The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-25

| merchant marine We shall, have to
nnd way to lessen antagonism to
railroads and to help the railroads to
get the S5.000.000.G0O or more badly
needed for extensions and better
ments. Unless We make it possible for
the railroads 70 increase their earn
iHgs 10 such an extent as to attract
billions Of new capital into invest
ment in their securities, the neces-
stiles CT transportation VIII compel
the government to guarantee railroad
bonds or else take over the railroads
u the country. and either would be a
great disaster to our national life and
before even this could come to pass
CT coaHt;y'S trade would have sus=
fered intellectually from a complete
orakdo"n OF our whole TRANSPORTER
ton system. Higher freight rats
would cost the country infinitely less
than collapse of our railroads and
one Of the other is certainty.
lin this coming day Of expansion
we shall, have to view without alarm
big corporations doing big world
business for the magnitude OF our
foreign. operations will require vast
concentrated capital. Just as the gov
ernment has mobihzed the financial
strength 0f ali national banks into
the gigantic reserve system In order
to strengthen all and help all inter-
ests, so many other concentrated and
combined influences will be needed
III the coming days big with the big
ness of dominating the worlds COM
mercial power.
The South's Part.
"The South must prepare to do its
part and to share in the vastness OF
these coming developments. 1t must
for a year or two make cotton n sub
1ect and not q king. 1t must learn to
live at home aR never. before, except
during 1851 to 1855, when 1t produced
all thit 1t consumed and thereby made
possible the maintenance OF that long
struggle. f
mo farmer in the South ought
henceforth to buy a bushel OF corn
or pound OF bacon. II any farmer Is
too lazy or too inefficient to .rafse
these foodstuffs, he will not deserve
and should not receive. any pity In
his self-imposed poverty. Any man
who thus by his thriftiness adds to
his poverty and thus lessons the COM
munity' wealth, ought to receive no
more encouragement than the tramp
who begs living because he is too
lazy to earn Il. *
IF we will forget that for a time
we permitted the South to be passed
before the nation as q beggar seek
ing Its aims. and piacarding Eastern
and Western cities with signs .Help.
tho South before our people awoke
to what was being done and will now
assert our manhood and our self
reliance and our ability 20 depend upor
ourselves instead OF charity ard I'm
this spirit go farward In our work.
we shall make tho nrasanf Aieaasai.'
the inspiring power to lift Us to 3
bettey and higher civilization ana
greater wealth than we have eyer
known. The position in whfcs the.
Youth wac nlacad by -. oi il
who Is playing. to the gallery suggest>
ed In. national and State iegislation,
every imaginable uneconomfc and TN
possible scheme. OF patriotism was
bad enough. But added to this were
as nnwise. though wen intended
movements which led the North anu
West to placard store windows and
hotel lobbies with the begging plea, I
Help the South as though this sec-
tion was ayeritable Laxrua compelled
to beg aims or others. (.
A Mistaken Move. s
IT mattered not how hard our
problems might be nor how great ,0uf
losseA. we could not afford to ask
charity. The very asking OF Ii gave
the rest or the country the impfas-
sion that the South was In hopeless:
poverty and had lost all courage. The
movement was we'll intended, but . Il