The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-12-23

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led by these ancient errors, are
j famed in song and story.
I Writing editorials in support Of
the aristocratic instead OF the
democratic theory of industry,
the editor has seen his patent
outset weekly fail OF support,
when a properly trained and edu-
Gated people would have brought
him wealth as the head of pros
porous daily.
Fighting public taxation for
better schools and other methods
of training and enriching the
average man. your manufacturer
has struggled along with a small
business whena prosperous aver.
age man would have given US
great industries like those in the
North and West.
Still arguing. that education
and training would spoil the
) working man, and that ''cheap
labor" is what we need. your
banker has complained that the
South Offers no opportunities for
the great hnancier, forgetting
that cheap, unprosperous labor
means small unpresperous banks.
i Opposing taxation for better
schools, the railroads hauling
cotton in the fall and low grade
fertilizers in the spring, have
fought passenger rate reduction
as life and death matter when
a well-trained people would sup
ply the various traffic and the
heavy dividends of the other Sec
tions.
Your lawyer, doctor, preacher,
teacher-each falling in line with
the ancient hersy, has paid the
! penalty in diminished fees, dim
finished salaries, diminished infu-
ence.
Victims of the vicious teach
ing I am pointing out, your men
Of talent-artist, sculptor, poet,
orator. have too aften fed to
other sections, or else have died
with vision unfulGlled among
a people unframed to appreciate
their genius-When but for these
things you might see statue of
Southern leaders in every
Southern city, the work of
Southern artists in the worlds
greatest gallaries. the thought
of the Southern poet the con-
mon heritage Of mankind. 1t IS
not that we have had no might
dreamers; it is that they sleep
in neglected graves trampled
under foot by war. and waste,
and error.
Now war and waste, thank
Good, are behind US. Let US also
put error behind Us.
The South's Greatest ErTo1S.
Of all our errors our greatest
has been the failure to recognize
the fact that the prosperity of
every man depends upon the
prosperity of the average man
and in many cases the actual &C
ceptance of the doctrine that the
State is benefited by having
cheap. untraiued labor. We have
seen on the contrary that such
labor is a curse.
And our second great error
has been ike unto 1.-THE belief
that even if the prosperity of
the average man, we are too
poor to train him. The truth is,
that we are too poor not to do
so. The fullest and only positive
guarantee of Southern prosper
ity, and by this I mean the pros
perity not only of our section
and our institutions and of So
ciety as a whole, but the pros
perity of every individual-every
farmer, every laborer, every
merchant. every manufacturer,
every professional man. every
inhabitant as I have said, from
the boy who blacks shoes to the
master. mind that builds your
railroad systems Or governs your
State. And having once accept,
ed this doctrine concerning the
everage man-and the average
man in the South being a farm
er-we shall not be slow to put
into effect that large and com
prehensive program of rural de-
velopment which earnest men
and women, working in many
diferelent lines have gradually
brought into shape-a program
which looks to the ultimate
Doubling of the output and the
more than quadrupling of the
profits of that occupation which
engages the attention of more
people in the South than all
other occupations combined.
The Great Revolution That Has Row Begun
and-What it Will Do.
Then indeed will the South
blossom as the rose: then indeed
will the long ambitions OF our
fathers come at last into glorious
fruitage. Not only will the com
mon farm houses in the South
be supplied with all the conven-
fences our city brethren now
enjoy, goodroads and telephones
and fine stock and fat acres
greeting the glad eyes of an
uakened people: but every in