The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-24
HOME, SWEET HOME.
One Of the Great Aims of Building
and Loan Associations is to Enable
the Man of Moderate Means to Pro-
cure a Home of His Own.


TEN yet devised cana man SO readily,
so ch"1ply and so surely become the
happy possessOr of IA home of his
own. aud himself n betteranda IL more
loyal and patriotic citizen in consc-
quance.
Home. Sweet Homer' How the
very thought of it stirs the heart ;
deepest emotions. And who does
not hope some day to own a home,
By the aid OF IL Building and Loan
Association YOU could secure q home
for your wife and little ones and pay
ior it with your rent money.
In his address before he business
men Of AsheviIlp, speaking of the bell
efits OF building and Loan Associa-
tions and their value as home build
ers, Mr.. Samuel Wittkows1iy said:
Is there Il word in the English Ian
guage so pOrtentiOus, that has 50
deep II hold on our affections Except
it be that OF mothpr) as the words
oi Home. Sweet Home?''
Ny friends, see that motto which
says that ''iu the American home lies
tn" safeguard ni American liberties.
This motto confirms more truth and
philosophy than could be contained
in theoretical books if piled us high
rs this building 1t is the home OWL
cr OF America and not the foreign
element which constantly fiocks to
our shores bringing with it those
abOmllabie ''isms' from their down
trOdden countries, nor the shlftlesS,
thriftless element of our own country,
but the American home owner who
is ever ready at his country's call to
defend his home from anarchists or
from foreign Invasion.
When the blood crimsOncd names
OF Alexander and Caesar: the glory
encircled names of kings and queens,
statesmen, orators and poets have
faded to IL blur. that of John Howard
Payne will shine in neutrality-suspicious.
in the temple of fame. Hearts of
millions iii every cline and in every
age thrill with delicious love at the
melody of his supreme triumph OF
the world OF song-"Home, Sweet
Home"
1t was the prince of modern rhetO-
ricians, Ingersoll, who painted the
10y of Il home, as described above, in
tie following words:
Not long since stood in the city
OF Paris by the bronze railing that
surrounds the sarcophagus Of black
Egyptian marble that encloses the
ashes OF that restless man Napoleon
the First. In my imagination |
could see him at the head of the
army OF Italy; | could hear the roar
of his battle thunders from the
shores of the Baltic to the foot OF
| the Pyramids; | could see him on the
| Russian retreat, when the cavalry OF
| the wind and infantry of the snow
scattered his legiOns like winter
| withered leaves; and then | could see
| him Il wrecked and broken prisoner
on q rock i'll the sea; and then | said
to myself i had rather have been a
| French peasant wearing a cotton
| blouse and wooden shoes and inhab
itinw my own humble cottage on
some vine clad hill, with the grapes
growing purple i'll the kisses of the
| autumn sun. the voices OF nv chill
dren making music around my door
and the glad smile of my wife speak.
ing the happiness of home, than tc
have been that magnificent imper
sonation of ambition, discomfort and
death called Napoleon the First -
Oh, if at some day a grand review
OF the organizations of the world o.
business activity, those Organiza
tions should unfurl their banners anC
notices to the gazing thousands
what one would or could be more
beautiful, what one could touch the
heart 50 quickly as the banner O
our Building and Loan Association
emblazed with the magic words:
! Mid pleasures and palaces. though we ma,
roam,
Be it ever so humble. there's no place hll
home.
My fellow citizens, my task is near
" completed, and as far as the i'm
portance OF the subject demands,
know, imperfectly performed, but
have endeavOred to the best of m,
ability to lay the matter before yol
succinctly, honestly and truthfullv
and it is now for you to do and tt
act on that which is so plainly t(
your own interest, from Il financial
moral and even patriotic standpoint
and | hope to have the gratifica
tion of seeing YOU flock to the desl
and subscribe liberally V to the stock
as do our people who have tried i
for over 20 years Do this, and hun
dreds of people yet unborn will ris
up and bless you. Do this, and tn
now neglected places around ant
about you, lying waste and grown
over with fungi and weeds will buil(
up and blossom as the roses Pleas
ant cottages and happy homes will
spring up around you, which will en-
nance in value hundred, aye, man,
hundred fold, rejecting their en-
hanced values to every house, ant
even palace in this city. 1t will ex
tend to the utmost ends of you
country, for as the heart is to tn
human body, to it and from it fiov
the life-giving fluid; so the count.
town is to the county and ever,
acre of land in the county land Incl
dentally SO to the State) will real
the benefit of it. Do this, and in tn
near future you will behold happ,
children playing at the doors of thei
parents home, the happy, contentet
wife of the toiler fitting about tn