The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-05

no quarter are material interests
made superior to human liberty and
national opportunity. I say this, not
with single thought that any one
Will gainsay it. but merely to FIX IN
our consciousness what our real re-
lationship with the rest Of America
is. It is the relationship OF a family
of mankind devoted to the develop
nent OF true constitutional liberty.
We know that that is the soil out Of
which the best enterprise springs
We know that this Is a cause which
we are making in common with them
because we have had to make 1t for
ourselves.
Preference has been made here
to-day to some Of the problems which
confront US as a nation. What is the
heart Of all our national problems?
Is It that we have seen the hand OF
material interest some times about
to close upon our dearest interests
and possessions? We have seen ma
terial interests threaten constitution
al freedom in America. Therefore.
we will now know how to sympathtze
with those In America who have to
content with that. not only within
their borders, but from outside their
borders also. I know what tho re-
sponse OF the thought and heart OF
America will be to q program like
that, because America was created to
realize a program like that. This Is
not America because it is rich. This
Is not America because It has set up
for great population great oppor-
tunities Of material prosperity.
America is name which sounds IN
the ears Of men everywhere as q syn
onvm with individual opportunity.
because synonym Of individual lib
erity. l would rather belong to
Door nation that was free than to
rich nation that had ceased to be in
love with liberty.
"But we shall not be poor II we
love liberty. because the nation that
loves liberty truly sets every man
free to do his best and be his best.
and that means the release Of all the
splendid energies Of great peoDle
who think for themselves. A nation
of employees can not be free any
more than a nation Of employers can
be.
$50 in emphasizing the points
which must unite US in svmpathy and
In spiritual interest with the Latin
American peonle, we are only empha-
sizing the points Of our own life. and
we should prove ourselves untrue to
our own traditions II we proved our
selves untrue friends to-day. Do not
think. therefore. gentlemen. that
questions OF the day are mere cues
tions Of policy and dinlomacy. They
are shot through with the principles
Of life.
eve dare not turn from the prin-
chile that morality and not expedien-
cy is the thing that must guide US.
and that we will never eondone in
eouity because it IS most convenient
to do so. So It seems to me that this
IS a dav Of infinite hone. OF confidence
in a future greater than the past has
been. For am afraid to believe that
in spite OF all the things that we
wish to correct the nineteenth cen
turv that now lies behind Us has
brought Us a long stage toward the
time when slowly ascending the ted
ious climb that leads to the final up
lands. upon which we shall get the
ultimate view of the beauties Of man
kind. we. nevertheless. have breast
ed a. considerable part Of that climb
and shall presently. It may be in
generation OF two, come out upon
those great heights where there
shines. unobstEucted, tho light OF the
justice Of Cod"