The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-05-21

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| very field, but it is national action
and the enlightened policy of indivd-
| uals, corporations and societies with
IN each nation that must bring about
| actual reforms. The members Of the
committees on labor in the two houses
VIII hardly need suggestions from me
as to what means they shall seek to
make the federal government the
agent of the whole nation in pointing
out and, if need be, guiding the pro-
cess OF reorganization and reform.
Returning Soldiers.
Il am sure that it is not necessary
for me to remind you that there is
one immediate and very practical
| question OF labor that we should
meet in the most liberal spirit. We
! must sec to it that our returning SOL
; diers are assisted in every practical
bic way to find the places for which
they are fitted in the daily work Of
| the country. This can be done by
dereio ping and maintaining upon an
ad> r3ate scale the admirable organi-
| Zation created by the Department Of
Labor for placing men seeking work,
and it can also be done, in at least one
very great field, by creating new op-
! portunities for individual enterprise.
| The Secretary of the Interior has
pointed out the way by which re-
turning soldiers may be helped to find
and tae upk land in the hitherto un-
developed regions Of the country,
which the federal government has al
ready prepared, or can readily pre-
pare, for cultivation, and also bn
many OF the cut-over or neglected
areas which lie within the limits Of
the older States, and once more take
the liberty of recommending very
urgently that his plans shall receive
the Immediate and substantial sup
port of the Congress.
Stimulating Conditions.
"Peculiar and very stimulating con-
dItlons await our commerce and in
dustrial enterprise in the immediate
future. Unusual opportunities will
presently present themselves to our
merchants and producers in foreign
markets and large fields for profitable
investment will be opened to our free
capital. But it is not only Of that
that | am thinking; it is not chiefly
| of that that ! am thinking. Many
great industries prostrated by the war
wait to be rehabilitated, in many parts
of the world where what will be lack
| ing is not brains or willing hands or
| organizing capacity on experienced
skill, but machinery and raw mate
rials and capital believe that our
! business men, our merchants, our
! manufacturers and our capitalists will
| have the vision to see that prosperity
| in one part Of the world ministers to
prosperity everywhere. That there is
! in very true sense solidarity Of
| interest throughout the world of en-
terprise, and that our dealings with
, the countries that have need of our
products and our money will teach
them to deem us more than ever
friends whose necessities we seek in
the right way to serve.
Helpful Rivals.
Our new merchant ships, which
have in some quarters been feared as
destructive rivals, may prove helpful
rivals rather, and common servants,
very much needed and very welcome.
Our great ship yards, new and old,
will be SO opened to the use of the
world that they will prove immensely
serviceable to every maritime people
in restoring; much more rapidly than
would otherwise have been possible,
the tonnage wantonly destroyed in
the war. ] have only to suggest that
theer are many points at which we
can facilitate American enterprise in
foreign trade by Opportune legislation
and make it easy for american mer-
chants to go where they will be well
coined as friends rather than as
dreaded antagonists. america has a
great and honorable service to per-
form in bringing the commercial and
industrial undertakings of the world
back to their old scope and swing
again and putting a solid structure of
credit under them. All our legisla-
tion should be friendly to such plans
and purpose. Our credit and enter
prise alike will no (,nickenpd hy tip,o