The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-11-24
My Friends:


delivered an address at Pomaria and
in that address made certain remarks,
among which was that Woodrow Will
son had ruined the Democratic party
and that at the first opportunity the
American people would sweep him and
his party out Of power by g. most over
whelming vote. / went much further
than that however, and made many
prophecies in reference to the Ameri-
can-European War, every one of which
has come true; and notwithstanding
the fact that some people wanted to
lynch me and others wanted to have
me arrested and cast into jail, yet that
speech stares them in the face today
as a prophecy as if it had come direct
from past events instead Of events to
come.
My fellow citizens, have never
made great claims, to what have done
as q church member but | am Christ
ian and student Of the Bible and in
that Bible read: "Whatsoever man
soweth, that shall he also reap; TAX
ing that into consideration with other
passages Of that great Book, | was
forced many years ago to inevitably
conclude that, that passage applied to
Nations, to States, to Counties and
even to Races as much as to Indlvid-
uals. If that be true, why could you
not read and why could not the great
leaders Of this Nation read the future
and see that war would plunge rs into
The low depths which we as a Nation
have sunken, and why could not our
ministers, instead of preaching and
praying for war pray to God that the
eyes of the rulers of the Nations of
the earth should be opened that they
might love the Lord their God with all
tbnir hnortc and thair pai9bbnrc
themselves and instead Of declaring
war, ruin, death, destruction and He'll.
rise to the height of the mighticst Of
the mighty and proclaim to all man
kind, "Peacc on earth, good will to all
men, glory to God in the highest"
l fear that my dear Southland has
not yet learned her lesson and that
she is still to suffer yet more from
her endorsement o. those who favored
war for truly it is written, ale, that
being often reprovGd hardeneth his
neck, shall suddenly be destroyed and
that without remedy"
The North, the Feast, and the West
have repudiated those who "kept us
out of war" but who Immediately
thereafter rushed us in; while the
South has again given approval not
withstanding Gods Wurning and the
Saviour's declaration, "Woe unto you
ScribcS and Pharasees, hypocrits," for
we compass sea and land to make one
prosclyte; and when he is made, We
make him two fold more the child Of
He'll than yourselves" and his com
mand, "Thou shalt not kill"
Even the Columbia Record in an
editorial November 18th, 1920, says:
"That is true, the essential "hell" of
Wharf.-The horrors Of its visitations on
the women, the immcasurable woe Of
its infections on the innocent child
rem. How many millions Of children
will rise up in the last day to point
their accusing fingers against the
great lords and the captains and dip
lomats, with stars and medals on their
coats, who dccrccd this thing? How
many have died as a direct consc-
qucnce of the war we do not know, but
here are other millions who endure
the pangs Of hunger and face death or
permanent disability from incidental
disease" What do you think of that
from this great war clamoring follow
CT of Wilson and Company? His eyes
have surely been opened
/ also said at Pomaria for which /
was very severely criticised by certain
members Of the press of South Caro-
lima, "In my opinion the only way to
receive fellef Is 10 wipe out OF political
existence the present powers that be,
that is, all those who have plunged
the nation into war and predict that
they will be retired into political obli-
won at the first opportunity the Amer
lean people have. A result which
would be accomplished with honor to
the nation and certainly without loss
of prestige to American arms" How
true the prediction! The American
people have spoken very positively on
November End, 1920 and have shown
that they were not "clamoring for
war" as was claimed by the liars on
the hustings and the editorials in the
newspapers, by defeating every man
that Warrior Wilson and his war lords
put up for public Office. Truly the
hand primaries that Blease held at
Pomaria, Filbert, Pckcrfs. Chapin,
Manning and at other places which
were unanimous against war voiced
the sentiment, not only of the people
of this State, but the whole people Of
the American Union that were I'M
trammcled by primary election oaths.
Whst, I ask YOU have we as a pco-
pie or as a nation gotte' by our en-
tering the war? In my opinion, we
have as our reward thousands of fresh
made graves, hundreds of widow wo-
men, millions of orphan children, debts
INTO the billions that will not be naid
off when your grand children shall
have lived to be old men and passed
away; and worst of all those, fear
that many souls that were not pre-
pared have gone into tho prnot Ftorn