The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-08-07
WARMLY WELCOMED.
AN ELOQUENT ADDRESS By Mr..
JULIAN S. CARR.

JULIAN 5. CARR.
The Manner in Which the President
| of the Commonwealth Club Wei
coined the North Carolina Press As
sOciatiOn to the City Of Durham
July 23rd.
President McDiarmid, of the Pres:
Association introduced Mr.. J. S. Carr
President of the Commonwealth Club
who spoke as follows:
GENTLEMEN - Unused as | am to
public speaking, l fully appreciate the
position occupy in appearing before
so intelligent body as the Press Asso-
citation Of North Carolina, but know
ing as do your imnaeasurable sympa-
thy and charity for the unfortunate,
and that your criticisms are ever tenn
pered with mercy, l have consented
to address to you few words OF well
come.
1t has been truthfully remarked that
it is the "welcome that makes the
sauce" so then, gentlemen, you have
every reason to feel that your trip to
Durham will be highly seasoned, be-
cause do assure you that no town in
North Carolina, the Commonwealth
we all love, from Currituck to Chero-
kee could possible give you a warmer
or more cordial welcome than does
Durham.
You are welcome to what our ecclesi-
astical friend, Rev. Sam P. Jones, saws
is the best "all round" town he ever
saw. You are welcome to our homes
and our fresides, you are welcome to
the arts that have made Durham, a
town that was born into existence
since you and me, known more widely
and extensively than Rome, when she
was the reputed mistress of the world.
For, gentlemen, let me tell you, Dur
ham owes as much to the intelligent
press of the country for what she is to-
day, as to any other cause, and We ap-
preclate that fact, and allow me to re-
mark by way of parenthesis, that when
any community fails rightly to appre-
ciate, and creditably sustain 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 fool. And yet,strange to say
there are in almost every community
to be found those who profess to have
no interest in whether their community
has newspaper or not, nor whether
it there be newspaper in their COM
munity, it is properly encouraged and
misunderstanding 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 downright
insult to a 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 l take a deal of stock in
what he says, "Such men ought to be
bored for hollow horn and bled in the
hollow Of the foot"
My rule in life has been to live on
the best terms with my wife, the pull
pit and the local press; and gentlemen
let me assure you that strict adher-
ance to such a declaration removes
many thorn from the pillow, because
there is much force in the trite but
indelicate expression that
the three p's, the pulpit, the press and
the petticoat rule Of the world.
l am rejoiced, gentlemen, to be able
10 say to you with SO much truth to-
night, that whatever may be said in
:hese days of corruption in high places,
of subsidized and a muzzled press, it
:an be said respecting the press of
lear old North Carolin,
Here dare we the peoples rights main
tain,
Jnawed BY fear Or unbribcd by gain"
Stand ys,gentlemen, for the rights
If the people, and be as brave as Mars
md as wise as Minerva.
Now, gentlemen, just a word in de-
ence of Durham, the brightest jewel
n the coronet that adorns our dear old
mother State, the town that has brought
o North Carolina more repute than
my Others within her borders. Judas
scariot sold his Lord for thirty pieces
# silver, Benedict Arnold betrayed his
sold his honor and died in
lisgrace, but the lowest depths of in
amy and defamation was reserved for
hat hybrid and disgrace to North
Carolina journalism, who spewed cal
mny upon a people who had sucked
i'm, but refused to support his wild
nd visionary venture in the field OF
journalism. Rome had her her Caesar
nd England her Cromwell, but worse
han either Of these in malisciousness
nd cowardly meanness was Durham's
oldham. 1t is for you to say whether
ou find Durham as Caius Marius sat
'eeping in the ruins Of CARRIAGES
'rmer greatness, sitting in despair in
he ashes of her former magni6cence, ,
ut on the other hand we promise to
now you a town unparalleled for her
power and whose future +,
brighter and on a more substantial
asis to-day than ever in her history. {
Gentlemen, l have finished. Make
ur home your home, enjoy what we
laH set before you to the full, and
efore you leave our community our
<pectation is that you will catch our
ews and inspiration and come to be-
eve that Durham is the biggest town
its size in the State. Il
The wheat reserves On July I is es- I
mafAd NJ o. Qor ma hs,ehAls ! .