Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-02-22

D'tOV W"o ~ euo hodu VI Shpe by nUa-
cate for building line across China,
and some one else will take charge
of the work. With Alaska, Hawaii,
Guam, aud the Philippines we have
huge stepping stones to the Orient,
friendly ports, bases of supply,
depots, and if need be for our pro-
lection, arsenals.
"Then, again, gentlemen, the mar
kets of South America are undevel-
oped. n ="
Again the Hon. Mr.. McLaurin said {:
"God fashioned this country, with
it's great rivers and mountains run
ming north and south; He made the
great valleys that dram into the
South Atlantic and Gulf, to feed and
clothe the world; He placed His gate.
ways at New Orleans, Mobile and
Charleston. With The completion of
great waterway between the
oceans, natural laws will control,
freights will move north and south,
and then With ships under the Stars
and Stripes, manned by American
seamen, look for some point ou this
great Gulf to become the center of
the commercial world. The South
must play an important part in our
country's future. She is the Ameri-
, can end of America. Unhampered
by partizan plejudices and sectional
animosities, let US make the most of
our opportunities, supporting broad
national policies, looking TO the
creation of wider markets, expansion
of trade and the upbuilding of a
common country.
"Differ as we may upon mere
party questions, when it comes
to utilizing national opportunities,
North, South, East and West, should
unite in maintaining the supremacy
of the United States in the great
struggle for the commerce of the
world. There is no decadence in
my outlook of the future for the
South, no problems that our intelli-
gence can not solve or perils that our
courage can not subdue."
Splendid as was the work of the
recent convention, it is not to be
denied that in its resolve to ask
Southern planters to bind themselves
to reduction of acreage and a
pledge to hold surplus cotton the
convention could only have had in
view temporary solution of the
cotton problem. The aim and hope
of the South is that we may find a
permanent solution that will stand as
a bar to those violent fluctuations in
the price of the staple which brings
great distress or great prosperity as
the market leaps upward or tumbles
downward and which robs the indus
try of that reasonable stability under
which we should have always fair
prices and with good crops CORE
ponding uniformity of prosperity.
1t mas been demonstrated that the
South is capable of raising the bulk
of cotton necessary to clothe the
world and there remains, therefore,
one principal direction into which we
should turn our activities in the
effort to bring about a permanent
solution of the stable prices. That
direction is the expansion of the de-
mand for our cotton through the
development of new markets into
which we may send the products of
our fields, and for that reason we
believe Senator McLaurin's rcsolu-
tlon to have been one of the most
important which was passed by the
convention. Pregnant as it is with
the possibilities of rich returns to the
South, all our cotton interests will
be concerned in the outcome
of the interviews which it con.
templates on the part of com
mittee from the association with
the President, the Secretary of
Agriculture and the cotton manufac-
tnrers. President Jordan was par
ticularly fortunate in the selection