The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-23
NORTH CARDINALS PROGRESS.
The Old North State Advancing Along
all Lines OF Material Development.

along all lines more rapidly than the
State Of North Carolina, as educa-
tonaI, Industrial and financial statis-
ties will show. While the people Of
other States are cracking jokes and
pokinr fun at the Tar Heels" as
they are facetiousiv termed, the
North Carolinians are saying nothing.
but are steadily pushing forward into
the front rank Of progress.
Thriving. prosperous towns are
going up all over the State. factories
and mills are building and operating.
water powers. forest wealth and
mineral treasures are being every
where developed. and besides furnish
inc the lumber for her own structures
the old State is supplying other com
mOnwealths with lumber and other
building material.
The tobacco and cotton growing
interests are prolific sources OF
revenue, their manufacture is adj
vancing with stupendous strides and
with them the general prosperity is
growing steadily. It's educational
institutions are growing in number,in
reputation and in patronage, and
thereby the intellectual standard Of
her people is gradually rising higher.
Now that the State has been rescued
and Will soon be guaranteed i'm
munity from the rule Of the ignorant
element still greater and more rapid
advancement along all lines may
reasonably be expected.
10 r,-Io flY-
enacted by the white Democratic
Legislature probably the most
notable and important and perhaps
the wisest Of all is the bill just
passed with practical unanimity APP
propriating 800, 900 to public school
education. which is in addition to
the usual appropriation for this
purpose. This is but an additional
appropriation of 164 cents per capita
to the 600, 900 school children of the
state. That number Of pupils, large
and crcditable as it is to the State,
will be considerably increased as
consequence Of the large sum de-
voted to public education. The
schools Of the State can now be
not heretofore attainable, and SUI
pcrior to that Of many other States,
which very fact will naturally increase
the patronage and the usefulness of
the system. The effect will be to
make the benefit of education every
year more nearly universal, thus in
few wears banishing illiteracy
from the State.
The passage Of this appropriation
to the cause ofpublic education is a
wise and fitting sequel to the passage
Of the new suffrage amendment, and
will disarm opposition to the adop-
ton of the educational qualification.
That the white Democrats of the
State with such unanimity have
voted this sum to schools, knowing
the large colorcd population and the
small portion Of the fund which. the
negroes contribute thereto, will do
much to silence the charge or the
suspicion that the State has not the
interests of the inferior race at
heart.
1t cannot be said that the State is
DISTINGUISHING the ignorant negro
and giving him no chance to secure
an education. as at least one
malignant Northern newspaper has
already asserted.
Universal education, as experience
demonstrates. is desirable, and the
white men Of the State of North
Carolina have not only by their act
expressed their faith in that state
ment in a very substantial way, but
have also expressed their willingness
to bear the burden, which presses
most heavily upon them, as they well
know.
The Legislature has done we'll and
wisely Danville Register.
J. Sheer, Scdalia, Mo, conductor on
electric street car line, writes that his lit
tie daughter was very low with Group, and
her life saved after all physicians had
failed, only by using One Minute Cough