Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-04-12

such opinion of the incapacity of his
own children, as to suppose that they
cannot learn to re.d and write in
eight years I would that [ could
reach the heart of every ilIiterate
poor man in North Carolina and give
him assurance that his children are
as bright and capable as those of the
demagogue who seeks to encourage
him not to educate his children.
would assure him that these dema-
gogues have their own children at
school while seeking to keep those of
the poor and illiterate out, their pur-
pose being to gain a START in life for
their children ahead of those whom
they seek to mislead
Gentlemen Of the convention, this
| clause Of our Amendment does not
| weaken but strengthens it. In your
speeches to the people, in your talks
and by the freside do not hesitate
that the prosperity and the glory Of
advanced by this clause than by any
''tell it in Gath, publish it in the
streets of Askelon" that universal
| education of the white children of
North Carolina will send US forward
/! with bound In the race with the
world. Life is mighty combat and
the people who go into it best
equipped will be sure to win. Massa-
chusetts has grown rich while we
have remained poor and complained
of her riches. She educated while
we remained ignorant. If she has
grown rich out of us, it is because
she knew how to do so and we did
not know how to prevent 1t. With
the adoption of our Amendment
after 1908 there will be no State in
the Union with larger percentage
! of boys and girls who can read and
write, and no State will rush for
ward with more celebrity or certainty
than conservative old North Caro-
lima. The day of the miserable dem
agogue who seeks to perpetuate il)it-
eracy in the State will then have ha D.
PLY passed forever.
There is one other provision of the
Amendment to which I must advert,
and that is the payment of the poll
tax by March 1st of election years as
a condition to voting The largest
part of the poll tax goes to public
education under the Constitution. If
our boys are to be educated as 3
condition precedent to voting after
! 1908, then no man who will not con
| tribute to that end ought to vote.
| Nearly all white persons liable to
poll tax pay it now II the negro
wants to vote, it is no hardship on
| him that he should be required to
pay his tax to the support of those
schools in which his race gets more
than it pays Of tie public fund The
various provis ions Of the Amendment
work together for good to all men.
| We are going to carry them through
to success. The fight is on. We un-
| furl anew the old banner of Democ-
racy. We inscribe thereon White
Supremacy and lis perpetuation.
Under that banner we shall win, and
when we shall have won we will have
peace in the land. There will be
rest from political bitterness and race
| antagonism. Industry will have
great outburst Freed from the ne
I cessity of voting according to our
color, we shall have intellectual free
| dom. Error will come face to face
with truth and shall suffer that final
crushing which the poet denies to
truth. With freedom of thought
will come independence of action and
public questions will stand Or fall in
the court of reason and not of pas
sion. To these great ends [ beg your
unceasing activity during the present
! campaign. Let your work be with
| zeal and earnestness. Remember that
| the peace Of the State is at stake.
Do not forget that the safety of our
| women is dependent upon 1T Ladies
refugeed from Wilmington in 1898,
as they did before the advance of
| Sherman in 1865. The county in
which we are assembled is named in
honor of woman, Esther Wake. The
city in which we are is named for
that gallant gentleman whose most
famous act among his many great
and illustrious deeds is that he spread
his cloak upon the ground in order
that his Queen might walk dry shod.
In North Carolina in every home
there is queen. wife, sister, mother
or daughter, and in her name I e.
mand your allegiance and sery 6 t. ct
is by no accident that the frs ?: d
born of English parentage in Amer. a
was born on North Carolina sc d
was a girl: the event was both pro
phecy and an Inspirations prophecy
in foretelling that modesty which,
characterizing North Carolinians, has
found it's chief pleasure i'll doing
things rather than in proclaiming
them when done-an inspiration to
all North Carolina white men to for
ever regard the protection of the
womanhood of the State as the first
duty which God in the birth of Vir-
ginia Dare laid upon us for all time.
In the performance Of this delightful
duly the North Carolina Democracy
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