The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18

4 spoil the state. 1Hey posed as pa
| triots' and when they returned North
they spread the report that the South
| was not hospitable to new settlers
We have not put forth enough effor;
to attract immigrants of the right
kind-that is the truth. But those
who have come have soon found that
| they were in Gods country and among
| an honest and friendly people ASK
any Northern-born man living in Raj
| eigh, or Greensboro, or Charlotte. or
Asheville, and you will get all the cor
| roborative testimony you want
The folks who talk most about "the
| lack of liberation" in North Carolina
are folks who are mad because the
State insists upon voting the Demo-
cratic ticket Ninety-nine times out
| of a hundred the man who complains
| that the State is lacking in breadth
| is man who votes a split ticket or a
| Republican ticket, and thinks there is
mo liberation except among men of
variegated politics. If straight voting
makes men narrow and a State intol>
| Grant, why don't these men thunder at
Vermont and Maine for straight-vot-
ing? l have always believed that the
Maine folks vote the Republican
ticket because they believe in the prin-
ciples of that party as l know the
North Carolina folks vote the Demo-
cratic ticket because they believe in the
principles of that party, but why
Oh 7
ant because they stick to their con-
victions?
The danger today is that men win
| cease to have religious and political
convictions of any sort rather than
that they hold too tenaciously to their
convictions. Commercialism, materi-
alism, mugwumpism lack of faith in
the old-time religion are all at work
trying TO make men opportunists-
believing nothing strongly enough to
fight for il or to die for it, Better
"narrowness" with courage of con-
victions than "broadness" without
strong faith and zeal to propagate it!
Within five years there has been
more progress in education and in
temperance, as evidenced by laws,
than within the past twenty-five years.
\ gentleman said to me last night:
I'VE are going too fast and there may
be reaction if we do not mind" We
are not going so fast as he supposed.
The truth is the educational and tenn
perance progress that has marked the
past few years is not new. 1t is the
accumulation of twenty-five years.
For a quarter of a century this senti-
ment has been pent-up. and as soon
as the suffrage amendment became a
law, it poured forth like a stream that
has been long held back by n high
dam. The men who We're forced to re-
press themselves all these years are the
men who drafted and secured the ra-
LITIGATION OF the amendment, and they
can be trusted to care for the good
stream of education and temperance
that have come like food. 1t is!
the men who have done most for edu- !
cation, who cried "nigger. niger Mig
ger" not in enmity to the negro but
ulous politicians who used the negro for
so many years to dam up the stream of
progress. If the men of the North and |
the South, who used the negro vote for
personal and political ends, will not
interfere with the settlement that Ay-
cock and Glenn and Simmons and
Overman and other like men have
made of the negro question. we can
continue to go forward without danger
of a return to the old days when full
negro suffrage held the State back
from the steady progress it is now
making.
This town has pluck and progress
of the right sort. 1t gave the ne
cessary money to pay the expenses of
the Teachers Assembly. 1t was we'll
invested. Talking about breadth. you
find it here-the sort of breadth that !
is the glory of the Commonwealth.
But inasmuch as the bigger it grows
the bigger is the Democratic majority
here. / expect to hear somebody say
that intolerance" has a firm abiding
place in Greensboro. But these folks
do not trouble about the matter OF
whether they are broad" or mar
row." They just keep on growing,
keep on building schools and factories
and churches, keep on putting money
In the banks, but as they are getting
rich they do not lose their faith in
God or i'm man. They go to church
every Sunday and most of them vote
the Democratic ticket on every cleo
ton day-and they cannot be seduced
from it by criticisms or by purchase
II they continue in this course, they
will be saved in this world and in the
next. J. D.
Judge Moore was shut up to one of
two courses: l. To be guided by the
Supreme Court opinion and rule out
evidence To r,.Ia IN,