The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, March 05, 1907, Page THREE, Image 3
-The South'it Prosperity;ts...Danger.
By R. I. Edmunds, Editor Manufae
turer's Record.
During 1906 the wealth of the south
nere;sed $7,800%009 for every !da
Of the! y'ear;,8%4aYs included, 'i' a
-- otal -4f ,2,000,0000. The acul
nrease in assessed value was $1,070,
479,788, and this was on the average
of 40 per cent. of the true value. The
amazing magnitude of this gain of
$7,300,000 a day is strikingly shown
by the statement of the London- Ex
press which, bemioaning the inability
of Great Britian t'o keep pace with
America's growth, puts the increase
in Great Britain's wealth at $7,000,
000 a week.
Contrast the south's increase of
$7,300,000 a day with Great Britain's
$7,000,000 a week and then think of
the future.
Great Britain, with comparatively
few na'tural resources, dependent-up
on the outside world for nearly all
its foodstuffs, for much of its iron
ore, for all of its cotton and a large
part of its lumber, and with only 10,
000 square miles of coal of which a
large portion has been worked out,
has 40,000,000 people crowded into an
area equal to that of less thain, half
of Texas.
Ott the other hand, look at the
south with the world's cotton trade
. in its absolute domination, with 62,
000 square miles of virgin coal fields,
with iron ore sufficient to duplicate
for years to come the whole iron and
steel trade of all Europe, with almost
limitless soil capabilities already prot
ducing over 800,000,000 bushels of
grain a year and several hundred mil
lion dollars' worth of diversified
farm product.s, able to produce food
stuffs for hundreds of millions, able
to clothe the world, able to do more
manufacturing than that of the whole
country today, with millions of avail
able water power, 500,000 horse pow
er for electrical transmission being al
jr ready under development and when
you have catalogued these you have
mentioned only a few of the south's
stroig points.
Who Can Measure Possibilities?
Who can measure the limitless pos
sibilities of the south? Who can fully
grasp thle fact that the south is rapid
ly pushing forward to thle timle when
its own wealth will exceed all of the
vast wealth accumulated by Great
Britain through the ages, and by
which it dominates the finances of
the world I Surely the vision is one to
stir every southern heart, for it is,
indeed, a reality.
The growth -in wealth during the
coming years will far exceed the won
derfil story of 1906.
"Unto whtom mucht has been given,
of him shall much be required' is as
trie as when first. ttttered. The
south's responisibility is as vast as
are its resources and its gain in
wealth. The world has a right to de
mnand of such a country the highest
order of citizenshtip, the highest type
of a strong, self-reliant people, who
realizing their power and dutty. butild
for time and eternity a chtaracter
wh'lich shtall he worthy of imitation.
Sneh a people should be givers, niot
beggars- -giv~ers not sitmply of mome y,
whtich counts for little, but givers to
all mankind of honor, self-reliance,
indeplendence and undeviat ing dlevo-.
tion to thte hiighest prtinciples of life.
Beggars! beggars of mnoney for any
cause when a boutntifutl Providence is
pbouring more than $7,000,000 a day
into their laps, seven times as much
as the present increase in Great Brit
ain 's wealth ! And yet the south may
conmc under the charge of begging
charity whent too many of its people
stand, with hat in htand, asking alms
of ot hers and pledging~ thtemselves to
almost atty conditions in order to win
a few paltry dlollatrs that are doled
out by those whtose charity is, to say
the least, not free and open but has
a string tied to it.
Beggars ! and yet $7,300,000 our
1.daily growth in wealtht.
Pray that South Be Not Ruined.
Better a t housanttdftold thta t every
Christian soul should be much in
pr'ayet, asking Divine guidance that
the south he not rutined by this enor
ons incoming wealth. Every fiber
oformoral being will be tested as
never biefore. It is no longer ''root
-hog or die,'' as it was for forty years.
-Under that strain the south faced
. problems sitch as no other pecople -on
earth ever- had to meet. It contquered
dieite which the world htad
thought wotuld conquter it. In those
days which tried men's souls it asked
.no favors; it was- a giver to the
strength and manhood of the nation.
--Now, with limitless wealth at its
Sdoors, it is in danger of lo.sing its old
time sturdiness of character. It is in
danger of no longer being self-reliant.
, It seenims to have forgotten its own
strength; for, in apparent wveakness,
it cries to others to come and give a
Lfew beggarly dollars, wich its own
' people could give a hundred times
over and never miss. It has been
- said that"''a beggar race can never be
a great ne, and no one disputes
th statement.
Kould you sap, the virility, the
sturdy character, the manliness of a
boyI Then. pauperize him in thought.
