The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-10-19
BLEASE DENOUNCES
PROPOSED BIG MEACER
OF CORPORATION OWNED COTTON
WAREHOUSE IN SOUTH.
Wants System OF Rural Credits, With
Six Per Cent Money on Land
4 As Well as Cotton.
Special to The Herald and News.

Special to The Herald and News.
Greenwood, Oct 11.-Denouncing the
proposed big merger of corporation
owned cotton warehouses in the South,
and defending the State warehouse
system, which was mentioned as one Of
the reasons for the meeting in Colum-
bia looking towards huge merger OF
these corporation warehouses, Former
Governor Blease, before big and en-
thusiastic audience here on Saturday
afternoon, also urged for South Caro-
lima system of rural credits, which
would force six per cent money on
land just as it was being secured OF
cotton
Former Governors address.
After thanking the people for their
attendance, Governor Blease said
that he desired to correct an impress
| sion which certain newspapers had
made in reference to his GreenVille
speech. He did not charge the report
ers with doing it Intentionally, but
said the way his remarks were re-
! ported, it made him appear to say what
! he really had not said; that he did no.
! Jump upon the ministers, who he said
would never be brought about by min
stayedsin their pulpits and cease mix
ing in politics" as he was quoted. but
that, in discussing the whiskey ques-
ton he stated that he did not believe,
nor. did any sensible man believe, tnat
morality could be legislated into peo-
pie, and he contended that prohibition
would neved be brought about my min
/ lste1s OF the gospel preaching political
sermons or meddling in political af-
fairs; that if they would stay in their
pulpits and preach the religion of the
lord Jesus Christ and Him crucifled,
and keep Christ and His life promi-
nently before the people-for without
the life of Christ in the Bible, the
Bible itself would amount to very lit
tie, and the Christian religion would BE-.
failure-that if they would preacn
tnat religion, and by precept and ex
ample create within the hearts of meG
love for Christ and for His religion,
then and not until then would their
hopes be fulfilled, and that they could
not see these hopes realized by run
ming around dabbling in politics and
abusing otners for their political opin-
ions. He said he had tried to be very
conservative in his GreenFiRe speech,
and in fact had been very highly COM
pfiaented both by letter and in per-
son by people from many different
|sparts of the State upon his speech as
a whole, botn as to the positions he
I had taken and as to the conservative
ftoneaof his remarks. r
In discussing the State warehouse
system, and the proposed big merger
of corporate owner warehouses to
fight the State system, exposed by Sen
ator .McLaurin on Friday morning,
Governor Blease said:
Proposed Warehouse Merger.
"My fellow citizens, you see the
great benefits which the people OF
South Carolina have derived and are
deriving from the State warehouse sys-
tenn, and certain fnanciers have be-
come so jealous of it, because it has
unhorsed them and forced them to a
six per cent rate of interest that they
are now trying to form a great merger
of corporation warehouses to, put the
State warehouse system out OF busl-
ness, and to prevent it's spread in the
other Southern States. Some of these
capitalists are leaving their own States
and coming into South Carolina and
endeavoring to break down this State
system which has given so much relief
to the farmers-New York capitalists,
and such men as Barrett of Augusta,
and others, joining their hundreds OF
thousands to the capital of Robertson,
and to the capital of Stackhouse and
others, in Columbia and other parts
Of South Carolina and the South, to de-
stroy your State warehouse system by
the formation of this gigantic trust.
And mark the prediction, if they sue
ceed in this merger it will be greater
evil than the great cotton mill merger,
to which l called attention some years
ago. The people today see that I was
right in that, and they see the evil
which it is doing. But this latest