Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-09-25
ADDRESS TO The PEOPLE OF
NORTH CAROLINA.

The Farmers, the Mechanics, the ArtizRne.
the EducntOrs, the Business Men and the
Lab0rers in Every Department of Ma
tcrial and Intellectual Enterprise.
We again address you in behalf of the
continued effort Of the North Carolina
Industrial Association to better the con-
dition of our people by stimulating them
to higher endeavors and grander accom-
plishments in the various avenues of
human activity. In this we are not only
to better our condition and advance our
standard as a race, but the glory and
greatness of our good old State and all
her people must surely follow her sue
cess. 1t may be well that we remind YOU
of the fact that il is ours to play com
handing part in the great drama of
building up North Carolina and in giving
her the place in the galaxy OF States for
which God and nature intended her. She
is fertile in all the elements of mighty
commonwealth and mighty people Her
rich and varied soil, in which spring
almost indigenous every product of which
earth is capable; her splendid water
powers; her untold mineral wealth; her
mild and healtl-giving climate; her for
ests of valuable woods; all these and
many other advantages point her out as
destined by Providence to furnish field
for the very finest display of human
genius and human ingenuity. These
whisper Of the day when her great bosom
shall be opened and every pulsation of
her great heart shall propcl Il current of
I,lspftr aud ~ ~,
department OF material and intellectual
progress. Let US do our part in hasten
ing such period. In no way can VIC do
this more eifectually than By caltivating
and stimulating the spirit of progressive
enterprise, competition and excellence
We must not be satisfied with simply
doing something, and doing that some
thing well, but must reach out for the
very topmost round, and not contcntcd
until the crown Of excellence rests
upon our productions. We must cuiti-
vate, too, that love Of State, that pride
Of native home, which calls into exercise
the noblest powers Of mind and body in
efforts to develop her greatness and give
her proud place and potent influence
among the sisterhood OF States.
1t IS with no small degree Of pleasure
that We point to the magnificent work
which has been done by the North Caro-.
lima industrial Association in this direc-
ton. Opening its first great exhibition
in 1879, it has kept up Its organization
and Its annual display Of the capabilities
of our race to the present And 1t IS our
greater pleasure to inform you that the
officers now in charge have taken hold
with renewed vigor, and that the forth
coming eighth annual fair is to prove the
most complete in all its arrangements,
the variety and character Of its exhibits,
rs well as in its incidental attractions, Of
any Of its predecessors. While in the
years gone by the world has looked in
upon our grounds and through our halls
with wonder and admiration, it has CON
stantly remarked by those better ac-
quainted with the capabilities of our
race, that it has not. thus far, fully in
Dictated its productive genius Such an
exhibition as the colorcd people Of North
Carolina can make and stoald make,
would not only call forth the astonish-