The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01

mington to live in September 1876,
do not think there were of ali kinds OF
monthlies, weeklies, dailies, &C., az
many as eighty. Now there are some
800 or more, believe.
Producer and Loser of Great Men.
From lists of successful young men
of North Carolina nativity who are
found in cities in other States, 1T is
apparent that our own State has
been decided producer and loser.
The promising youth of North Caro-
lima now abroad may be counted by
the scores or hundreds. In the last
two decades a great many of our most
gifted youth have gone away into
other States seeking money and sue
cess. The army of 1.-The dispersed
abroad is large and growing every
year. always regret to see an ingen-
uous, noble youth hieing away into
other fields of usefulness beyond, for
it makes North Carolina that much
poorer There is very genuine value
in noble youth. He is one of the
factors of the future, and when he
leaves home and seeks enterprise iii
other lands or States, it is that much
taken from the resources and success
of our really important, advancing old
Mother. An educated, Intellectual
worth much to a State or community
If he is faithful to the traditions and
memories of the past, and loves his
old State, and would defend and hon
or her, he is really a decided loss
when he packs up and seeks pas
lures new Those who remain may
prosper and develop into as high
manhood as he promises and find
equally as inviting pasturage as he
can find, probably abroad. [ know
young man to come to North Caro-
lima from the Northwest. He had ca
pacity for work, was fairly intelligent
and stuck to one calling and pushed
on, thinking there was room at the
top His salary is now quite $4,000.
The young men are not neglected in
this State. To the contrary, they are
very much to the front, and near
threefOurthS of the public places are
held by them. The present North
Carolina delegation in the United
States House is entirely of young
men. The tendency is really to disre-
gard the politics and it's many callings
in life, the elderly men, or even men
of physical and mental Vigor who are
turned of fifty-five or sixty. This is
very unlike old England or New Eng
land, Germany and Italy and France.
In this country wisdom and expert
ence and ripened ability and stores Of
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but little. A man possessed of these
is regarded as an "old fogy" or a
primeval fossil. In other lands these
qualities are greatly valued and are
the forces of the nations But young
America" is thought to have all quail
tiles and endOWmentS and acquisitions
that have been in other countries APP
praised most highly and believed to
have come with the application and
accumulations of age. But the young
are on horseback and are superbly
careering with bouquets and banners
God bless and prosper the youth OF
our country, and particularly of our
Southland, and with special emphasis
of North Carolina. They are the
States hope and safety In proportion
as they are pure men, honorable men,
noble men, with lofty ideals and due
diligence, loving sincerity, the grand
old Commonwealth, and glorylng IN
| it's traditions, it's muniments, its an
cestral faiths it's great deeds, its alb
solute conservatism in the past its SUI
preme love of liberty and a govern
ment of the people, so will they be
steadfast and true, and prove bless
ings and supports to it's prosperity,
stability, free institutions, and good
order. There are of course inferior
youth as there are inferior men OF
more advanced years. These are real
ly of but little importance and value
to a State, and when they go else
where there is no appreciate loss,
but rather a distinctive gain. But for
a youth of good mind, of high aspira-
tons and principles, of excellent
ideals and moral qualities, with all OF
the brilliant hopes of life's young
spring, while Joy wings his feet ana
Joy lifts him from the ground, 1t is
a. clear decided loss to have him
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he having left home and kindred and
neighbors and friends and the needs
of the Mother of all behind him for
ever. He may perchance improve ms
opportunities, enlarge his eXpecta-
tons intensity his love of money,
even win laurels of other peoples be-
stowment, but his own people and his
own native home are the losers
wise. ingenious, manly youth is indeed
| a treasure to be considered with ia
vor by all. The greatest Roman ora
tor. Cicero said: "As | approve of
| a youth, that has something or the
old man in him, so | am less pleased
with an old man that has not some
thing of the youth" He is really
wise as well as an appreciative and
sympathetic old man, who tries to
Keep his life green and his heart
| young by constant sympathy and as
ISOLATION with youth who are the
very May of life, ana VINO wear
with so much of ease and attractive
ness that which Shakespeare de-
| scribes as 'the light and careless liv-
| ing" There are indeed cheerfulness
| and CLEANS of light and auroral
promises in the life of a true, faithful
young man, who honors and obeys
God and the Eternal Son.
jefferson and His Kind of Expansion.
Already that great Virginian states
| man-itS greatest by many odds
Thomas Jefferson, appears in Demo-
| cratic speeches as forerunners of
| what is coming when the two parties
| are fully arrayed with their leaders
| selected. jefferson was man of the
| people but of aristocratic birth. He
| stood for a government by the people.
| His kind of expansion is not that once
| favored by Mckinley. 1t has no con-
nection under heaven with the sky
rocking performances of the crank
| of the White House. Jefferson was Il
! statesman, and he never so much as
| dreamt of the wildcat furore and
fan-fur made of Rooseveltism world
l un,' Mr.. loft do