The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-11-09

great events in the history Of the
United States, in which their families
and their ancestors have taken part.
I do not wonder that Gov. Ansel says
that this is the greatest State in the
United States.
Great is South Carolina.
"Every South Carolinian not: only
ought to think so, but he inevitably
does think so. Linked in remark
able way with another State IN the
far north, Massachusetts,, while they
are distant from each other, they
have played parts together and parts
apart, in such a way that they are
singled out from all the other States
as pair, and when you hear Mas
sachusetts man say that he comes
from the greatest State in the Union
you sympathize with him. And
when you hear a South Carolinian
say the same thing, you sympathize
with him, and you understand both.
"Now this is an agricultural so
ciety. Unfortunately I am an urban
product. I never could get votes by
telling how I drove the plow. But
one must be blind indeed to the
progress of, this country and to the
proper understanding Of real adj
vance in civilization and in the great
arts of peace who does not realize
the supreme Importance of agrleut-
ture and the immense strides that
have taken place in its cultivation IN
the last two decades.
'Such organizations as this make
for progress. A farmer to-day needs
to know as much as lawyer or a
doctor or minister in the way Of
! scientific knowledge of the soils and
/ how they are treated and of stock and
breeding, and in addition to that he
has to have practical sense, business
sense, persistence and endurance, that
sometimes we think lawyers can get
along without. IF I, we're advising
Young men who had no predileet1on IN
favor of any profession I should ad-
wise them to become farmers.
CT do not know but down here 1
ought to say planters. Perhaps that
! yives it an additional dignity. But l
am inclined to think that the men
that call themselves planters are or
dinarily lawyers or doctors who DO
q little farming, and they don't IN
prove the farming by the pursuit OF
the other profession. p. :,
uYou-and if had not known 1t
lever since I entered the Southern
lbelt I should know it by your ex~
nressions Of eontentment-have cot
ton at from "A to Is cents. AS l SAID
aown the road, brought up from
Charleston. and I think that is some
S,N
thing, I brought both your sensRoEs
and your governor in the same car;
and T learned there what had had
l. dim impression before, that my
brother, Senator Smith, has a good
aeal to do with that 15-cent cotton:
"Now. down in-where' was it, on,
in Macon-they had an arch with
cotton bales and over the top|t
mnst have been an Ohio man, l can
not think it was Georgian-had put
the SIGN Taft and l5-cent Cotton,
Prosperity. Well, I am so lnnocens
Of having had anything to do with
that. 7 withdraw, I waive my clam
and weld to Senator Smith. under.
stand that you have a great crop OF
cetton, too. Now, don't make any
admissions, of course, about that. l
have talked with a good many farm
ers and when I ask what the per-
eentage was, or whether it was equal
to last year, there was kind OF a
dim obscurity in his estimate, as II.
at least I suspected that, perhaps
am wrong in it-that if it became
known that the crop was large 1t
hight affect the price that those who
are in Europe yearning for it would
be willing to give for it.
~ had the benefit Of the company
Of your two distinguished senator's
and the governor in coming from
Charleston here, and they have at
tempted to explain to me the agri-
culture of your State, and the var1a'
tions in IT, and the great opportun-
. ity there would be, if We are going
to water some dry land in the West