The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27
The Great Celebration at
Roanoke Island.
Continued from Page Tenn

ljeye that there is a third way, hitherto
unknown in practice, and tnat py the
oneration of Just and wiser laws en-
acted by the sovereignty of the people,
a more Just and equal distribution OF
wealth will follow and the enjoyment OF
material we'll being will be more gener-
ally diffused among the masses. All
mower is derived from and belongs to
the people and should be used solely for
their good. This is the fundamental
teaching of the institutions which begin
. their record from the landing of the
Anglo Saxon race on these shores, a
landing which was first made at this
spot.
Had l the ability of Mr.. Webster,
could 1 speak with his authority, 1 might
point out as he did the great danger of
the accumulation of wealth in a few
hands, and might foresee and foretell
the remedies which a great, wise and
an all-powerful people will apply. But
1 shall not follow in the path which he
has trod, baud passibus equis.
Let us not forget on this occasion
that to this island belongs the dis
tinguiShed honor of being the birth
place of the first American girl. 1t is
the Eden from which she sprung She
had no predecessor and remains with
out a model and without a rival. In that
first Eden man was the first arrival and
the garden was a failure. Here the girl
was the first arrival and the boys have
followed her ever since. Appropriately
she bore the name of Dare, and daring
delightful her successors have been ever
since. We do well. were We to come
here solely to do honor to the memory
of the first American girl, this finished
superlative product of her sex and OF
these later ages.
When the first expedition landed here
there were, it is estimated, in the bounds
of the present State of North Carolina
10000 Indians, earning precarious living
by fishing and hunting and spending
their miserable lives in Staying and tor
turing one another. Today we have
near 100000 of the foremost race of al
the world, living in peace and order
Could /. like Mr.. Webster in his Ply.
mouth Rock Grafton, prophesy as to the
future 100 years hence, l should predict
a still greater change. l should say that
with the same rate of increase NORTH
Carolina will then have 5000, 900 of peo-
pie and that cities of 100 900 inhabitant,
will be numbered by the score; that
every village will be connected with its
neighbor by electric roads, for steam
will have ceased to be a motive power
that education will be universal anC
poverty unknown; that every swamp will
have been drained to become the seat OF
happy homes; that every river will be
deepened and Strengthened; that public
works operated for the benefit of the
people and not for the enrichment of q
few, will bring comforts and conven-
fences, now unknown to the most distant
freside; that the hours of labor will be
shortened; that the toll of agriculture
will be done by machinery and thai
irrigation will have banished droughts
that the advance of medicine, already
the most progressive science among us
will have practically abolished all dis
eases save that of old age; that simpler
laws and an elevated and all-powerfuI
public opinion will have minimized
crime and reduced the volume of litiga-
ton; that religion less sectarian and
disputatious about creeds and forms will
be practical exemplifcation of thai
love to follow men which was typifeC
by it's divine founder; that every tolle1
with brain or with hand will prosper
and that under iuster laws the only in
equality in wealth or condition will be
that due to the difference in the energy
efforts and natural gifts of each
possessor.
This is but the first of many success
sive celebrations of the landing here anC
if these feeble, fugitive words shall b,
preserved to that distant day the speaker
who shall read them to vast audience
gathered here will either justify the
prophesy or at least he will say. "Ir
the interest of the happiness of the hu.
man race, they ought to have become
true"
The evening session of yesterday was
called promptly at p. m.
An attractive feature of this session
was the recitation, Virginia Dare" by
Miss Ionic Greet, of Manteo. Miss Greet
also made the presentation speech in
Producing Hon. Chas. F.. Warren, which
was as follows:
PRESENTATION SPEECH OF MISS
LONE CREEF.
After the exercises and addresses of
this morning it is not necessary to fur
Their explain the nature and object of
the program of this evening
AS the first speaker of the evening, we
are fortunate to have with us a North
Carolinian, not only prominent as a law
yer, but true patriot and interested
especially in the discovery of historic
truth in our Old North State; man
greatly honored for his high regard for
truth and clear presentation of facts;
one thoroughly competent to master his
subject.
We are very glad to present to you
this evening Hon. Chas. f. Warren, of
Washington, N C.
The speech Of Hon. Chas. F. Warren,
OF washington, n. c., which follows, was
one of especial interest, portraying as it
does Roanoke Island, centre of historic
interest.
Hon. Charles F. Warren, on