Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-05-02

matured series, and see the stock
holder Gas [ have repeatedly seen
him) in the knowledge that his home
is all paid for, and is all his own, and
observe with proud apd happy feel
ings carrying home the cancelled
mortgage, with the eve memorable
sentence, This is now our W home"
and your heart would swell in unison,
as has mine a hundred times throb-
bed with pleasure at the sight.
My friends "the home" everywhere
~cOnserves the life Of organized civil
society, and the fires Of patriotism
burn ever brightly in the breast of
the man with a home; that man is
ever ready to go forth in the defence
Of his home, and his land. AS the
motto of the National League of
Building and Loan Associations so
aptly has it, In the American home
lies the safeguard Of American
liberty
Home life is the enter of all life,
and we as a nation, shall be strong
within, and from without, if we have
happy homes. We shall have peace
among ourselves, and with the nations
Of the earth, if we have happy homes.
The purpose Of every struggle for
liberty and constitutional government
is found in the aim to finally establish
happy homes. The Magma Charta,
the bill Of rights, the Declaration OF
independence, all have their value
only in so far as they secure for us
happy homes.
If uoc tho npinoo of r1nIarr
rhetoricians that printed the joy of a
home in the following words:
Not long since l stood in the City
of Paris by the bronze railing that
surrounds the sarcophagus of black
Egyptian marble that encloses the
ashes of that restless man Napoleon
the First. In my imagination l could
see him at the head OF the army of
Italy; [ could hea the roar of his
battle thunders from the shores of
the Baltic to the foot Of the Pyramids.
| could see him on the Russian re-
treat, when h cavalry of the wind
and infantry of snow scattered his
legions like winters withered leaves;
and then [ said to myself: q had
rather had been a French Peasant
wearing a cotton blouse and wooden
shoes and inhabiting my own humble
cottage on some vine clad hill, with
the grapes growing purple in the
autumn sun, the voice of my children
making sweet music around my door,
and the glad smile of my wife speak
ing the happiness Of home, than to
have been that magnificent impersona-
ton of ambition, discomfort and death,
called Napoleon the First"
My friends, when the blood-crim-
soned names of Alexander and Caesar,
the glory encircled names Of kings
and queens, statesmen, orators and
poets have faded to a blur, that of
John Howard Payne will shine in
undying spIendor in the temple OF
fame.
Hearts of millions in every cline
and in every age thrill with delicious
love at the sentiments and the melody
of his supreme triumph Of the world
of song, "HOME, SWEET HOME"
Oh, if at some grand review of the
organizations of the world of bust
ness activity and beneficence, those
organizations would unfold their ban
ners and appropriate notices to the
gazing thousands, what one would be,
or what n could be, more beautiful,
what one could teach hdlashrdohrd
what one could touch the heart so
quickly as the banner of our Build
ing and Loan Associations e~mblazoned
with these magic words:
Mid pleasures and palaces, though
we may roam,
Be it ever SO humble, there's nc place
like home"
My friends, enter into this scheme
with vim, life, energy and liberality
and soon you will see your town dotted
over with new Homes occupied by
those who otherwise were but nomads
in your midst, without ambition, with
out visible results for their labor,
O happy and contented home own
ers proud of their surroundings,
loyal to their town, county, State,
and the Nation, and you will be able
to point with pride to the happy
homes, and say, as is related Of Cor
nelia of Rome, the mother of the two
Grachi's who in their days were the
greatest Statesmen and Warriors Of
the Romans, when a wealthy lady
displayed with great pride her many
valuable jewels to their mother, she
SEN for her sons, and pointing to
them with swelling heart and pardon
able pride, said, "these are MY
JEWELS"
My friends-I lave now to the best
OF my ability e~ndeavored in the brief
space OF time to lay before you my
practical experience in the great and
good cause now for over a quarter
of a century, I have during all this
time given my best efforts without
pay or reward excepting such as every