The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
Their Salvation With Them
selves.
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make your own supplies, so as to live
at home, and still not suffer by hold
ing your cotton and tobacco. Diversity
your crops raise your own wheat
corn, and make your own meat, and
store away your cotton until your
demands are acceded to, for those
mills in New England will not allow
themselves and their industry to be
paralyZed by permitting that cotton to
remain an idle factor in our South
ern warehouses. Another most inn
portant thing: live within your in
come.
stand for what is right, not for
anything that is eXtortiOnate, but de-
mand what is just and your rights
from the government, from railroads,
from combines. and from manufacture
ers, and finally you will get it. Force
the government through Congress to
open more markets. China and Japan
are our markets. The manufactures,
being better protected, are enabled to
pay more for their labor, and this
draws men from your farms to the
city and town. The country is be-
coming depopulated, and the towns
overcrowded. Change, these condi-
tons. Make the government take its
hands off you, and give a fair field
to all. 1t should control rates. But
the best remedy for the farmers is
in themselves: you must form COM
bination to offset the actions of others,
you must unite in one great union Tor
cooperation. Educate your boys and
girls: make them strong in power by
knowledge; and your boys will be
looked up to-, and they will stay on
the farms and make farming a more
lucrative profession.
North Cardinals Future.
81 vic
1t is not of the past, in its darkness
and deSolatiOn, nor of reconstruction
and it's slums and horrors; nor OF
the present and its prosperity, but TINS
vision is of the future, with the rivers
of North Carolina wearing golden
harness, and the hillsides bestarred
with new factories, and the valleys
clothed in the splendor and magnifi-
cence of activity in every field of eff
fort. and from everywhere rising the
inspiring and stirring music issuing
from the harmony of the might whirl
and rush of machinery that tells OF
ten thousand new industries, and OF
North Cardinals wonderful resources
being developed. | see new schools
where every boy in the State may be
taught for the glory of God and the
good of man, where life and vitality
are dispensed to young manhood. l
see one thing more, worth in itself all
the rest. | see North Carolina a
sober State, virtuous and most hon
orable State, and aniindustrlous state.
Instead of the bottle we Will give you
books for the brains of your boys and
girls. All the bridges | have crossed
are burned behind me-. and henceforth
| am going to stand for industry,
thrift, temperance. virtue and prosper
ity in North Carolina, and l Will try
to the utmost to put down all that has
a tendency to instill lthriftlessness, vice
and corruption amono the youth of the
State
Governor Glenn's closing words
were O conflagration of eloquence, and
a reflection of the light they carried
shone in the face of every person in
the audience. He appealed to the
farmers to lift up their heads, mighty
men of valor and righteousness, and he
inspired them to march forward with
their cause as earnestly. as patriotic
ally and as faithfully, as they did from
g to 65. He urged them to be UNI
compromising in the right, and said
they would be uhconquerable, and
that final victory for them would be
inevitable.
The Annual Address.
The annual address, delivered by
President E. L.. aDaughtridge, sue
ceeded Governor Glenn's speech.
President Daughtridge said:
When we recall the recent results
of the organization of the Southern
farmers. we realize that the time nd;
passed when there is no slgnncance
to a farmers convention. The results
that have been accomplished and VIII
be accomplished by farmers meet
ings and conventions is a source of
qualification to us all. | attribute, in
a large measure, the success we have
attained, to the great educational era
that has passed over the State. 1t
has benefited the farmer as we'll as
other classes of the people, 1t mas
caused us to give more thought to
our work and has aroused within US a
desire that was dormant to gain more
knowledge of agriculture and to bet
ter equip ourselves, till the soil sue
cessfully and to battle against that
oppression, and discrimination tn
farmer has been subjected to. Edu-
cation has given us and VIII give US
that respect for ourselves, that Will
force tn world to respect us. Do
YOU know that the world cares very
little for those who do not care for
themselves? This is a fact; and in
order to be respected and to gain that
recognition among men, to which we
are entitled, we must educate our
selves and take our place along with
people of other Vocations.
The reason the agricultural people
of this State have so long been down.
trodden and depressed is simply be
cause they have been illiterate, and
men of other vocations have been edu-
Gated and trained in their various
lines of work. Intelligence has al
ways ruled the world, and will con-
tinue to do So and if we hope to keep
abreast with other men in the on
ward march to prosperity and happi-
ness we must educate and equip our
selves and our boys and girls who are
to come after us, and who are to take
our place in shaping our future des-
TIMES
Ignorance and the lack OF lnforma-
ton has cost the Southern farmer
many dollars, and in many ways; nrSt'
because we have not had the prac-
sical, chemical knowledge of our SOILS
we have spent millions of dollars III
supplying our lands WITH fertlllzlng
material that they were not denclent
in. For instance some of our lands
are well supplied with nitrogen or
ammonia, especially after certain
Iscrops have been grown the previous
year. Others contain potash or lime
or acid phosphate. Still, as rule, the