The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-13

Mr.. Small denied this.
Mr.. Stanley: rs it true?"
Mr.. Small: 81 guess the gentleman
is looking for the word subsidy"
Mr.. Stanley: "A rose by any other
name would smell just as sweet. l
would call it a steal"
Mr.. Small: All right, if it will fit
the gentleman's idea of the dignity of
debate"
Mr.. Stanley: "a debate never be-
comes too dignifed TO denounce a
wrong"
Mr.. Bede said that he had voted ever
since he came TO congress for 1he
fast mail subsidy because he believed
the people Of the south ought to read
the northern newspapers at the earli-
est possible moment, and he would
continue to vote for the appropriation
that the southern people might have
the benefit of the doubt.
Mr.. Towne, of New York. when he
arose tt address the house was ac-
corded the rare distinction of being
greeted with applause on both sides
of the chamber. In speaking Of ne
coming jamestown Exposition he
said:
Nj, Towne declared il would be diff
f1cult to overestimate the significance
of the celebration of landing at James
town Of the first permanent English
speaking colony on this hemisphere.
The object seemed to. him SO worthy
and important as to justify the gov
eminent in participating in commence
| ration Of the event. In his remarks he
| said:
AT Jamestown, on the Both Of July,
| 1910. assembled the first representa-
tive legislative body on this continent.
From then till 1776 the house of bur-
gesses witnessed a great part of the
parliamentary development out Of
which were to spring the institutions
of the United States Of America and.
indirectly the regenerative political
movements elsewhere that have con
stituted the chief interest of the his
tory Of the work for a century and a
quarter.
This is not the place to recite with
any particularly the history of that
legislative body. But every American
is proud Of it. Time and again it was
dissolved by royal governors for pass
ing measures designed to enlarge pO-
Iitical freedom and for expressing
sympathy with the patriots of Massa-
chusetts and others of the colonies.
Never has a period of similar duration
witnessed such transformation and
such progress as that whose close is
to be so appropriately commemorated
at jamestown in May Of the coming
| year; in military organization and
| equipment, in naval architecture and
| armament. and in the whole domain
Of industry, it would be impossible to
| cite, a parallel. Nor could there be
found a place in all America SO apt
for an impressive demonstration of
his marvellous change as the fair do
main of old Virginia.
st will be an inspiring and awe
some spectacle-that naval parade in
the Virginia waters. The world will
never have seen before such gathered
potency Of havoc on the sea-.
But no change has been more mark
ed in the three hundred years since
the landing at Jamestown than that
which has taken place in the industry
Of the Old Dominion. In addition to
| the revolution in the useful arts, due
to the development of the natural
sciences, and especially of steam and
electricity, which has been inconceiv-
ably beyond all precedent, but in which
Virginia and the south have partici-
pated as a matter of curse with tie
| rest Of the world, that section has I'M
liar to itself of SURPRISING interest in
manner, incident, and results. When
the civil war was ended chaos fell
| upon south. But the men and women
Of the south were made Of the stuff
that surmounts even impOssibilities.
If ever ~vindication be needed for the
American character, fer its moral resi-
Hence, its fundamental stability, its re-
sistless energy, its practical capacity,
it's unconquerable courage, that Vindi-
cation will be found in the record,
without precedent or parallel, which
exhibits the social and material con-
|! quests made by the southern states
since the civil war: indeed, mainly
within the last twenty-five years.
Mr.. Towne then gave some statistics