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(50 YE RX OK IJL, EASE'S MESSAGE j TO THE S. ('. LEGISLATURE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1). J (iocs vast; in (lie acreage w. r.n^a was (ainlai i | r. Bakery products jrf Boxes and baskets....! ' * Brick and tile Canneries C amazes and wa^ous. Clothing I Collins and ca=kets Confectionery Electricity ... Fertilizers Flour and grist mills Foundries and machine shops Furniture, telephones, tic G us Gia^s * ice Lumber ami timber products t Matt re-ses, spring Oeds a..<i brooms. & Mineral and soda waters Cil mills (colto 11 seed) Patent medicines Printing and publishing Saddlery and harness Textiles Tobacco and cigars . Turpentine and rosin Monuments and stones ... Total Value A inn Bakery products... . Boxes and- baskets J -1 ick and tile Cannei its Carriages and wagon: Clothing Coffins and caskets Confectionery Electricity Fertilizers Flour and grist mil's I Foundries and machine shops.n.. ... ?'< Furniture, telephon s, etc ^Gas... Glass v Ice Lumber and timber products Mattresses, spring beds, brooms .Mineral and soda waters Oil mills. Patent medicines Printing and publishing Saddlery and ham s Textiles Tobacco and cigars Turpentine and ros>: Monuments and sto 'cs Total ' : 1 desire, also, in this same connection to submit to you an article written by me, at the request of l^slie's Weekly, and published in that periodical of November 14, 11112, under the heading, "South Carolina to the Front.* In the phenomenal material growth of the South during the past three decades South Carolina stands forth pre-eminent among her sister States, ai o yet her wonderful resources have barely been touched. The fertility of her soil has given her a world's record, which se^i still holds, in the pro duction of corn per acre, notwithstanding her principle crop is cotton. The marvelous development cf her manufacturing interests has placed her second in the manufacture of cotton goods. Alorg every l:^_e there has been rapid and substantial progress. With a population which, while proud of the wonderful- traditions ol its past, is busy seizing the opportunaties of the present and has its face turned toward the future, a;.d with resources, the development of which has orly begun, perhaps more varied than those of a:.y oilier State in the Union, the outlook for prosperity in South Carolina today will compare favorably with the prospects for the future in any section of the United States or in any part of the world. The farming lands are owned largely by the farmers who receive directly the benefit of their labors. Improved farming methods have been introduced, and diversified and intensi fied farming is steadily in reasing th-; yield per acre and the returns to the producer. Lands are well cared for, the farmers naturaliv taking a pridein building up their own, and the fertility of the soil is being ucreased. In the manufneturi-g sad industrial . enterprises of the State, capital and labor are working hand in hand, and South farolina has been singularly free from the labor troubles which have disturbed other sections of the country. The gr at proportion of the toilers in these manufacturing enterprises are natives of the State, with that love for South Carolina and thai Jealous regard for her inter sts which have ever characteriz d our people. In every department of activity thepeople are contented?not contort. . in the sense that they are not seekin:; further progress, for they are; but irthe sense that they r ilize an* appreciate the prosperity with whjcli ?h(;\ are blessed. Fine progress is being nade along ! r.iiicli- (1 and the farmers of the Stat; curtail: d the number of acres planted in the fleecy staple; such a condition \ u?*t vi tiie sule ol t'ei ./or. in \ v>ttd. 11'11. 1912. .> 2H),805 :f 21G,you ! G (U1,106 . .VJ!J,W2 L'i-U'.iO 1 tS 1,1 > v -'li.UiltJ o J 4, 1 4 _ o>;', ><".? o4.),000 j(Jl,<V>0 !t.,O..U L 7,500 74,S00 1 7,SST, 115,08 !,8o? 7,56S,9>>1 13,-1 7 4,ii So 354,100 372,2$ 0 ;>!) 1,4 ( 4 01 0, 2 i 300,000 IS 1,300 340,-).>6 S.JO, 1 > i 11)5,000 00 1,004,827 840,505 15,271,850 17.7t'2.15> 129,500 17S,S50 373,123 546,77 c 3,840,366 3.673,100 102,400 11S, 150 061,150 054,25*. 33,2.".0 48,750 7S,889,154 83.709,64(; 137,155 161.795 149.000 336,70:.' * 393,54$ ' 4 28,4 6 f $130,-181,627 $ I [2.670,>0r ial Products. $ 710.961 $ 789,.~>43 G92.S72 804,4SS 443,853 479,402 437,143 273,3 If 803,000 368,7-"3 240,000 90,500 101,987 24,100 128,782 2.271,449 2.972.81?'! 