The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-10-15
HClAURlN C0NDEHS
LEAGUE OPPONENTS
Extract From Great Speech
Delivered at YOrkville,
Wednesday in Which He
Points Out The Unique
Position of The United in
the World Today.

the World Today.
At Yorkville, on October 6, Senator
John l.. McLaurin spoke in part as
follows:
There is. no product that will be
more affected by world conditions
growing out of the war than cotton
therefore l wish to call attention to
some of them before referring to To-
cal matters. The United States has
come out of the war, not only the
richest nation on earth, but the rich
est which has ever existed. The 9th
er nations of the world owe this gov
which we hold their bonds. The Eu-
ropean governments in addition to
this, owe vast sums to American cap
italists like the loans made by Ameri-
can banks to England and France be-
fore our entry into the war. Paris
London and other European cities have
sold their bonds or short term notes
at heavy discounts to investors all
over the United States. In addition
to this we have take nup and now
own the three billion of dollars of
American securities held by Europe
prior to the war. / imagine that all
of these items arc sufficient if paid
to cancel the national debt of the
United States. The bonded indebted
ness Of the United States is held by
the people of the United States. There
is no other nation in the world in
this situation, and do not think you
can find parallel for it in all history.
Great Britain comos out of the war
with the flower on her young men
disabled or dead, and with a bonded
debt which is nearly SO per cent. of
her estimated national wealth. France
has lost a generation Of ner young
men and is burdened with national
debt which is nearly GO per cent. of
the value Of all the property in France.
Italy, Germany and the other coun-
tries of Europe are in a still worse
condition. The war hardly touched the
young manhood Of the United States
and our national wealth has enor-
mously increased. If you ask me why
the angel of death passed us by,
would say, that it was because God
intended to preserve our strength that
we might use the wclrth and man
hood of America in rebuilding civili-
zatlon and redeeming mankind.
The horror and wa5tagc OF war
has taken the heart out of Europe.
crnment in Europe; there is a relapse
TO actual barbarism in Russia. In
England the life of the government is
threatened by the irish question and
huge railroad strike, which unless it
IS checked will bring on a revolution.
tou can see how it started nRussia,
Austria, Poland and Hungary. The
world is struggling to get it's feet
from monumental disaster. Europc
is too weak and exhausted to do SO
without help. The eyes of the whole
world are turned on America. If we
fail TO meet the issue, then lust as
sure as fate, mankind will swing back
once again int t'n dark ages. You
need not think TN 1t the Atlantic ocean
viii protect t. as it did during the
war. The tid@ will enguIf us with the
others: After long suffering and the
s9Ss Of all that we hold dear another
generation will finally come out of
this pit of despair to again slowly and
painfully take the upward path set for
MS by the God who made us free
agents, able to choose the path of life
of DEATH
Peace Treaty.
have watched with horror and dis
gust the tactics of certain senators
while the world is in xgony; unmind-
full Of anything save partisan political
interest. The delay of the ratification
of the peace Jre cty under such cir
eumstances is crime against the
whole human race and an affront
TO tho Creator Of t..is universe.
No leader of any nation in all
history has ever showed a fuller,
hrmer or clearer consciousness of "Po-
litical Idealism" than Woodrow Will
son III his fourteen points. go further
and say that no man has ever shown
greater practical wisdom in not re-
fusing at Paris to take what he could
get, because he could not get all the
wanted He found that European
statesmen were unable to see except at
close range. They could not sud
close range. They could not sud.
denly view a Christian brotherhood
of nations with the smoke Of the bat
tlcfelds and the stencil Of the dead
still poisoning the atmosphere. Wood
row Wilson stood alone voicing for all
nations the spiritual aspirations Of
common humanity He was coldly re-
aeivcd in court circles abroad, as he
rs by The masters in high finance in
this country, who really do not want
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