The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-28
GIn dnessrnger.
Entsred at the Postoffce at Whining
ton N. c.. as Second-Class
Matter April IL. 1879.
OUR GOVERNOR IN GOTHAM

We did not write of Governor Ay-
cocks address in New York before the
North Carolina Society because we
had not had an opportunity TO read 1t.
We have now read it with much pleas
ure. There are two or three notes that
rather Jared. upon the ear, but the
speech is excellent 1t is not eloquent,
Ii is not imaginative, 1T is not rhetori-
cal but it is wise, clever, forceful, con
yincing. 1t has the unmistakable ear
marks of all his productions-direct-
ness. Iucidity,, simplicity, which r
given by a great authority as the quail
tiles of a good style. 1t vas a wise,
wholesome, eliminating, instructive
thoughtful discussion of North Carolina
and it's affairs. Sound, practical
underlie ell of Governor Aycock's public
utterances. And then above and be-
yond all this, he has the confidence OF
the people yho believe he is honest as
insaIlibIe, and this incense-oferers may
not discern or understand. But he is
pure and upright, and means well when
he errs. II mis- exalted opinion Of
Abraham Lincoln he is not SO we'll up
as we might have supposed. There is
much to learn of that dangerous man
on the part of the south. The whole
truth is not yet revealed. Like John
Brown he has been over-eulogized and
Worshipped in the north. truth is
mi ,hty and will prevail"
The picture of what happened to
No IN Carolina and then what followed
car lot fail to arrest the consideration
of : tir-minded men of the north. The
facts are not new to intelligent, obser-
vanC North Carolinians but they are
eadieying to outsiders. He shows what
the amendment really means. AS to
changed conditions he is informing. We
quote a part that illustrates we'll and
shows the progress making in this
great state:
I've are meeting the changed condi-
ito IS. North Carolina is nc longer
asltep. h is wide awake. In 1900 we
grew, according to Mr.. d. A. TOmpkins,
who is an authority upon this subject,
-50C. 900 bales of cotton, of which we spun
obSI fUO,UuO " AAPpSO ~ ~
same year from a little strip of land
Eess than ten miles wide and extending
from Mount Olive to Chadbourne, a
distance of less than 100 miles, on the
Atlantic Coast Line, more than $1,000
900 worth of strawberries, and those
who grew the strawberries, made all the
products of the farm, includ-
ing beans, peas. orn and cotton. The
little town of High Point, on the South
ern Railway, with a population Of less
than 5000 is s~trenuously asserting her
claim to be the econd largest manu-
facturer of furniture in h United
states. This claim is probably not
true, but at any rate, it shows that she
is doing a great business. h is sell
ing furniture in Tacoma, a Francisco,
Cuba and South America. My own lit
tie town of Goldsboro. with less than
5000 inhabitants, annually exhibits in
Grand Rapids the product of her furni-
Iure factory and sells in competition
with the factories of that city her goods
in all the states of the northwest. We
are growing more cotton, more corn,
more wheat. more oats, more vegeta-
bles than we ever grew before n are
selling to the people Of the world our
manufactured products. Our lumber
business has probably q~uadrupled in
, the past ten years and covers the en-
Tire state"
He gives a glowing view of the educa-
tional interest, and says that North
Carolina is actually doing much more
relatively for education h the great,
rich. prosperous Now York state is do
ing. He spoke in deserved enthusiasm
of our grand old state in the war times.
He thinks universal education ahead
and looks for it within the next ten
years. Referring to the abuse and mis-
representations in the north of what
our people had done as to the ballot the
governor said:
.VVe do not wish to be misunderstood
we have a problem of our own; we
have difficulties which you cannot un-
.derstand. When the Chinaman became
a menace to the West the congress OIL
the United States passed a Chinese eS-
clusion act and freed the Whlte men
of the Pacific from him. When the ne
ORC disturbs us the same men who ex-
Guided the Chinese. instead Of AIDING US
to solve the problems which are upon
us. attack, villify and mlSunderStanu
us. We do rLt NEEDLE with them. we
leave youZo work your own des-
tiny. and not without interest On our
part, not without anxiety lest you IAN
in your solution, but still without as
Stunning TO UNNECESSARILY youl
better than you do and to advise you
upon subjects which confront o ana
not US. We do not ask for charity; we
are not seeking gifts; all that we DO
want is to be let alone to work out Tor
ourselves in love, in peace, In quiet, IN
the fear of God. the problems which
confront u.s."
He is particularly sound Int judicious'
and even happy in what he said OF the
greatly mooted Expansion" We must
copy:
1--WE believe in expansion, but the ex-
pansion in which we believe is the eA-
pansion founded upon the superiority
our work and the cheapness or our
goods. Temporary prosperity cannot
divorce us from fidelity to the doctrine
of the fathers. We have not yet learn
ed to believe that the permanent pros
perity of the whole people can be found
ed upon special favors to some. we
know that the world cannot rad