The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-29
SIG. aoo. 600, 900 of such prop


nearly 100000 900 of such prop
elty.
Twenty years ago we raised only
100000 bales of cotton and used IN
the South $4,000 bales. Now we
raise over 10000, 900 bales and use in
the South 100000 bales Twenty
years ago we had sci, 100000 invested
in cotton mills and operated 66l 200
spindles. Now we have $230,000,oo0
in cotton mills and operate S,6l5,OOO
spindleS Our farmers 20 years ago
raised 431 100000 bushels of grain;
now 940,000.000 bushels. Then we
produced 397 600 tons of pig iron;
now 1900, 600 tons of pig iron. We
raise So per cent of all the cotton IN
the United States. rs per cent. of all
the tobacco, 80 per cent of all tn.
peanuts, grow all the rice and nearly
one-half of the standing timber Of
the country. This gives a picture Of
how we have come out of poverty 10
affluence and wealth.
I'm my own State, North Carolina.
it used to be said that tar, pitch and
ttrpentine were our principal pro-
ducts but this is no longer So for we
raised 900 bales of cotton in 1901
and the value of our property in 1870
was $500, 100000, and in 1904, $S4L-
600 900. thus showing how rapidly We
have increased.
eve practically owe no debt for
while we have a bonded indebtedness
of $6000,0 900, we hold stock in rail-
roads amounting to $7,50O,0OO,so that
our resources are in excess of our
debt nearly 100000 North Caro-
lima is first in the number of the cot
ton mills in all the states, and third
in the number of looms and splndles
Last year my State manufactured
100,0 900 more bales of cotton than she
raised
Eve therefore come to bid all well
come who will come into our midst.
and say to them that the motto Of
Horace Greeley should no longer be
60 West young man. but should be.
if YOU want homes and to live among
generous people. where you would
be welcome and get returns on the
great wealth that you have accumu-
lated in the eastern states in the way
of an investment that would pay YOU
six, seven, eight and 10 per cent,
come South, and you will find the
words that | utter are words of truth.
''Some people may object, saying
that the conditions down there are
not sufficient to induce them to come,
and that we are sectional. This $
utrue, for we love the nation with
our whole heart and soul. as shown
by the readiness i'm which we en-
gagged in the Spanish American war,
though / am the son of a|Conf@der I"
soldier whose father died for the
cause that he though was right ana
therefore have no apology TO maze
for our cause as I hope to live to see
the day that the names of Lee ana
Stonewall Jackson will be cheered In
New Hampshire and Massachusetts
and the name of Grant and Lincoln
will be honored and revered IN the
Southland, not because they belonged
to that section. but were part OF the
whole country.
at is urged that we do not treat
the colored people right. We give
Them every legal right to which they
are entitled. We give them schools FOR
their children just as we give them
to the whites. We give them places
for their poor and their needy for
their deaf, dumb blind and insane.
not places poor and i'll equipped, out
up-to-date, where every comfort anu
care can be guaranteed TO them rms
anv man can see by coming to our
country. The only thing we deny TO
the Negro is social equality, and we
do this because We believe that Goa
made the Anglo-Saxon superior
race to any other. and We treat the
Negro and the Indians alike. 1t was
a Negro. Uncle Nat, to whom my
father, dying on the battlefield of
South Mountain entrusted his watch
and his keepsake and his money to
take to his widow and orphans, and
the faithful black servant tramped
barefoot and ragged and hungry. 900
miles to the home and stayed there
and worked for the family till COO
called him to join his beloved master
above. Can / abuse the race to when
Uncle Nat belonged?
81 love the South and her people
7 love the stars and stripes Whlch
wave over every sea. and no man
dare oppose. And the day is coming
when all the world shall know that
this nation is that nation Whose God
is Lord