The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-06-22

w 'ho huhan HeaTI-tne motive to
get the most bread and meat for n
days work In 1890 nearly all the
white people had the common motive
or giving the laborers, most of whom
meat Tor a days work-they were
eager to buy labor cheap and sell
goods high Obviously the conclusion
energies that if any conscienceless
demagogue should arise to ATTEMPT
the destruction of white unity, the
way would be clearer for his knavish-
ness than it has been heretofore. I'm
the end he would fail. but he might
preciDitate some years OF uneasiness
accompanied with pains and wrench
ings to the commonwealth.
The Way of Escape.
FINALLY, | come to the conclusion
that the duty of the press i'm the
industrial development of South Car
DINA is to address itself vigorously
and diligently to the prevention of the
unhappy political division which |
nave Nentured to outline as a looming
danger and that is to be done by
developing the man as the industrial
unit. All of you are somewhat
wrought up i'll expectancy about the
census revelations I'm your respective
towns. To my mind. a community of
900 heads of families owning their
own homes is superior i'm every desir-
able way to another having 10000
heads of families of whom / 900 own
homes. The ownership of a home is
the sheet-anchor of good citizenship
. increase OF town population is n
boon, first of all. to the real estate
holder who has land to sell. and then
TO the merchant, hotel keeper. and
every other capitalist. including the
farmer who supplies the town market
put 10 the wage-earner. who has only
labor to sell and its price to buy with
1T may be, it usually is. the reverse
Arguing from this premise. the first
duty of the press is to encourage. to-
stimulate, to enable so far as il can
tn" wage-eamer to become Il capital
list; that is. to stake himself i'm the
community by buying a home.
The Mills and The Wen.
lllustrativcly, il < infinitely more
important that YOU Dnip the employees
III your cotton mills, by educating
them, by inducing the formation of
building and loan associations and
savings banks and by drilling Them to
lhe uses OF these facilities to acquire
homes than it is to induce the build
ins of another cotton mill. might
cite score of illustrations but the
point is not hard to discern-that tbe
problem is to strip the laboring mans
TASK oil every hampering and hinder
lhS dliticulty and to strengthen him
morally through the schools and by
other means so that the number OF
men who have something besides
their hands shall be steadily and
rapidly increased, That above all
things will fortify your common
wealth against the dcvilment of the
demagogue. When YOU do this the
employers of labor will respond to
your summons and cooperate with
you.
The Most Dangerous Trust.
We rail with more of less coher
ence and good deal Of meaningless
ilne frenzy about trusts" but the
monster trust is the land trust. When
the land prices have mounted so high
that the poor can not own farms and
the broad acres are i'm the hands of
the few, as in most of the old coun-
tries. the chances of the average man
to better his condition shrinks to n
pitable thinneSs is why imm-
grants come to America. Your task.
gentlemen, and ii is the chief of
your tasks in connection with this
topic. is TO make the landless South
tarolinian a landlord and the way
to do that is to educate him to be am
expert farmer so that he may earn
comfortable livelihood on TO- H. or
- acres such farm as any strong
young man may hope to purchase and
pay for. In Holland, in France and
other countries a body of - acres is
farm OF more than respectable size
and there is no reason that i'm South
Carolina we should not have thous-