The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1907-05-16

are glad to be here. In little while
we will show it, so | will not con-
sumo all my time in saying .howdy."
In the old days, it afforded our
| Northern friends much pleasure to
say we Southern people were lazy
and wouldn't work; taunt us for
leading live of Incidence and ease.
However, after we had kept them
pretty busy for four long years in
bloody war, and had returned to our
homes, got back to making and spin
ming cotton, until now we spin as
much as do our Northern friends,
/ that kind of talk has changed to
feeling of jealousy. Unable TO cope
with our cheap raw material, our
| dogged ertinacity-indeed, our skill
and Godgiven conditions, that ena-
BILE us to manufacture cheaper-can't
| born of jealousy is the new mission
ary doctrine being used to teach us
/ how to attend to our own affairs.
Another phase of the fools errand''
is affecting the South. Some nice old
spinsters, unfettered by matrimony,
and unentangled by family, trailed
ticians, are travelling the South pratt
! ing against what they term child
labor. Beware of Greeks bearing
gifts They would cripple our cot
! ton mills, stop the spindles, and have
the sturdy young labor of our coun-
h oh OH
! ity on the streets, instead of earning
an honest living. Let the doctrine of
States rights prevail. If Massachu-
/ setts wants nobody to work but IA
ther, why let the old man work
maybe he is used to it. If North
Carolina prefers to have it so that
the old lady and children can take
a hand, it would be up to North Car
olina to have her own way about it.
| Have you noticed that no concern is.
manifested over the pickaninnies
picking cotton from 'tearly morn to
| dewey eve?" It's only against the
whites spinning it, An abundance of
cheap raw material, and a scarcity
of the manufactured product, are the
meat in the proposition. | dare say
many of our old timers were raised
to work, though as a boy you thought
it a great outrage, but the doctrine
of child labor had ret been evolved
| to protect you. Even now the ex-
ample of these missionaries teaches
that it is foolish to work, when it
seems SO easy to work the other
/ fellow.
Why should be South be proud :?
Lately, when pleading with the house
committee on rivers and harbors, to
put the river that flows by my home
| on the government pay roll, L said:
Sir, the South made the gold stand
ard possible for this country. All the
afffrmations of political platforms
would have been but windy plati-
tudes; all the statutes of congress
/ declaring the gold standard would
S have been peurile but for the South S
cotton. In the last six years we have
exported the baled cotton, that has
brought back over eighteen hundred
millions of dollars in gold. Nor have
we sent it back for silks and fine lin
ems. We are consumers of the pro-
ducts of American soil, the fruits of
/ American labor
/ The history of our country teens
with the deeds of Southern great
great in war, great on the bench,
great in the forum. Time, in its
steady grind, will bring out others.
OF late there has been SO much talk
of universal peace by our affiuent,
easy-goers, who spend the time in
philosophical speculations, it seems
to me we should be getting ready
for war. War, like panics, come when
not invited and least expected. Wars
are Gods means of cleansing ma
tions, wedding out the weak, the peu-
But for war Washington might have
been a country banker; Napoleon, a
| financier; Grant, broker; and Lee,
a teacher. But for war these United
States might still be colony of the
crown, and fair France, a kingdom
of the Bourbons. But for war the
illustrious president of our country
might have lived unknown, leading
an unstrenuous existence, and writ
ing books.
I hope to see the day when our
statesmen will lend their energies to
joining Alaska to the main body;
when Canada shall be States in our
Union, and the flag fly from Gulfport
to the North Pole. The negotiations
that bring about this consummation
might bring us back to the old stand