The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-22


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PRESIDENT WINsToN's SPEECH.
President Geo. T. Winston, of the A. ant
M. College Raleigh, N. c., spoke on the
New North State.
He said in substance:
ut has been said of North Carolina:
'She is the best State in the Union-tC
move from" CORVALLIS found it so, after
| the battle of Gunford. Nearly half the
Colonial Governors moved out" To live
i'm North Carolina has always required
more virtue than to move out. Five years
befort the Revolution the sleepy old prov.
ince of New York borrowed from North
Carolina Governor William Tryon, a rath-
er promising individual who had given up
all hope of governing the land of Tar
Heels. Hornets Nests and Regulators His
Tory constantly repeats itself. In recent
years the birth of Greater New York could
not be accomplished without Tar Heel
mayor. AS the streams of the Blue Ridge
carry wealth of soil from North Carolina
to other States, so her ceaseless streams
of humanity have enriched and glorified
the annals of every State and territory in
the Union. Such wealth Of manhood, SO
lavishly bestowed, may explain the phrase
"a good State to move FROM good
State to move from, because a good State
to be born and raised in. Let the phrase
be changed to read The old North State,
Nursery of Men
There is a New North State rapidly
building upon the foundations of the Old
1t is a new State, as essentially as Idaho,
or Oklahoma. Itsforces are the old forces
newly organized, directed, and intensified
The New North State is no longer col
lection of great individuals, of Badger,
Gastons, and Mangums, but of great com
mumties, of Durham, Charlotte, Winston,
High Point, and Asheville The individual
is rapidly disappearing as a factor in the
life of our State. Community power, the
greatest of all modern forces, is building
up the New North State. 1t is construct
ing good roads, where so years ago was
impossible rock or mud; is levying special
local taxes for the support of graded pub
lie schools where so years ago the mere
would have caused revolu-
ton; is maintaining at the public expenseI
free rural Libraries, where so years ago
a majority of the population could not
read. Community power is constructing
securing just rates of transpor-
tation, and developing resources of soil
climate, and people which lay dormant
before the rare genius of a. Morehead, a
Cameron, or a Murphy. To call these
forces to life and ripen them to full frui-
ton was needed the magic power of al
whole community, working tremendously
together for its own development AS thel
- h1l se Of
full of shot, so the New North State with
its compact forces of school district and
township, its special taxes for roads, for
schools, for libraries, its coming taxes for
water and light and transportation will
be more powerful than the Old North
State with its unweildy and unorganizedI
counties; its individual geniuses and its
people.
THE New North State means not only
community power and organization in-l
stead of individuals, but skill and ma
chinery instead of ignorant labor and mere
muscle. There are in North Carolina six
times as many farms today as go years ago.
and each is only IA as large as formerly |
Intensive farming has supplemented ex
tensive. One acre of ground has yielded
as much profit as formerly yielded by a
whole plantation cultivated by 100 salves
&c. 900 workers in cotton mills are pro-
ducing now twice as much wealth as 200,-
900 formerly in cotton fields. Truck farms
fruit farms, stock farms are taking the
place of the old plantation. The farmer
markets his produce in score of cities
where formerly was none. The general
average of wealth, of education, of domes-
tic and social comforts and pleasures has
been raised hundred per cent. Industrial
forces are working a revolution in eduea-
ton, in social life and in politics. Indus
trial education is to carry the great move
ment forward to its full development |
Agriculture and Nature Study in our rural
schools will retain onthe farm our bright
est country lads instead of sending them
to the city. Manual training and design
ing in our city schools will develop great
variety of industries. making the New
North State the Southern rival of Massa-
chusetts. The end will be a perfect bland |
ing of the strength and virtue of agricul- |
ture and manufactured model State, rich
in climate and resources and richest of
all, in manhood"
Senator Depew said in reference to the
speech of Senator Simmons:
I'm no spirit of admonition and in a /
mood not criticising I can not at this
occasion pass without a word in reply. /
have the profoundest admiration for the
work of General Armstrong and also the
profoundest admiration for that negro who
came up from slavery and founded the
Tuskegee Institute. I believe that he will
illustrate the possibilities of his race better
than any other man and that Booker t. |
Washington with his methods will take the
question out OF politics and solve it as
will no other man."
DR.. Paul B. Barringer, of the University
of Virginia, was the last speaker.