The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-17
Governor Glenn Enthuses
the Puritans.
ON NORTH CAROLINA
He lis Regarded as The Foremost
Spokesman for the New Indus
trial South. His Tour Will Re-
suit in Good for This
State.

States, preaching the Industrial
South, and North Carolina. He has
received innumerable ovations, and is
vsibly lifting the heavy mists of pre-
judice from the historic hills of the
Puritans. He is hailed as the new
prophet of the South, as the interpre-
ter of the highest impulses and en-
thusiasms of the people of the South,
and as the Governor OF the State
which best exemplifieS the stirring in
dustrial and commercial spirit of the
Southern States in their endeavors to
attain supremacy and their old pres
tige.
Governor Glenn does not confine his
talks to one subject but touches on
every phase of the Souths economic
activities. And he does not broaden
his speeches to the South generally,
but speaks particularly of North Car
DINA, and there are many who have
faith to believe that his tour will re-
suit in attracting capitalists to North
Carolina, 10 develop the States vast
water powers, locate mammoth fac
tories of all kinds, and revolutionize
the States industries.
Governor Glenn makes a different
speech at each city he talks, but every
address is full of vigor and interest
and figures.
The Boston Daily Globe and the
Manchester Union publishes Cover
nor Glenns Concord, n. H., speech
IS follows:
THE object in coming to the New
England States was to get better ac-
quainted with the people of that sec
ton and have them become better
acquainted with us, so that we could
ri nc "a rp3llV q and
not as newspapers and designing poll
ticians have often misrepresented us
In coming here it was not our in
tention to attempt t0~Doast of our con-
ditions or surroundings but simply in
an honest way to tell the people of
our resources, and also to be able to
return and tell our people of the
wealth of this section. In this country
of ours, now growing SO rapidly, each
section is mutually dependent one
upon the other. In the carly winter
and spring the South furnish the
fruits and truck products to New Eng
land and in the fall and winter when
their supply ceases they get these
things back from the North. We give
TO New England our cotton; they re-
turn ito us the manufactured goods.
We send to them our iron and coal;
they reproduce it in steel rails and
all kinds Of useful fabrics. and thus
the lives of these two sections are in
terwoven closer together. The only
thing necessary to bring them togeth-
er is to become better acquainted.
There is nothing sectional in our
visit, for We want it distinctly under
stood that we glory in the prosperity
of the whole Countrywide North and
East as well as the South, and with
our hearts filled with the same patriot
ism that all others are when we con-
slider the growth of our nation. We
thank God that we are American citi-
zens and live in the United States.
seventy years ago this great cOun
try had only ninety-three miles of
poorly equipped railroads; today over
100000 miles of luxurious railroads.
comprising one-half the mileage of
the whole world. Now, our imports
amount to $1,000, 100000 each year.
exceeding our imports by 500, 100000,
and when the Panama canal is dug
and the inter-oceanic waterways es-
tablished there is no estimating what
our power and wealth will be. But.
while loving the whole nation, it is
not treason for me to say that there
is one section that l love more than
all the rest and that is our Southland.
Before the war we were worth
over $4,000, 900, 900; in 1870 less than
S30OO.OOOO and now according to
the estimates of some we are worth
$4,000, 900, 600. and of others nearly
$4,000, 600, 600.
Twenty years ago we raised only
100000 bales of cotton and used in
the South 1SS,000 bales. Now we
raise over 100000 bales and use in
the South 100000 bales. Twenty
years ago we had $4,000, 900 invested
in cotton mills and operated $4,000
spindles. Now we have $230,00O,OOO
in cotton mills and operate S.615.0O0
spindles. Our farmers twenty years
ago raised 431,000,000 bushels of
grain; now $40. 600. 900 bushels. Then
we produced $4,000 tons of pig tron
now 100000 tons of pig IRON We
raise IS per cent of all the cotton in
the United States. rs per cent of all
tobacco, SO per cent of all peanuts.
grow all the rice and nearly one-half
of the, standing timber of the coun-
try. This gives a picture of how we
have come out of poverty into afffu-
ence and wealth. In my own State,
North Carolina, it used TO be said that
tar, pitch and turpentine were our
principal products, but this is no lon
ger So for We raised SOC, 900 bales
of cotton in 1904, and the value of
our property in 1870 was $26O,75O, 900,
and in 1904. $4,000, 600; thus show
ing how rapidly We have increased.
I'VE practically owe no debt for
while we have a bonded Indebtedness
of 100000 600, we hold stock in rail-
roads amounting to $7.500,00O. so that
our resources are in excess of our
debt nearly $1,000,000. North Caro-
lima is first in the number of cotton
mills in all the States and third in
the number of looms and spindIes
Last year we built a new schoolhouse
for every day in the year and the
expenditures for schools have increas-
ed from 1880 when they were $352.-
900, to $2,000.000 per year in 1904.
Thus We see that in this Southland
and in my own State we have a coun-
try rich in resources and only need
ing development to make it the first
in the land. We therefore come to bid
all welcome who will come into our