The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-27
THEY STOP OUR BORDERS
And Join in Our Industrial
March
FROM The SEA TO THE PEAKS
Cleveland, Vanderbilt, Col. Mcclure
and Moses n. Cane in Their APP
probation of North Carolina
the Best State in the Union.


in an interview in the News
and Observer, Col. A. X. Mcclure,
editor of the Philadelphia Times, said:
''North Carolina has the best popula-
ton of any State in the South. No
other State in the Union has such
homogeneous people. The industrial
population Of the State ought TO be
doubled, and would be in a few years
il there was faith in her financial in
teerity.
'sThere is no better climate on this
continent than YOU have in North Car
DINA. Nearly everything raised in the
country is produced in this State.
81 am not at all surprised at the
rapid development of the cotton man
ufacturing industry in North Carolina.
The only thing that binders the re
moval of the Massachusetts mills to
TO the South is the millions that are
invested in plants there. ] took up this
question fifteen years ago. The cot
ton manufacturers couldn't help them
selves; the move has been dictated by
necessity. 1t is only a question Of
time when the mills will move here.
mo State is so completely equipped
for self support as North Carolina. 1t
can be independent of the rest of the
world. She ought to have to-day s.,
100000 people, with immense manufac-
tories, and her fields producing IN am
pie supply for all the wants of her peo-
pie"
1t seems that Col Mcclure is not
alone in his way Of thinking and in
his appreciation Of North Carolina.
When President Cleveland desires a
week of genuine sport and recreation
he boards 1.-The Violet and sets sail
for our Eastern North Carolina coast.
When George Vanderbilt made up
his mind to build the grandest home
on the planet, he very naturally con-
cIuded that in our "land of the sky"
was the place to build.
When Moses Fl. Cone began to cast
about for a location to concentrate his
manufacturing interests and other in
dustriai activity, he selected Green's
boro
Thus we have Mr. Cleveland on the
Last, Col. Mcclure at the capital, Mr..
George Vanderbilt in our cloudland,
and Mr.. Moses III. Cone in our centre,
all by precept and example proclaim
ing North Cardinals industrial and
social excellence, her wonderful re-
sources and her future glory.
On our favored coast our distin-
guished President finds gentle winds,
gentle folks and gentle ducks; broad
and tranquil waters inhabited by the
gamest cavaliers of the seas, and balmy
daydawns and twilights beclouded only
by grand armies of the festive can
yass-backs and teal.
Col. Mcclure found at our capital
commodious State institutions, able
and clever State officials, genuine hos
pitality and most cordial and
friendly greeting.
Mr.. Vanderbilt found IN the West
grand sweep Of majestic
hills, arrayed in cedar, holly and
fern, whose bright colors never fade,
| and whose vast pinnacles pierce the
skya vast, billowy canopy, fringed
here and there with winding, whisper
| ing rivers, and immensely rich in eli
matte and other blessings.
Mr.. Cone found at Greensboro a nat
ural gateway 'twiXt the great North
| and the great South, through which
the South's best systems Of railways
pass. freiohted with the fruitage of
, the industrial activity Of the two great
sections.
He found little city into which
railroads from every direction are built
and through which the feetest, cost
lest and grandest trains fly hither and
,,sCrI+ "a gC94y,I ssyaIart-
did schools, plenty of land, city whose
climate is the golden mean, and a
cordial welcome from a1people noted
for their social and industrial worth.
People do not have to come to
North Carolina to learn Of our great
ness. Our fame has long since gone
ont into the world. History, both an
Gent and current, tells of it's wealth
both in citizenship and developed and
undeyeloped resources.
Very few poole appreciate the fact
that North Carolina sent more sol
diers to fight for 1.-The Lost Cause" than
South Carolina and Georgia together.
The loss that North Carolina sus-
tanned in the war retarded growth of
the State very materially, but 1T as
with much pride that she can claim
now to have the largest cotton manu-
featuring interests Of any State in the
South-that is, more looms and more
spindles.
Writers Of literature, of biography
and of commerce have penned and
printed volumes telling of natures
kindness to the Old North State. Bonds,
stock and other security buyers in the
markets of the world establish our
credit at the daily meetings Of the
great exchanges, and we rejoice to
know that the bonds of the State are
quoted higher than those of any other
State in the Union. Physicians and
scientists declare that among our pines,
along our waye-washed coast, on the
vernal table-lands of our Piedmont
belt and in the breezes that blow over
our mountains, there is health for the
asking
What wonder then that the Presi- |
dent should come to our favored coast |
to angle for the speckled beauties that |