The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25

| magnifcpnce or neF puDllc improve
ments and prosperity Of her people be-
speak. The music OF her spindles the
| din Of har factory whistles, mfngline
with Tho roar OF her trains dashinp in
and ont ali the livelong day and
| throuo,hoIf the lonely night is sweet
haryn0nv ia the ear of every North
! C,arolinian and is heard WitIk,delioht
| from ono end of the State to the 9th
err. with the hearing our people
| have eathered strength and hope.
They have been aroused and have be-
stirred themselves. The State has
| thrown off its seeming lethargy. We
are no longer the Rip Van Wrinkles of
the Union. North Carolina is now
veritable beehive. Every man who
seeks honorable employment at
pro0tahle price finds it, and peace
and plentv have been scattered over
this smiling land. Thank God that in
North Carolina, and here in Raleigh
i'm narticular we have held on with
one hand 10 that old-time Southern
civilization in which virtue, chival-
ry hospitality respect for women
| love of home, and the hungering of
the soul for individual freedom reign
ed supreme, while with the other we
have reached out for and grasped the
hustle and push for commercial SUI
DTe1laCN,
lives OF many men in adjoining States
and have brought the two together
here, harmonizng one with the other
and have produced as the result an
ideal twentieth century civilization.
You are q busy people, but your
time has not been so fully occupied
that you have been compelled to neg
lect the poor and needy. You have
without doubt learned the lesson Of
the Good Samaritan in the broadest
sense Your numerous charitable or
CARNATIONS emphasize the fact that
you have accepted long ago, and in u
practical manner, the Divine injunc-
ton that YOU are your brothers. keep
er. Your splendidly equipped city dis
pensary and hospitals for both races,
attended by your most distinguished
physicians, not only make Raleigh
medical center, but they stand to-
day q last monument more enduring
than marble to your charity and phi
lanthropy.
We love to visit Raleigh, because
we know you appreciate our worth,
and sympathize with us in our work.
We know you love and respect your
doctors, and you of a right should,
for you are blessed as your family
physicians with some of the brightest
and most distinguished men who have
adorned the medical profession. No
man can estimate the value of the ser
vices of the medical men. With char
acteristic generosity and love of man
kind, the doctor has labored since the
beginning of civilization to eradicate
disease, to destroy his own business
for the common good. Without his
advice and knowledge, and they given
almost gratuitously,. disease would
sweep over the entire world almost in
flash. Under the present trade con-
ditiOns, were it not for medical science.
cholera would rage in North Carolina
in eight weeks, and yellow fever
would invade our beautiful Southland
and literally wipe our great cities
from the face of the earth in an in
credibly short time. 1t has rendered
diptheria almost harmless, and rob-
bed smallpox of nearly all it's terrors.
1t has hurled it's battalions against the
plague and a score of other diseases
which annihilated whole cities in the
past, and in civilized countries they
have surrendered. IT has assailed ty-
phoid fever, .ljod poison, ma1arial fe-
ver, tuberculosis, and they are today
rapidly retreating before it's advancing
columns. Typhus fever, leprosy, sour
Wy and a half dozen ancient diseases
are now known only by the students
of medical history.
If we but haG the unqualified en-
dorsement of the public. or of the
leaders. within thirty years we could
render inert or destroy practically all
of the thirty-Ofe transmissible dis
eases, thus saving to the people of
the United States annually in cash
alone more thaTcthe tax valuation of
all property bog real and personal
in North Carolires
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fession has ever patented for person
al gain or ACKNOWLEDGMENT any
medicine, apparatus or procedure by
which humanity may be benefited.
When an improved technique is work.
ed out, or a new medicine is discov-
cred. no one publishes it for the bene-
fit of mankind quicker than the doc
tor. He has laid upon the public al
tar his hyperdermic syringes, his an
aesthetics. his vaccine, his anti-toXine,
his great scientific archaeological
work, without which modern civiliza-
ton would be impossible, and said to
the suffering diseased-stricken world
I give it all to thee, like Salvation,
tbs full and free"
No trust has ever been formed by
the medical profession for it's own
advancement. The doctor has never
monopolized one thing save exposure
to the elements of nature and diseases
of man, unless it be the heart-aches
and pangs of sorrow which fall upon
the hearth-stones of this community
where the loved ones of his patrons
dwell.
1t is the most important and most
Weighty business except perhaps the
ministry, and it shares equally with it,
in which mortal man has ever been
engaged Neither Washington when
facing annihilation by starvation and
cold winters blast at Valley Forge,
nor Lee when retreating from Rich
mond and Petersburg with the rem
nants of the grandest army of heroes
the world has ever seen to a sure
surrender at Appomattox, neither of
them, though on q larger scale, ever
faced a more serious problem than
that which .confronts the medical man
when he enters the sick chamber to do
battle i'm a hand to hand conflict with
the common enemy of humanity,
striving to drive death from the door
and restore to the pale cheek of the
sufferer the red nose of health. Re-
CARELESS of the weather, the doctor
rushes forth at night to rescue the
diving. In storm or calm he works
the Iivelong day. fighting often against
fearful odds, not 'for his own al
tars," but for those of others. He