The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-04-20
A COTTON BELT DEMOsTHENEs.
How South Carolina's Junior Scna-
tor Brok" Into the [. -. Sen


ciusNely 10 serious and frivilous
lactS about the great and near
great the following rich and racy
criticism of Senator r.. -. Smith ap-
pears in Il late number of the Sat
urday Evening Post:
Whereupon, the Senate beiug in
consideration OF the bill TO create
a tariff board, the day being Thurs
day, March the second, and the hour
one OF the clock in the afternoon,
the Honorable Ellison DuRant Smith
arose and, proceeding to a conyen-
lent station at the end of the center
aisle nearest the main entrance.
turned to the Republicans who hap
pened to be in their accustomed
places and let loose the long yell.
Presently, when Mr. Smith was
In the midst of an eloquent and
apparently important paragraph
concerning raw materials, which he
was delivering with great declama-
tory effect and with suitable ges-
lures and elocutionary eloquence,
the venerable Shelby VI. Cullom
arose, also, and waited composedly
until Mr.. Smith had enunciated the
immorta! doctrine that the produc.
er OF raw material, under the law
or trade, is forced to sell at world
prices if he produces sufficient to
meet the needs not only of hls
people but of the world at large.
Judging this good point at which
To separate Mr.. Smith from his flow
OF thought, the aforesaid venerable
Shelby NJ. Cullom asked mildly that
Mr.. Smith rest his larynX for y
time and allow the Senate to go in
to executive session.
Mr. Smith paused and tapped his
brow. Il yield" he asscnted. al
though | am not near through. This
Is the first opportunity | have had
to give my views on governmental
alialrs. ] have been a vovitiate in
this body and have tried to follow
the old-established rule that YOU
have TO be here two years before
you speak at length; and | was de-
deSlrouS of giving this body Il
thorough sample OF just what |
was capable of when i was in the
Spirit on the Lords day'--and | am
to-day"
The still venerable shelby NJ.
Cullom smiled benignly at Mr..
Smith and asked for the question
Ii was put and an executive session
was declared. At the conclusion of
that executive session Mr.. Smith
resumed both his station in the
From this very moment it was evi.
dent that what Mr.. Smith had said
before his interruption was as mere
sounding brass and tinkling Gym.
balls TO the real thunder of elo.
quence he had in reserve. Having
stated. as he did, that he intended
to show the Senate just what ht
was capable of, he showed the Sen.
ate what he was capable of. Ii was
after the CullOm break in I'll,
stream that he first broke into no
etr"; and ii was some few minutes
alter he broke into poetry that he
began To get really good--before he
really did start showing off. SO tC
speak
Still he had the goods. There is
standard, genuine, time-tried ora.
torical goods; and he laid them
Gown where all, and particularly
those Republicans who were not M
luncheon, might see and hear He
was no frivolous youngster. bob
bling into debate with a line OF
unconventional ideas or producing
new and untried figures of speech.
no so. Here was an orator who
Knew the good old stuff the stuff
that always brings 'em to their feet
aid sets them cheering and cfyiua.
When the Welkin Played Alarm
Clock.
His first sample was from the
time-tried and always effective
mother bin. Dashing back the
hair from his forehead, he raised
both hands high in the air and let
go with few lines of bleeding and
suffering hearts-and then TO il
thus: Il want the Senate to remem-
Der one thing. Thank God the love
mat mother and father nave for
their children is not measured by
the number OF dollars they''--the
fathers and mothers, not the chill
drcn own. In spite Of the calico
dress; in spite of the wOrk-distort-
ed hands; in spite Of the scanned
cheeks, from which the bloom OF
beauty has been smitten by the
cruel hand of poverty and adversi-
ty; in spite of the stopped form
thank God! underneath that calico
dress, despite all these physical
distortions, the poverty-stricken
mother loves the bright darlings
about her feet with a glorious and
divine love as ever burned in the
heart of a queen"
The listening Senators. there 10
be shown by Mr.. Smith lust what
he could do, took this bale and
marked it Exhibit A" waiting in
terestedly for the next sample The
wait was not long. In a few mo-
ments Mr.. Smith swept gallantly to
his second demonstration, which
was fancy exhibit of farm" rhe-
toric. Deprecating the cry of
Back to the FARM" Mr.. Smith in
CURED passionately: "In a word
Mr.. President, in any great wealth
producing professions, vocations or
aVocations, have you heard and
man clamor Back to the law
Back to medicine!' Back to the
railroad business Back TO the
great manufacturing enterprisesl'?
No. The cry has been. .RacL 70