The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-06-20

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New Bern with the capital, it is said,
! of forty thousand dollars; now they
! are rated lis millionaires.
| 1 recall in 1887, when | was prac-
ticine law here and represented the
county of Carteret in our State Leg
islature Ia colleague ofyour Senator
Overmanl We had no railroad run
ming to any county seat in the circuit
of the New Bern 'har; now the law
yers ride to every county seat except
one, by rail- you have an easier
time now in travelling your district,
Mr.. Solicitor Abernethy.)
Here where we crossed the water,
winter and summer in open sail
boats; now we cross upon yOnder
railroad bridge and we breakfast this
morning in Beaufort and dine to-
morrow in Asheville The dream Of
Governor Morellead, one of the
States greatest Governors and con-
structive statesmen. of an unbroken
railroad line from the coast to the
mountains has been realized and
through ears run from Beaufort
Harbor to Asbeville Il am glad to
see, Governor Glenn, that you are
following in the footsteps of this
great governor in all that tends to
| the material advancement of North
Carolina.)
The dream OF Governor Morehead
is no longer "a dream, but living,
breathing reality. Mr. Cannon.
And in this connection eight years
ago when John H Small and | first
entered Congress he dreamed of all
Inland Waterway from Beaufort to
Norfolk 1--WE now say, you will OBJ
serve, Beaufort to Norfolk, instead Of
Norfolk o Beaufort); and he toiled
AMI struggled with Speaker Cannon
and Chairman Burton and | aided
him with all my power and finally by
the cooperation OF +. NJ. Simmons
this dream also became Il reality.
And now for the transportation of
our products of the ocean, sounds
| and rivers, our truck and lumber we
will have rail and water combined;
and it needed only both to make
Eastern North Crrulina blossom as
the rose.
Capital and labor, capitalist and
labUrers, railroad and canal, citizen
and railroad maynate and states
men are combined to unite, beHutifv.
transform and upbuill commercially
and iuluStrialIy Eastern North Car
olina, and make it what the God of
Nature intended it to be-the finest,
richest spot in all this goodly land
OF North CarOlina-"Heaven 8 bless
inyS attend her
We welcome you capitalist and
railroad man; we Only ask fair treat
ment at your hands 1--WE believe you
will give it, and we will give you fair
tire TIN ut in return; and we will unite
to make Eastern North Carolina the
paradise of the pleasure seeker and
the home seeker, and the most pros
porous section OF the South Atlantic
Coast.
We see today Morehead's dream
realized. the Inland Waterway an
accomplished fact; and yet the flu
ture is still brighter and the horizon
expands.
| look out upon yonder ocean; |
look down the vista of the years and
see another vision. The steam ell
CINE and its train OF passenger and
freight ears, carrying the products
o. the coast to the mountains and
back the products of West to the
East; the Waterway carrying coal
and lumber and merchandise in sail
ing vessels and barge and steamer,
| avoiding Cape Hatteras from New
Bern and Pamlico Sound and Beau
| fort haI Dor to Norfolk and the North;
the Panama Canal completed and
passing through it rs the highway
and gateway of nations the ships of
the world to the Pacific Ocean, China
| and Japan and all the Orient. see
Eastern North Carolina and Beau
fort Harbor midway New York and
Panama and as the ships, coming
| either by the Atlantic Ocean or by
the inland Waterway sweep majes-
| tically down our Atlantic Seaboard,
| see a habor of refuge and coaling
station for them at Cape Lookout
and harbor, the superior ofany on
| the South Atlantic Coast at Beutfort
for all shipping bound to the Gulf.
South America, the Pacific and the
Orient.
see other waterways radiating in
supremacy of Eastern North Caro-
lima and bands OF steel rails uniting
every portion of North Carolina and
upon these arteries of commerce
borne the products Of our waters,
farms and forests and also the coal
and iron of West Virginia, Tennessee,
Alabama and the South.
And best OF all | see a happy, pros
porous, contented people, using ev-
cry resource at their command, I'M
til puissant and powerful Eastern
North Carolina takes her we'll de-
served place commercially and ill.,
dustrially as we'll as intellectually MS
| the peer of any section of the Allan
tic Coast.
May this vison OF the commercial
supremacy of Eastern North Caro-
lima also become a reality.
The fruition ofsuch people is wor-
thy of the toll and sacrifice of every
citizen; the thought and labor of ev-
cry statesman and to its accomplish
nent, fellow citizens, | dedcat. my
own best energies in all the tide OF
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