The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-06-10

Carolina gave the world the Orlillaiit
craftsmanship of Hayne and the IT,
tanic intellect of Calhoun. The clash
of these convictions in battle enrich
ed the world with heroism, taught
the American the glory of sacrifice for
principle, and transformed a confed-
Grafton of States into a mighty ma
ton.
"Nobly the South is doius her par
in rebuilding the nation that for con-
science sake she once sought to dl-
vide. From the chastisement of war
and the discipline Of defeat, out Of
the wilderness of 40 years wandering
in penury and privation, out of the
valley; of the shadow of an unhelpei
grapple with the darkest and most
perilous problem ever faced by a
white race, energies at last a trans
figured South. There is sunrise after
Appomattox, and Easter surely fol-
lows Calvary.
"The lesson of the past has been
learned by heart. We know that the
utmost heroism in val or peace can
not take the place of the equipment
of an industrial civilization. Had we
possessed that equipment the issue Of
the great conflict would have been
Southern victory. No longer will we
send our sons to meet the mortal
guns of modern life armed like their
fair-haired forefathers.
I'm this era of a mighty march OF
industry, whose quick-step the South
is catching, it is an absorbing and in
spring reflection that the elder South
Graded the industrial nation. The
early builders of the South learned
the lesson, but the rank growth OF
slavery gradually choked industrial
life and doomed US to agriculture.
"In 1920, the year of the landing of
the Puritan, the Cavalier built an iron
smelter at Jamestown. The elder
South sent from Savannah the first
steamship that crossed the sea. The
South Carolina railway was the first
great American railway enterprise to
be successfully completed. 1t ex-
tended from Charleston to Memphis,
and the dream Of Hayne was a great
trunk line from Charleston to Cincin-
natl.
when the census of 1910 was
made the manufactured products OF
Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia
exceeded those of all New England
| and New York. When Daniel Boone
and John Sewer, the great pathfnd-
ers of the earliest west, crossed the
Blue Ridge and broke into the fertile
valleys of the Tennessee and Ohio
they carried with them rifles made in
| North Carolina.
Promise and prophecy, already in
due process of fulfliment, are in all
this ~eventful history. For all time it
! establishes that there is nothing in
| either the climate or citizenship OF
the South that Is alien to industry.
It IS the logic Of history and here
dity that the splendid Development of
| recent years is but a re-birth and
that many Of it's captains are the sons
and grand-sons of the industrial cap
tains of the elder South. God grant
that here on Southern soil, where
American industry was born, it shall
rise again to surprising power.
"The worlds greatest fallow field
of opportunity, it's last real frontier,
is the imperial region south OF the
Potomac and Ohio. With seven
tenths of the forested area y his
eountry;f with three-four tbs cf the
worlds cotton crop and an assured
climatic monopoly of it; with abund-
ant coal and iron and improving
transportation; with the profits OF
raw material trebled and more by the
profits Of their manufacture; with s.
O00,0 horsepower available in our
rivers and more than 100000 harness.
ed and quickening distant factories
and cities with the thrill OF electric
energy; with an unsurpassed climate
and a soil bringing forth in abund-
ance every product Of the temperate
and many Of the tropic zone-thls is
truly Gods country.
"In cotton manufacturing South
| Carolina is the second and North
Carolina is the third Of American
States. But our industrial future lies
in a more diversified industry. We
have recently had proof OF the error
Of putting all our eggs in M basket.