The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-07-30
MIR. us. CARR'SSPEECH AT
THEPRESS CONVENTION.


President McDiarmid, of the Press |
Association, introduced Mr.. ]. s.
Carr, president Of the Commonwealth
Club, who spoke as follows:
GEsrLEMES Unused as l am to
public speaking, I fully appreciate
the position I occupy in appearing
before 90 intelligent body as the
Press Association OF North Carolina,
but knowing as do your immeasur
able sympathy and charity for the
unfortunate, and that your criticisms
are ever tempered with mercy. /
have consented to address to you 0
few words Of welcome. |
II has been truthfully remarked
that ii 10 ''the welcome that makes
the sauce" 50 then, gentlemen, you
have every reason to feel that your
trip to Durham will be highly sea-
soned, because do assure you that
no town in North Carolina, the
Commonwealth we all love, from Cur.
rituck to Cherokee, could possibly
give YOU a warmer or more cordial
welcome than does Durham.
You are welcome to what our
ecclesiastical friend, Rev. Sam p.
Jones, says il the best "all round"
town he ever saw. You are well
come 10 our homes and our firesides,
won are welcome to the arts and
methods that have made Durham, .
town that was born into existence
since YOU and me, known more wide
" and extensively than Rome, wheel
she was the ieputed mistress Of the
world. For, gentlemen, let me tell
you, Durham owes as mnch 10 the in-
tslligsnt press of the country for
what she is to-day. 81 to any other
cause, and We appreciate that fact,
and allow me TO remark by way oil
parenthesis, that when any commun.
ity fails rightly TO appreciate, and
credltahle sustain the press, it argues
In my judgment, bad for that COM
nunity. Nay, more, when in any
community you find men who profess
10 live above Q d beyond and outside
Of the influence Of the press Of Their
community, that man, in plain Eng
lish, 10 10 fool; and yet, strange II
SAY, there are In almost every COM
munity 70 be fund those who profes
70 have no interest in whether tneir
community has . newspaper or moi
nor whether, If there be q newspaper
In their community, II 10 properly
encouraged and misunderstanding
erstwhile that their investments and
interests are elsewhere and they ais
moi concerned whether the local paper
liver or dies, that il 10 ell the same u
them. Poor specimens Of the Homo
Genus-it 10 q downright insult 10 q
fool 70 say such men are fools, but
like Sam Jones says-and you mus
excuse me for quoting the reverend
rsntleman, for we are good friends
and I take . deal Of stock in whal
be says, such men ought to b
bored for hollow horn and bled il
the hollow OF the foot"
My rule in life Las been 10 live on
the beat Of terms with my wire, th,
pulpit and the local press and, gen
llemeD, let me assure you that Z
strict adherence 10 such adeclaratiOr
removes many thorn from the pill
Low, because there is much force In
iks trite but s6meWhst iBdelicat,
expression that the three pc, th,
pulpit, the prets and the petticoa
rule the world.
Ian reioiced, gentlemen, 10 be abb,
10 say 70 you with 30 much truth 10
Eight, that whatever may be SAID il
these days days ofcorruption in higI
places, u o subsidized and . muzzlet
press, it can be said respecting thI
pres Of dear old North Carolina,
sHsfs dare ws The psopis's rights MAINTAIN,
Enawsd By fssf or nBbFlbed BY gsin."
Stand always, gentlemen, for th
rights Of the people, aud be az BRAY
O. Mars and az wise a. Minerva.
Nov gentlemen, just q word in De
fence Of Durham, the brightest jswe
IN the coronet that adorns our dea
old mother state, the town that ha
brought 10 North Carolina more re
pute than any other within her Dor
ders. Judas lscariot sold his Ior
for thirty pieces Of silver, Benedic
Arnold betrayed bis country, col