The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-11-25

Your kind invitation, through your
worthy president, to me to address
you tonight left me to choose my own
weapon, and I know of no more for
midable one in this progressive age
or one with which I could better de-
fend the optimistic stand that I take
than "A Greater South Through
Greater South Carolina" The most
marvellous and impressive industrial
and social movement in the world to-
day is being accomplished in the
South. To be more specific, this
movement is being accomplished, and
for which I can vouch, within the
borders of South Carolina.
Until the vast disparity between the
overpopulated and overcapitalized
North and the underpopulated and un-
der-capitalized South is adjusted,
economic conditions will not be
equalized and the advancement of the
people will be one-sided and grotes-
que.
Thare are many millions in the
North that are idle because of either
ignorance or lack Of opportunity for
better sort of investment than that of
speculating in stocks. There are thou
sands of acres in the South that lie
waste because they can not come in
contact with the idle millions Of the
North. There is an opportunity Of
bringing these idle millions of the
North into the idle fields of the South.
The South is a country teeming with
the blessings of soil ana sun. It is a
universe in itself, supplying to the man
who seeks both mineral and vegetable
wealth. South Carolina as one Of the
best of the Southern States, and which
I consider the best, is tropical coun-
try wherein the hoary breath Of frost
seldom ever blights; a temperate
country, where the seasons are equal
ized, where man has yet but gotten a
glimpse OF the mineral wealth and its
woodcraft possibilities; where it's
quarries of choicest stone have as yet
but been scratched; where its soil is
very productive, railroad facilities
good, freights cheap, especially by
water; where textile and other manu-
factures have made returns far be-
yond anticipation; where water is
plentiful; where a. comparatively
young and hustling generation is de-
veloping a vast territory by earnest
cooperation and hard, honest work.
With these natural advantages, South
Carolina should be the most thriving
of the Southern States, and with the
prospects before US, the marvellous
agricultural successes Of the year 1915
is but bow of promise spanning TIE
future of one of the brightest stf.1s in
the commercial armament.
To develop this State, to which ma
ture has been so kind, and with whose
people Providence has dealt so gently
and yet so lavishly, requires concen-
tration of forces, thorough coopera-
ton, good will one toward another
from every quarter of the State, put
ting aside petty jealOusies and pay
ing less attention to the corrupt and
degrading politics of this day, except
in so far as it becomes the bounden
duty of an upright citizen to regulate
society and to uphold good govern
ment.
Sifted down, one of the meanings OF
this is that, while we have first and
foremost in mind our own respective
cities and towns, yet We must not be
unmindful of the fact that we can not
live unto self alone and that "what-
soever a man soweth, that shall he
also reap" We must not be deceived
by a few local successes and in a
falsely Independent attitude fling de-
farce into the faces of our sister
towns and cities, for there will come
a time when we will need the assist
ance of the entire State, at least its
good will, in the promotion of some
enterprise and in its ultimate success
after it's establishment.
In promoting an enterprise in your
city, or trying to draw one there, 1t is
not meant that you should consult
your sister cities as to the conditions
upon which they shall come, how they
shall be conducted, ETC., but to bear IN
mind that your city is not alone bene-
every bit CT new blood and new mon "
that is brought within the boundaries
of South Carolina, either directly or
indirectly, benefits every portion and
every living being in it. In other
words, it is impossible to help your
self without helping the other COM