The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-01

days ago with the president or negro
university in the South and asked him
if he did not see danger ahead as we'll
as good in the Industrial training OF the
negro. He replied, No; that they would
| as consequence initiate and operate
their own plants. / do not know. ] trust
il will be so. Some how it seems to me
we are but entering the threshold Of the
negro problem and that these literary
men Of the colleges who are saying all
kinds of things in the newspapers know
more about their books than they know
about the negro. This is cloud which
We must not lose sight Of But we will
| provide q proper shelter from whatever
storm it may bring 1t does not greatly
matter if the occupant of the White House
| (or shall I say, Black House?) or any
| other politician may stir up this or that
ca5al, let US be satisfied to take up each
matter as it presents itself. We are too
| busy now to worry with imaginary dan
gers. This IS race of people that has
been fed on dangers and that has thrivcn
on obstacles and solutions always come
to those who, being upright think and
| love and dare.
| Nor shall | go into that future which
| awaits our section in the practically uu-
| NNi'lCltCu tOulAitnl SOuitl VI Us. HI lObN-
| ing over the figures they make but poor
! showing indeed OF exchange of commodi-
! ties compared with what they should be,
| but poised over the magnificent project
Of the Isthmian canal is the Southern
Cross of the tropic sky symbolizing a
hope of possibilities undreamed of now
The great railroad corporations know this
and one of them even recently embracing
| NO DC mi in &c ,,-g
| tenn has covered all the Southern ports
frorl Chicago to New Orleans, to Mobile,
/ to Pensacola to Jacksonville, Fernandna,
Charleston, Savannah. Brunswick, Will
mington. to Norfolk. These Gulf ports
will in my judgment in the near future,
he in the firing line Of the South's COM
merce and the Columbia and the Cuban
will yet be wearing the coarser cotton
goods of the Southern mills.
The time is full Of hone for rs in the
South. Pray do not let US seriously listen
to or .ooH or at the acrobat.C POLITICAL
cont uoIs performance that is going on,
rather let us keep at our task. An en-
pire awaits US. We have only to enter
in and possess it. This vaudeville per-
Torrance that is going on in Washing.
ton need not disturb or perplex us. To
us who are busy the queer frantics of our
Chief Executive should be a diversion
only. Let us rather regard him as a
Tom Sawyer of American politics. If
we wake Up each morning to be/delight-
fully started and RECALLED by some new
original and mischievious prank let US
remember that your Aunt Joanna Hay
no doubt takes Teddy to her chamber
every morning and gives him a private
spanking that will keep him from alto
| gether tearing everything to pieces for
! the next twenty-four hours.
Do not let us worry The Union that
Virginians made. as stated in the Toast,
if it was too strong even for Virginia
and her sisters to undo will happily hold
the Rough Rider until the end of the
term, when We may hope for a change in
Bill either in the shape of another Nc
Kinley or some good Democrat
/ / have faith in the genius of our peo-
| pie to meet the issue whatever it he.
They can be put to no greater test than
those with which they have already beer
| confronted.
| If l have emphasized too much Virginia
as type and representative of the South,
you will forgive me. you who are from
| the other States she is the one State
| in connection with which other Southern
| States do not have the feeling Of rivalry.
| Within her borders is the best blood of
| all the Southern States. The bloom OF
! color that ripples like an aurora
! borGalis over her hills is the more 1umin-
Gus because 1t is rooted in the blood of
| the heroes of her sister States-with Cobb
among them in the middle of the road
| in front of the stone fence-at the foot
of Marye's Hill, at Fredericksburg
Those who survive constitute in my
| judgment the foundation of the progress
which l have feebly tried to outline.
| Theirs are the hearts of light that have
| flung forward through the storm of So
! the rainbow of 1900, arched all the way
over 80 years. God keep them in our
hearts! They were men, as free from
malice as from fear, as national as they
We're when they made this nation above
all holding first their personal honor and
their simple homes. I believe that when
the last analysis is made of ROBert r.
Lee, the chief element of his greatness
| will be found TO have been in his love
| of his own people. That is what men
| call patriotism. He walked all night up
| and down the front porch of his home
with the offer of the command of the Fed
/ eral Armies before his eyes. The dawn
came and the light broke upon the piano.
rama of Virginia He looked upon it
and saw that it was good. After the long
struggle he replied, mo l will stand with
my own" No man has ever been entirely
great unless the greater part of that
greatness has consisted both in his own
| love for his people and in his own peO-
| pies love for him. Possessing this. Lee
needs no statue anywhere. Love in Itself
is immortal and every heart in the
South today if placed one upon the other
| in his memory would result in monument
reaching even unto the throne of God.
In every State of the South it has been
| the men in which this principle has been
| dominant who have stood the stress and
| who have stood the test. Looking about
me see at this banquet board one who
| spared not his body in front of the shot
| and she'll that laid this city low. His
| heroic performance needs no telling here.
When the smoke was lifted by the April
wind he looked upon the ruins but to
him even in the ashes of despair lived
| their ,KOntpd fires I take him ac a TYNE