Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-01-23

utilizing the money and credit Of our
one monopoly for the development Of
the south. We have been talking
you, is 1t not time to act? Why not
take decided step that holds reason
able promise Of Industrial advance
ment?
There Is no parallel in history for
the monopoly the south has in cotton
production.
Why not use it?-England has spent
millions in Egypt and the Soudan, yet
the production Of cotton in Africa Is
confined to little strip along the Nile
that you could drop into a corner Of
Texas or loose in the Mississippi delta
and never know 1t was there. The per-
centage has run up in twenty years
from 66 2-3 to rs per cent Of the total
production Of the world. It Is within
our power to direct commerce and
world finance to greater extent than
any other people. Why not make the
start in South Carolina? There was
a time when we led in public thought.
A people can, rise no higher than their
spirit. II we had been content with
Ave cent cotton so 1t would have re-
manned. II we Ak in our minds high
er standard and stick to v, we will
surely attain. II man wants to be q
he must think in millions.
he can never attain 1t II he thinks In
coppers and nickles.
Cotton Is the corner stone Of inter-
national finance, 1t brings the yellow
metal from the uttermost parts Of the
world, and the money masters Of New
York through its power to always
command gold have transferred the A.
nancial center Of the world from the
banks Of The Hague to the banks Of
the Hudson.
No agricultural product has ever
been such potent force in making
human history, and no people have so
little used for their own up-building,
the gift Of Providence.
After the war, disheartened and
poverty stricken, we had naught but
our lands; the world was crying out
for cotton; we took our former slaves
and gave as our only basis Of credit
the promise to make cotton and ever
more cotton. That Is all the lien laws
meant, a mortgage on the future to
furnish capital for the present. A new
generation has come to the front, alert
aggressive, and imbued with modern
progressive thought.
The New South will never be con-
tent to lag behind. Our cotton crop
points the way, not merely to take
for ourselves and our children the
money for which II sells. but through
the vast commercial credit incident tc
the greatest monopoly the
world has ever seen. to make our Sec
tion the dominant power in finance
and civilization.
Dreams.
heard so often last winter and
have heard It said, sometimes with a
cynical smile, 1T is dream" Ny
friends, ! wish I were worthy to take
my stand among the dreamers Of this
world but the honor Is too great for
me. The gift is not mine to pierce the
veil Of doubt and look into the face Of
unborn time. / only stumble and fall
ter in darkness, see but dimly the Vi
sion Of what Is to be- Herbert Kauf-
man says, Dreams are the architects
of fact" let me quote few sentences
from his beautiful essay on this sub
ject:
What matters sneers and cynicism?
"This world is made up for the most
part of those who take but never give
sharing in all, but sparing naught
who cheer grudge but grudge a
cheer. q:
Wherefore the paths Of progress
have been sobs of blood dropped from
the broken hearts Of dreamers.
Makers Of empires, they have
fought for bigger things than en-
pires, and higher seats than thrones.
Grief has only streaked theirsheads
with silver, but has never greyed their
hopes. :HE #
"Dreamers are argonauts, the seek
Through all the ages the voice Of
vasts. .yl- ....
They dare uncharted seas. because
they are the makers of the chart.
With only cloth Of courage at the
man miracles; in place Of stone their
dreams, they sail away undaunted for
the far blind shores.
Their brains have wrought all hu-
man miracles; in place Of stone their
spires stab the skies, and their golden
crosses kiss the sun. 500. ..-..
A great ship few months ago
stricken to death by an iceberg shiv-
ers, trembles and groans. A cry for
help, that mystery the wireless
flashes hundreds Of miles across the
Atlantic seas, because Marconi dream
ed. ..
Wings of canvas now beat the air
and add the highways Of the eagle to
the human paths.
One man drew lightning with kite
from the clouds, another sitting by the
fire sees the steady escape Of steam
from the kettle. The dreams Of Frank
lin, Watts, Morse and hundreds Of
others have girdled the globe wit
bands Of steel and annihilated space.
The phonograph, a disc Of wax, a
square box, few springs, a needle
and a throat Of brass-a God hewn
voice swells out, caught whole, clear
and sweet, to last for ages after the
singer has returned to the dust, whence
he came and all because Edison
dreamed.
What would this world be of fancy
or Of fact, were hands all with which
men had to build
Your very homes are set upon the
land dreamer found, the pictures on
its walls are visions from a dreamer's
soul.
They are the blazers Of the way, the
men who never wear doubts handage
on their eyes. Men who hold to cour-
age and to hope.
Cowardice and lack Of faith can
alone keep us from the chosen goal.
If our hearts be strong and II we
dream enough, and dream hard
enough we can tread the path whereon
the foot of man hath never gone be-
fore.
walls crumble and empires fall;
the tidal wave sweeps in and tears a
fortress from the rocks. The rotting
nations drop from off times boughs
and only things dreamers make. lives
on.
"They are the eternal conquerors
their vassals are the years"
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