The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-15
A WELCOME TO THE FAIR.

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The welcome to the fair will this
wear have a National significance.
During the past decade the annual
celebration of the States agricultural
and manufacturing resources has
grown I'm value and extent as exhibit
ton. spectacle and holiday. 1t has
come to be permanently a State enter
prise. a time when people gather to-
gether to enjoy themselves. to touch
elbows and to swap experiences from
every section of North Carolina. It
has come to be time suspicious for
the speaking of ideas. for the begin
nings of movements for State prog
ress. for the taking hold of new
thoughts and the up-raising of new
courage. Men OF force have seen il
as an opportunity of impressing state
needs; thoughtful folk have recog-
nized its Importance as teaching and
nourishing State pride. the great mass
of the people have hailed it as a prof
liable season of rest and relaxation
after harvest, as a TIME for pleasure
after labor. rsz~ s--s. a- - esfS T
All Of these ends of the great fair
a progressive management have work
ed faithfully in and out of season to
further often at great. disadvantage.
always with measure of success
which has been dfsproportionately
large to their means and opportunity
and q tribute to their unselfish zeal.
AS fair this seasons occasion
will rank with the successes of the
past, Showing a percentage of better
ment in the excellence of the institu-
ton itself in accordance with the pro-
gress which the State which 1t
represents has shown. There has
been growth in agriculture, in manu-
featuring, in education in the hum
dreds of the varied employments of
the people. All these the fair will
show forth better than before. We
have learned the better. to enjoy our
selves. The fair will have amusements
more i'm keeping with the tastes and
demands of the great public. The fair
will be as the people have become,
Il more prosperous, a more sober.
happier occasion. SO much for the
fair. as the expression of the causes
and sentiment. Were the Fair all,
there would be mammoth crowds
which would overshadow those of
former -ears.
But the President is coming. The
representative man of tie country will
be i'm attendance. will speak words
which the people of an entire nation
will read the following morning with
the seriousness which always attaches
to the utterances of the first man of
the Nation. 1t behooves the State
to see that the President meets peo-
pie who will be representative of the
state which he is visiting in his Of
fetal capacity as National Chief. 1t
is an honor to the State that he should
come here and speak to the people;
he will be accorded a greeting which
will be an honor to himself as Pres
ident and as a man. North Carolin-
ians for the most part voted against
Theodore Roosevelt. But they recog-
nize in him elements of char
acter and of force and of man
hood. Caroliuians are not the
folk to nourish prejudice. They
arc willing to give every man fair
show. They will listen to what the
President has to say with dignified
attention. They will come to sec him.
at the Fair as free men having a part
i'm the government They will carry
away the picture of a remarkable
personality and they will see in the
man himself no wonder save that of
the opportunity of American citizen
ship. We will not go wild over the
President, but will treat him with the
respect which is his due and maintain
our own self respect at the same time.
In hospitality and genuine pleasure
at greeting in the State the elected
of the Nation North Carolina will go
50 far as innate courtesy and patriot
ism suggest, and no further The
boy from the farm and the President
from the White House will be men to-
gether in Raleigh on the 18th.
The opportunity of seeing the Pres
idcnt will however. greatly Augment
the crowds, will help the fair, will