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A North Carolina Editors Speech
on Woman.

the annals oil the North (arollna
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
'Whose fragrance fills the land;
Whose beauty stars the earth
And lights the hearths of happy homes
With loneliness and WORTH"
II 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
[Cheers.] Yet l am closely re-
lated to that sex. l have the
honor of calling one by the en-
dearing name Of mother, APP
plause, three claim me as sisters.
Laughter. ] l mean 1 claim them
as sisters, and one (only one so
far has honored me with her
heart and hand vociferous ap-
plause. My countrymep, can
you tell me why the young un-
married men of the press are
called on to respond to such a
toast as this? What do they
know of her sweet by-and-byf
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 men,
Der of the North Carolina Press
Association, and deserves the
condign punishment of being
put in the United States Reeve
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. [Cheers and
laughter.]
my countrymen, woman is
as chaste as an icicle, yet not
so cherries; 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 mar 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. Tire
mendons cheering-the ladies
waving their fans and handker-
chiefs Without her influence
and example Harrell would ne
yer have been poet. Battle a
statesman, or Stone a phiIoso-
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 / 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.
Were 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.)