Telth him to look to otfilrs for help
an d,cision7 instead ot developing
s6lfreliane.' Teach him to accept
ehatity, teach him that, as the world
owes himt a living, all lie has to do is
to sit down anid wait for others to
care for him, and you have made real
manhood impossible. Outwirdly such
a man may look prosperous. If sue
cessful as a beggar or as a dependent
uponi others, his fine clothes and well
groomed bearing may give him the
outward seiblance of a real man, but
inwardly there is decay, rottenness,
death.
As 'With an individual, so with a
people or a nation. The nation is but
the sum of its units. Outwardly
there may be signs of real life, of
manhood, of progress upwards, but
at the heart there may be a fatal dis
ease gnawing at the very vitals of all
true national character and life.
The south needs to study this situa
tion as no other people ever did. The
years of poverty and privation, of
hard struggle in which every dollar
had to do the duty of two, are pass
ing. For thousands those years have
already suddenly pqssed.
Millions Won Quickly.
A few days -ago the writer sat at
a banquet in a southern iron center,
whose growth only typifies what soon
will be seen to a greater or less ex
tent in hundreds of other southern
cities. On his right sat a man who
within a few years has made a for
tunie, and who mentoned the purchase
thlree years ago of 3,500 acres of iro-n
ore land at about$63,000, or $18 an
acre, for which he and his two or
three associates would now refuse $3,
500,000 for the tract or $1,000 an
acre; Inext to him was a gentleman
who but a few years ago was a mine
superintendelnt at a small salary, aid
who has lately received $1,600,000 for
his interest in a coal property; next
again to him was a business man who,
through inventions and their business
development, has an income of $75,
000 a year, of which his friends say
le devotes one-third or $25,000 to re
ligiolls work; lext came a 111111 who
would be foolish to accept $5,000,000
for property for which 1 11111 sire he
would have gladly necepted one-tenth
of that less thani tell years ago. And
so on down one whole banquet table
-men of millions who but lately were
toYilers for a living. -
These mei are merely represenita
tives of thousands who are to be made
enoriiiously rich by the material
growth11 of the soultI, while hundreds
of thousands leretofore eking out a
fair livingo olly are soon to le num1
beredi allo- the well-N-do with
whom the dollar of yesterday has
grown to a hundred of today.
Orucial Point for the South.
In this mighty change the south is
facinlg the imost crucial poinIt inl its
history. It could go'down in battle
and see its beloved leaders dead by
tenis of thousands, its wealth swept
away and its homes devastated, anld
yet lose none of its mnoral filler, its
real manIlhlQod ando womnhoIlod. Unlder.
suchi ordeals it cold, with head erect
still face a frowning world a:nd turnl
(defeat onl the bat tlefield inlto v'ictory
illn im wuorld 's commIlercial st ruggle.
More that that , in tile time of its dlir
est poverty' it could be equal to re-es
tablisingi. law and order, to solvinIg
its great. labor problem, and( to the
gradual but sure developmlent of its
ednueationlal faciHties, state and,- de
monliina t ionial.
Now, wheni c'omlmercial victom has
been won, when wealth is growving at
a rate never imiaginled a few years
ago, all element that forgot the south
ill the da'y of its poverty or eripp)led
it still more, that cared niot whlether
lit lived or died, now bearing gifts i.n
its hands, edmles to tihe soulth with
proffers of a little money for- its
schools, provided these schools anld
their teachers give ill exchanlge aln
irredeemable mortgage 01n the soul of
tile inistitutioni and on the very muan
hood of its students of today and all
hlereafter.
Mnd lo! led away lby false teachers,
by menOl who for a retainer, for the
gratification of a misdirected ambi
tionl, or unider tIle influence of a mor
bid hlumanitarianism, have proclaimed
the beaulty and loveliness of such a
plan and the wonderful angelie char
aeter of this element which would,
however lofty its mistaken purpose,
pauiperize the manhIood of the southl,
and thlus make it ready to accept all
of tile false doctrinles and social
equality practices as to thle race ques
tion, many southerners almost fall
down anid worship this element, and
ill s0 doing sow what may become a
wvhirlwind harvest for the south.
The signs of thle storm are seen ill
many directions and when it breaks
thIese false leaders who have sold
their birthright for a mess.of pot tage
will be the first to seek shelter.