12,094,734 12,023,712 589,032 "10.219 1,503,838 1.537.172 373.027 249,439 121,695 129,142 225.000 154.811 451.005 594.5G7 8,602.607 11,384,3 40 214.500 276,135 1,495,334 1,104,1 OP 12,782,951 13.217,093 588,750 H2 272 - 321,221 GO,90 i ;>0,907 70.927,990 73."ft2,0-?0 849,626 S91.07S " 302,0S1 -111.142 356,940 586,35C $117,979,385 $124,5? 1,0^0 ?\i cationel lines. T ie common schooi system is being improve i through out the State, and I'iC higher institutions of learning are in flourishing condition. Sentiment everywhere in the State for improved highways is growing and better roads are being built, bringing crops closer to '.he markets, uniting cio:-;er ?he oeople oi the rural districts and in every wu\ making rural life moi-* attractive. With her native population, her splendid resourc s, her unexcelled climate and her diversified indusiries, South Carolina is an inviting field I for the investment of capital, ani ;iie J wonderful development n >w goiii^ op. ; in the State is evidence o the fact f . ; mar capicai realizes ue rme oppor1 Uinity which is presented. Great water powers are being put io work for material progiess, and figures which have been cited show thai South Carolina new has more than two hundred thousand developed horse-power ol this kind. This development continues to go steadily forward furnishing tne oower for new enterprises which arc being built, for the fighting oi our c'ties and even many of our cou-.i-'/t homes. It is only recently that the mineral resources cf the State beg:n< co attract the attention which the: JUS>i;\e iiilU LilUl Llici i ucic:uj.'.!n;:n was begun in ilu manner which th y warrant. Stock raiding, for \\hic<; South Carolina is peculiarly adapted was long neg:ectPd. and even 110v." the advantages of the Slate in this regard are o:ily beginning to be fully realized Th point wMeh ! want to stress is that, while South Carolina is experiencing a wonderful pro- pei ily, it is an advancing prosperity?that the Slate's various activities arc stcadilj advancing in almost li-r.jtlcss fields Thi- march of industrial progress v. II he given further impetus wi! 1 ih( opening of the Panama Canal, Char kston, South Carolina's great sea polity, being reco.-ulzful as "lb ? !:-s: convenient pert to Pa nam a." With all her varied and womlerni material weaiili, however. South C: ol'na's chief asset is fhr> spirit of hoi rep c pi- , and it is wh.n :1:h i mk ; i to consideration thi.it the 1?> Jl-'u on look for the future bec:':ni a < in::, :y. I were idle in tlm c )n leccjon U recount the struggl* ^ of ill so p ?:p:< !n rebuilding th? :r 1'c two?>aw ny by the War Between tS?a:< It is sufficient ro point :o the v.* r>r 1 ' ful :ew fabric whjeh tli y ii- - o \v?;. to take the place of the old ?a fabii< J t {wonderfully woven in terrible travail I in ihe days of its beginning. It U that i same h.i> 1 :*it with which our p ople are {imbued today?-that spirit, in '6"> made ' ( in iains oi' industry on: of captains 1 oi .-.nattered cOiii];anif'S. tini-iigihe^ed by the triuls and em j uoideued by the triumphs of the past, So::iii (. aroljna today looks with .. Miia::ce to the futur . Commercial vie lories are b.-ing ov ry da\ achieved 1 by licr people. He/ j>rogress is com' ;:?i? ,(i'a:; the ;.:U'iiiion of ev rv section ! I cf our great cou.:iry. 'i'lie Xafiona! ( 0111 irxi'o.-itjo.; will soon be held in South Carolina's capital city. Hundreds of people conver ant with tne it-sources and development of < ver> State in the Union will be welccni.u within our borders and the Palmetto State will have no fear of comparison by t'aoni of progr .ss here and elsewhere. Th?;y will see what a great Siaie ha-i done and is doing and is delein.iued yet to do. This national ; a;i.(;j ii:g in the interest of one of the -ouuny's gi at staple products Wiil brim; South Carolina closer than ever before to her sister Slates of the American Union, ami will no doubt stimulate greater nk-u<ay industrial rivalry. I have endeavored to outline briefly a few oi the bare facts upon which I have based claim for South Carolina jf a nro-perity which must substantially increase, it is not given to us to Miiow the iutur , but, if we may judge It by the past, I believe the facts -v;ll :>ear me out in the statement that South Carolina lias only entered upon an era of surpassing progress, in whicii mat rial development and the continued intellectual and moral up| lift of all her people will go steadily forward hand in hand. Education. In niy opinion, gen tie men, the most