The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-03-05

sturdy character, the manliness of
boyf Then pauperize him in thought.
Teach him to look to others for help
and decision instead of developing
selfreliance. Teach him to accept
charity, teach him that, as the world
owes him living, all he has to do is
to sit down and wait for others to
care for him, and you have made real
manhood impossible. Outwardly such
a man may look prosperous. If sue
cessful as beegar or as dependent
upon others, his fine clothes and we'll
groomed bearing may give him the
outward semblance of real man, but
inwardly there is decay, rottenness,
death. ,'-s'
AS with an individual, so with
people or nation. The nation is but
the sum of its units. Outwardly
there may be signs Of real life, of
manhood, Of progress upwards, but
at the heart there may be fatal dis
ease gnawing at the very vitals of all
true national character and life.
The south needs to study this situa-
ton as no other people ever did. The
years Of poverty and plivation, of
hard struggle in which every dollar
had to do the duty of two, are pass
ing. For thousands those years have
already suddenly passed.
Millions Won Quickly.
A few days ago the writer sat at
a banquet in southern iron center,
whose growth only typifies what soon
will be seen to greater or less ex-
tent in hundreds Of other southern
cities. On his right sat man who
within a few years has made a for
tune, and who mentioned the purchase
three years ago Of $500 acres of iron
ore land at about $685. 900, or $19 an
acre, for which he and his two or
three associates would now refuse 49,
100000 for the tract or $1,000 an
acre; next to him was a gentleman
who but few years ago was a mine
superintendent at small salary, and
who has lately received 81 100000 for
his interest in coal property; next
again to him was business man who,
through inventions and their business
development, has an income of $75,-
900 year, of which his friends say
he devotes one-third or 1926 900 to re-
ligious work; next came a man who
would be foolish to accept $5,000,000
for property for which I am sure he
would have gladly accepted one-tenth
of that less than ten years ago. And
so on down one whole banquet table
men of millions who but lately were
toilers for living.
These men are merely representa-
tives Of thousands who are to be made
enormously rich by the material
growth Of the south, while hundreds
of thousands heretofore cking out Il
fair living only are soon to be num-
bered among the 'well-to-do with
whom the dollar of yesterday has
grown to a hundred of today.
Crucial Point for the South.
Tn this mighty change the south is
facing the most crucial point in its
history. It could go down in battle
| and see its beloved leaders dead by
tens of thousands, it's wealth swept
! away and its homes devastated, and
vet lose none of its moral fiber, its
real manhood and womanhood. Under
such ordeals it could, with head erect
still face a frowning world and turn
defeat Oh the battlefield into victory
in the worlds commercial struggle.
More that that, in the time of its dir
est poverty it could be equal to re-es-
tablishin@ law and order, to solving
its great labor problem, and to the
gradual but sure development of its
educational facilities, state and de-
monimational.
Now, when commercial victor, has
been won, when wealth is growing at
a rate never imagined few years
ago, an element that forgot the south
in the day Of its poverty or crippled
| it still more, that cared not whether
it lived or died, now bearing gifts in
its hands, comes to the south with
proffers of a little money for, it's
schools, provided these schools and
their teachers give in exchange an
irrcdeemable mortgage on the soul of
the institution and on the very man
hood Of its students of today and all
hereafter.
And 10! led away by false teachers,
| by men who for n retoiner for tho