The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1890-07-24

| An Unique OratiOn-A Feast of Good
Things-Witty and Eloquent Post Pran
| dial Speeches.
Last night, while music's sweetest
strains charmed away dull care, large
concourse of Durham's citizens assem-
bled in Stokes Hall to extend a cordia
and friendly greeting. President Nc
Dlarmid, of the Press Association, intro
duced Mr.. J. S. Carr, president of thu
Commonwealth Club, who spoke as fol
lows:
GENTLEMEN:- Unused as | am to pub.
lie speaking, fully appreciate the posi-
ton L occupy in appearing before sc
intelligent body as the Press Associa
ton of North Carolina, but knowing as
do your immeasurable sympathy and
charity for the unfortunate, and that
your criticisms are ever tempered with
mercy, / have consented to address to
you few words of welcome
1t has been truthfully remarked that it
is "the welcome that makes the sauce y
so then, gentlemen, you have every rea-
son to feel that your trip to Durham will
be highly seasoned because | do assure
you that no town in North Carolina, the
commonwealth we all love, from Curri-
-tuck to Cherokee, could possibly give
you warmer or more cordial welcome
than does Durham.
You are welcome to what our cclesi-
astical friend, Rev. Sam p. Jones, saws is
the best ''all round" town he ever saw.
\ Ou are welcome to our homes and our
tlresides, you are welcome to the arts and
methods that have made Durham, town
that was born into existence since you
and me, known more widely and exten-
sivcly than Rome, when she was the re-
puted mistress of the world. For, gentle
men, let me tell you, Durham owes as
much to the intelligent press of the
country for what she is to-day, as to any
other cause, and we appreciate that fact,
and allow me to remark by way of paren-
thesis, that when any community fails
rightly to appreciate, and creditably sus-
tain the press, it argues, in my judgment,
bad for that community. Nay, more,
when in any community you find men
who profess to live above and beyond
and outside of the influence Of the press
Of their community, that man, in plain
| English, is a fool; and yet, strange to
say, there are in almost every community
to be found those who profess to have no
iatera~F etlner their scennnnunfty1 haa
newspaperor not, nor w there
be ne wspaper in their community, it is
lproperly encouraged and sustained
arguing erstwhile that their investments
and interests are elsewhere and they are
not concerned whether the local paper
| lives or dies, that it is all the same to
them Poor specimens of the Homo
Genus-it is a downright insult to fool
to say such men are fools, but like sam
Jones says-and you must excuse me for
quoting the reverend gentleman, for we
are good friends and | take deal OF
stock in what he says, "Such men ought
to be bored for hollow horn and bled in
the hollow Of the foot"
NV rule in life has been to live on the
best of terms with my wife, the pulpit
and the local press; and, gentlemen, let
me assure you that strict adherence tc
such declaration removes many thorn
from the pillow, because there Is mucI
force in the trite but somewhat indcllcatt
expression that the three p's, the pulpit
the press and the petticoat rule the Worid
am reioiced, gentlemen, to be able t(
saw to YOU with so much truth tonight
that whatever may be said in these day
of corruption in high places, of subsld
lied and muzzled press, it can be sal'
respecting the press of dear old Nortl
: Carolina,
.Here dare we the peoples rights maintain
Tnawed by fear or unbribed by gain.
Stand always, gentlemen, for the n2ht
of the people, and be as brave as Mar
and as wise as Minerva.
Now gentlemen, just word in defenc
of Durham, the brightest jewel in tn
: coronet that adorns our dear old mothe
} state, the town that has brought to Mort
, Carolina more repute than any othe
! within her borders. Judas lscariot sol
: his Lord for thirty pieces of silver, Bent
diet Arnold betrayed his country, sol
his honor and died in digrace, but th
lowest depths of infomy and detamatio
). was reserved for that hybrid and disgrac
to North Carolina journalism, who spewe
. calumny upon people who had suckle
! him, but refused 10 support his wild an
- visionary venture in the field OF jour-
= slism. Rome had her Caesar and Engla
q her Cromwell, but worse than either
these in maliciousness and cowaTdi
meanness was Durham's Oldham. 1t
for you TO say whether you find Durhal
: AS Caius MariuS sat weeping in the ruiz
a OF Carriages former greatness, sitting
n despair in the ashes of her former magn
: ficence, but on the other hand We promi
- - to show YOU a town unparalleled for h
y recuperatiye power and whose future
)r brighter and on more substantial bas
5. TODAY than ever in her history.