The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-10-16
ELEVATION OF THE MASSES.
j. M. LEACH, JR., ESQ, SPOKE
AT THE FAIR YESTERDAY.

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AT THE FAIR YESTERDAY.
He Made a speech Full OF Practical
Wisdom and Struck the Right Key
note.
At 1870, after splendid music by the
Newton cornet band, in Machinery hall
where seats had been prepared, w J.
Peele, Esq introduced James Madison
Leach, Jr., with the remark that his own
speech would be his own best introduce
| ton.
Mr.. Leach has striking parsonage
is handsome, graceful, and is fine elo-
cutionist. He began by paying trib-
ute to the value of fairs as educators
and helpers. He spoke of the products
displayed, and said he would speak upon
the best product of North Carolina-the
education of the people.
Education is the one subject that is
ever new. he did not desire to dispar-
age what has been done in North Caro-
lima, but he desired to emphasize the
fact that we are not doing what we
ought to do. Less money is paid per
capita for education in North Carolina
than any State except South Carolina
The Oarolinas thus lead in parsimony
and stinainess. While So 90 per-capita
was spent in the United States last year,
North Carolina only spent 80 cents per
capita He showed that North Carolina
suffered by contrast with Virginia and
other southern States Out of $50, 900
children of school age, there were 243,-
900 children enrolled Thirty three
per cent of our voters cannot read or
write.
In view of these and other facts he de-
clared that there ought to be no oppo-
sition to education He took up the
stock OF objections to education and
answered them in a striking way, en-
phasizing the fact that it was only
among the partially educated who had
contempt for manual labor. He did
not believe that the question of color
ought to enter into the question of edu-
cation. In California the people pay a
, tax to educate the yellow men. Tue gov
ernment educates the Indians. The
negroes are here and every considera-
/ tion compels US to educate them. There
are 81, 900 negro voters in North Caro-
lima who cannot read or write. 1t pays
the State to educate the negro. Before
r the war, with slave labor, We
made four million bales of cotton
| now, with little education, we make
1000 600 bales DR.. Curry states that
for the education of the negro $13, 600,
900 has been poured into the South BY
Northern benefaction. That sum is eigh
/; teen times as much as North Caroline
, will pay this year to both races. It is
r question of few years when, by the ai(
e of Northern benefactions, the negro will
lie educated better than the whites un
!. less the State does better. The Anglo
: Saxon race has been brought up to
3 present high standard by education.
t He pitched into the legislators VIII
5 are niggardly in their appropriations 70
n education, aud said that the peopl
favored education and higher education
IL and had always so voted. He showe
# that six times the people had voted fo
n university education, and that it was tn
, shallow pated "budding Websters VIII
>; misrepresented the people. He declare
O that no man who was not a moral cowal
would vote against better educationa
/. facilities and plead the prejudice of tt
., people as defense for his backward az
er ton. The people love man who wi
70 lead in great matters.
r, He showed that majority of the stu
dents who had graduated at the unive1
sity were poor boys, and that highe
,r schools preceded the colleges and con
: mon schools and helped them. Ever
10 college ought to be endowed so tn;
tuition could be free to all boys. All tt
~ greatest colleges and universities NAL
= tuition free, and no great college d
pends upon its tuition fees for its e:
penses. He would not have diplon
from self-sustaining college.
He cited Prussia as an instance tn
universal culture made country grea
He showed that popular schools had e
IS. abled New England to compel the We
and the South to pay tribute to ma
it's manufacturers millionaires Cultu
is absolutely essential. The best siI
of the times is that labor is organizin
RS Wrongs have been perpetrated becau
the people have not been educated, b
ri now the Alliance is thinking and rea
ing. The real rights Of the people "
70 be secured if the people are educat
'ft and demand their rights in all constit
zee tional lines
ny. Men Of wealth and education can ia
!. care of themselves, but it is the duty
~ ~ those men to reach down and bring
~ the lowly and the humble to the heigh
He drew an eloquent and thrill
- picture of the unrest of the masses, a
"a "a the dangers that lurked in organic
~ ~ bodies of ignorant men who were ma
dened by injustice. He pictured
terrible riots in Pittsburg; describe
procession he saw in Washington c
boz in which men bore banners, such
A00 elders in Palaces, Workers in Hut
md He declared in opposite way that
'A0- causes of these convulsions will not
lessened until universal knowle'
nAo brings to the minds and hearts of
-, men the wholesome truth that civil
'' ton is only possible with law and orc
+ of His closing picture Of the Ideal O.
monwealth was elegant, and dellve
with fine effect
Weather Report.
air. Raleigh yesterday: Maximum tenn