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A North Carolina Editors Speech
ON Woman,


Long to be remembered in
the annals of the North Carolina
Press Convention will be the
meeting at Ashville. Naturally
an editor and a North Carolinian
has a supreme veneration for
the fair sex, but when beaury
comes in troops and battalions,
he yields willing obedience, and
becomes intoxicated with the
perfume of loneliness. In this
condition must have been that
member who made the follow
ing response to the toast of
woman:
He advanced to the front of
the platform, blandly smiling,
he said !"
Woman ! Oh /! Woman p
'.Nyhose fragrance fills the land;
Whose beauty stars the earth
And lights the hearths Of happy homes
With loneliness and worth.
Il am at a loss to know, Mr..
President, why l have been call
ed on to respond to the toast of
woman. l am not a woman,
nor have l ever been one
GCheers. Yet l am closely re-
lated to that sex. l have the
honor of calling one by the en-
dearing name of mother, Zap
plause, three claim me as sisters.
Laughter. l mean | claim them
as sisters, and one (only one so
far has honored me with her
heart and hand vociferous APP
plause.] Ny countrymep, can
you tell me why the young I'M
married men of the press are
called on to respond to such
toast as thisa What do they
know of her sweet by-and-by7
OF the impressiveness of the
rolling pin, or the sweeping
power ofthe broom handle when
welded by her precious, be-
jeweled hands1 Continued ap-
plause.] Sirs, in the language
of the greatest of living Ameri-
can statesmen = Zeb. Vance,
who resently plucked a lovely
flower from the weeds of widow
hood [cheesy for Vance the
man who fails to respond to
woman is not fit to occupy the
proud prominence of a mem
Der of the North Carolina Press
Association, and deserves the
condign punishment of being
put in the United States Reve-
nue. Service and sent after moon
sinners. [Deafening applause.
Sirs, ever since the invention OF
the corset. woman has been in
favor of the prose; that accounts
why the veteran editor of the
Raleigh Observer has such a
reduced form. TCheers and
laughter.
my countrynen, woman is
as chaste as an icicle, yet not
SO cheerless; as pure as the
snowflake, though not SO cold.
Sirs, she is the ray Of the sun
beam, that concentrating its TO-
cal power on the heaviest iron
bridge can lift its weightiest
beams from their sockets, and
even old ocean from its briny
bed. Her smiles can raise up
a man from the deepest gloom,
or the heaviest sea of despon-
dency. Sirs, she is like the
rainbow that spans the heavens,
telling of future joy and peace
and sunshine amid the darkest
surroundings. She is an Iris in
the storm of life to man. Ire
mcndons cheerinp-the ladies
waving their fans and handker- |
Chiefs Without her influence |
and example Harrell would ne |
yer have been a poet. Battle a |
statesman, or Stone a philoso- |
pher. Laughter. The North |
Carolina Press Association |
would lose its guiding star, its
chart and compass, and the |
North Carolina Farmer would |
suspend, and Ennis "flee the |
realm Cheers and laughter. |
When l am summoned hence as |
a mothers fond caress greeted
me on my entrance into the
world, so let a wife's soothing |
hand wipe the dews of death |
from my brow and smooth the |
rolling waves of Jordan until l |
reach the other shore safely. |
We're this Convention open now |
to decide wheather we would |
have woman without the world |
or the world without woman"
one unanimous vote would be
recorded for woman" though |
some of the members might say
they were for man, yet as for
me give me woman and you
may have the whole world and |
the rest of mankind" including |
the mother in law"
(The speaker retired amid a
shower Of bouquets.