The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-13
For the Farmer and Mechanic.
He that BIoweth not his own
Horn, his Horn shall not be
Blown

The manner in which the North Caro-
lima Exposition was organized indicates
an earnestness calculated to inspire con-
fidence and every citizen, in the State,
should cheerfully aid, in every manner
possible, this c~ommendable and much
needed enterprise. Selfishness and jeal-
ousy for once, should be banished from
the breasts and minds of North Caroll-
mans and with a consolidated will and a
united determination tho whole popula-
ton should combine to make the North
Carolina Exposition the grandest success
ever attained in the State.
The men selected to lead in this matter
are eminently calculated to manage Its
affairs, financially and otherwise, success
fully, but their combined talents, expe-
rience and energy will avail, but little
unless they receive the sincere and earnest
support of the people. All croakers and
antiauarians should be frowDed down
and politely but firmly placed in back
seats until the show has been fully pre-
pared and the elephant is ready to step
to the front.
1t would not be a very bad idea to confne
all opponents to progress and develop
ment in a mad house for in this day and
generation, non-progresslonists and non
developers, should not be allowed to as
sociate with and c%ontaminate the minds
of our young by disseminating their
idiotic ideas. No State in the Union has
suffered more from demagogury, selfish
ness, jealousy and illiteracy, than North
Carolina, and if her people ever expect
to develop the wonderful and inexhausta-
BILE and riches of their Master,
they must pursue in future a different
policy from what has been in vogue here
tofore among them.
The Exposition will afford a most ex'
cellent opportunity to display the won
ders. variety and riches of the ftate, but
displaying is one thing only. 'All that
glitters is not gold" and if there is a
people on this earth more thoroughly
convinced of this truism than the Yam
KEGS, | have yet to see, hear of, or read
about them.
l have specially cited to the Yankees, in
connection with this truism, because
everybody in the State seems to be look
ing, alone, to New England for immi-
grants and capital to fill up and develop
North Carolina, and | thought it not in
Opportune to state. before work wa com :
meuCeu, ludt d duAcC 10 tuc ldSt ndu L
would attempt to sell ''shoddy goods to,
for you can't fool a fellow with his own
handi- work.
Now do not understand me as object
ing to seeing the wishes Of our people
gratifed in regard to inducing the Yam
KEGS to come to North Carolina, for l am
one of the strongest advocates of this
policy in the State. l want them to
come in large quantities, but | do not be-
lieve they will ever do so until a policy
of fairness, honesty and truth is adopted
by those who are inviting them to come
to the South.
You may palm off a highland terrapin
on a Yankee for a swapping turtle, if he
has never seen either specie before, but
you will not fool him but once. No PEG
on the face of the earth would ever have
made New England what it is but the
native American Yankee, and if you want
him to make North Carolina rival New
England, you must, by fair and open
means win his confidence aud presence.
These won, and North Carolina will
bloom like a garden. | have seen more
of the Yankees since the war, than of my
own people, and [ have no hesitation in
saying they are the most uniustly abused
and misrepresented people in the aggre-
gate on the American Continent. L have
found them as generous and magnani-
nous as any people | ever associated
with, and nothing would give me more
pleasure than to see the sons of New
England coming down to North Carolina
to live.
But lets return to the Exposition, and
urge. and plead, and implore our people
to pull together for once and make the
Old State spread herself.
This reminds of the little boy who was
sent by his confiding mother to set a turkey
hen. He performed his work by putting
one hundred eggs under her, and in great
haste announced the fact to his mother,
who exclaimed, why son what did you
put so many eggs under the turkey for ?"
Because mother, l wanted to see the
old thing spread herself" Getyour eggs
ready North Carolinians and lets set
North Carolina next October so she can
have a square chance to spread herself.
o. n. S.
On the Road. Feb. 6, 1884.