The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-14

natives nave been taught to read, speak
I'D write English to a considerable extent
Many are teaching the language. dauy
can talk in English. Hear this enthus-
last.
Glasses Of little children learned 70 read
and write a. much and a. we'll a. IN
American fr>t-grade class. Young ncn
and women learned enough English in a
year TO be able TO write a better letter
than most American adults Very bright
and phenomenal Filipinos or very dull, lI
hterate Americans. Whici2 After per
petrating % many outrages against Il {
inh3 bitants. il is time to be doing some
thing to help them.
The United States are striving with
might and main TO become a great naval
powe.. With the foolish expanding ideas
Of inchoate statesmen and blatant iema-
gogues, the Government l. 10 be pushed
and the people more sorely burdened until
the navy Is second to but two great pow
ers, England and France. England Is %
situated that She is compelled to main
tain an enormous navy. Her very safety
depends upon this. 1t has of vessels built,
SAG, of 1,401 ,018 tons; vessels building, IS.
Of 406. $50 tons. She is building eleven first
class battleships. twenty armored cruisers.
France has $40 ships afloat. OF $685. tons
and is building eighty-three OF 213, 49,
tons. OF these, SIX are frst-class battle
ships, and ten armored cruisers. Germany
has a strong navy also-205 vessels built
with 20 building. The United states have
in their navy 100 vessels, of 218,259 tons,
and are building Il vessels OF 900, 4S4 tons
The South is SO barren of educated men
of science and distinguished scholars thai
J Il .,L4,4.4rln~ ,-1,lJ
have 10 remain untitled i The North
did not come to the rescue with their mcr
OF parts and promise. SO at least 1t seems
from the prevailing dependence upon
Northern institutions of learning, and The
number Of Northern-born professors vic
have occupied and are now occupying &
, many chairs in the various higher lnstItu-
tons. But his has been the case al
along. The first president OF the University
OF North Carolina, the first president OF
Wake Forest College, the second presidcnt
Of Trinity College. the first president o
st. Mary's at Raleigh. and so on, were
Northeln-born men think. Three of tho
six professors at the University of Nortl
Carolina in the forties were Northern o,
Englishmen by birth. The heads Of some
leading schools were Northern men. II
all the academies the Northern men ant
women dbOunded. Nowadays Wnen tl'
North is not drawn upon for teachers IL
North Carolina they often come from 9th
or States, while some Of our own best
equipped and ablest men go from home
Today Or. Alderman is at the head O
Tulane University, La; DR.. Moore IS a
the head of the superior Presbyterian
Seminary in Richmond, and DR.. Barringe
for years has been practically p~residen
Of the University Of Virginia, being chair
man of the faculty. Per contra, tn,
University of North Carolina has a Vir
ginian for President, DR.. Venable; Wake
Forest has a Virginian for President, Dr
Charles E. Taylor; Trinity College has !;
South Carolinian; St. Mary's for its las
two Presidents South Carolinians, and s
on. Then the great number of speaker
of late from one end of the State to TIL
other at the multitudinous commencement
! all of the North show how dependent an