The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-15
COLEMAN REMEDY CO., DanvHls, Va, U. s.A

COLEMAN REMEDY co., DanVlle, Va, U. S. A.
! ii it is said that we too poor, then reply
that the way to get rich is TO educate our people,
intellectually and intustrially, 50 that they may
be able successfully to apply labor to the de-
/ ycopmcnt of many resources. The history
of the world points out this way, and we cannot
fail ii we walk in IT, With good schools in the
country districts there win be less incentive for
! the country people to crowd into the cities and
towns to educate their CHILDREN, much of the
discomfort and restlessness VIII disappear, and
I better success will attend their labors
In a speech of Governor Hollis made
while he was Governor, delivered on the
Z value Of education, he said, in substance
to the business men and the men of
wealth, Invest your money in immortal
mind and this will pay you larger in
terest than any other investment which
/ you can make.
| qss5 Doc. . page s. BY Governor Scales:
I'VE cannot afford to recede or stand still.
The world moves and must move with it.
Intelligence is the life OF liberty and repub-
ican institutions cannot be maintained without
/ it, We must have more and better schools, and
| these should be taught at least six months in
| the year We must add to the number and
qualifications OF our teachers We must have
more money. The State Constitution provides
for compulsory education. If we can once infuse
into people a spirit of education and so
manufacture public sentiment in its behalf as
to make 1t a rcproach to every parent who re-
fuses to send his children 10 school and to
every child OF ten years of age and over who
cannot read, will need no other compulsory
law.
I QS95 Doc. No l. page II. BY Governor CARR:
''The future advancement, happiness and pros
perity OF the people of this State denend pro
badly more upon the efficiency OF our public
school system thar is generally conceded. Educa-
tion is the great factor in the advancement Of
; all people but in a free country 1t is OF the
most vital Importance
4 Qs97. Doc. No. |. page 40. Governor Carr:
II know of no question which should more pro-
foundly interest the philanthropist the states
man than the education OF the people, because
upon their intelligence and virtue rests the good
order OF society, the elevation of humanity the
security of property, and the welfare OF the
State The progress and reputation Of communi-
ties and States measured by the virtue and
intelligence Of the people who compose them.
/ Ignorance left TO itself tends toward vice. and
! the two combined produce low order Of society
and people without any noble or lofty aspiI8'
tons. On the other hand, education stimulates
the growth and development OF mind and heart,
I and creates desire for higher and better
things y
! QS99 Governor Russell. Doc. No. ], page 25):
The schools, outside of the larger towns can
J never he what they ought to be. and what the
| age and circumstances demand they shorid bc,
| until some way is found TO largely increase the
I public fund of the State. We do not have
/ enough money to support as many schools
( as need to say nothing Of increasing the
length Of the term in our primary schools as
at present organized. 1t is earnestly hoped that
some way be found TO secure this benefccnt
result to the children of the State.
/ 1T would seem TO be also certain that per-
mancnt and efficient public school system cannot
be built up in( this any other State without
the location and construction of suitable school
houses in the several school districts OF the
! State. There has never been. within my knowl-
| edge, an efficient public school system built mp
| anywhere without the building of houses suited
to the purposes of common school work,
| Usos-99 and lsN-19Oo C. II. Mebane, supt.):
! II believe that it is right to force the people
TO pay taxes for schools, and that it is also
right TO force the children TO receive the benefit
/ OF these taxes"
You will observe from these extracts
| that the men whom the people of North
| Carolina have honored with the highest
| position have ever been in favor of uni
! yersal education. If those who have pre-
/ coded me have held this position it be-
| comes all the more incumbent upon me
| 10 advance the line of battle i'm behalf
| Of universal education. They had the
! general question of the benefits of educa-
ton; | am confronted with the fact that
after 1908 no boy, white or black, who
comes of age that year or afterwards.
| can ever vote unless he can read and
write In the campaign which / made in
1900 / distinctly took the position that
| the amendment ought to be adopted be-
cause it would tend to the education Of
| ali the people of the State. I insisted
| then that the amendment would be an
| incentive to the parents to send their
children to school and would result in
the education of everybody. I then de-
clared that il would be a crime to dis
| franchise the children of those men who
! followed Lee aud Jackson, and shame to
| let them grow up in ignorance. That APP
peal resulted in majority of more than
| 60, 600 for me as Governor of the State.
| have not forgotten my promise, nor have
| ! neglected the opportunities which have
| been presented to me to make good the
| pledge which made. / told the people in
that campaign that if were elected Gov
! ernor OF the State / should devote the
| four years Of my administration TO the
education Of the people Of the State. told
them also that the Amendment necessi-
/ tated the education of all the children,
and when / made this statement in my
campaign, the people of the State, rich
and poor, applauded it and at the polls
ratified it. l am, therefore, compelled to
| believe that they believe in universal
education. If they do not their course in
electing me cannot be explained. | am
perfectly aware that~there are men, good
men, and many of them, who think that
| the experiment of educating the negro
| has been Il failure. but am here tonight
! to say that VIC need not concern our
| selves about the education Of the negro.
| The Amendment renders 1t certain that
every negro male child viii be taught
| TO read and write Their schools are
running, they are instructing their race,
and il We wish to keep pace with them
1 and occupy the high position in advance
| of them which we have held for a thou
| sand years. We must teach the white
/ children of the State. There can be no
compromise on this question. II we wish
/ to maintain the advantage which we
have. if we believe in the white people