The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-03-28

men; it is our heritage rom the past.
1t is the woof of our commercial ira
ditions and web of our long time in
dustr.aI customs. Whatever may nave
been its use in the past in stimulat-
ing constructive toll and inventive
thought, its upbuiiding power depart
ed wnen it destroyed Lree compe-
tition between man and man. This IS
the oasis OF progress, calling forth the
intellectual resources OF the indivld-
ual, making him selt-reliant and bold,
thus laying broad and deep the foun-
dations for our modern civilization.
Attitude vi Insurers.
The heads O. these big insurance
companies have ability and concede
them patriotism equal to mine. They
think they are fighting for principle,
and they area princNle which, If
carried to its ultimate conclusion in
oil business. means the destruction OF
cur cCuntry. did not realize the ma
ture of the contest until / heard them
talk. 1t makes the puny efforts, from
certain sources in South Carolina. to
keep the companies out by thrusting
forward false issues, too petty and con
temptible to talk about. 1t is the
principle which, in our stable govern
ment, causes all property TO graTltate
steadily towards the possessors OF
wealth. Toilers increase, while labor
saving machinery and political power
pass under the control of concentrated
wealth, until the compensation Of the
producer is just enough to enable him
to do his work, and reproduced himself
Right here is the genesis o. farmers
organizations and labor unions. 1t is
these hardhanded creators Of the
wealth of today, whose willing toll
gives the sole value to all the garnered
wealth of yesterday. 1t is our way OF
saving that, owe are discomfort with
present conditions, for an equitable
portion of the wealth that We create
does not remain with us to bless our
selves and our families. We only ask
a righteous adjustment of present con-
ditions. VIII you meet us half way?
We demand naught of your stored-up
wealth and ask hot how you came by
it; We look not to the past, but to the
future, and want merely a chance to
live and let live
If these who control political par
ties. who own the newspapers and
dominate industrial and financial sys-
tens, think they can juggle God AL
nightly out of the progress he mas
decreed for man, then they will have
rude awakening in the attempt to
block the wheels Of evolution with
their puny plausibilities. If, drunken
with the pride of power and gold there
is no appeal to your di1iner natures.
tnen as a matter of self-interest, you
would do we'll to heed the cry, Let
my people go free"
Discomfort Dangerous.
The danger to this country IS not
from large standing armies, but the
ballot in the hands Of discontented
citizens, who blindly use it not to bet
ter conditions, but to revenge them
selves for either real or Lanc1ed
wrongs. This thing can not be con-
nned 20 South Carolina. The conditions
are the same in every State, and after
70 years in public life, l do not hesi-
tate to say that if the spirit exhibited
by these Dig insurance companies is
TO control, that the horrors we read Of
in Europe will within the next 25 years
repeat themselves in industrial dis
tuIoances in this country.
Democratic republics find their su-
preme peril right there. When a COM
manding public opinion declares it
self on the side o.. justice and patriot
ically insists on righteous measures
being wrought into law, then it is sure
that injustice must be put away, or
some agency must arise powerful
enough to crush by physical force
millions of men seeking to express