The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-12
THE STATE AND
ITS UP-BU|lD|NC
Governor GIenn's Vivid
Picture of Progress.
THE SOILAkD THE MILL
Problems OF Manufacturing Easy to a
State Blessed by Nature and Offer
ing All Advantages Tor Raw Ma
ierial and the Finishing OF
Products.
py GOVERNOR GLENN.

ny GOVERNOR GLENN.
The most conservative occupation
&C a people is the cultivation of the
soil. 1t is in the land that is laid
the foundations of wealth that, slow
~ accommodating, make possible the
quicker progress of the future which
follows upon manufacturing. banking,
the applied forces of nature To scien,
tific enterprise. Farming is the re-
source of a people who must await
their destiny. The land cannot be
shine and the will to work with the
hands are common heritage OF hui
mainly. he earth supports life and
nourIshes ambition. That people :
abiding prosperity is most certain who
build around their fields. Great
cities are in their nature artificial.
hey have not within themselves the
germ Of their own greatness. They
utaW upon the country tor their pro
ducts and for tneir Trade. 1t is the
farmer who malEe.i the city, who
furnishes the fuel for It's countless
srlokestackS Cf Industry. who feeds it,
tCiling millions whose money fills is
banks.
IN IL sense the city is the express
sion OF the luxuries wh.lh the neces-
stiles produced Ly the farms makt
possible. It is deoeiidan- upon the
scIl .or its very AL. Even tneN men
who make i; SieaSs come tlom the
coLnuy. Il - he free blood Of lhe
fields which g.yestthe city Is. enduring
,h..r.scic which eg. .cI>s ii into action,
By The infusion or new and original
impulse, which sustains alive its pam
pered and slothful houy.
So tina. State IS most fortunate
which maintains agriculture as It's
popular business on which to found
the other enterprises Of thrift and in
dastry which can best use the pro-
ducts OF the farm and retain within
its borders tor mutual benefit the d.
vidends Of husbandry.
To this standard North Carolina is
fitted by nature and is approaching
through the Weakened ambitions and
pride of State Of people who are
every day realizing more fully the ill
finity of their capacity.
Only a word of the war and its
effects. Before the sixties, the South
was beginning to emerge from old
conditions in which the soil was hef
ali. She had begun to manufacture
her cotton adjacent to her fields. She
had begun to mine and 10 build rail-
roads. She was learning to apply hel
ducts at home. The war threw the
people back on agriculture. After
wards, in their poverty, they depend
cd for a while on the one asset they
had left. Scraping the fields, they
looked to the heat of the days, the
moist, warm nights. the Jingle of the
late frosts to burst the cotton and
ripen the tobacco of the fields that,
slowly and with pain, the capital for
home development might be acquir-
ed by the section. For a time this
capital was tinid. 1t expended itself
i'm driblets. 1t was non-progressive
the memory of up-heavals
which put distrust upon everything
save the faithful land. For decade
ana a half following the war the
South was busy with its patchwork.
The Epoch Of Applied Forces.
The year 1890 marked the Begin
ming of the return Of confidence. the
fields were still the basis of wealth as
they are today. But the old way was
not alone the best. Mills commenced
10 be built more railroads came into
being, cotton and tobacco were not
the only products. There was a Will
lingness TO try new avenues TO
wealth. The industrial impulse,
smothered in its infancy by the cloud
CT war, was resuscitated. From that
date, the generation which has Ioi-
lowed has seen a progress which mas
been relatively greater than the
country has Witnessed Among her
sisters North Carolina has lea the
way. What has been done reads al
most like a romance il means an i'm
petus that gains force with exercise.
There we're in North Carolina mills
of cotton. wool and silk:
In 1880, 40. value, s2,S55,O00;
In 1890. 1T, Value, $25.S4O,00O:
In 1903. 275. value, $44.1OO.O0O;
In 1905, 324. value, 100000, goo, les
timatcd)
These mills make a number larger
than are contained in any other State
i'm the Union, and. in point of capa-
city. rank third with the great manu-.
featuring States.
The growth of manufacturing. esti-
mated by looms and spindlcs is shown.
as follows:
In 1890. looms. 1854: snindles. 49,
Say:
In 1900 looms. 1888: spindies, l.
297.771:
In 1904. looms. 46.612: spindles, D.
1894.
In the year 1890 the gross valus
of agricultural products of the State
was $50O70,633: while the value of
manufactured products was $4O,375,-
$50
Showing fifteen years ago a differ
ence of nearly ten million dollars in
value in favor of farm products over
manufactured material.
Whereas, in 1900 the value Of manu-