Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-16
NORTH CAROLINA.
UPWARD AND ONWARD SHOULD
BE THE MOTTO OF THE
OLD NORTH STATE.
(Rocky Mount Argonaut.)

ID figure now Ill these days Of
push and energy. W u not
say that present conditions are
more conducive to hap :ess
than those which have hereto
fore prevailed in the Southern
States, but We do say that the
course Of events has rendered
necessary for the people Of the
South to keep time to the music
of progress. Old and obsolete
methods would sirnp mean
y'1in to the people Of this coun~
try, therefore 4 complete change
is an imperative necessity.
\ great change has taken
place III industrial and agricul-
,lral channels during the past
ten years, but great as that
change has been it can only be
said to have commenced. For
this the country IS to be con
graduated i change for the
better in Tie way Of conducting
home affairs is the stepping
stone to greater things and what
has commenced SO auspiciously
will undoubtedly be pushed
steadily forward.
Still Our people may be said to
be land poor. One~quarter Of
the land now owned by the peo-
pie Of North Carolina. if prop
erly cultivated, would yield
more than the whole does to
day. Why then should not our
land owners sell the other three
quarters to men who would Gull
tlvate, thus not only being bene-
fitted by the money received by
the sale OF land but by the in
CuX Of additional population to
help pay taxes, build roads, sup
port schools and churches and
help to build up the country
generally and Tighten the bur
dcns which now weigh On the
shoulders OF our people? There
will be no trouble to bring about
this much desired state of
affairs. If our people will only
wake up and go to work with
The vim that the importance of
the object to be gained demands.
This State has been described as
a beautiful, fertile country, ex-
tending from the mountains to
the sea with a lot OF people Iv~
ing dead upon it. If there has
been too much truth in this in
the past, let us all decide TO give
it the lie III the future.
Nature has intended this to
be one Of the grandest countries
IN the universe. A few years
can transform it into one of the
most prosperous if it citizens but
do their duty. Bounded on the
East by the waters OF the Allan
tic Ocean, her bays, sounds and
rivers and the waters along her
coast filled with the finest of
food fish, this interest alone is
capable Of bringing wealth to a
nation.
Her Western borders, lifted up
i'll the sky by mountains filled
with ores and their craggy sides
capable of feeding the Aocks and
herds on a thousand hills! Trav-
ersed from North to South, from
East to West by giant railway
systems and our harbors filled
with ships bound to all parts of
the world We arc kept III close
| touch with other parts of our
own and foreign countries.
! EIninently adapted by nature
to be the leading manufacturing
State il the Union the time is
not far distant when she will
manufacture her own products
as we'll as the raw material oil
other sections.
Her farming interests c9n be
made the most profitable o. any
Ill the world. Our tobacco
planters, truck farmers ard fruit
growers realizing from $500 t
s. 900 per acre. What Other
portion of the universe cal
come up to tllis7
The tim Der interests are unex.
celled.--
AS & mining country size
stands unequalled. We know
that this assertion will be con
sldeIed rash. but the history Of
tie next few years will thorough
| ~ viudicate it. North Carolina
will yet be the leading gold and
iron producer ii the United
| States.
When added to this is a eli
mate uneNcelIe& for mildness and
sllubrity and country one OF
the most lovely Oh earth, and
thatis needed to make this fai.
land the centre Of world 5 de-
Sire is toilet the truth be known
among the people Of the world.
{ Therefore, let us go to work
and let our lignt slinc II al.
men. Too long has oar light
been hid "ua>:~r 4 h'lslc!," i, is
time to IL the Mold hcIlold IL