The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-11-25

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one is working for himself The mill
people may be right; the bankers
may be right, the farmers, the cotton
mill owners and the millionaires,
know them all, have stayed in their
homes and know their hopes and
aspirations. The music and the in
struments were all right, too, but
there was much wasted melody. The
trouble is we do not understand each
other We are working into hatred,
.discord and passion. The idea lying
at the basis of this conference is to
get South Carolinians to playing to-
gether again. A better time is COM
ing 500 to South Carolina, a time
when the leader Of the orchestra will
not seek for discord, but will try to
get us all to playing together again
instead Of apart, as now. We must
know each other better. Sometimes
we look at a man in another business
or profession and are suspicious of
him. But IL the orchestra is to be in
tune we must know people. The
study of human people is most in
4sresting. Know people and you will
like them. We should know men in
all circles and occupations. There is
need of patience for the trouble Is
not always meanness nor pure
cussedness" But like the band
master, what we need is to get the
players in tune.
We should carry this movement
down into the community. It's object
is to get the people together. The
largest meetings ever held in South
Carolina have been political, separat-
ing people into divisions. At these
conferences for the common goOd, on
the other hand, no one mans person
ality is in view. At campaign meet
ings the politicians try to emphasize
the grievances of the people, rousinG
them up. There are in fact many
real problems which we must settle
and settle together.
If we had spent the past tfteen
years in getting together, If all the
talk to which we have listened had
been in the right direction, how we'll
it would have been. We need to sum
up the significant things, the things
which mean prosperity. We mus
conserve the great permanent re-
sources OF the state. These are, first,
a climate in which we can raise two
or three crops year. The climate
and the weather, the speaker said,
need no discussion.
Our second resource is water
dams at Great Falls, which will de-
velop the power of 100, 900 horses, or
twenty times as much as all the
horses and mules in Lancaster coun-
to- These horses are the common
property of all the people. We have
in all a million horsepower possession
in this state 1t never grows old, moi
does II require feed nor stable. And
we must be careful how we let oul
horses go. Write 1t in the bond
"The harness is yours but the horses
are ours. They must not be used eX
cent to subserve the interests Of
South Carolina"
our third asset is our soil. We
should all be working to conserve 1t
This should be a subject to bring III
together. The man who works th'
soil should have possession OF II
The greatest thing we can give th'
people is a chance to own land. ii
Switzerland 95 per cent of the farm
ers own the land. Here in Souti
Carolina As per cent OF the farmer
are landless.
The people constitute the fourt
and greatest asset. They are homo
geneous people, OF the best Anglo
Saxon stock. We have not rlghtl
appreciated the people. In SwitzeT
land the country is without other as
set save it's people, so they strive I
develop them into the strongest an
hest citizens possible. Last year tn
Swiss people, 100000 In number
spent $2O,00O,000 on education. w
can't do much with ignorance. Ever
man who has grown up in ignoranc
Is a poor asset. 1t is bad for tn
banks and stores as we'll as for tn
state. There should be campaig
for education.
Ynr. Tate then told OF the interes
ing work which had recently bee
done in Kentucky by a woman, VIII
is a county superintendent of ed'
cation. She had organized whit
were known as moonlight schools an
when the experiment began the
we're 1000 grown people In IA
county who were illiterates; 81