The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-05-15

they owe to their State and humanity
to assist in unlocking those vast store
houses and in developing those grand
resources that have slumbered undis-
turbed since the world began. | shall
tell them of our magnificent water
power and our untold wealth in tim
Der lands, and say to them that the
State of their and their fathers nativ
ity demands that these be more fully
developed and utilized, and that they
shall devote their time, their talents
and their energies to damming these
streams, to telling these forests, max
ing available the forces that the Farmer
and Builder of the universe meant
should be utilized to make humanity
comfortable and happy, by furnishing
employment to thousands of idle hands
and making for grand old North Car
olina the proud and enviable name
which the development sof these re-
sources will bring to her justly. And
again l shall point them to some ma
jestic smokestack belching out its vol
ume of flame in the face of heaven S
blue dome, and shall tell them at the
base Of that pyre some noble soul has
lit fire that is converting into some
thing useful some of the vast resources
of North Carolina, and where capital
gladly furnishes labor with good
days wages for fair days work, and
shall bid them in the name of the
State l love next to the lovely home
and precious family that good fortune
has blessed me with, to 60 and do
likewise, and God speed them. Yes,
my friends, we owe it to our dear old
mother to invoke all the best and the
latest weapons known to civilized in
dustry to make our mines and forests,
our streams, our fields and our great
mountains give up the vast wealth hid
den away there by the great Creator
of us all. When we all are resolved
to do this, the answer comes to the
question, what of the future of North
Carolina as manufacturing State?
But considering North Carolina as a
manufacturing State in the near future,
let US not forget her as an agricultural
State of to-day. North Carolina is
and for a time must remain an agri-
cultural State We must and do rec
ognize 10 the fullest extent that all we
have of good comes from the ground
and the tiller of the soil. Agriculture
in our State is in depressed condi-
ton. Whenever it occurs that the
farmers by thrift, diligence and the use
of proper appliances cannot prosper OF
does not prosper, there is something
radically and inherently wrong. Who
SO fit and proper to determine the
wrong and decide a remedy as the
farmer himself? And when the great
body of the agriculturists, not only in
our own State, but in the other States
devoted to agriculture, have suggested
a remedy for their wrongs, why should
not all other classes of our people &C
quiesce in this decision and assist in
the amelioration of their condition, by
adopting and insisting upon those
measures of relief which, in their wis
dom, they determined best calculated
to give them relief and put them on
the high road to prosperity de-
clare to you that any we'll considered
measures for the relief of our agricul
tural brethren (and we'll considered,
know they will be and have been by
them), should receive the support and
should be carried into practical legis
lation by all who love and desire a
perpetuity of our institutions upon the
principles of freedom to all and secu
rity to all.
My friends, these times are hastily
coming; the dawn of the morning i:
above the horizon. Our future will be
as great as it is certain and glorious
Do you wonder then that tell you
gaze upon the vast, rapid growth o
our industrial progress in North Caro-.
lima, not with the eye of faith, bu
with the prophetic eye of certainty
And l fill with patriotic rapture as
behold North Cardinals future glory
breaking above the gloom of the past
and as l welcome the dawn of the
bright morning. l shall covet ne
grander paan to fall upon my ear as
sink from the engagements of a busy
life into the great unknown, then te
cease to recognize any other note aftel
the song Of Cardinals most glorious
son shall fade from my ear:
Carolina, Carolina,
Heavens blessings attend her,
While We live we will cherish,
Protect and defend her."