The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-08-19
PLEAD FOR FARMERS
SMITH TELLS OF Work WITH
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

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WOULD HOLD COTTON |
Senator Left Darlington Saturday
for a Conference With Washington
Omcials-Retarns to Bishopville
and on Monday Outlines What He
Has Done.
Speaking at Bishopville Monday
Senator Smith said:
II wish that at my county seat
felt more like making speech than
I do to-day. On last Saturday l
spoke at Darlington. Saturday night
/ went to Washington in order to
meet with those who had the power
to relieve the terrible situation that
confronts, primarily and first, the
cotton and tobacco growers in South
Carolina I left there at 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon and came on
here this morning, SO that you can
imagine my physical condition.
'I want to make this observation:
Never in the history of the world,
never before in the history Of civih-
zation, has such condition confront
ed the human race. The great pow
ers Of Europe, after all Of these
years of Christian civilization, are
at each others throats in a death
grspple to maintain their own do
main and to make aggression into
the domain Of others. Never before
have we had brought home to us so
powerfully that we are interdepend-
emit from ocean to ocean, from pole
to pole and from the equator around.
Therefore, this is no time for any
man or any set of men to play poll
tics. There confronts those who pro
duce the clothing and foods Of the
peoples Of the earth disastrous con-
dition, which may lead to bankrupt
CT. Their loved ones may not be
killed by the bullet or mangled by
the engines Of warfare, but in the
reaction Of these conditions in Eu-
rope there is pending danger to US as
disastrous as the hum of the bullet.
.eIt was into that breach that /
conceived it to- be my duty to throw
myself, for you had elected me to
the Senate by the biggest majority
that you had ever given mani say
it was into this breach that threw
whatever brain I had and whatever
education had, and for nine years
7 have used whatever abilities may
have to help the man who feeds the
world, clothes the world and shoes
the world; used whatever powers I
may have possessed to see that he
did not go hungry, baIefooted and
naked.
They charge that I have spent
6ve and a half years Of my career
pleading for legislation for the far
nlers. I want to state to the audi
ence that I shall let the heather
rage and the people in high places
imagine vain things, for / believe
that the hope and salvation Of this
nation is upon the Independent, pro-
gressive, energetic, educated, pro-
gressive farmers Of the country, and
I have no apologies to make for hay-
ing labored for them.
Therefore, the greatest comph-
ment that has been paid me as your
senator is the fact that in this grave
crisis there came to me from every
cotton growing state the plea for Ed
Smith to throw himself into the
breach and once again stem the tide
that threatened the farmers Of the
South, and I would rather success
fully respond to that call than to re-
spond to the majority OF the voters
in South Carolina and go back to
the Senate.
Therefore. I answered that call
by wiring last week First, let me
say.tI met with a few men in Colum-
bia, and we went over the situation.
told them that this was not time
for politics. for the man who would
try to make political capital out of
SO serious a condition is unworthy
of being man.
'I pleaded that we lay aside all
politial differences in South Carolina.
I tell you to-day that I care not
whether you wear the cotton bloom
scr the red badge am going to do
as much for you who do wear the red
badge as for the boys who wear the
cotton bloom. Thank God, you can
wear no badge in South Carolina
that will keep Ed Smith from help
ing those who are not in a position
to help themselves.
81 sent telegram to the comptrol-
ler OF the currency, Mr.. John Skel-
ton Williams, and asked him if he
could meet me Sunday morning. r
did not consider it any desecration
for me to call together senators and
representatives from the Southern
states on the Sabbath, when the Mas
ter taught good will toward men. /
called them on the Sabbath day. In
response to that telegram I got fav-
orable answers.
"Besfore got to Washington, to
my qualification, the comptroller of
the currency, the man in whose hand
rests the great finances Of America,
boarded the train at Richmond. He
came into my berth and from there