The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-20
NOTES ON THE GREENSBORO REUNION.

Coates of the American Union came back again
70 the Old Mother State; and these were prodigal
.ors who had not wasted their substance in riot
NC living, but came back richer in honors and in
wealth.
Senator NJ. w. Ransom was nominally the pre-
siding officer, but most of the actual work fell to
n NcTver. General Ransom is clearly in his
do+aoe, and we do not think it is good taste to
longer exhibit him in places of such responsibility.
Governor Aycock's address of welcome was an
excellent resume of North Carolina history, lack
ing slightly, however, the fire and eloquence which
he nuts into addresses not read from manuscript.
And while he and other speakers seemed to lay
unnecessary emphasis on North C~arolina's war
record. his explanation is worth considering. II
talk war and the part North Carolina played in
the war" he said, because they show what an
aroused citizenship can do. The same spirit that
caused North Carolina to make sacrifice and he
roic effort in war, will, if energized, allow no
limit to be placed upon her wonderful achieve
ments in time of peace"
The only criticism that can be made of the
responses from the other States is that they
we're too long. DR.. McIver announced that they
would be limited to seven minutes each, but we
believe that every speaker present passed that
dead-Iine.
Tuesday was the red letter day however; and a
more beautiful day, a better-humored crowd, and
more attractive program have seldom been COM
bined on any occasion in North Carolina.
Shepard Bryan, of Atlanta, in the absence of
Hoke Smith, spoke for Georgia.
Indiana's spokesman was Mr.. r. NJ. Bartlett,
and he represented the thousands who went from
North Carolina to Indiana in the two decades be-
fore the Civil War-so many emigrants from
this State that it is said it was seriously pro-
posed that the Commonwealth be named "New
Carolina"
The statement made by Mr.. Joseph M. Dixon,
the young Congressman from Montana, that he
left North Carolina because he wished to get into
aStatc Of greater political freedom, is we'll worth
thinking about. In the days when the negro was
a power in politics, the old-time intolerance may
have been excused, but in this day of changed
conditions, there must be greater freedom or the
State will surely degenerate.
The next speaker was DR.. Paul B~arringer, of
the University of Virginia. We believe it was
he who brought out the interesting fact that while
the other States adopted notices in the begin
nng OF their history-mottoes which were there
lore more or less artificial and forced-North
Car"l'na was chosen a hundred years later, when
NE s~turdiness and indebtedness Of her people
found spontaneous expression in the phrase,
ESee guam videri'-It is better to be, than to
appear to be.
Aurat Halstead, the famous Ohio journalist,
was the only speaker who was not a native Tar
aeeL, hut both his parents were born in North
Carolina.
Dr. Walter H. Page talked in his usual direct
ana thoughtful fashion, emphasizing the fact that
our only nurseries of sturdy, masterful Anglo
saxon manhood to-day are New England and the
south; the other sections have lost in force by
"e constant infusion of foreign blood from the
weaker races of Europe. "There are only two