Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-07-11
Moral Advancement.

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More progress has been made in
science in the past century than in
5000 years preceding. In the fields Of
discovery mechanical invention has
revolutionIzed agriculture by furnish
ing substitutes for the labor OF man,
insuring abundance Of raw material
for manufacture, 80 that the ordinary
laborer has more real comforts than
old time kings. The principle Of these
inventions lay dormant through all the
centuries until the Christianized In
tellect of the 18th century, explored
these hidden mines and harnessed
great forces 20 be servants Of the ma
terial progress of man. {
So my friends, must the intellect Of
the Goth century master the moral
forces which go hand in hand with
these material things, in order to Sc
cure lasting greatnes 1t Is easy to
see that we are now formulating theo.
ries in human government to cores
pond with the handiwork Of Morse,
Edison, and Marconi Socialism be-
gins to take on new meaning. the
progressive western states are crying
out for new tools and new machinery,
they call them strange names, the Inii
tiative, the Referendum, the Recall. It
all means that government was made
for man, and not man for government
and that written constitutions are not
stronger than the needs and wishes Of
the people who live under them.
South Carolina has been having
growing pains" these twenty years
and I hope to live to see the day when
she will again take the lead in national
thought. Government Is coming tc
rest absolutely upon the consent Of the
governed, and the old idea of political
society enacting laws to hold man in
physical restraint, must give way to a
society upon a plane where the sense
of right and wrong Is so finely devel-
oped, that no other law Is needed. II
you believe the Bible you are bound to
believe that some day the code pro-
mulgated in one sentence by the great
est law giver of all times "love We one
another" will be the only law Of the
land. ..s 10
So far every effort has been in the
extention of suffrage In the direction
Of the poor, the ignorant and often the
criminal classes. 1t has played It's part
in securing more personal liberty. This
accepted, the next great step In sum
rage will be in the direction OF intelli-
gence, purity, and virtue. That Is what
this great woman suffrage movement
means in England. Bad men and inn
pure men could not be elected to of1ce
with the ballot In woman's hand. We
give a ballot to the most idle vicious
negro, and the newly landed emigrant,
and yet deny the privilege to the high
est and finest creation Of God, good
woman. The time will come when the
ballot will be purified and the criminal
and vicious denied our voting places,
where free men express their will made
as clean and sacred as q temple !
God, where the gentlest, purest ana
best may go without fear Of contamin-
alton to exercise the highest function
of citizenship. It is a shame and dis
grace to Anglo o-Saxon manhood, that
we are forced to say mo, the polling
place Is unsafe and unfit and politics
so corrupt that II will degrade woman
hood to take part" My friends, any
business Of pleasure that Is unfit to
share with your wife or your mother,
will corrupt your manhood and taint
your purity.
Problems Yet to Meet.
We have to meet in the near future
other great problems. A Democratic
administration Is now at work trying
to undo and straighten out the tangle,
suits Of the war. The greed and self
ishness in human nature has found
ample field for its exercise and with
the control of the volume Of money
through the national banking system,
has developed great trusts; not con-
tent with destroying competition, but
also limiting production to the point OF
greatest possible profit. Instead OF en-
couraging foreign trade to meet In
creased production, they raised the
tariff duties so high that 1t has stified
trade. ! believe firmly In home mar
ket for home products, but when they
raise the price of home articles so high
as to enable a domestic manufactures
to 90 abroad and on the profit ne
makes here, undersell competitor In
that competitors home market, 1t is all
wrong from the point Of morals or
business. New markets cannot be de-
veloped by such cut throat methods,
and we invite the enmity Of all other
nations who will surely find some way
to retaliate.
The great need of America especially
the south, is new markets, and these l
do not believe will ever come except
through reciprocal trade relations.Th
will mean the creation OF new lines OF
employment, new Industries and chan
nels of trade.
The Labor Question.
There can be no doubt that the i'm
mediate effect Of this new tariff bill
will precipitate a great struggle be-
tween labor and capital. There is
bound to be a radical change In the
status Of labor. 1t might as we'll come
now as later. All Of the old theories OF
government treated labor as a COM
modify without reference to the indi-
yidual laborer. This will be changed,
because the laborer has found the
value and power lying In his ballot,
and for the first time in the history OF
the country, II is apparent, that the Of
ganized labor vote holds the balance
of power. The agricultural element Is
going to stand firm against monopoly
and in the last election these two were
a unit 1t is an axiom OF politics, tnal
with two forces nearly evenly divided,
a smaller force holding the balance oi
power can dictate terms. :,
Samuel Gompers and John Mitchell
are very able men, and Will propaDly
go to their graves unrewarded, because
1t will take at least a half century 10
understand what they have done 70
add to the dignity and Importance OF
labor. They completely exploded the
theory that you can treat labor as In
separable from the personality OF the
laborer. Under the doctrine OF equal
Justice to all, they contend that 1t Is
the duty of the government to protect
labor in its employment, as capital Is
protected in its employment.
The interest Of the laborer and his
employer, they contend are reciprocal
Both are interested to bring about one
result, the profitable empIoymnt Of la
bor to the good Of both capital and la
bor. At any rate for the first time
chiefly through the efforts of these
great leaders Of men, labor has d.
rect representative in the cabinet Of q
president. This means that the time is
near at hand, when legal arbitration
will determine all questions arising be-
tween capital and labor, on basis
that Is fair to both.
This is the practical beginning OF o