serious proposition which confronts us today, and the one, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that is all-important, is the eUueation oi the children of our State, i'ou have your higher institutions of earning, which are being most extravagantly supported, while- your country schools are reaching a most niggardly support, are being woefully neglected, this negligence going to such an extent, i regret to say, as to be tantamount to wilfulness. If you will travel through the country and se:- the unclean, uncomfortable, ragged a:. .! unpatclud?to express it in a word, most-miserable-looking buildings, that are called sclioolhouses, and not feel .u haiiied of what your State is doing for the education of her future citizens, riien surely you have no sense of shame. Gentlemen, I can not paint the picture too blafk?schoolhouses with hoi ; in the walls and floors and -A'- ^ ? 1">0 T'A f A Vinrlrllo 1'UUiS, Ci] iiavg \.\j uuuuivy together to keep warm; schoolhouses :'o small and so crowded that children must be so close together they actually have to breathe into their lungs the breath of which comes from the bodies of others. Each year thousands of dollars ar appropriated for new buildings for your State colleges, and these poor, helpless littie country children are expected to get education nongh to reach these institutions of learning, freezing almost to death, j sometime crowded penally to death, | unco nfcrtable and unprotected. Look ar your handsome buildings on I your South Carolina University campus --o..e costing $75,000; others costing large amounts. Lock at your magni flcent buildings at> Clemson College, costing, 1 presume, into the millions. ? H ri .1 ri ? 11 X + 1 IjOOK at. you: wiuiiiiup wuu her thousands and thousands of dollars in brick buildings. Look at/your i great Citadel, the best military school in this country, where a boy can recede a free education. Of these insti tutions we are all justly proud, and we point to them to the outsider as monuments to Cnrolin's prosperity and laudable ambitio.;. Xo man who loves his State would take one brick from ; then;; no man would do a single thing , 'o ii.jurr one of th,em. But, gentlemen, ? j they have got theirs, and now I ap!! ].rai to you, men, to holj up on this . | avaga :ce in your State institu1 . j?___ i i nous, ana lieip i;ie uiue country uo>s -land girls, in order that they may be ;1 ab'o to reach one of th ?e magnificent ?, buildings belonging to your State instii v *! tin ions. a-.iti receive the finishing touch.; cs of :;n education. How do you expect i be boys and girl- of this country to ?i reach high r institutions, when you say -' o them, "Vou must stand an examii | nation in order to get in here, you must ; make a -tain mark in all the various we lear-h," and yet, gentle? men, you are not giving them the help ! to pre- ;;io themselves to stand that .' xamlnit ion. / d. now, I want to put you on notice nof a threat, gentlemen; not with | any in; ntion of forcing you to do any\\ 'bing -but I want to ]>ut yon on mo tke that uii]< -s you take care of your ' freo r*oui!:ry schools it will take two. tniv(?s ol' boih oi* your houses to get ; 'V.ir aj "-ronriatioiiS through for your ; S' at college . So. if it reaches the : point where the clash comes, do not i I say that you were taken by surprise. As between the State colleges and the i country schools, if an issue of that ki.ul is made, I propose to make the light for the country schools. If both 1 are taken care of, very well and good; bui if the colleges are taken care of! j i and the country schools are not, then I nvnn..:Q frv Kfino- imltpr tf> n fPSt. ! 1 I' x LU UI1UQ ? , and s o who aie the friends of the; country schools in your general assein-; bly, and let vour constituents know: ! < those oi you who are willing to give., their taxes for extravagant buildings ! . for your State colleges, and not wil- j, ling to give money for decent and res-: , peciable schoolhouses for your coun-; try schools. 