The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1905-08-23
HOW HOME SEEKERS
MAY BE BROUGHT.
Interesting Paper Read Yesterday by
Mr.. I. II. Morris, Recently Moved
Here From the West.

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to South Carolina from Illinois, yester-
day read She following paper beforA
tne South Carolina Industrial and Com
niercial association:
W. are here to decide upon the best
methods for giving the most attractive
information regarding our State TO the
investor, the manufacturer, and the
home seeker.
| Now take it that what we are try
ing to do is to benefit not only COM
munities, but our State in it's entirety,
and to do this believe we should all
try to work out some method giving
the greatest publicity to the various
opportunities within our State for the
investor, the manufacturer and the
home seeker. AS regards the investor,
do not think we need worry very
much, for as rule all he wants is to
feel assured of dividends, and capital
can be induced to follow good, honest
and Industrious people into almost any
land
The manufacturer know very little
| about and it seems to me that all we
need to try to interest is the home
seeker; all the rest will follow as a mat
| ter of course.
believe it to be fact that there
are only two ways of increasing wealth
| in the world. One is by manufactur-
ing raw material into mark etabe com
modities, the other is by production
from the soil. Labor is the one essen
tial of both these, so that we may say
labor is the only way in which the
worlds wealth can be increased. The
farmer is the greatest laborer in the
world, hence he is the greatest pro-
ducer of the wealth of the world. The
tllling of the soil by proper cultural
methods produces the food stuff and
the wearing apparel for the entire hu-
man race. Thus we find if we examine
closely, that the greatest possession we
have is the soil. 1t is the greatest en-
dowment of mankind. From it we are
told we came, on it we live, move and
work out our destiny, and to it we
must most certainly return. How do
we regard it or treat it? Do we. care
for it and tend it as we should? We
should always bear in mind that al
though the soil cannot go out of eX-
stence, yet the ability of the soil to
produce plant life and support herds
and fiocks, may and does either in
crease or decrease, and that it is our
dnt,, ~. a. ~ al ~,
just little better than we found them
If we do that it matters little about
our religion or our politics. If we have
been good citizens, the world is better
for our having lived in it.
We should ever bear in mind that a
town, a community, a State or a coun
try is lesser or n greater number of
individuals and that the good on bad
character of the individual affects the
whole. The proportion of good or bad
citizens makes the State either good or
bad according to the proportion, is the
character of the State. To be bad
citizen it is not necessary that one
should be a criminal, he may be pos
itively bad it is true, but he may also
negatively bad and of the two, the
negatively bad is often the worse. A
negatively bad farmer is that one who
neglects to perform the duties of the
trust imposed upon him as a custodian
of the soil, and neglects to leave it bet
ter than he found it, or neglects to
care for it as he should. If a man has
fine jewel he puts it i'm costly set
ting; he grooms and gives especial care
to fine horse, and in so doing, he is
not negligent, but the same man may
be negligent of his lands, not fearing
to lose them by lack of care. He just
has them and lets it go at that.
will venture the assertion that less
than half of the land owners in this
State can follow the exact boundaries
of their land without the assistance of
a surveyor. How can man properly
value something the very appearance
of which he is so woefully ignorant of?
| AS matter of pride the owner of land
should try to put it in such shape and
condition that it would attract and
not repel visitors and then | believe
many land owners would be like the
| Nebraska ranchman who sold his ranch,
stock, furniture and Utensils of all
kind. The purchaser demanded an in
ventory of everything re had pur-
chased, and when it was made, in
Guiding all the personal property
chairs, pots, pans, forks spoons, dishes,
ETC., the old ranchmar backed down and
would not sell because he found an old
prass kettle which he never before
knew he had. rhe trade fell through,
the old brass kettle was cleaned and
polished and was found to be of great
value. 1t is always well to see your
own property. To know what you got,
to keep it in good shape and to realize
as fully as possible what can be done
with it, When this is done, you may
find that you have the old brass kettle
and don't care to part with it. The
| Nebraska ranchman was negatively
bad citizen.
! Good citizens are those who desire
home, a place to rear their children and
train them up in industry, to give them