The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-06-30
MISSION OF THE SOUTH TO CL0TRE
The WORLD.
State Warehouse System in Each State and Interstate
Board to Establish Minimum Price for Cotton.
Address Hon. Mcaun the South Carolina Press Association
Chick Springs, S. C., 1915

Gentlemen of the Press Associa-
ton.
appreciate the invitation to
address the newspaper men of
South Carolina. I feel that it
is one of the most distinguished
honors that has ever come to
me, because I know that it is
not the custom of the Press AS
sociation to invite politicians on
this occasion, and I feel that the
invitation extended to me is an
Indication that the newspaper
men of South Carolina agree
that I have, in some measure at
least, passed in my career the
stage of mere politician.
I have been more than once
stung to the quick by your
shafts of lightning, but I have
never underestimated the real
protection that the press is to
the country, in exposing sham
and hnmbuggery, or destroying
graft and corruption. 1t is your
mission to throw light into the
dark places and tell the people
what they ought to know.
7 nave learned the truth by
experience of the observation OF
the great Napoleon, that -four
hostile newspapers are more to
be dreaded than one hundred
thousand bayonets. Napoleon
fought the freedom of the press
because he had no higher smbl-
ton than personal glory. He
realized that the freedom OF the
press and the liberties of the
people must stand or fall to-
gether, the press could ultimate
II overthrow the mighty fabric
mis- gigantic brain had createu,
for he said to one Of his minis
ters, s:I must dazzle and anton
ish, if I were to give the liberty
of the press, my power could
NOT last three days
How different, the sentiments
Of Thomas Jefferson, who gave
the word a constitution based
upon freedom and equality
jefferson said, ST would rather
live in a country with newspa-
pers without a government. than
in 8 country with a government,
but without newspapers.
Gentlemen of the Press Asso-
ciation, yon have a tremendous
power for veal or woe. Yours
is a high calling. Thought
builds civilization; thought de-
streys civilization. Through
yonr papers you drop the silent,
Invisible thought into thousands
of minds at the same moment,
creating thought and moldlng
sentiment.
My paper comes to me each
day, an adviser spiritual and ma
teriaL keeping me in touch with
world history as it is made, col
oring and forming my opinions
snbtIy controlling my actions.
Wendell Phillips said. sThe
millions have no school, and al
most no pulpit. but the press.
not one man in ten reads books,
but every one of US, except the
helpless poor, poisons himself
every day with a newspaper. 1t
Is parent. school, teacher, thea
TIRE, example, counsellor, all in
one. Let me make the news
papers, and I care not who
makes the religion or the laws. !"
It IS my purpose to try to pre-
sent the State Warehouse Sys-
tenn in such a way to command
your confidence, and secure the
support of the newspapers OF
South Carolina in establishing a
system of marketing and hand
ling cotton which will revolu-
tonne that industry ana lnauS-
nrate a prosperity among the
farmers of the South which will
be stable and lasting because
founded upon correct business
principles.
Daring the last one hundred
years the inventor has trans
formed The material life of this
nation. Time and labor saving
appliances have multiplied be-
yond calculation. We are living
IN anew commercial and scier-
sifc era infinitely advanced be-
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