The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-04-28
,rnRFSS BY DR.. MOVER
:. r,;, NtKeIway Follows With a" Eloquent
s,.eca on inc North and South---R.-
ports by Dcs, Alderman, Ffiz-
I'll and Others.
lrv the Associated Press.)

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I'll and Others.
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richmond, Va, April 25.-President
.sua8 the conference for education
o7 south to order today. The attend
..- very large. The first business
,,orts on field work, Joseph B.
If Alabama, made the first re
showing the extent of the advance
rr legislation and individual effort
[.. STATE. II his comparison with its
" ti-.orv he said, Alabama enters the
. century we'll equipped educationally.
r- charles d. Dabney of the University
r.~na-sce. gave some interesting sta
,.-fee. among these:
..ra. amount expended for schools per
,-e for children between the ages of
an Gtventy is: In Tennessee, $2.32;
- Eartuckv. 1922; Texas, $3.50; Mime
* 1884,. Michigan, $500; Ohio, 1894;
<., York. 1901; Colorado, SILL; Cali
.--r.a &l6.4+; Massachusetts, STD.
massachusetts, pays thus nearly eight
.~as as much for the common school
.~-n.atfon Of each of her children as does
tennessee.
.Ona Of the greatest needs in the South,
ha said. was men and money to do more
m+-55noary work among poor and isolated
nouura1ons. The people in one half of
The counties of the South are probably
not able to support any kind of a decent
school. even if they knew how to DO So
Report sweTe also made by Dr.. FrizzelI
If Hampton. Va. DIR. Edward A, Alder
man of Louisiana, and DR.. McIver, Of
North Carolina. All We're encouraging.
pr. Fr.zzell made the positive statement
that Virginia was not a State in which
t|iteraCy increased faster than popula-
ton. DIT. Alderman described the educa-
tioual campaign methods of Louisiana and
ur. McIyer gave an account of three sys-
tens for advancing education in his State.
Is seemed to be the opinion that North
Carolina made a better showing than any
af the other States reported upon. st.
Clair NcKelway, Of the Brooklyn Eagle,
made an address en- North asd South"
in which he said among other things:
St. Clair McKelway's Address.
My friends: Those for whom and with
whom 1 have the honor to sneak would
bring to those to whom | have the honor
to speak the greeting of the North to
the South. New York, from which |
GENE, and Virginia, in whose capital city
| speak, belong to the aristouracy Oh
America. They are numbered among the
original Thirteen. Both are battle
Scared with revolutionary suffering and
crowned with revolutionary triumphs.
Both have been united to defend the
lnon against every foreign foe. Both
Gre a unit in the spirit of right be-
tween men Il of justice between States
which makes and which alone can keep
taa Republic peace. i
The contemporary North is in sym
fatay with the contemporary South. We
recognize that with you, as with us,
The felix who face toward the future
c0tnumber those who face toward the
past by many to one. The young cap
tains and the young soldiers Of industry
l"iuse no reverence to the veterans Of
the Civil War on either side, but the
non OIL this generation are determined to
run it. The sons viii preserve and will
magnify the fame of their fathers, but
they VIII not foster or fight over again
+--t -E+'IS, SINCE lEc IdIlCTS lleII1-
selves, an illustriOus and a pathetically
tanning band, long ago renowned rancor
and dissolved differences. Let what peo-
IIe that may elect to do otherwise. the
electives. both Of the North and cf the
south, today believe in factories quite as
much as in ~pantheons. in energy more
than in inquosts and in school houses
more than in graves. A spent quarrel
not of our making and not of yours,
snail not be revived or rcworked to the
1hInaklng Of either Of us. We VEIL
htally honor the shades of ancestors,
.aI We viii not put ourselves among their
.'.l4s. Better a decade of love and
H Geafg than a cycle Of the publications
and Of the memories Of a Civil War!
TWO SECTIONS ONE IN FEELING.
"Lot what I have said explain and jus
Thy my omission to dwell on sentimental
lines Of a|Ilusion. Frankly, l think those
INES have been Overworked. There was
reason for accantuating them until a few
"s ago. The reason ceases when the
'a-act was attained. With US there
j no race question that comes as near
VS. as our doors. With you there IS
i'slao, there are not SO many of you
}A"re are Of Us, nor among you is
acre so large a proportion Of those whc
.-.fed from you in the past. as tho
vase Is with US. Tho number of people
..''a."es the quantity of government
."' Quantity Of government determines
.' 4a"af1 Of preforments. In the same
wy 'H@ amount If population determines
#H.Iwo Of business, and that in tufr
1''a.n"s the appeal Of ability 10 or
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