The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-04-05

~ Ot NIILteu US IOtStSu companies
and the money taken from our State.
II these annual tributes to other sec.
tions and foreign companies were dis.
continued and the money kept at
home-a sum equal 10 one-fourth the
money invested in al our banking in.
stltutions-and deposited IN our owe
banks, We would never feel the shock
and paralysis OF financial panic This
money which now courses their chan
nels Of commerce would stimulate our
trade and industry in every line, seek
investment in our own resources and
ind its way in the march OF our in
dustrial advancement. The struggling
South would lift up her burdened
shoulders and shake of the lethargy
and weight OF misfortune, and our sec
ton would become a recognized lead.
er In national enterprise and CONNER
cial progress. More banks and trust
companies would be established, more
railroads constructed, more factories
built, more mines developed, and
everywhere the sinews Of industry
would proclaim the presence Of this
money power so essential to the life
and prosperity Of every country.
The mission Of this great CONNER.
cia1 Congress in the very heart OF the
renabilitated South can accomplish nc
greater result than porting to the pre-
Vailing condition in our section and
call the attention not only of the
shrewd capitalist, but the uathinking
citizen, the ordinary business man, the
laborer everywhere, to the fact that
in order to become wealthy and pros.
porous We must do as others have
done. Every man who has home OF
place OF business, who stands at the
door Of enterprise, who manufactures
our rev material into the finished
producl-all must learn at last the
lesson of self-preservation in business.
and patronizing home enterprises Is
the primary rule by which we may
hope to accomplish the desired re
suits. Our people who place their in
safely and soundly managed, are the
first to realize that we must keep at
home this volume OF currency now go
ing to other sections, and let it serve
the highest and best purposes to
which all wealth should be legitimate
" and honestly applied. We owe it ta
ourselves; we owe it to our section
Do not misunderstood this plea rs be-
ing in any sense sectional, for we can
not hope for other sections to interest
themselves in our welfare more than
we manifest for ourselves We must
first help ourselves If we would seeH
the aid of others. Every dollar saved
at home adds to our wealth and taxa
bic values, and every dollar invested
at home in our own securities keeps
in local circulation that much cur
lency and assures the interest income
&herefrom as direct cumulative asset
Of our growing prosperity.
This business policy lies at the very
basis of our commercial existence, and
nakes possible our industrial develop
ment. Every patriotic Southerne,
should spread this doctrine of patron.
izing home companies first and keep
ing our money at home, and then
whatever surplus Of business could &C
to the alien competitors. Only on this
bedrock of self-interest first can we
hope as section to keep pace with
our national progress It has been our
stay and agchor in the past, and it is
our only hope for the future. It has
helped to bring US to our splendid
present, and, followed to its logical
fnality, it will bring Us to a greater
destiny. The camp-fres Of a burning
patriotism have produced in Us
glorious people, and have made this
land conspicuous part Of the iaper.
ishable history Of our common coun:
try.
3 I could not close these remarks
without giving expression to that sen,
hment Of him who writ
Dear old Southland, stern and Wild,
Meet nurse Of a poetic child;
Land of brown heath and shaggy
wood,
Land Of the mountain and the food,
Land Of my sires, what mortal hand
can e'er unite
The flial band that knits nae to thy
. rugged strand?'