Show South Carolina ranks next to Massachusetts Massa-chusetts now In the chusals number of Its cot ton mllla and expects to lead Massachusetts Massachu-setts by l tho end of this bY year That ought to be enough to make the body of Carolinas Senator Hammond turnover turn-over In its grave Many a person who isstlll 1 living read his speeches in which lie proved that nations like houses have to have mud sllle that the AfriCan Afri-can race were the mud His of the South the I t1 greasy mechanics of the North i the mud filllrt of the North and contrasting the civilization of the two sections he W everything to pralao in the South everything to tlC recoil be reci ore In the NarUi and now the North Inanhas gone down there has built cot ton mills and the South man has Joined i wltlfbtmand the music of their looms I has I np rival save in sae Massachusetts which I only forty years ago was such a L Ijetenolr to South Carolinas statesmen states-men It was that same Senator Ham mpnd who declared that Cotton I I IsKing that until lately the Bank of England was but she tried to put hcr scrAWB as usual thp fall before J j last upon the cofton crop and was utterly vanquished The lost power has been conquered He was as much mistaken about cotton as he was In his estimate of the majesty and the omnipotence om-nipotence of labor Cotton Is In one sense n king hut It has to be vitalized Into life by money to make It a real sovereign I necessary the world can I I get along without cotton and still retain re-tain Its civilization while without Its money It would swiftly degenerate Into I barbarism for the power and character charac-ter of nations can bo fairly estimated I by the amount of money in circulation among the people from generation to generation I |