1 hope the test will not' i I come; that all will be pleasant, and ^ that the friends of the higher institutions and the friends of the common schools will be satisfied; but if it does , come, lot it be understood that i stand squareiy with the country boys and girls for better schoolhouses, better: salaries for their teachers, so that we may have and keep the best, and more teachers. I, therefore, recommend that youjlevy a one-mill tax 011 all personal pro-;peity a.;d real estate, for the free pub-' * 1 1 1 lie scnoois; saici money 10 ue useu and expended under the direction of the State Board of Education for said; schools, in such manner as, in their judgment, will be most beneficial to 1 the children of the State. I Give me this, gentlemen, and showj to the people that we want better : schools. You talk about compulsory i education?a child to go to school! eighi we; ks or four months, when you j have schools in your State that do' not run eight weeks. How are you going to compel a child to go to school when you do not give it a school to go ' ** - ?- ? - - 1 ^ To VX) tC7 It IS as II you wouiu yasa a ian ! that everybody shall eat cake on Sun-; day; what is the poor man that hasn't j* any cake, and can't buy cake, going; to do? If you are going to force him j ; to eat it, then you must furnish it. ; If you are going to force a child to go l to school, then you must furnish the | school. And possibly it may not be ! amiss for me to say right here that I will, with pleasure, veto any com: pulsory education law that you pass, ! for reasons which I have stated so ! Oiten that I would feel I was imposing upon your good nature and tresI nassiner unon your time to incorpo I * w ; rate them in this message. There is another matter to which I would call your attention in this connection, and that is the greatly disproportionate salaries paid your professors in your higher institutions of learning and your teachers in your common schools. The professors in your State colleges w,okring .:gyp your State colleges, working ten or | twelve hours per week?some even less?are receiving large, and, in some | instances, extravagant salaries, in j addition to furnished houses, free j lights and other conveniences, while I the teachers in the country schools are I receiving mere niggardly pittances, working ten to twelve hours a day, walking to and from school in the rain and mud, and using pine knots for a fire to keep warm in the winter % and to read and study by. Gentlemen, do you consider this fair to tfee country schools? Some of these professors in the State colleges, at least, are no better educated and no more ntted for their positions than some of these country school teachers would be for the same positions; and many of these country school teacliers ' would grace any chair in any of our colleges. The disproportion is too great; it is unfair and it is unjust. Some Comparisons. By reference to the twenty-third annual report of the Board of Trustees, you will see that Clemson College has spent $319,703.14 firing the past year; the South Carolina University is asking this year for $218,494.22; the Citadel is asking for $33,500; Winthrop wants $115,705.98 in addition to the regular fixed apportionment as | provided by law heretofore. This is a i total of $6S7,403.34, and, taking in the ; regular and special appropriations ; asked and amount to be spent, it will reach about three-quarters of a million dollars. Consider the enroll ! ment in these institutions ana me enrollment in the common schools, and 1 compare them. During the past year ; the enrollment in the Citadel was 236; j in'Clemson, 811; in the University of i South Carolina, 443; in Winthrop,745." ; In the free public schools of South j Carolina, the enrollment was as follows: White?Town, boys, 30,692; | girls, 32,107; total, 62,799. Country, j boys,47,675; girls, 4.",806; total, 93,4S1. Xegroes?Town, boys, 17,120; girls, 22,510; total, 39,639. Country, boys 62,143; girls, 73,525; total, 135,668. Here you have an enrollment in the colleges which I have enumerated of 2,235, as against an enrollment in the free public schoools of 331,587?for you must include the negroes in this enrollment, for the negroes are receiving a goodly part of the white man's taxes for the education of the negrc children. When you compare thes figures, then compare the expenditures for these colleges with the expenditures for the free public schools, and then I beg of you, consider seriously if I am not asking you for little anougii when I recommend this one-mill levy. Classification of ' Colleges?Medical College. In my opinion, there should be an equitable distribution among the State's higher institutions of the various departments of learning, with the view of making: more compact and more closely r iated the State's educatonal activities, so far as these institutions are concerned. 