The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-15
GREATEST IN RESOURCES.
COL. MCCLURE SAYS NORTH CAR
OLINA is MORE CAPABLE OF
SELF SUPPORT THAN ANY
OTHER STATE.
Ought to Have a Population of Five
Millions, With Immense Manufac-
tures--ller Fields Producing
Everything for the Support
of Her Population.

of Her Population.
Col. Al. X. Mcclure and party left on
their private car yesterday afternoon
for Tampa, Fla, via the Seaboard Air
Line.
Governor and Mrs. Carr called on
Col. and Mrs. Mcclure, and took them
for a pleasant drive yesterday morning.
The party were the recipients OF many
courtesies at the hands of the Gov
ernor.
Yesterday the party was taken on a
long drive to the various objects OF IN
terest in and about Raleigh by Mr.. and
Mrs. Josephus Daniels, who served
light refreshments at their house after
the drive.
The party will spend two weeks in
Florida, and will return by way OF
Chattanooga and Asheville. On his re-
turn, Col. Mcclure will go to Winston,
to visit the schols in Winston and Sa-
lem, and will deliver an address there.
Col Mcclure is a strong friend OF the
struggling Cubans.
Il think the belligerency OF the Gu
bans ought to be recognized, he said,
and no doubt will be before long. They
are entitled to it because the Cuban
people are practically on one side. The
rebellion cannot be suppressed by Spain,
even il Spain were the richest country
on earth. She can only desolate the
island, and eXterminate the people
The law of humanity requires the
recognition of the Cubans."
The distinguished EDITORS friendship
for the South is known and appreciated
all over the section. But he is a gold
standard man, and thinks the South is
| all wrong on the financial question.
'sThe South's future is not so promis-
ing as it ought to be-" he remarked
Yesterday. "The first need of the
South to-day Is credit, faith in its gov
eminent and in the integrity of it's
| contracts. 1t needs money and it needs
| immigration There is no place in the
world where both can be so profitably
employed. While there are hundreds of
| millions of capital idle in the worlds
money centres, it will not seek invest
ment in any State that is not squarely
| for honest money, and that does not
| resolutely maintain it's faith in paying
| every dollar in the money that is in
| trinsically worth its face in any coun-
| try. You cannot get dollar of outside
capital into the South now"
Turning to our own State, he said:
| North Carolina has the best popula-
| ton of any State in the South. No
/ other State in the Union has such a
| homogeneous people. That is much in
/ her favor. North Carolina is the best
| field on this continent for agricultu-
rists; you have the cheapest land( fer
| tliity considered); you are closest to
market. The industrial population OF
| the State ought to be doubled, and
would be in a few years if there was
/ faithin her financial integrity. The peO-
| pie of your State seem inclined to want
10 go back to the money standard of
semi-civilized nations Of the earth, and
/ separate themselves and this nation
from the great civilizations which con-
i troll three-fourths of the trade and
capital of the world.
.'There is no better climate on this
continent than you have in North Caro-
lima. Nearly everything raised in the
/ country is produced in this State.
/ II am not at all surprised at the
rapid development Of cotton manufac-
1 turing in North Carolina. There is q
| difference Of twenty-five per cent. in
North Cardinals favor, as compared
with Massachusetts; there is at least
/ that difference in the cost of living.
There ought not TO be a pound of cot
ton spun or woven outsideof thecotton
region. The only thing that hinders
/ the removal of the Massachusetts, mills
/ to the South is the millions invested in
| plants there. / took up this question
| fifteen years ago. The cotton manu-
facturers couldn't help themselves; the
move has been dictated by necessity. IT
Is only question Of time when the
mills will move here.
mo State is 50 completely equipped
for self support as North Carolina. II
could be independent of the rest
| of the world. She ought to have
to-day 100000 people, with immense
manufactures, and her fields producing
an ample supply for all the wants Of
her people"