The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-29


speaker a descendant of Franklin
county. has long loved its people.
knows their past and present and has
hope and confidence in their future.
When he declared with dramatic eff
feet that in recalling to mind the past
of LCuisburg, he struck a note that
was forty years old. a fair girl near
me said ''Wcll ] Dc rlarc he don't,
look it," But the tilbdte to Louis
| burg's departed good men and women,
showed that the Lieutenant Governor
had struck a chord that was respon-
sive in his heart.
And this may nave accounted
for the note in his address which pro-
claimed that North Carolina cannot
be reconstructed from without. but
its reconstruction must be within
You cannot breed a craftsmanship IN
the State that leaves out the Iives of
I Graham. Badger, Davis: for upon
their lives and work. one pure citizen
lship has been builded. You cannot
! ndoctrnate a religion in the State
that leaves out the lives of Gloss and
Craven and Wingate. and Atkinson
ana the other Cody yet militant men
who braved the worlds anger and its
scorn to stand at last before the
Master a religion not based on their
work is q sham and pretence. You
cannot build in North Carolina q
school system that leaves out Hugh
Williams, Judge Murphy. Calvin II.
Wiley, caldwell, Wingate. Craven AMI
their fellow aborers. North Carolina
cannot be reconstructed by pressure
from without. Reconstruction from
without means destruction
The speaker applied the teachings
CT the Masonic fraternity to the citi-
zensnip of the day and to the work
then in hand when he declared that
the Fundamental idea of the order and
OF good government was mutual help
Doing good to all. The address was
= fitting elimination of the effort of
this community to do something for
all the community.
''AS people combine for the good of
all. who are poor. high and low. wise
and ignorant. the results that flow
therefrom are blessed: when men
combine against the common good:
against the mass of mankind: the re-
suits that flow are curses True De-
mocracy means the training of all: not
of the few; and it means the training
of all in all the walks of life: not the
schooling of all in a few of lfe's ways
The ideal school was predicted in
the close of the magnificent address,
which was voted on all sides as having
been a splendid speech. Gov Win
White he used manuscript a good deal.
yet ne did so with so much ease as to
distract nothing from the effective
ness of his address, which charmed
the great audience which applauded
vigorously.
After the Speech.
The address being ended there were
congratulations for Governor Winston
and many words of hope for the ed
vocational future of Louisburg based
upon the beginning of the graded
school building today. These pleasant
words over the procession was re-
formed and passed to the lodge room
where it was dismissed. During the
afternoon preceding the banquet
tonight the fine Third Regiment Band
gave a concert on the street and it
was greatly enjoved, the cheers ring
ing out when "DIxie' was the music.
The exercises today and tonight was
in charge of an able committee of
arrangements which did it's duty well
and happily. being composed of Mes.
sers w. w. Bodie chairman, r. A.
Bobbitt. E. c. Barrow, o. B. Cheat
ham. j. w. Hollingsworth and W. II.
WaddelE The Reception Committee,
which made the dav pleasant for all
was COMPOSED of MeSsrs. j. A. Thomas
chairman, G. s. Baker, O. c. Gregory.
3. B. Perry. and J. A. Turner.
There are about sixty members to
Louisburg Lodge No. 413. which was
first instituted as Clinton Lodge. No.
124. fire destroyed the hall and rec
ords in 1876. 1t ceased to- exist in
1887 and a new charter was granted
in 1889. the lodge being located at
ROYAL. six miles from Loulsburg In
1898 it was moved here and in 1879
new charter was granted. me lodge
is now in a flourishing condition and
the officers are:
j. w. Barrow. Worshipful Master;