The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-05-31

its own strength; for, in apparen
weakness, its cries to others to come
and give a few beggarly dollars
which its own people could give I
hundred times over and never miss
! 1t has been said that " beggar race
can never be great race" and ne
one disputes the statement.
Would you sap the virility, the
sturdy character, the manliness Of 6
boy9 Then pauerize him in thought
Teach him to look to others for help
and decision, instead of developing
sclf-reliance. 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
car for him, and you have made a real
manhood impossible. Outwardly such
a man may look prosperous. IF sue
ccssful rs bcggar or rs n dependent
upon others, his fine clothes and we'll
groowcd bearing may give him the
outward semblancc Of q real man, but
inwarlly there is decay, rottenncss,
death.
AS with an individual, so with a
people or nation. The nation is but
the sum Of its units. Outwardly there
may be signs Of real life, Of manhood,
of progress upward, but at the heart
there may be fatal disease gnawing
at the very vitals Of all true national
character and life.
The south needs to study this sit
uation rs no other people ever did.
The years Of poverty and privation,
Of hard struggle in which every dol
lar had to do the duty of two, are
passing. 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 typifics what soon
will be seen to greater or less eX-
tent in hundreds Of other southern ci-
ties. On his right sat man who
within few years has made a for
tune, and who mentioned the pur-
chase three years ago Of $500 acres
Of land at about 100000. or $19 an
acre, for which he and his two or
three associates would now refuse 49,
100000 for the tract, or 81 900 an
acre; next to him was Il gentleman
who but few years ago was mine
superintendent at a small salary, and
who has lately received 81 100000
for his interest in coal property
next again to him was businss man,
who through inventions and their
busines development has an income
Of $75, 900 year, of which his friends
say he dcvotes one-third, or $4,000
to religious work; next came a man
who would be foolish to accept 3d.
100000 for property for which + am
sure he would have gladly accepted
onc-tcnth Of that less than ten years
ago. And so on down the whole ban
quot tablc--mcn of millions who but
lately were toilcrs for living.
These men are merely representa-
tivcs Of thousands who are to be made
enormously rich by the material
growth Of the south. while hundreds
Of thousand heretofore ekin" out a
Fair living only, are soon to he num-
bcrcd among the wcll-to-do with whom
the dollar Of yesterday has grown to
The hundred Of today.
Crucial Point for the South.
In this mighty change the south is
facing the most crucial point in it's
history. 1t could go down in battle
and see it's beloved leaders dead by
tens of thousands, it's wealth swept
away and its homes devasted, and
yet lose none Of its moral fiber, its
real manhood and womanhood. Un-
der such ordcals it could with head
erect still face a frownng world and
turn defeat on the battlefield into
victory in the WORLDS commercial
struggle. More than that, in the time
of its direst poverty it could be equal
to reestablishing law and order, to
solving its great labor problem, and
to the gradual but sure development
of it's educational facilities, state and
dcnominational.
Now, when commercial victory has
been won, when wealth is growing at
a rate never imagined a few years
ago, an elemnt that forgot the south
in the day Of its poverty or crippled
it still more, that cared not whether