The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-15
WE ARE MARCHING FROM
POVERTY TO PROSPERITY.


demand. Germany is unwilling to
tax its people as England and
France are doing, but its industrial
interests are humming with activity
and making larger profits than ev-
er before.
Austria, Poland, Czecho-Slova-
kia and Italy are all moving for
ward to better business and finan-
cial conditions.
Russia, it is true, is still in the
power of its gang Of murderers.
But the lesson taught to the world
by Russia's bolshevfstic expert
ments will be worth far more than
the break down of business and of
civilization in Russia has cost the
world. Men everywhere, in every
country have heard of the unspeak-
able folly and .wickedness Of boil
shevism. Russia is a rotten corpse
which will stink for generations
to come in the nostrils of ali civil
ization, and other countries will be
saved from: bolsf1evism by reason
of the. lesson learned through
Russia's experience. Thus. even the
collapse of Russia will eventually
bring to the world a profit great
er than its loss.
Turning from Europe to Asia
we see conditions presaging new
birth in China. giving assurance of
younger and more virile life in
business than that land,-which
was old in civilization when Moses
led the Children of Israel out of
Egypt,-has ever seen. In South
America and Africa progress is be-
ing made.
In this country. when measured
by quantity, quality and contiguity
and availability Of development.
our resources match the rest of the
world. Here we have an -oppor-
tunity for development SO vast, SO
dazzling, so world embracing IN
influence as to stagger the human
minG. Producing, as we are sdoing
more than one-half of the coal and
the iron and the cotton and oil,
and many other essential products,
with. nearly one-half the railroad
mileage, with more than one-third
of the worlds ac eumulated wealth,
we have a country OF. such bound
less resources, such limitless op-
portunities that there is no place
in this land for the pess1m1st.
From the day when Columbus
landing in his new-found world
!. blessed the cross and knelt in
prayer in Thanksgiving to God
for guidance across the trackless
ocean. and prayer to God for the
future of the country which he had
found. until this. hour, this nation
has been LED by Divine Providence.
LAS nation we have sometimes
stumbled. many times blundered
and committed what might seem
runpardonable sins; and yet through
its whole history we have been led
.as by a Pillar OF Fire at night and
Cloud by day. All that we have
achieved is but the pioneering work
- + / i i. Z z
.of opening up continent of
matches resources, of laying. the
foundation for the Advancement in
material things, in ethics. and in
Christianity. which have nightly
affected the destins OF the world,
and which will more and more
shape world affairs.
|, Let us. then rejoice in the fact
that busiress is improving, that idle
hands are finding profita BILE en-
ployment. that poverty, no longer
is to reign with deathlike pail
over the country, but that pros
.perity-which means better homes,
better living. better food, better
clothing, more of the comforts and
Joys of life to those who have suf-
fered in times past in poverty-is
now in sight.