Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-24
|HOW TO BUILD UP THE CAROLINAS.
The Development of the Average Man Is
Our Main Hope.
A GREAT MESSAGE full OF INSPIRATION.
Though the Fault Was Not Ours We Must Recognize That We
Have Fallen Behind-By Virtue of Our Abilities and Our
Resources, However, We Belong in Front, and We May
Take Our Rightfu Place as Soon as We Will.

Following is the text of the splendid
address that Clarence H. Poe, the bril-
liant young editor of the Progressive
Farmer of Raleigh, n. c.. delivered be-
fore the South Carolina Press associa-
tiOn at it's annual meeting at Glenn's
Springs last week.
| am glad to come to South Caro-
lina and in casting about for subject
on which to address you, 1t has seemed
to me. that l could not do better than
to consider with you How to Build
Up the Carolinas," how to develop
and strengthen these two sister states
into which our lives have been cast
and to which our lives should be
given. These commonwealths which
gave us birth we love for their own
sake and also because they are
part of our southland, the romance
and tragedy of whose history, the hope
and promise of whose future, are to
us as our very heartstrings. Our
great republic which our fathers
| helped to found and whose flag COM
| pels respect in every land and cline
we are proud Of our citizenship In
| 1t because of it's majesty and its
prowess, proud of it as a son might
be proud of a hero-father who had
won a mighty name. But these
mother commonwealths of ours-their
appeal to us, we must confess, Is far
| tenderer and more searching, more
| indeed like the appeal Of a gentle,
great mother who, having
suffered much, has suffered only to
show more striking grandeur and
beauty of character and evoke love
and loyalty all the more absorbing.
Others may adopt a different policy,
but would have us deal frankly with
one another. In the splendid civiliza-
ton of the twentieth century, the
south has fallen behind 1t is idle for
us to claim that our section still holds
| the commanding position it had a
century ago. 1t Is not alone In the
fact that the destinies of America are
no longer guided by southern hands
THAT we no longer have our Wash
ingtons. and Jeffersons, and Marshalls
and Monroes, and Jacksons, and CAL
houns and Clays. The fault lies
deeper than this With us the average
man Is not trained to do, and is not
doing, the effective work he does in
the north and west. Neither in wealth
nor education does our average man
measure up to the average man in
other sections In 1900 the average
per capita in wealth in North Caro-
lima was only $447 and in South
Carolina only $434 as against $1,235
for the whole country. And the tragic
explanation of why the average man
in the United States, as a whole, has
Accumulated almost exactly three
times as much as the average man in
the Carolinas Is found in the fact that
| in an average thousand sons and
daughters Of native whites in the
Carolinas there are almost exactly
read nor write as in an average
as whole.
man; this has been our trouble. Talk
about a states resources, it has only
one resource, the man, the child, the
citizen, present or future, and his in
| Itelligence, character and strength
| his average intelligence, character and
strength. This Is the measure of all
other values, and in speaking to you
tonight l am going to lay down this
| as my first and primary proposition:
| To develop our state we must de-
velop the intelligence and efficiency
of our average population, and all the
material resources of the state-min-
eral soils, waterpowers, climate, for
| eStS, or what not-are valuable or
worthless in proportion to the eff
cheney, the intelligence, energy and
character of your average citizen.
Secondly. No matter what trade,
| business or profession you may fol-
| low, you prosper just in proportion to
! the intelligence and wealth Of the