The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-04
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Editorial correspondence

| ed physician of Richmond, Va, who is
native of this county, was splendid
production in matter and in delivery
and charmed the vast audience that
heard him. He has won distinction in
Richmond, because he has worked and
studied and shown himself a great
physician. To his professional skill,
he unites the graces of the finished
orator and the manner of a North
Carolina gentleman-the son of an
honored and Industrious and patriotic
North Carolina farmer The son has
won more reputation in his larger
field than came to the father, who
was a farmer, but he looks back now
to that father and like North Carolina
farmers as the highest type of Ameri-
can citizenship and true chivalry that
expresses itself without ostentation.
There were two other. addresses by ma
tive born Harnett men-Lawyer Muir
Gibson, of Jonesboro, and Editor Hill
lard, of Scotland Neck. They are
among the most talented men in their
warmly received and their speeches
applauded. Mr.. Murchison comes
here often and practices in the Har-
nett county court and is always at
home here. Mr. billiards. home is
more remote, but he loves to come
back and lay his trophies at the feet
of his old mother. There was general
regret that Rev. c. W. Byrd,
d. D., a native of this
county, who was born near this
place. now pastor of the leading Meth
odist church in Atlanta. was detained
in Atlanta and could not speak to the
people He is easily the greatest man
North Carolina Methodism has pro-
has been often mentioned in connec-
ton with the bishopric of his church.
If the General Conference should be
wise enough to choose him, he would
measure up to the great men who
have filled that great office, and North
Carolina would have in the bishopric
a man of whom every citizen of the
State would be proud. But Harnett
has not sent out its best men and has
kept at home men just as worthy and
just as useful, if their fame is not so
great If any doubted he needed only
to look upon the handsome chief mar
shall. Mr.. John M. Hodges, and the
handsome master OF ceremonies, ex-
Senator H l., Goodwin
1t was a fine day. The Rhamkatte
Vestibule, with affable President John
A. Mills on board, handled the great
crowds magnificently, without friction
or accident. The people were here
from every quarter and of every age
from the old man seventy years of
age, who has never been so far away
from home as to visit Raleigh, (but
who is coming to the State Fair to see
a live President who can kill bea)
to the baby in arms too young to
travel. There were babies here
galore. and pretty babies, too. They
have been taught not to cry, too. How
did their mothers accomplish that
science? Since the days when the
mother of John Wesley raised a large
family of children without permitting
one of them to cry, the race of moth
ers who could raise children without
tears seems to have almost run out.
Many mothers in Harnett have learn
ed Mrs. Wesley's secret. They were
bn hob nd oct
of the babies slept peacefully while
the mothers listened to the historical
addresses of the able speakers. There
Is no race suicide in Harnett. While
labor is not plentiful, a new genera
ton of large families is coming on
that will develop every resource of
this good county. Harnett parents
sing this song pretty often, if l may
judge by the number of children here
today:
There came to port the other night
The queerest little craft,
Without an inch of rigging on,
l looked and looked-and laughed.
The best folks in the world to de-
velop North Carolina resources will be
native born North Carolinfans. If l
were Governor Glenn, I would add to
my immigration program an agitation
for large families in North Carolina
after the good old times before de
wah, sah.'' OF course we don't want
to wait for the babies to be born, and
want all good and industrious folks
who will come here, but if Governor
Glenn would go up and down the
State appealing to the people to de-
velop the resources of the State by
raising large families l actually be-
lieve we would have a larger increase
in population in ten years than we will
get through any bureau that could be
established, and they would be born
every mothers son of them-with tar
on their heels and make the very sort
of citizens we want. We hear great
deal about wanting labor. Yes but
we want no class that will not become
good North Carolina citizens. If Gov