The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27
A TURNING POINT IN NORTH
CAROLINA'S POLICY.

Island Celebration Committee, with it's
attendant orations, a detailed report of
which appears in another part of to-
| days issue, doubtless marks a turning
point in North Cardinals policy. No
| longer will she sit silent by and see other
| sections of the country take to them
| selves glories of ancestral deeds. and
| tell not of the great part her own for
bears took in the time of toll and sacri-
| fee, of which this great nation is the
| outcome. AS Gen. Carr said, in the
opening of his speech, I'VE are upon the
threshold of the great undertaking that
| shall bring home to the American people
a knowledge of the birthplace of their
| cOuntry's glory"
| 1t was a splendid gathering of some of
North Cardinals best and most repre-
sentative men and women upon the very
ground consecrated by the birth of the
| first white child on American soil, AMI
! the speakers seemed inspired to their
| tasks by the sense of standing, as it
| were, in the presence of the ages that
are past. Their efforts were magnif-
cent. Mr. c. R. Pugh, of Wauchese, in
| bis address of welcome, drew a graphic
picture of the state OF the land when
those early explorers touched it's shores.
Hon. w. d. Pruden, in his graceful re-
o1d 0f hot haH
done by patriotic North Carolinians to
bring about the celebration.
Gen. Cars grafton was an ornately
eloquent summing up of North Caro-
linas resources and achievements, an
admirable description of Sir Walter Raj
eigh and his services to Anglo-Saxon
Carolinians to take unto themselves the
charge of placing the State in it's true
light before mankind.
Hon. John H. Small told of several his
tOrical events in the history of the State
that ought to be taught to every North
Carolina boy and girl, just as the story
of the Declaration of Independence
at Philadelphia, or the throwing of the
tea into Boston Harbor. Mr.. Small also
put in a strong plea for the proposed in
| land waterway from the sound to Nor
folk. 1t was wonderfully clear presen-
tation of the conditions.
Judge Walter Clarks speech was
masterpiece. After a comprehensive
glance at the state OF the world at the
time of the first settlement in 1884, TWEEN
ty-one years before John Smith and
Jamestown, he showed how the move
inent of those years had been for the
people, and had freed them from govern
ments that were for the benefit of the
few. Referring to Daniel Webster's
prophesy in 1920, that our free govern
ment could stand only so long as there
was a tolerable equality in the division
of property, he asked: what would he
over the names Of those possessed of
twenty million dollars, or fifty millions,
or one hundred millions. even of more
than two hundred millions, and name over
the great trusts and corporations who
levy taxes and contributions at their own
will, greater than those exacted for all
connection Judge Clark said that the
lesson of history had been that either
the few holders would bring in an army
that would change the government to a
monarchy, or revolution would force a
redistribution, as in England and France.
But. in this day of wider intelligence
and general education, let us hope" said
he, land believe that there is a third
way, hitherto unknown in practice, and
that by the operation of just and wiser
laws enacted by the sovereignty of the
people, a more just and equal distribu-
| ton of wealth will follow, and the en-
| ioyment of material we'll being will be
more generally diffused among the
masses"
Hon. Charles +. Warren told beauti-
fully and interestingly of the hopes,
| successes, failures, tolls and joys anu
sorrows of the first colonists. His story
of the finding of the last trace of the lost
colony was touching in the extreme.
Hon. H. S. Ward spoke eloquently on
the struggles of the colonists.
Senator Simmons spoke logically and
| s.+o,,oo+;rcr,, % tho infuanca Ilnnn a ma
tons life of such celebrations as this
and promised that every effort would be
made, as indeed had been made already
for the appropriation from Congress fol
the purpose.