People tell us that the negro is es
-sential to the .south's prosperity;
that without him as a worker this see.
tion would cease its wonderful in.
dustrial development. That doctrine
is false. Now that the world knows
in part the riches of the south's ma
terial resources, now that it realizes
to some extent the vastness of its coal
and iron supplies and its strategic re
lation to the world's itndustrial life,
whether this section were peopled
with savage cannibals or were with
out-a 'single inhabitant, economic de
velopment would force a great popu
lation and vast material upbuilding
southward. i
Did the deadly arrow or the rifle
of the Indian stop the westward
march of populationi Did the seem
ingly impenetrable ice-reaches of
Alaska, with the fearful suffering
entailed, halt even for an hour thi
tide of population when once the
prospect of gold became the alluring
vision? We need not stop for a mom
ent to thi-ik a'bout whether the souti
will draw population or not. That is
just as certain as the rising of to
morrow 's sun. We should, however,
very seriously consider what part the
peopli of the south themselves are to
play in the wonderful drama of de
velopment. upon which the eurtain is
just beginning to rise.
Through false teaching, th rougi
failure to fit the rising generation by
tochnical training to meet the neu
conditions, through failure to devel
op its never before-for never beforc
was it so badly .needed-sturdiness of
character, ielfreliance to meet every
emergency. and initiative to see and
-risp the Opl)ort'tunities of the day
the south's own people may in thi(
incantime have become the hewers of
wood and the drawers of water foi
others.
Day for the Technical Man.
If the men who are worse that
wasti-ng their time in toadling to thi
almsgivers and illraldings as wisq
leaders for the south to follow peopk
who know absolutely nothing abot
its real educational neceds; if ti(
men who in mistaken zeal are forevel
discussing the negro question anl
thus maling a real problem wher<
none of importance exists but for thi,
agitation and discussion would a1l1
unite in one untiring,' effort to arous(
the south to fit its white boys Ani
girls for the Imlighty developlen
ahead, they would then be doing good
service to their country.
Some tine ago I heard an oratiov
to the effect that the supreme need ol
the south is a few great universitics
In diction and delivery it -was wel
nigh perfect, but it was'fundamental.
ly false. This is not the day for greal
universities in tihe' souti. Such as 14
have, if' properly handled, are wel
en1ough101 in the their way. This is Ih(
day for the technical man, tor Ii(
next quarter of a century at least be,
longs.to tle indust9trial leader. Unrin.t
that period the south is to see snel
material progress as never. fell to th
lot of any countriy on earthi. The pe'o
p)le whoi( arie to contro'(l thle vast weahl
to be crieatedl are thle techiniahlh
tirained b)oys of today; if not the( son
thern hoys then h)oys whol ai'e be'int
tratined elsewhlerc and made r'eady fi
such limit less oppor'tutnit ies. II is noi'
a quest ion of fav'oring 0or opposinii
'commilterciailism'' so-caflled(. Te ini
(listial) eraW is upon1 us,. anid we 'onl
not st(op it if we wmubll. i is simll)
a quest ion of whlethler' thle sonuthl is U'
ing' to tit. its own'i People to lem
i'ight in thle cieat ion anud con triol
cominig wealth. in t his era iupw'
which we have entered the univer'sitl
man01 w.ill be thle employp of the techi
ntically trained expert. Later on wril
comne the uniiv'ersity ltI ma's opporitlil
ity. Controlling its industriy am~
domuiiating its weal thI, thlese .1 echuni
cnlly trineiid men w'ill b)e thle leader:
in state and churich, and hence Ii
supreme ineed of the sout-h is to be'n<
every energy to fit its r'ising genera
tions for t hese vast opportuni tes ain
still 'vaster r'espotisibilit ies, toi tri
its younig people in selfireliance an
to teach them that half a loaf, wh'leth
er of bre'ad 01' educa0tional opprituni
ity, wonl by hard and honest wor'k, h:,
the sweat of the br'ow, mearns mi
for manhood than a thousand daini
ties accep)tedl as charily from thiosi
up)on whom they havec no claim. lin
stead of doing this, many of our peo1
p)le ar'e losing time of priceless v'ali
by talking a'bout universities here an
univer'sitlies there, or' i-n begging a fev
dlolhar's from Ogdentism for' some deI
nominattiotnal school which shonb
look to its own p)eople alone- for ii
sftppor't in mione~y, ini stuideints and i
lbrainus.
What the South Couldl Do.
Mo'e'over', the south out of its owl
abundant resources, could give a huni
dred fold more without missingi
thon what it begs from others, if it:
-people were being rightly tr'ainec
hever to look beyond their own bord~
era foi' a single dollar. They shioiul
be trained now during this crtici
-time when r'ushiing 'from povet'ty int<
prosperity to dedicate their net
wealth to the liroper educational, mor
al, spiritual and manhoo1 develop
ment of their own people.
