
not do without us. Your names are
just like our names; your people are
just like our people-indeed they are
our people; your Perrys and Hey
wards and Rutledges and Smyths and
Bryans and Haynes and Jerveys and
Smiths and Ansels and Richardson's
and Macallisters and Westervelts and
Cogswells and Inglesbys and Hards
and Crosskeys and Gilfillans and
Bentzes and Jenkinses and Barnwells
and the rest of splendid people
intent upon good living and high
achievement.
We are not selfish people in
Charleston any more than you. We
do not ask where a man comes from
nor what is his religion or politics,
but what he is himself. Excepting
the president of the newspaper with
which | arm connected there is only
one native Charlestonian now en-
gagged in the active work of making
up the paper. -Four of its editorial
force were brought up in the hill
country of South Carolina or made
their start in this part of the State.
The distinguished Judge of the
United States District Court is an
up-countryman. The officers of the
Court are for the most part up.
countrymen. The pastor of the
largest Baptist Church in Charleston
is native of Greenville county.
Only one of the reotors of the Epis-
copal churches is native of Charles
ton. The three p esbyterian minis
ters in the city are "outsiders." Sew
eral Of the most successful lawyers at
the Charleston Bar were not born i'm