The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-03-11
Some Sensible Views Held by II North
Carolina Bill Arp.
SPECIAL Ger STATE CHHoEfeLE.I

some Sensible Views Held by Il North
Carolina Bill Arp.
SPECIAL Ger. STATE CHRUNGcLE.l
Verify you are vide awake, Mr. CHRoS-
IcLE, and you are waking up people all
over the State. BE sure YOU are right
and 90 ahead We old fellows and We
young fellow I'm in both crovds) Will
stand by you, criticize you, cheer YOU along
and see you through Don't doubt that
you'll make mistakes sometimes, but don't
be discouraged by them. Better make
mistakes in seeking for e right than not
to seek 1T all. There is 0 question that
many public oracle III Carolina to-day
needs castigatiOn for rlnning to Mrs.
Grundy to learn Wnat it can afford to say
Tbs eyerlas ing shaping Of ones course by
! the dictates Of a perverted prudence, hat IS
/ too selfish to be true and too cOWardly to be
! positive, needs 70 be driven from all places
of ~ -rectabllty not to ay special infiu-
encg There are certainly a good many
traditional evils in the state that should
/ be brayely assa!led and put down. And
| also there are many men and things in the
1 State that are worthy Of great praise and
help that have been merely tolerated never
appreciated = seldom mentioned - never
advocated or defended us they should be
Be faithful and you shall find that North
| Carolina IS a safe and prosperous home for
| the man that never compromises with evil
and never forsakes duty in its best and
| purest sense 10 be successful reformer
a man should be very broad and thorough
/ in his own character and very comprehen-
| sive both in his estimate of what needs to
be reformed and in the policy that he a
| dopts and recommends to secure reform
A man that assumes the leadership of a
! people ought to be not only skilled in all
the learning of the Egyptians, but also
conscious of the guidance of a trusted God
Everybody is in favor of the Industrial
School orally, verbally, zealously, ,economi-
cally ineXpensively and insufiiciently Are
| the people anxious for it ? II so, it will be
established. Does North Carolina offer adj
| equate prospects for the employment OF a
regular stream of skilled artizlns anG suf-
| ficient guarantee for the outlay involved
in successful farming with modern m
plements and on scientific principles? Ii
so, the school will soon be III op ration.
What's the matter with North Carolina
Say what you will, I believe it is possessed
to-day of more to endear it to It's people
than can be truthfully claimed for any
State that has been eulogized in contrast
1t is not all that I'd have it be. 1t is not
what it ought to be. Still it is the better
lauded to its disadvantage 1t is not rid
den in these latter years by proscriptive
and burdensome aristocracy. Whatever
was the case years ago, il is true to day
that empty names and family presumption
and hereditary arrogance stand Il poor
chance IN the free, fair contest with toll
trained muscle and priceless common sense
and cottage born energy and heroic effort
| Look around and you will see that talents
! crowned with genuine merit and ennobled
| by sound character elevate their pOssessOr
as certain as the years roll on. Can you
give me an exception? Don't name the
young or older men who became discour-
aged and sacrificed themselves to the de-
mon Of dissipation. Their fall was not
chargeable to their State or to the want of
freedom in speech or action. They are the
unfortunates that work out their own fail
ures with an energy that would have won
success had it followed duty instead of
folly and vice
I'm for Moth Carolina; for / believe it
has fewer dishonorable blemishes and more
valuable excellencies than the proud States
that are quoted as being far superior. 1t
all turns upon what people think consti-
tutes the charms of a State. New York
city contains more wealth, more splendor,
more luxury, more mad excitement. more
mOnOpolleS, more unScrupulouS bOSSism,
more gold-tyranny, more fraud and theft,
more money-worshlp, more insane pleas
ure- seeking, more rulnous gambling. more
places of shame, more heartleSs he'll Traps,
more debauchery, more licentiouaness,
more squalid wretchedness, more sicken-
ing poverty, more stenchful tenement
houses, more decoyed and ruined girls and
women, more starving and helpless and
crushed widows, more famishcd and friend
less and virtually murdered orphans, more
fortunes that are reeking with the moral
poison that permeated the business from
which they We're gotten, more blood she'd,
more suicide, more Sabbath deSecratlon,
more infidelity, more socialism, more
newspapers that corrupt public and pr-
vate morals, more wicked and worthless
publications of every kind. Oh it is a
grand city Land of oleOmargarlne and
glucose sugar and so many other adulter-
ations and deceptions and corruptions that
poor North Carolinian can seldom, if
| ever, know by the name that is given when
; he has made his purchase in that world of
/ perfection
| Verify, as for me and my house, we pre-
J fer the simple old State-our virtuous
, mother Call me Pharisee if you wish: but
l say that while there are evils in North
| Carolina, there are worse evils in New York
or Massachusetts: and while there are good
things in New York or Massachusetts,,
there are better in North Carolina. There
are worse things than ''mummies
Suppose, Mr.. Editor, you were the owner
, cf mad-st and man, bitten by a
, rabid dog, were to come to you for relief,
5 and you were to charge him great big
| price for applying the stone,-don't you
think you ought to put your maidstone on
YOUR heart and conscience and see if it
would draw out metallic poison
Now AND THEN.
Their Loss is NObOdy's Gain.
, A gentleman in Statesville writes: 81