The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-05-05
SENATOR {. D. Smith
Makes GREAT SPEECH
Federal Loan Act, the Declaration of
Financial Independence of the
Producer-SOuth Advanced More
IN Seven Years of Wilson'S Ad-
ministration Than so Before.

| Senator E. d. Smith recentlv made
a speech at Ashboro, N. c., which L. f.
Ross, chairman of the county Demo
cratic executive committee at that
place, says is the greatest speech ever
delivered there. In this speech Sena-
tor Smith gave a short review of the
progress of the South under the Will
son administration and effects of the
FEDERAL loan act. The speech follows
in full:
Ny. Chairman and Gentlemen:
we are approaching another cleo
ton. The conditions surrounding this
election are radically different from
any circumstances in which national
election are radically different from
war means an abnormal condition
OF society. 1t means more or less sus-
pension of the laws, rules and regula-
tions governing organized society in
government, commerce, both at home
and abroad.
We of America for half century
have been engaged in the pursuits of
ordinary life under conditions of pro-
found national peace. AS a nation we
were wholly unacquainted with the
ruthless necessities of war. The
genius of our government it's theory
and practice being essentially demo-
cratic, was wholly foreign to the i'm
perialistic demands of the inevitable
laws Of war. Therefore, it is not to
be wondered at that the average
American citizen should improperly
charge the temporary suspension Of
the laws guaranteeing him certain
rights and privileges to the party then
IN power. He does not, and perhaps
can not, take that broad and com
prehehsive view of the necessities of
the situation that would enable him to
judge clearly the real merits of the
case.
When it is taken into consideration
that for SO years we were wholly en-
gagged in the pursuits of peace when
there was no intimation that we were
to be plunged into a worlds conflict.
and when it is further considered that
TINS conflict was on a scale surpass-
ing in scope, Importance and death
dealing Instruments, with the issues
involved being the civilization of the
world, and our own civilization, it is
not unreasonable that the means used
to preserve the rights of mankind
should have involved temporarily the
ruthless suspension of all these rights.
We, as said before, had been a ma
tion of peace, we loved peace. The
individual liberties, rights and privi-
leges of an American citizen, under
American laws, promotes the love of
worldwide universal peace. We have
never coveted the possessions of 9th
ers. We have never sought territorial
expansion. We have never desired
dominion over other nations and peo-
Piles. Therefore, had never engaged
in constructing for ourselves the
deadly fire fightin gimplemGnts of war
SO that when this world connagration
suddenly broke out we were wholly
without the fire fighting apparatus Of
modern designs. But, thank God, we
were not without millions of lads and
men imbued with the spirit of fire
fighting to preserve their own There
fore, as the danger was imminent and
appalling, we had to organize the
bucket brigadcs and avail ourselves
OF every means of procure the water
to put out the fire. 1t is not surpris-
ing that a lot Of water was wasted.
a lot was usclcssly split because of
the lack Of the fighting equipment,
but we put the fire out and that was
worth more than ali the water split.
We saved every home i'm America. We
saved the civilization of the world and
preserved the devastated fields of Ell-
rope for the erection once again of its
homes and the establishment of it's
organized society upon the principles
of liberty and justice.
UnbecOming to Criticise.
And 1T is hardly becoming an Amer
lean citizen, regardless of what party.
political creed or subdivision to which
ne may belong, to criticiSc the Incl
dental and unavoidable waste of money
in this war when he takes into con-
sldcration ali of the disadvantages, all
OF the circumstances attending our en-
trance into the war and our match
less achievements.
Standing here on North Carolina soil
want to pay tribute to a son of
North Carolina for the part that he
Played as the head Of one of tle in
dlSpensablc departments, Josephus
Daniels, the secretary of the navy. |
did not know Mr.. Daniels intimately
before he came to be secretary of the
navy. / did not know the opinion tha
his people Of North Carolina held in
regard to him. Nationally he was un-
known. But DO not know that the
achievement Of the American navy in
this war is without a parallel i'm the
history of the world. For the frs!
time in the history Of the world, a
new and deadly weapon was in prac
tical operation, the submarine. Cor
many was prceminenS ~ the construc
ton and use Of this powerful weapon
The seas were infested with them, and
the daily papers were full Of their de-