In the muaterial world this is the
plastic age when concrete construe
tion is taking the place of iron and
steel and lumber. In such construe
tion the concrete, taken at the right
tine, can be molded into any form;
but let the critical moment pass with
out its being rightly molded into any
form and it becomes ''set'' and hard
ened and worse than useless. The
south has entered the plastic age in
the foination of character, and un
less its people be righ-tly molded now,
southern character will ''set'' and
harden beyond man's power to change
or improve.
h'lie early spring number of ''Te
Designer'' has a useful and interest
w;- array of household matter aid
flehln. The first fifty pages are
mainly devoted to the display and de
scription of gowns designed for
spiin and summer wear, and to the
illustr-atioi of the accessories that go
with them. The end of the book is
reserved for arficles relating to
household affairs, among which are
the three seetions of matter contribut
ed by the readers of ''The Designer'
cont1iig many prlcteical bits of ad
vie about children, iomnes and wage
eaniing. Simple entertainments, suit
For T
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TRADE MARK
REGISTERED
* F. S. ROYS
IROASTING 11
1Flue Curing Develh
Found In Schnm
There are three ways u
Imers for curing and pret
tobacco for the market; n
cured, air cured and flue c
old and cheap way is calle
the later discovery and imni
is called flue cured. In
the tobacco is taken fro:
- and suspended over int
flues in houses especially
Itain the heat, and there
proper templerature until
I process developes in the i
stimulating taste and frag
found in Schnapps toba<
green coffee is made ifr
stimulating by the roasti
Only choice selections o
juicy flue cured leaf, gr
- famous Piedmont countrj
I best tobacco grows, at
I Schnapps and oth er Reyn<
Sof high grade, flue cure<
R. J. REcYNOLDS T(
ible for little home evening affairs, t
xre always given in the Designer and b
in the March number some verse suit- 1
ible for reeitation is included. The '
puzzle pages, the fashion notes Xor e
Men], the practical advice about how
to make and keep oneself beautiful,
the lectures by a florist on how to
;row flowers-all regular depart- r
mients of the magazine-are full of I
especial interest this month. 1.
The fiction is made a feature in i
VETERAN CHEi
E the most enthusb
cates of fine chewir
that is why we mak<
AND BARS" the
tobacco that can be produced
old, ripe and mellow leaf.
lovers of a real, genuine, go(
This tobacco is like the elect w
the flag for Southern right. A
try it.
vent y-ons
)ySter
rtiize.
have been the
because they
from honest n
See that the tr
is on every baj
genuine withou1
TER GUANO CO., 1&
iHMPROVESTC
POVES GRI
sps the Stinfulating
pps that Satisfies T
sed by far- H-undreds
>aring their on sale that
amely, sun outside of t
Lired. The bacco is flut
d air cured;. filled with
>rovcd way' sweetened
flue-curing chew of Sch
xi the field hunger long
enyht such tobacc4
buily toe Expert te
bul.t e cured tobac<
kept in the Piedmont r
this curing less sweeter
;obacco the and has a
rant aroma satisfying e
:co, just as kind of toba<
igrant and satisfy, mor
nig process. expectoratirn
f this ripe, and chew S
>wn in the Schnapps
, where the ers formerly
e used in to $i.oo per
>lds' brands at 5oc. per i
I tobaccos. i o and 15 e
bBACOO OMPANY, Wn
ic March number. A continued story
y Miles Bradford, author of "Car
)tta and I,'' is begun, entitled
'Economy Farm." Also, Edith Park
e Johnson, now a resident of Korea,
as contributed an interesting article
illed "An American Garden in Ko
Mn." Be4ides these, there is a story
y Edwin L. Sabin and a particular
v graceful little poem of Minna Irv
ng's.
tstic advo.
tg tobacco
very finest
Made of
A boon to.
>d tobacco.
bo followed
latchless
Years
S
rs
standard
ire made
iaterials.
ide mark
Y. None
it.
lorfolk, Va.
IBACCO LIKE
EEN COFFEE
Aroma and Taste
obacco Hunger
of imitation brands are
look like Schnapps; the
he imitation plugs of to
cured, but the inside is
cheap, flimsy, heavily
air cured tobacco; one
napps will satisfy tobacco
~er than two chews of
sts prove that this flue
~o, grown in the famous
~gion, requires and takes
ing than any other kind,
whol..some, stimulating,
rfect on chewers. If the
:co you are chewing don't
e than the mere habit of
g, stop fooling yourself
;chnapps tobacco.
is like the tobacco chew
bought costing- from 75c.
pound; Schnapps is sold
>ound in 5c, cuts, strictly
ent plugs.
ISTON-SALEM W. Qt