The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-06-05
MANNING SEES BIG
FUTURE FOR COTTON
FORMER GOVERNOR, BACK FROM
EUROPE, TALKS ENTHUSIASTICALLY
Touched Many Subjects
Saws President Wilson Is Regarded
Abroad as COuntry'S Great
est Leader.

peace treaty and readJustment or the
markets of the world to postbellum
conditions will have an optimistic et-
feet on cotton, according to ex-Gov-
ernor Richard I. Manning, who has
Just returned from Europe, where he
attended the peace conference as the
delegate of the league to enforce
peace, which organization is headed
by former President William Howard
Taft.
As the former governor has been
in contact with the moving drama in
Europe and has been intimately asso-
ciated with the great leaders there
for two months, any utterance of his
on international politics and his OBJ
servations of world conditions are
not only interesting, but are of an
alytical and authoritative worth.
Interesting Story.
Governor Manning speaks interest
ingly of his and Mrs. Manning's trip
abroad and of those international
pefsonages with whom he was asso-
ciated. He and Mrs. Manning sailed
from America on the Adriatic on
March %, and Their trip across was
in a fog and rough, but no inconven-
ience was suffered, he stated. They
landed at Liverpool and went to Lon
don by train, thence to Southamp-
ton, where they crossed the channel
to Havre. From Havre they were
taken by train to Paris. Returning,
the South Carolinians arrived at Hal
flax on Sunday, May 25, reaching
Sumter over the Atlantic Coast Line
railway yesterday morning at ll:20
O'Clock. The5 spent a few hours at
Sumter and went to Governor Man.
ning's farm at Boykin yesterday aft
ernoon and they spent today at the
home of B. H. Boykin, at Boykin.
They were met at the train yesterday
by their son, Col. w. NJ. Manning, of
Columbia.
"This is the most picturesque seen
cry I have seen in some time,' said
the former governor as he got off the
train. 81 return home a prouder, a
better and more enthusiastic Amer
lean than when 1 went to Europe. The
old U. S. A. is good enough for me" I"
In Best Of Health.
The ex-governor and Mrs. Manning
appeared to be in the best of health
and they both stated that they had
an interesting and instructive time
while in Europe. The former COVER
nor's first idea was to get into cooler
clothing, as he was wearing heavy
winter suit, which was not exactly
conducive to bodily comfort. Both
he and Mrs. Manning wore pins with
six service stars, one of which had
turned to gold in memory of Major
William Sinkler Manning, who was
killed in the Argonne forest fight and
whose body is buried on hillside
near where he fell. They visited his
grave.
In dealing with the cotton question,
the former governor said that un-
doubtedly the shelves of the world
are bare of cotton goods, and that the
raw staple is, next to foodstuffs, the
worlds most badly needed material.
He is firmly of the opinion that there
is need of all the cotton the South
intends to raise and that this, togeth-
er with the supply now On hand, will
be consumed
With the signing of the peace
treaty and the lifting of the blockade,
he said, the world markets will be
open for the influx Of cotton goods.
However, the taking OF the staple
necessarily must be slow, he stated.
He pointed out the defation of the
European monetary system, stating
that the mark, which, normally, is
worth about 20 cents, is now rated at
Z IA cents, while the franc, which is
about the same value in American
money as that of the mark, is now
exchanged at 16 2-10 cents. In ad-
dition, he explained, the resources of
the warning countries have been de-
pleted.
Must Extend Credits.
81 am not in favor of further gov
ernment loans," he said, 'sbut real
ize that corporations will have to be
formed in this country to export
goods, and credits will have to be ex-
tended on a larger scale than hereto
fore. Therefore, while all the cotton
ultimately will be taken, we must