The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-19
CAROL|NA'S S SON
TO CAROL|N|ANS
Governor Aycock Speaks
in Baltimore.
LOVE FOR THE MOTHER
The Hearts Deep Affection Leaps to
the Lips in Glowing Periods.
The Solution OF the Negro
Problem Dominant
Mato
LOVE FOR The MOTHER
Note.
Especial to News and observer)


Baltimore, Md, Dec. 1S.-Governor Ay-
cock was the star in the banquet of the
North Carolina Society of Baltimore at
the Carrollton Hotel tonight.
! From all the chandeliers hung North
Carolina flags and tiny Carolina flags
adorned the lapels of every guest. The
tables were decorated with trailing vines
and Southern gray moss. holly and open
bolls of cotton. while small Carolina pine
I trees stood at intervals around the room
| The menu included North Carolina plank
ed shad and turkey and roast partridge.
! President Edwin Gore presided. Gov
ernor Aycock was greeted by prolonged
cheers and aroused great enthusiasm.
Congressman Edward w Pou, of the
Fourth district, made an eloquent address
on the progress of the State in the past
thirty years.
Governor-elect Edwin Warfeld was
/ greeted with considerable applause and
made a pleasing address on behalf of
Maryland, the adopted State of so many
Tar Heels.
| A number of other addresses were made,
and it was late hour when AUD Lang
| Syne" followed THE Old North State"
and the brilliant annual banquet of the
society was ended. &.
Governor Ayc7ckrs address, as stated,
was the event of the evening.
| After sketching rapidly, but brilliantly
the early history of North Carolina point
| ing out the fact that it was here the first
resistance to British oppression was or
J ganiZed and the first declaration OF indie
pendence Of the mother country was given
to the world, he spoke of later days, say
;ng:.
1T was North Carolina which stayed
out OF the Union until the first ten
| amendments to the Constitution of the
United States were proposed those amend
| ments which secured the sovereignty of
the States and the liberty of the individ
ual citizen. 1t was that State that re-
mained In the Union as long as possible,
but which when she went out did with
| such precipitation as to lose the first life
at Bethel; with such perseverance as to
charge farthest at Gettysburg; with such
stubborness as to lose more lives than
any other State in the Southern Confed
eracy; with such fidelity as to lay down
more guns at Appomattox When that
great conflict ended the survivors Of her
soldiers returned to the State in tatters
and rags, foot sore and hungry to find
their farms gone to ruin, their fences
down, their bitches filed, their stock
| Slaughtered their houses burned, but
they did not sit down IN the desolation
OF their despair; they turned their faces
to the morning, put their trust in God
| and began anew their struggle Tor peace.
Great as were their achievements in war
they have accomplished more in day.
OF peace. There is within the borders ot
my State today from Hatteras TO Murphy.
from Virginia to South Carolina no man.
woman, or child who is hungry. North
Carolina manufactures 80 per cent of all
the cotton manufactured in the South.
Her fields have but recently been white
with twelve-cent cotton, while her spin
ming wheels and looms have made. the
air resonant with the music OF prosperity.
Her furniture factories furnish comfort
and adornment to all the States OF the
Union and knock for admission to all
the ports where American commerce MAJ
enter. Her vegetable gardens have grown
into fields and she feeds the teemlng
population of the Eastern cities. Where
her bullets failed, her cucumbers are get
! ting in their work. Within the last six
months our banking capital has increased
more than $4,000, 900, while within tbe
last twelve months the amount OF capi-
| tai invested in corporations with which
| to commence business grew from $4,000
coo to $4,000, ,000 In education we are
taking our place among the first States
of the Union and shall never be content
until we have opened a school house for
every child within the borders of the
State.
81 am proud of my State moreover, be-
cause there we have solved the negro prob
lem which recently seems to have given
you some trouble. We have taken him
out of politics and have thereby secured
good government under any party and
laid foundations for the future develop
ment of both races. We have secured |
Ereace and rendered prosperity certainty.
l am inclined to give to you our solution
of this problem. 1t is first, as far as poz-
sible, under the Fifteenth Amendment TO
diserapchise him; after that let him alone, !
quit writing about him, quit talking about
him. quit making him 1.-The white mans
burden let him tote his own skillet;
quit coddling him, let him learn that 70
man no race-ever got anything worth
the having that he did not himself earn
that character is the outcome OF sacrifice |
and worth is the result of toll; that what |
ever his future may be the present has in
If for him nothing that is not the product |
of industry thrift, obedience to law, and !