The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-10-12
CALL FOR HELP
Aea asre Ispsstaai thaa Ressafces,
Says PIes'den, Barrett
WANTS BETTER SCHOOLS

| ~ 10 On< hdnUsf0 .NtttiOnS f.at
Year IT, Check the Trend F-om III,
Farm to the City by I'ruri.iin:
Goud Country Sci,,a'l..
Al Atlanta. Ga. in sober. busIne:
phrases nearly four score delegates
appointed by sixteen Southern Co.
| ernorS. FRIDAY icr.;old An an.azi:.
growth in wealth and population ~
the South within the mex, zen years
Representing IN. agriculture An
business interests of every section
Of Dixie. these delegates gathered =
assist the executive com ulittee OF th.
southern Commercial! Congress woTE
out non-po!:ticaI and diStntere$t.
ed plan for promot!n: development
OF the Scuth's millions OF cno:cu.
pied acres and its vast unused wafer
powers. the enlargement OF it's oYs-
mess and industry. both by its osn
Inhabitants and through judicioCA
advertising OF its resources through
out America and Europe.
As the representative OF noce
than tao million farmers. Charles
S. Barrett. president OF the Farmers
Union. stressed the necessity OK con-
serving men frs,. rather than the re
sources OF the soil! III yon conserve
tho nations raw resources and neg
lee; the nations men. you will meet
disaster and ultimate defeat in your
undertaking." be said. The nation
has not been conserving the :"r-
r:c5. tho man Hho Is Z greater asSe.
than all your powers. Goa! lands for
es:s o. gold mines.
"a co-terie OF really patriotic
Americans "a trying 10 head OF the
efforts OF the Morgan-Gubbenhe!m
interests 70 bottle up. or hog the
Goa, and gold Of Alaska They have
succeeded in rousins a nation to
.hei. assistance. We have had the
menace Of Baliinserisn placarded
from one end OF America 70 the
other. We have been warned IN
trumpet tones. OF the encroach!ns
water power interests which may. in
the Ion. run. absorb al! the water
power Of the country and in the
md become the king OF ali The other
trusts. We have been told OF the
penalty Of giving over our forests
70 greedy timber interests. We have
been shown vha, vii, happen Il we
do not checkmate the money lust
OF the coal. the gold and the timber
baTons.
This is all worthy. this Is al
admirable. But while We battle
asains, these foes Of The Republic.
We leave 70 his own devices the man
whose vital function {; is 20 feed and
largely 20 ciothe this nation. the
man whose combined product yield
a greater annual value THAN our
mines or forests or water powers.
the man ~hoSe problems will De
more than ever the nations proc
lens when the earth shall hav. been
stripped OF its coal and gold.
He said the Government should
spend SHY 20 one Kindred million
dollars annually 10 check the trend
from the farm 10 me city by im-
proving common school and Scientl-
fc agricultural educational facilities
IN every country. in easy reach o! the
rarnecs' children He vosld pro-
vide asains: ';he contamination O:
the corrupt allen strains tina; so1
seeds o: unrest and d!srepmta;ion
tha, may ripen unto ru;aous hAr-
vest"
Mr.. Barrett stressed the necesS.;E
OF keeping perpetual watch upon
on. national and State Legislators.
The oa,tIe for conservation *
not here ic this auditorium. !: come
in The elections OF November. Il
comes after tha, in the halls OF
Congress-. II comes Two years nenc".
in the selection OF a president and a
Congress that a.. committed TO tn.
public anG NOT the private vetfa ..
aud then i, comes year after year.
:or conservation is so biz var itL;
il probably will not be ended IN II
your children and mine stand in our
places
Mr.. barrett paid warm tribute
10 Clifford Pincho: 70 who.s "unSei-
tsh puhi:c spirit. patience under
humiliation and un;irins zeal. he
attributed the present ad"anre!-ni
10 the sause OF nonserva;ion.
am confident. he said. ";ha; Nh-n
the verdict OF history is written MS
name will stand high among IL.
names Of the men who ha.. Hrousn:
for the salvation OF our common
country
EE:E.S STOPPED WOHk.
Scventy-hve Hives Were ia Wreck