1 believe we should have certain departments of [earning in one of these institutions, and other departments of learning in another. Let us have departments where a young man or a young woman may learn any of the professions ?electrical engineering, stenography and bookkeeping, medicine, teaching, law, a:.d the like?but let us not have all the State colleges teaching all these things, but provide for certain departments in one college, and foi others in another, and so on, in order that the State may not be scattering her funds in keeping up two or three of the sani? kinds of departments in two or tnree or more colleges, ror instance, if you are going to teach a boy electrical engineering at the Soutt Carolina University, why have electrical engineering departments at th? other institutions and keep up two 01 three departments of electrical engineering, instead of placing all the money used for teaching this branch o: learning on one school, and perfecting this department there? The same applies to medicine, to law, and to th( Cher branches taught. If we woulc thus perfect the various departments and make them the best, it w/uld no' be necessary to send a boy or girl outside of our State in order that that boj or girl may be well grounded in an] of the profesions. In connection with this suggestion I recommend that an act be passe< making the Medical College at Charles ton the Medical College of South Carolina, and making it a branch of th South Carolina University, and tha you appropriate the sum of ten thous and dollars for the purpose of defraying the ordinary expenses of this in sutution. you nave a law department why not a medical department foster ed by and under the direct control o the State? This could be done wit! very small expenditure of money; it i material to your university, and, i: my opinion, would add much to th educational system of the State. ] therefore, earnestly urge that yo' pass a bill which will be submitte to you, during this sesion, along tha line. This will be a step in the directo] of making one great university of a] the various State colleges, which, respectfully submit, should be the poli cy of our State in dealing with it higher institutions of learning. Clemsou Collsge. I respectfully recommend that yo change the name of Clemson Colleg to Calhoun University. I believe thi is right and proper. The propert belongs, or did belong, to Calhoun; i was his home, and he is entitled t ' * - 1 L..J.9 TTT J tne creait or tne institution. w<e u not know what may have guided an action taken by Mr. Clemson in th matter?whether it was that he fel he held property which ire was no entitled to, and relieved his mind i: this way, at the same time believin he was building a perpetual monu ment to himself?or what his reaso or motive was. But, whatever it wa< this institution should, as a matter c iiiptino fh a nomo nf "Vfr P!nlhf)llT JUOLl^C, Uta. l."C uumv ~ and stand as a memorial to him. An other reason for this recommenda tion is that I believe if you will chang the name to Calhoun University, thi will be sufficient breach of the Clemso contract to bring a test suit, and tha thereby the State of South Carolin can be released from supporting a institution that is being controlled b outsiders; and then the State can re imburse the Clemson heirs and tak charge of Calhoun University, nc Clemson college, as a i>iaie insuuj tion, place it in the hands of its ow officials, as it should be placed, an manage and control it. I think it j generally conceded throughout th whole State that the State ought t take- entire control of the instituiioi and not have it conducted indepen<3 ently, as at present, and I believe th action above suggested will bring thi about, and I earnestly urge it. I am in favor of the institution; fhir>lr it ie q jrmnr? nT1(^ SfloriOUS inSti 011i 1 l IV AC AO ^ O* V. w tution, and that it is doing a magnif cent and noble work. If this chang would cripple it, I would not even in timate a suggestion that it be made but I believe that by placing it dii ectly under the control of the Stat< nstead of being crippled, it will b ) greatly strengthened. > Hosiery Mill. ; Gentlemen, 1 desire again to call - to your attention your hosiery mill i at the South Carolina penitentiary? this hosiery mill more properly named ilthe "South Carolina tub rculosis in, cubator." I shall not burden you with [ j a message in regard to it, but refer j you to House Journal, 1912, p. 119, i Senate o.Iurnal. 1912, p. 90, and ask you I to read my message of last year upon I this matter, and th<n go to the peni\ tentiary and see for yourselves. 