The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-24
(By the Associated Press )

Washington. May Ex-Governor
Robert B. Glenn. of North Carolina,
was unanimously elected presiding
officer. and delivered the opening ad-
dress. At the outset of his remarks
he received applause by stating that
while he had come to Washington
with his heart filed with love for the
section in which he lived there were
no men living that loved. honored and
revered "the great nation in which we
live more than the delegates who are
here today from south OF ason and
Dixon's line" He rejoiced in the com
mon prosperity extending over the
whole United States.
After drawing q pen picture of the
development of the country. during the
last hundred years. Governor Glenn
touched upon the devastation wrought
in the South by the contest between
the States. and said the people of that
section had gone ahead with will to
redeem. reclaim. and build it up. He
spoke of the enormous production OF
cotton, iron, timber and other COM
modities in the South. and declared
that it had risen to the place where
it ought to stand "edual, if not SUI
perior to any other section in the uni-
verse in which we live"
But" he said "while the harvest
of the South is great the laborers are
few" LaborerS were needed anywhere
and everywhere, and he declared that
the South held out to them oppor-
tunities, and if they would come there
was no reason why they could not have
the same returns. the same wealth and
be even greater and grander than in
any other section of the country. But
while men of brains and energy were
wanted the South did not want the
riff-raff of the country or of the
world.
He ArOuseS Enthusiasm.
Governor Glenn then aroused his
audience to high pitch of enthusi-
asm when he denounced the methods
of certain immigration agents of Wes-
tern railroads to turn the tide of set
tlement from the South by sending
abroad maps showing the marvellous
prosperity i'm the West. but picturing
the Southern States in lines of black
in order to show that the negroes have
superiority over the whites: that the
South is a place where very few if
any whites live: where men of money
only can endure and where the white
labor cannot endure because it is the
home of the negro. and where the
HcSIO II Hldue dH equal partner WIFI
the whites.
THAT assertion he vehemently de-
clared ''is false. and L herald it here
today. 1t is the duty of every honest
man in the United States whether he
is a Northerner. a Southerner. or a
WeSterner, to remove this calumny
from the best and p"rest people this
country has ever known
In the South. the Governor said the
negro is given every legal right he is
entitled to. Their children are edu-
Gated as are the white children: they
are given asylums for their deaf, dumb
and blind. and everywhere they are
given the merciful hand. but he
said. there is one distinction. one
line we draw. and that is the line cf
social equality" That he proclaimed
can never be. The races were separ-
ated by the laws of eternity. because
he said the white man never was in
tended to be put on a social equality
with the negro. He appealed to every
one present to make known the truth
and thus correct an error and a lie."
In vigorously Genying the charge
that one of the potent reasons for the
less rapid development of the South
was the existence of a feeling of sec
tiOnalism and hate for the North. Gov
ernor Glenn bade welcome to the peo-
pie of the country from every section.
saying they would be given the highest
chair in the guest chamber.
The day had come when the names
of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert e. Lee
would be equally applauded.