The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-01-10
MESSAGE OF
GOV. GLENN
A Remarkably Able Communi-
cation to the Legislature
NEEDED LAWS ARE SUGGESTED
Eays Our State is Enjoying a Period
of Unbounded Prosperity-Favors
EDUCATION and Morality.

The following is the substance of
rhc message of Governor r. b. Glenn
TO the General Assembly Of North
Carolina:
70 the Honorable, the General Assem-
blv OF North Carolina:
lou meet to-day under most favor
able circumstances. Never before was
lhc State in such prosperous con-
.lition. and its increase agriculturally,
-ducationalIv and morally, has been
phenomenal.
Since the General Assembly last
snet. crops have been generally good
and have brought prices above the
average, 50 that our farmers are Iii
.ood condition and out OF debt, and
their lands much enhanced i'll value.
New enterprises have everywhere
sprung into existence, and the rattle
II the loom, the hum of machinery
and the scream Of the steam whistle
make sweet music to the industrial.
ear To-day our State has taken the
second place in the United States III
the manufacture of cotton goods and
furniture. and first in the production
Of plug tobacco.
Labor has received good wages, but
there is a great scarcity in every line
Of work, and a growing demand ie
ahefefore being made to devise some
remedy for an increase IN laborers,
provided they be the right kind.
II, lo tlX-
advanced. Good school houses and
equipment, higher grade of teachers,
longer terms, and a more general IN
serest in school work, are evidences oil
an educational awakening that prom
Ises great things in the future. The
Moral trend has gradually been on
ward and upward, until to-day oul
people were never more industrious OF
sober, or took a greater interest Ii
thy IS religious.
fhe credit of the State is first-class
we practically owe nothing, as ou
assets are in excess of Our liabilities
and there now seems no further dang
er of our being, harassed by conspira
tors seeking to veX lis with suits ol
old repudiated bonds, as the Cover
norS of sister States refuse to LEM
themselves to such fraudulent an
mercepary schemes.
Taxation.
No subject will come before you q
this session fraught with more Wit:
interest to the State than the deylsln
Of a proper scheme for ascertainln
L. oe oil r1rnnorfV N h
State. to the end that each individu;
az county, by proper taxation, sha
bear his or its part of the States bu
den, and that there be no false valu'
iicls or unjust discrimination.
The Constitution, Art. Y, Sec.
provides that claws shall be passs
taxing by uniform rule all money
credits, etc, and also all real and pc
sonal property according to its tn
value in money; and yet this simp
but vital provision is universally Vi
lated both in the assessments not b
1ng uniform. nor accordl1
10 their true value. VIII
Impossible to devise any scher
of taxation that shall f;
equally OH all, still the nearer we C
approach to requiring all to value th'
property correctly to its true wor
Just so much the nearer we come
fulfilling the constitutional dema
for uniformity. This subject, the
fore, requires Your deepest thoue
and most careful examination; and
the session should end with your h;
ing accomplished nothing else but $
Ting this troublesome question on
fair basis. you still will have carr
the plaudit,, ''Well done, faith
servants
The assessed value Of all property
the State is $461 $50, ,66S.32; but
my Judgment, if personal prope
was fairly given in, and realty jus
assessed, and railroads and other {
r,'ratiGns fairly taxed, its actual va
W:'uld be billion dollars, enabling
to have a much lower rate than
present, and still have much la1
revenue to meet all the growing he
OF The State
\ fair valuation and low rate
necessary to get more people and
SIDE capital, while low rate and
valuation frightens away both
ECIaeseeker and investor.
Railroads.
Much has been said of late al
railroads and railroad rates.
passenger and freight, and how
10 regulate and control them. In {
nlg with this question, I would
uron the General Assembly TO {
fully examine the whole matte
railroads, and while doing everyt
the law allows, IN protecting The
pie against unjust discrimina
heavy rates, and unnecessary
ships, at the same time to treat
railroads with perfect fairness
give them every legal night whjel
longs 10 them.