The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-14
COL. MCCLURE HERE,
The Editor of the Philadelphia
Times Visits Raleigh.
LIKES NORTH CAROLINA.
It's Climate the Best, Its Popu-
lation the Most Homogeneous.

He SAYS It Has All the Requisites TOT
Self support--Thinks Free Silver
Sentiment Has Driven Away Outside
vestment---HeartiIy in Favor OF
Recognizing Cubans as Belligerents.
Col. A. X. Mcclure, the distinguish
ed editor of the The Philadelphia
Times, arrived here yesterday alter
noon from Philadelphia. The party
came in the private car wildwood"
la the party are: Col. and Mrs, A.
K. Mcclure, Mrs. c. w. McKeehan,
Miss Florence McKeehan, Miss NJ.
Louise Baird of Philadelphia, and
Miss Byrd Page Greer, Washington,
D. G..
They are registered at the Park
A number of prominent citizens cali
ed on Col. Mcclure last evening. AFTER
a drive over the city with Maj. Ielfalr,
he was entertained in the afternoon
bv Governor Carr, at the executive
mansion.
The party leaves over the Seaboard
Air Line this afternoon for Tampa,
Fla, where they will spend several
weeks.
Col. McClure's last visit to Raleigh
was in 1891, during the Southern Tx
position. on which occasion he was the
guest of the city and the State.
WHAT HE WROTE ABOUT Us.
In a book on 'sThe South published
IN 1856. Col. Mcclure wrote Of North
Carolina:
North Carolina is now single from
the other reconstructed States III hay
ing attained, solely by the efforts OF
her own people, a high degree OF
general prosperity than was ever be-
fore attained in her history. She has q
more prosperous and thrifty people
to-day than at any period OF the past,
and there is more capital employed
and less debt, State and individual
than at any time in the last half-cen-
turv. Texas has surpassed the Oid
North State because of her large IN
fux of immigration and wealth; but
North Carolina has fewer foreigners
and a more completely homogeneous
nopulation than any other State OF the
from the tempest of profiigacy that
swept over it after the war under the
Holden government, the taxes have
steadily diminished until they are only
nominal, and the schools have increas-
ed until they proffer education 10 eV-
erv child in the Commonwealth, re-
gardless of color. Her Legitimate DEBT
is reduced; her treasury has a large
surplus; her humane institutions, con-
Quoted with equal care and outlay Tor
both races, are monuments Oh crediI;
her public improvements have kept
pace with the growing wants OF her
people; her authority reflects the PRIDE
of the State in its stainless integrity,
and thrift and content are the common
blessings of her people.
For this exceptional record there
are many able and true men to whom
North Carolina is indeDted; but IT rs
no Injustice to any 10 say that to no
one is she so much indebted as 70
Thomas r. Jarvis, the late Governor.
His term of six wears, ended only by the
mandate of the Constitution, has
brought the State to the largest meas
ure of prosperity ever known IN all
her past, and there is not son OF
North Carolina who does not share In
the general pride of more than re-
habilitated Commonwealth. When II
is considered that North Carolina has
every Important mineral within her
borders, from gold to iron; that she
has every variety of soil for every var'ie-
ty of crops, from wheat to cotton;
that she has every variety OF climate,
from the sunny Southern coast to the
chills Of the highest peak Of the APP
palaehain range; that she has water
power enough in a single river to spin
and weave the whole cotton of the
South. and that her lands are nearly
as cheap and her climate better than
the West-when these facts are weigh
ed in the scale of Intelligence, the
momentous meaning of the New South
with sectional tranquility assured
may be understood in the North as il
is now understood in the Carolinas."