The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-17

defense of cause and a principle which
they believed and which we believed to
be right. Greater love hath no man
than this that he give his life for his
friend He who goes to war for his
country risks his life for his fellow nan.
AS long as one of these old heroes lives,
it will be the duty of the State to see
that he suffers no want he cannot him
self reasonably supply.
These are duties imposed upon IT'S by
civilization, by Christianity, and by pa
triotism.
The Democratic Legislatures of
1889 and 1901 appropriated for
I these three great objects: educa
ton, charity, and pensions to
Confederate soldiers-something over
a million dollars more than the two Fus-
ion LEGISLATURES appropriated for those
purposes. and at the end of the present
fiscal year the Democratic party will
! have spent for these three great objects
something over a million dollars more
than the fusionists spent for these pur-
poses during the four years they were
in power
During the three and half years of
our tenure of office VIC have appropriated
we will have spent six hundred thousand
dollars; (mark the figures and register
them in your minds) six hundred thous-
and dollars more for the common schools
than the fusionists appropriated, and
spent for that purpose during the four
years of their tenure of office If any
body wants to attack us for this we say
to them: ATTACK to your hearts CON
tent" We have no apologies to make
for it. We glory in it. We say to them
the constitution required it, we were
able to do it, it was our duty to do it,
We did it, and we thank God We did it
with the unanimous consent of the peo-
pie of North Carolina, for | am glad to
say the Populsts and Republicans as
wen as Democrats in the Legislatures of
1899 and 1901 voted for the bills making
| these additional appropriations for the
common schools.
When the fusionists turned over the
| Legislative branch of the government to
| us, there were something like four hun
| dred insane, many of them confined in
the common jails with criminals, appeal
| ing for admission to the hospitals for the
| insane, but who could not be received
there because of the lack of room. Dur
| ing the four years of their tenure al
though there had been a great increase
| in the number of insane in the State, the
| fUsionist5 did nothing to enlarge these
| institutions and to relieve this conges-
ton. During our tenure we have apprO-
priated, and at the end of the present
fiscal year will have spent between one
hundred and twenty-five ana one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars more
than the fusionists appropriated and
spent during their tenure of office to pro-
vide room and shelter for these unfor-
Inmates, who had either to lie in the COM
mon iails or rely upon the charity and
generosity of friends. 1 am here to say
that IN doing this we performed a simple
duty to humanity. We are proud of it.
and God-fearing and God-loving people
will applaud and sustain us in Going it,
During our tenure we have appro-
priated and at the end of the present
fiscal year will have spent over two
| hundred thousand dollars more than the
fusi0nists appropriated and spent dur
ing the four years of their tenure of Of
flee for pensions to disabled Confederate
soldiers. Who will complain of that
Who will begrudge this pittarce to these
old heroes?
IuS AtpuDIlcdu party mas NOGeu
through Congress this year bill appro-
priating one hundred and forty million
dollars for pensions to Union soldiers
The Republican party has voted through
Congress this year another bill, pen
sioning certain persons who left the
Confederate army and joined the Union
army, and it is said there will be paid
out under this bill about five hundred
thousand dollars annually in North
Carolina. The amount North Carolina
will have to contribute towards the pay
ment of these pensions to Union soldiers
during the present year will reach be-
tween twenty and thirty hundred thou
sand dollars. We do not criticisze or
complain of just pensions to Union SOL
diers, but it would be ungracious in
deed in that party which has voted these
liberal pensions, and to the payment of
which we will so largely contribute to
the brave men who followed Grant and
Sheridan, to begrudge the little mite
which we have felt able to contribute to
relieve in part at least the pressing needs
Of the brave men who followed Lee and
Jackson
For these three great objects-educa-
ton, charity and patriotism-we have
IhouC tutEc tAlAd dppl Opi leItloHS, anu
for these three great objects this addi-
tional money has been spent.
Does the Republican party propose to
go before the people and say: 'Thc
Democratic party has done too much for
education it has done too much for the
afflicted it has done too much for the
old Confederate soldiers. Kick them
out and put us in power again. Put us
in power, who, when we were in power
during the gloomy days of RECONSTRUCT
ton, turned a stony heart to the appeals
of the afflicted and built no hospitals.
Put us in power, who, during these dark
days, closed the doors of the University
of the state and, while levying enormous
taxes for education built no school
houses and spent no money for schools.
Put us in power, who, when we came
back into power near the dawn of the
| twentieth century failed to catch the
spirit Of the times and not only did moth
| ing to advance the cause. either of edu-
| cation or charity, and when we retired
| from power left both Of those great in
tercsts of the State in a condition of de-
moralization and paralysis"