The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-25
THE GOVERNOR AT CHARLOTTE.

dom of thought as it should be and the
so-called Republicanism miscalled free
dom which McLaurin advocated before the
club some weeks ago. Referring to the
professed spirit of the club to be ''pion-
GERS in the movement for more liberal
thought" the Governor said:
You will pardon me for reminding you
in the beginning that your task Is a diff
cult one and can only be wrought out by
much charity. You have served the world
we'll in the past. How well you shall
serve it in the future will depend. largely
upon your attitude towards public ques-
tions. You may grow rich without power
and have great honor without influence.
Those people who have influenced the
world most have been those who gave
least consideration for their own selfish
purposes and most regard for the good
of others If they have advocated lib
crafty Of opinion they have also been
foremost in yielding regard to the opin-
ion OF Others"
That advice was no doubt appreciated
by the broad minded. men present, but 1t
was a severe rebuke to any Mckinley
ties present who have pretended to stand
for liberty of thought while seeking
under such professions to seduce the
people into believing in subsidies, i'm
perialism and McKinleyism. In their prop
uganda these posers of liberty and in
dependence" have shown more narrowness
land bigotry and intemperance than any
other class has ever shown in North
Carolina. They have denounced all who
stand against special privilege with every
epithet that the most foul-mouthed fish
woman uses, and belied the good men who
believe in and contend for the fundamen-
tai principles advocated by Jefferson and
Calhoun. To such the Governors coun-
sci to be foremost in yielding regard to
the opinion of others was a much need
ed admonition. He did not stop there, but
went on to remind bigots, whose intoler-
ance has made them marked. that they
must give due regard to the idea OF other
people,"
The Governor went on to rebuke the
spirit that thinks that the only way to
be right is to take opinions from the
great centres. "We must not think"
said he, that the great world outside of
us is entitled to dominate our views and
that the opinion of our own people past
and present g entitled TO no weight"
A few years ago certain set Of farm
ers sought to control North Carolina in
a class spirit. Latterly certain set of
manufacturers have been trying to effect
class organization of manufacturers
and bankers to dominate North Carolina.
Governor Aycock showed those class
politicians that less than IS per cent of
our population dwell in cities and towns.
to regard the modern industrial develop
ment as emitting those who dwell in the
cities to control public policies and TO
dominate the opinion of the State. You
cannot in the nature of things strike out
on lines which are antagonistic to the
views of so per cent of the people," There
has never been time when the North
Carolina McLaurinites could effect poll
teal organization of the manufacturers
by the Governor must have shown the
promoters OF the class scheme that their
project was doomed to failure. The Nc
Laurnites have been wont to character
ize as demogogues all those who believe
in the capacity of the people to rule and
have held an i'll concealed contempt for
popular government. With them, this
declaration of the Governor will make
him a "demagogue" and an anarchist:
1.-THE men who have been most dis
tinguished in North Carolina, who have
gained the utmost love of the people, have
been those men who have dwelt closest
In contact with their views. The men
who have done most for the growth of the
State and for its integrity have been those
who have always believed in the upright
ness of thought and purity of purpose OF
the masses Of the people
McI4aurin went to Charlotte to proclaim
protection among other Republican doc
trines. Upon that question, Governor Ay-
cock rings clear. He said:
ut has been said that with the growth
of manufacturing in the South there will
be a tendency towards the doctrine of the
protective tariff. do not yield my as
sent to this proposition. On the contrary
7 believe that the South will be true to
her convictions of principle even in the
face Of the fact that the manufacturers
of the United States are in large measure
protectionists. 1t would be strange
thing ii the South should take UP with this
erroneous doctrine at the very time when
the people OF the North are beginning to
abandon their false position, and their
abandoning it can be made no more GER
tain than by the adoption OF reciprocity
tIea ties which have for their purpose the
admission Of goods into this country free
or with a tariff, based on the agreement
that foreign countries shall treat our
goods as we treat theirs"
l., The Governor then went on to riddle
/ the humbug called reciprocity and then
daclared the correet a riff princinla.