1 Inf remember, gentlemen, things arc in i verv much better condition now than I - * . .. ...... _ tney were at uie nme ui me uie;?ciftc to which I have referred you. The . floors have been cleaned; the spider webs have been brushed off the window sashes; the windows have been opened; the cuspidors have been cleaned, and many other changes have been , made since I 1- gan to raise what some , of the officials have termed hell. T am glad I raised it, gentlemen, if I | have helped some poor fellows, even though they are not out; and now I want to raise a little more of it, and 4 abolish it I can not make you. And T am not going to make any threat. I am getting too old for that. It is a demand of humanity which T am calling to your attention, and it is for you and the demand is upon you. In the thirty-third annual report of the State Board of Health, submitted to me by the chairman, Dr. Robert Wilson, Jr., of Charleston, and which will be transmitted to your bodies, this elonnont nloa ic. 4 UU1X ^ X O lliUUV "Once more we plead for aid to en? able us to grapple with the tuberculosis evil. Year after year this terrible scourge goes on with its train of suffering and death and poverty, and j its waste of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and nothing i= done. Otlur ' ' States are spending large sums of I \ money to check its spread, but South Carolina spends nothing. Will* the legislature never awake to the economic importance of this disease and support the board of Health in its ? fight!" 1 If you desire, in addition to what has ' already been given you, any further " information in regord to this hosiery e mill, I will take pleasure in furnishing * you a list of the names of witnesses, ~ who will come before your bodies and ~ give yon a full and detailed account " of this institution; of how prisoners ' are treated in the penitentiary, the ~ kind of food that is given them, the f kind of clothes put on them, and all . U _ _ 11 the inside facts. These are men, wno, s although they were convicted of vioa lation of law and have suffered punishe ment, will be recognized as truthful ^ men, some of these unfortunates hava irkg been convicted, not of theft or per^ jury,yor other heinous crime; but of t that class of crime which even the best of us may be harassed into commitq ting, and they are known among their 11 neighbors and friends at home as hon I est and upright men, although they . have suffered misfortune. In other s words, gentlemen, if you want the information, I will furnish it; all you have to do is to signify your desire to receive it. Board of Pardons. e Heretofore I vetoed the appropriation for a board of pardons. My reasons therefor were given at the time. The legislature forced it over my veo to, and I then made up my mind I 0 'would not have any pardon board, any " way. But, after thinking over it, I 6 decided that I had just as well give ' two ct my friends a position that some honor attached to it and barely paid their expenses. So I appoint 5 ed a board. It has done good work. They are good, honest men, and have n been faithful so far as they could be, under the circumstances. But, you gentlemen know that it is a shame to of+V?ie? hm rfl fif thrOa mpn tTi P J ci i Ul LIIIO uuai vi. ^ pitiful sum of four hundred dollars a ?- ysar, which they receive, when pose sibly they may have one case before s them, in which it may take a man two t n or three weeks of good, hard, honest it effort and study to go through xhe a testimony, the judge's charge, the affin davits, petitions, etc., and give them y the attention they ought to have. For - instance, it may take a judge and jury e with a court stenographer, several !V days, or possibly a week, or longer, to i- take the testimony and conclude the n trial of a case. Now, when th? sten- f d ographer's notes are written out the s members of the pardon board are ex ? pected to sit down and read the transo script over carefully, and then read i, over the new evidence by waay of - affidavits, and the petitions and letters. e Now, this is only one case, gentlemen, is and they have had referred to them cinro anril 1912. 2r>2 cases. Of course. j all the cases do not require as much [_ work. But if you are going to have a [_ pardon board, let us ha\e a respectae ble salary attached to it, so as to place _ it upon a dignified plane, at least. I have been the reeipent of a great deal of abuse and the object of a great deal of harsh language about pardons. e Upwards seventy-five thousand white * i S * J